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Groovy jazz trio the Three Souls produced a legendary basketball coach
The Secret History of Chicago Music has produced plenty of offshoots over the 18 years that it’s run, and I’m pretty proud of some of them. I published the book My Kind of Sound: The Secret History of...
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Angelina Bastidas does Dominican food her way at Monday Night Foodball
Abuelita Dircia wanted to know why there’s no rice and beans or sancocho on her niña’s menu. You might know “niña,” aka chef Angelina Bastidas, from her work at the late AMK Kitchen Bar and BIN 36. Or...
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My wife wakes up at 3 AM to masturbate
Quickies on topping, whipped cream, and chastity cages The post My wife wakes up at 3 AM to masturbate appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Whole Foods flight
In the aftermath of Whole Foods closing its taxpayer-subsidized store in Englewood, it’s as good a time as ever for me to once again remind you that it was only four years ago that the city and state...
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He’s just not that into you
Its title and structure clearly classify William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well as a comedy. By definition, tragedies end in death, comedies with weddings. Nobody dies during All’s Well, but...
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My old Kentucky home
The Gift Theatre marks its return to live performance after a two-year absence with the Chicago premiere of Naomi Iizuka’s bittersweet ode to memory and place. Directed by Lavina Jadhwhani, it is a...
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Brothers on the run
In Exal Iraheta’s Last Hermanos, a pair of Latinx half-brothers find themselves at a crucible somewhere in the hot, hostile wilderness of a Texas state park. The “pick-up” that was to ferry them to...
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The bitch of living—1891 and today
This rock musical by librettist Steven Sater and composer Duncan Sheik debuted off-Broadway in 2006, and the play it’s based on, Frank Wedekind’s Frühlings Erwachen, dates back to 1891. But Porchlight...
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Sex education
The Chicago production of off-Broadway’s longest running comedy is a fun, interactive night out with some surprisingly touching, and even useful, takeaways. The 75-minute show is based on a 1997 book...
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Literary rivals
Donald Margulies’s 1996 literary two-hander, Collected Stories, treads cozy if familiar territory for the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: wry, self-conscious intellectuals from opposite ends of the...
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Haitian history
Aimé Césaire’s 1970 play about Haiti’s little-known and brief period of monarchy gets a better production than it deserves from adapter and director Lanise Antoine Shelley and her cast. Césaire...
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Forty-two Reader-recommended releases for your Bandcamp Friday
Friday, May 6, is the 22nd Bandcamp Friday—a 24-hour period where the retailer passes its usual cut of sales revenue along to the independent labels and artists who sell their music and merchandise...
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Navalny feels like a Soviet-era infomercial
I left feeling hollow and angry. Like I’d been manipulated using methods pioneered and perfected under the long-gone Soviet regime of my childhood. The post <i>Navalny</i> feels like a...
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CPD requested thousands of vaccine exemptions
Nearly half of Chicago police employees applied for exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine. The post CPD requested thousands of vaccine exemptions appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Rogers Park gets more magical, and TimeLine gets a new executive director
There have been a series of theaters sheltered in the building at 1328 W. Morse in Rogers Park since 1912, when it opened as a vaudeville house called (logically enough) the Morse Theater. In the...
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Reflecting pools
I saw a lot of old friends and acquaintances I hadn’t seen in quite some time last weekend. And as sometimes happens for people of a certain age, shades of sorrow and remembrance for those no longer...
View ArticleChaturbate Review: Everything You Need To Know (2022)
Chaturbate is an adult website that specializes in live cams. It’s become by far one of the biggest cam sites, and people love it for its interactive nature. In fact, according to website traffic...
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Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness
Veteran director and cult icon Sam Raimi brings us a vision of Dr. Strange that thankfully shakes off some of the weight of the ever-expanding Marvel universe. The post Doctor Strange in The...
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The Survivor
While this may not rank with Son of Saul or Raging Bull in the top rung, The Survivor is not a film to take for granted. The post The Survivor appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Vortex
This film is not for the fragile heart. The post Vortex appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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