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Chess, circus, and the game of life
Here is a riddle for you: What do a game of chess and life have in common?* Inside the tidy, rule-driven universe of a chess board, seven-year-old Alice stumbles upon the inexplicable and absurd...
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17 Best Sugar Baby Websites and Apps to Meet Sugar Babies (2022)
Finding the right sugar baby can be a challenge. Here are the 17 best sugar dating sites and apps for sugar babies and sugar daddies to meet. The post 17 Best Sugar Baby Websites and Apps to Meet...
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The play about the baby
Reproductive rights cuts both ways: the government deciding that you may not have a child comes from the same authoritarianism that tells you that you must continue an unwanted pregnancy. Given...
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Immigrant song
If you’re a fan of Henry Louis Gates’s Finding Your Roots on PBS, then you can probably relate to Annabelle Lee Revak’s impulse to create a musical out of the World War I-era letters of her...
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Babes with blades
Whether by design or happenstance, Writers Theatre has focused on the theme of women in competition and collaboration this season. In Eleanor Burgess’s Wife of a Salesman, two actors portraying Linda...
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This bird has flown
Aaron Sorkin’s gonna Sorkin, even when he’s working off someone else’s material. In his new adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, now in a short touring stop with Broadway in Chicago, the...
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Dictator dictation
The energy in the Den Theater last Thursday was electric, as The Secretaries, written by Omer Abbas Salem and directed by Laura Alcalá Baker, made its highly anticipated debut with First Floor...
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Take shelter
In the Chicago premiere of Sarah Treem’s When We Were Young and Unafraid with AstonRep, a group of multitudinous women navigate domesticity, violence, and identity in a cultural landscape that both...
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Listen to The Ben Joravsky Show
Senior writer Ben Joravsky riffs on the day's stories with his celebrated humor, insight, and honesty, and interviews politicians, activists, journalists and other political know-it-alls. The show is...
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Chicago bassist Nick Macri celebrates some roots and branches on his first...
Chicago bassist Nick Macri is the model of versatility. He has appeared with a formidable gallery of jazz, folk, and rock musicians, including Ken Vandermark, James Elkington, Laetitia Sadier, Bobby...
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The price of exposure
In Viola Spolin’s seminal work Improvisation for the Theater, the very first exercise listed is named “exposure.” During this exercise, a group of actors are divided into halves and instructed to...
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The Studebaker gets ready to roll
Last August, I caught up with Jacob Harvey just as he was taking over as the new (and first-ever) managing artistic director of theaters for the Fine Arts Building. At the time, he noted that with the...
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Downton Abbey: A New Era
Little of consequence happens in Downton Abbey: A New Era, but that’s sort of the point. The post Downton Abbey: A New Era appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Sales, sanctuaries, giardiniera, and Mortified
Looking for some things to do? Consider these options! We found some happenings all over the map this time around, including Evanston, Back of the Yards, downtown, Logan Square, South Shore, and the...
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AdultFriendFinder review: Is it real? Does it work in 2022? We paid for a...
Interested in a no holds barred review of AdultFriendFinder? We tried it and can tell you the good and the bad, whether it's a scam, and if it really works. Read on! The post AdultFriendFinder review:...
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Frayed nerves because of freysexual ‘lover’
A committed romantic partner can’t have sex with people they love The post Frayed nerves because of freysexual ‘lover’ appeared first on Chicago Reader.
View Article20 Best Craigslist Personals Alternative Websites For Dating and Casual...
You may or may not be aware that Craigslist closed its Personals section after the passage of SESTA in 2018. Contrary to lawmakers’ assumptions, people used Craigslist for totally legitimate reasons,...
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Deftones merge metal and dream pop to remain one of rock’s most enduring...
Even though the ongoing reappraisal of nu metal has recognized that era as a significant cultural moment, Sacramento band Deftones still manage to catch a bad rap. Sure, they came up as part of the...
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Ashley Madison review: Does it work in 2022? Is it real? We tried it and paid...
Looking for a no holds barred review of Ashley Madison? We tried the famous site and can tell what works, what doesn't, the best and worst parts. Continue reading! The post Ashley Madison review: Does...
View Article60 Best Phone Sex Numbers with Free Trials in 2022
It's late and you're itching to get naughty. Pick up the phone and call one of these top phone sex numbers. They offer free trials and are sure to do the trick. The post 60 Best Phone Sex Numbers with...
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