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Top Adult Chat Rooms for Sex Chat in 2022
Talk dirty by joining one of these free adult chat rooms. Thousands of people chat regularly on these sex chat sites. Join the conversation! The post Top Adult Chat Rooms for Sex Chat in 2022 appeared...
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Lucy Liyou’s experimental music doubles as diaristic storytelling
It’s a rare delight to stumble upon a musician’s debut album and instantly recognize that they have a style all their own. This was the immediate reaction I had in 2020 to Welfare (Ijn Inc.), the...
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Saxophonist and former Chicagoan Aram Shelton is back in town and playing...
Early experiences count for a lot. After reedist Aram Shelton moved to Chicago in 1999, fresh out of college, he became an integral part of an interdependent community of jazz musicians who were ready...
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The Melanin Martha wants Black food to triumph over its trauma
Jordan Wimby was the only Black kid on her Beverly block, and she ate like everyone else: Lunchables, Tyson chicken nuggets, TV dinners, and frozen potpies. “Growing up I was surrounded by this...
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Bev Rage & the Drinks ring in Pride with a kaiju rampage
Queer garage-pop band Bev Rage & the Drinks have become one of the city’s most entertaining acts since coming together in 2015. Mixing hilariously forthright lyrics, spitfire riffs, and the...
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Rapper-producer Namir Blade rockets into an Afrofuturist haze
Nashville rapper, multi-instrumentalist, and part-time extraterrestrial Namir Blade follows in the space wake of his beloved Sun Ra less through style than through vibes. His new self-produced album,...
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Cannabis, Comedy, and Mental Health
Cannabis and creativity are often associated with one another. Many people in the arts have claimed that using the plant helps open their mind and can be beneficial to divergent ways of thinking. We...
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Bros Before is stupid and horny—and wonderfully queer
Over the course of 19 jam-packed minutes, Hanson plays with the storytelling conventions of rom-coms, reality dating shows, and pornography to tell a comedically rock 'n' roll story about unrequited...
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Ghost bride
Noel Coward’s 1941 comedy about a socialite writer who finds himself haunted by his vivacious (if annoying) dead wife—while his living wife first questions his sanity, then finds herself in...
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Puppet revelations
Puppets are cool, but they are also creepy. Very creepy. Even the cute ones, like Kermit the Frog or Ollie the Dragon. There is just something deeply unnerving about how puppets seem like autonomous...
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Home is where the heart is
Samm-Art Williams’s Home, first produced in 1979 with the seminal Negro Ensemble Company and then in a Tony-nominated run on Broadway in 1980, is considered a contemporary American classic, but it...
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It’s a Lebanese-Armenian family feast at the next Monday Night Foodball
Lebanon and Armenia are separated by vast stretches of Syria and eastern Turkey, but when Mary Eder-McClure and Kat Stuehrk Talo compared notes about the heroic family meals they grew up on, they...
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Sea legs
Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, “The Little Mermaid,” is a load of hooey. Consider: The titular mermaid throws herself on a dagger in the end, because she can’t bear to go on after some dude she...
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Just skating by
The year is 1994, and rock star Jacqueline Miller (Diana DeGarmo) is zigzagging the country on a tour. Her dishonest manager has absconded with her earnings, her deadbeat saxophonist boyfriend (Ace...
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Go-going for it
GoGo for the Gold—think RuPaul’s Drag Race but for go-go boys—features a swoon-inducing roster of fuzzy bears, femme dancers in heels, and trans man Paulo Batista, all competing for a cash prize of...
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The Schoolmaster Games feels like wasted potential
If you’re looking for something to watch this Pride Month, there are better queer movies—and probably better gay porn—than can be found here. The post <i>The Schoolmaster Games</i> feels...
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Out at the Center
They were there. No fuss, no ballyhoo, but queer artists have been a significant part of Bronzeville’s South Side Community Art Center since its founding in 1940. You might or might not see it in the...
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Tugging does not mean yanking!
What happens when your laptop dies and your Instagram followers have questions The post Tugging does not mean yanking! appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Listen to your friends and your therapist
Plus, why the logistics of a threesome matter The post Listen to your friends and your therapist appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Soul singer Ruby Andrews makes a career change
In its nearly 40-year history, the Chicago Blues Festival has frequently saluted the city’s vibrant soul-music legacy with all-star sets underscoring the connection between soul and blues. This year...
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