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Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Oct 8, 2020
Our favorite things for fall arts, part two

Visual arts and architecture highlights break us out of our screen life.
- By Kerry Reid, Lauren Iacoponi, and Ciera McKissick
- Tags: Fall Preview, Lauren Iacoponi, Ciera McKissick, Chicago Architecture Center, Open House Chicago, Chicago Elevated, Margaret Hicks, Roland Santana, Sarah Leuchtner, Sarah Dupré, Cleaner Gallery + Projects, Hello USPS, Purple Window Gallery, Hot Wheelz Festival, Hyde Park Art Center, Fall Arts Preview

Arts & Culture, Feature Oct 2, 2020
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Our favorite things for fall arts, part one

An overview of theater, dance, music, pop-up performances, and other artists and activists that you should know about—this season and year-round
- By Kerry Reid, Irene Hsiao, Salem Collo-Julin, Reginald Edmund, and Leah Munsey
- Tags: Feature, Our Favorite Things, Strawdog Theatre, Run the Beast Down, Neo-Futurists, 45 Plays for America's First Ladies, Clock Productions, Black Joy, Dance Center of Columbia College, Winifred Haun & Dancers, Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, Reginald Edmund, Black Lives Black Words, Fall Arts Preview, Video

Columns & Opinion, Staff notes Oct 1, 2020
With a little pluck

There have been some fledgling flashes of how to survive our national nightmare.
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Staff notes, Fall Arts Preview, Chicago Reader, COVID-19, hope, working from home, Del Marie, Jack Helbig, We See You White American Theater, We See You W.A.T., BIPOC Demands for White American Theater, Sheri Flanders, theater, Emma Oxnevad, art school, Ariel Parrella-Aureli, comedy, stad-up comics, Irene Hsiao, CounterBalance, Deanna Isaacs, Silk Road Rising, Chicago Reader's 50th anniversary

Music, Chicagoans of Note Oct 1, 2020
Maura Walsh, creator of Tiny Guide to Chicago Arts

“Our city is just exploding with creativity and music and art, and all of these truly irreplaceable spaces are in danger of closing.”
- By Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: Chicagoans of Note, Maura Walsh, Our Tiny Guide to Chicago’s Best Music Culture Spots, Tiny Guide to Chicago Arts, Support Chicago Arts, NIVA, National Independent Venue Association, CIVL, Chicago Independent Venue League, pandemic, COVID-19, fundraiser, venues, Bridget Gunden, Fall Arts Preview

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Sep 30, 2020
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Del Marie: locked down, but not out

The rapper-dancer-performance poet rolls with the pandemic punches.
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Del Marie, Black Wall Street, Que4 Radio, Muntu Dance Theatre, Mama Ika, Young Chicago Authors, XBT91, Fall Arts Preview, Video

Arts & Culture, Dance Sep 30, 2020
CounterBalance brings accessibility to dance

Going online opens more opportunities in this year's festival.
- By Irene Hsiao
- Tags: Dance, CounterBalance, Ginger Lane, Momenta, Access Living, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Dance>Detour, Momenta, Wannapa P-Eubanks, Wobbly Dance, Alice Sheppard, Lisa Bufano, Ladonna Freidheim, ReinventAbility, Alana Wallace, Bodies of Work, Studiothread, Fall Arts Preview

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Sep 30, 2020
Will Silk Road still rise? Will we?

Jamil Khoury and Malik Gillani have been facing more than COVID closure.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Silk Road Rising, Jamil Khoury, Malik Gillani, Richard Florida, Michael Seman, Brookings Institution, Arts Alliance Illinois, Americans for the Arts, Nahal Navidar, Fouad Teymour, Fall Arts Preview

Arts & Culture, Feature Sep 30, 2020
Is a virtual arts degree worth it?

Chicago high school seniors prepare for collegiate arts programs amid pandemic
- By Emma Oxnevad
- Tags: Feature, Vincenza Handzel, Jones College Prep, COVID, Ariana Everett, Chicago High School for the Arts, Eemaan Butt, Lane Tech, Charlie Hancock, Royal Academy of Music, Mary Kate Clancy, Whitney Young Magnet High School, Aaron Sanders, college, Fall Arts Preview

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Sep 29, 2020
Black artistic leaders take charge at several Chicago theaters

"There is no other way forward": reflecting on those who shaped them and the future they envision
- By Sheri Flanders
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, We See You White American Theater, Sana Selemon, BoHo Theatre, Shelley Delaney, Brian Evans, Neel McNeill, Definition Theatre, Sophiaa Nayar, Mariah Copeland, Kamille Dawkins, Kamille Dawkins, Strawdog Theatre, Sonita Surratt, Kemati J. Porter, eta Creative Arts Foundation, Fall Arts Preview

Arts & Culture, Comedy Sep 29, 2020
It’s OK to laugh again

Comedians rally to offer outdoor and indoor shows with a pandemic twist.
- By Ariel Parrella-Aureli
- Tags: Comedy, stand-up, comedy, the Stoop Comedy Show, Caitlin Checkeroski, Lincoln Lodge, Rodescu Hopkins II, Trigger Warning Comedy, Backyard Sessions, Ed Towns, Katia Jackson, Comedy Pickup, Fall Arts Preview

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Sep 25, 2020
Jennifer Kim's pojangmacha and more food and drink to look forward to in the fall

Everything is terrible, but we're not starving. Yet.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Rob Menor, John Manion, Maggie Hennessey, Meat Project: A Backyard Fire Cooking Zine, El Che, Evette’s, Rafael Esparza, Finom Coffee, Dorian’s, Mitchell AbouJamra, tacos arabes, Low & Slow, Wildwood Tavern, Gary Wiviott, Erick Williams, Virtue Restaurant, Al's Beef, Jonathan Zaragoza, the Promontory, El Oso, Birrieria Zaragoza, Alteconomy, Jennifer Kim, Paserotto, Outer Limits Pojangmacha, Fall Arts Preview

Film, Movie Feature Sep 24, 2020
A Chicago International Film Festival unlike any other

The 56th annual celebration of cinema features nearly 60 films, seven of which are world premieres, online and at the drive-in.
- By Kathleen Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Chicago International Film Festival, ChiTown Movies Drive-In, American Utopia, David Byrne, Spike Lee, Mimi Plauche, R.J. Cutler, Belushi, Bryan Bertino, The Dark and the Wicked, Music Box of Horrors, Bad Hair, Justin Simien, Francis Lee, Ammonite, Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, The Road Up, Greg Jacobs, Jon Siskel, Regina King, One Night in Miami, Nomadland, Chloé Zhao, Mama Gloria, Luchina Fisher, Steve James, City So Real, I'm Your Woman, Rachel Brosnahan, Fall Arts Preview

Blogs, Bleader Sep 20, 2013
My full interview with longtime Chicago film programmer Floyd Webb

The creator of Blacklight Cinema, a Chicago film festival that ran from 1982 to 1995, reminisces about the history of black underground filmmaking and his own "adventures in cinema."
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Film, History, Floyd Webb, Top of the Heap, Fall Arts Preview, Blacklight Cinema, Playboy Theater, Sandburg Theater, Faces of Women, Desire Ecare, Return of Blacklight Cinema, Community Film Workshop of Chicago, Truck Turner, black cinema, National Film Theatre, South Shore High School, Black Filmmakers Collective, Warrington Hudlin, Black Expo, blaxploitation, The Murder of Fred Hampton, Fred Hampton, Englewood, Hugh Robinson, Midnight Cowboy, Richard Peña, School of the Art Institute, South Shore Film Festival, Omar Kaihatsu, Fine Arts Theater, World Playhouse, DuSable Museum, Facets Multimedia, Soft Sheen Products, Ed Gardner, St. Clair Bourne, Harold Washington, Fred Fine, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago City Arts Council, Gordon Parks, Christopher St. John, Berlin Film Festival, Ganja and Hess, Bill Gunn, Fanfare Studios, Cannes Film Festival, Kristoff St. John, Chicago Filmmakers

Blogs, Bleader Sep 13, 2013
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Getting personal in the theater, and the rest of this week's movies

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between September 13 and 19
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Opening, Film, Movies, Short Term 12, review, Riddick, Drew Hunt, Faces of Women, Blacklight Cinema, Floyd Webb, Fall Arts Preview, Beyond the Hill, Turkish cinema, Ximena Cuevas, Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center, Music Box Theatre, Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, Massacre, pre-Code cinema, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Patio Theater, The Muslims Are Coming!, Populaire, A Teacher, Facets Multimedia, John Ford, Straight Shooting, The Swimmer, Burt Lancaster, Angels With Dirty Faces, The Chase, Arthur Ripley, Joseph H. Lewis, Gun Crazy, Francois Truffaut, The Green Room, Nostalghia, Andrei Tarkovsky, Josef von Sternberg, Underworld, Docks of New York, Northbrook Public Library, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 15, 2011
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Mysteries of Lisbon, Raul Ruiz, Time Regained, Three Lives and Only One Death, Music Box, Debra Tolchinsky, Northwestern University, Fast Talk, Gene Siskel Film Center, David Cronenberg, A Dangerous Method, Martin Scorsese, Hugo movie, George Clooney, The Ides of March, Clint Eastwood, J. Edgar, Kenneth Lonergan, Margaret movie, Lars von Trier, Melancholia, Simon Curtis, My Week With Marilyn, Pedro Almodovar, The Skin I Live In, Amigo movie, John Sayles, Matewan, Eight Men Out, Lone Star, Sunshine State, Bellflower movie, Evan Glodell Circumstance movie, Maryam Keshavarz, Daylight movie, Drive movie, Nicolas Winding Refn, Bronson movie, Pusher trilogy, Gun Hill Road, Esai Morales, I Don't Know How She Does It, Aline Brosh McKenna, The Devil Wears Prada, 27 Dresses, Seen and Heard Music Video Showcase, Chicago Filmmakers, Straw Dogs, Sam Peckinpah, Where Soldiers Come From, Arthur Penn, Alice's Restaurant, Music Box, Billy Wilder, The Apartment, Ida Lupino, The Hitch-Hiker, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Alex Cox, Sid and Nancy, fall arts preview, movies, Video

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Visual arts and architecture highlights break us out of our screen life.

An overview of theater, dance, music, pop-up performances, and other artists and activists that you should know about—this season and year-round

There have been some fledgling flashes of how to survive our national nightmare.

“Our city is just exploding with creativity and music and art, and all of these truly irreplaceable spaces are in danger of closing.”

The rapper-dancer-performance poet rolls with the pandemic punches.

Going online opens more opportunities in this year's festival.

Jamil Khoury and Malik Gillani have been facing more than COVID closure.

Chicago high school seniors prepare for collegiate arts programs amid pandemic

"There is no other way forward": reflecting on those who shaped them and the future they envision

Comedians rally to offer outdoor and indoor shows with a pandemic twist.

Everything is terrible, but we're not starving. Yet.

The 56th annual celebration of cinema features nearly 60 films, seven of which are world premieres, online and at the drive-in.

The creator of Blacklight Cinema, a Chicago film festival that ran from 1982 to 1995, reminisces about the history of black underground filmmaking and his own "adventures in cinema."

A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between September 13 and 19

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

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