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City Life, Public Service Announcement Dec 18, 2020
Give it away, give it away, give it away now

Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Public Service Announcement, winter, events, Andersonville, Chicago Dance Supply, McCutcheon Elementary School, Peirce Elementary School, Santa Claus, gifts, GoodKids MadCity, TGi Movement, Evening Star Ministries, Chicago Park District, toys, Soldier Field, drive-in, Darrell Gordon, holiday music, Constellation, FitzGerald's, Hideout

Music, Gossip Wolf Dec 18, 2020
Art-pop wizard Sen Morimoto takes over booking at the Hideout

Plus: Self-described “bootgaze” crew the Keener Family return with a second EP one year after their debut.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Sen Morimoto, Hideout, Tim Tuten, Katie Tuten, talent buyer, booker, Sullivan Davis, Keener Family, Christopher Keener, Quarter Mile Thunder, Ben Clarke, Park Service, Tender Beast, Down the Drain, Hold Me Close, bootgaze, Sam Wagster, Alex DeGroot

City Life, Public Service Announcement Nov 27, 2020
Mutual aid networks help keep us warm

Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Public Service Announcement, mutual aid network, The Love Fridge Chicago, Michelle, Sleeping Village, FitzGerald's, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Jon Langford, First Tuesdays, Hideout, We Keep Us Warm, Hideout Chicago, Instagram, winter, COVID-19, vintage cookbooks, immigration

Music, Gossip Wolf Nov 24, 2020
Hideout talent buyer Sullivan Davis steps down

Plus: CIVL launches a virtual concert series to push a new benefit fund for venues, artists, and staff.
- By J.R. Nelson
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Sullivan Davis, Sully Davis, Logan Hardware, Hideout, Tim Tuten, talent buyer, Chicago Independent Venue League, CIVL, CIVL SAVE Emergency Relief Fund, CIVLization, Giving Back Fund, ESSO, Dos Santos, Half Gringa

City Life, Public Service Announcement Oct 30, 2020
Halloween events, loud music, and mascot run-ins

Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Public Service Announcement, halloween, events, listings, virtual events, livestream, Riot Fest, Situations, Cosmic Country, Hideout, SPACE, FitzGerald's, autumn, Urban Paws, Sideshow Gallery, Museum of Science and Industry

Music, Gig Poster of the Week Oct 21, 2020
Slideshow
‘The Fan Club’ uses gig posters to support music venues

If you post a hashtagged photo of these posters in the wild, you'll trigger a donation to the Chicago Independent Venue League.
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Gig Poster of the Week, gig poster, gig poster of the week, concerts, Chicago Independent Venue League, CIVL, Whistler, Sleeping Village, Hideout, Thalia Hall, Empty Bottle, Promontory, Hungry Brain, Subterranean, The Fan Club, Someoddpilot, Public Works Gallery, Whitney Colley, Alexa Viscius, Ashley King, Julio Ruiz-Santana, Slideshow

Music, Gig Poster of the Week Aug 26, 2020
Hitch up the jackalope on the gig poster of the week

This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicago illustrator and designer Ryan Duggan.
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Gig Poster of the Week, gig poster, gig poster of the week, Americana, honky tonk, bluegrass, country music, Hideout, Ryan Duggan, Lawrence Peters, livestream, COVID-19, festivals, Jon Langford, Caleb Klauder, Reeb Willms, Hideout Online, Facebook, jackalope, illustrations

Music, Music Feature Jul 30, 2020
Video
Want live music back? Wear a mask and call Congress.

Staff from 22 Chicago music venues talk about how far they still are from normal—and what it’ll take to keep them around till we all get there.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Chicago Independent Venue League, CIVL, National Independent Venue Association, NIVA, COVID-19, pandemic, coronavirus, Phase Three, Phase Four, livestream, live music, shutdown, shelter in place, Hideout, Empty Bottle Presents, Brent Heyl, CARES Act, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, Paycheck Protection Program, RESTART Act, Reviving the Economy Sustainably Towards a Recovery in Twenty-Twenty, Michael Bennet, Todd Young, Joe Shanahan, Metro, Smart Bar, GMan Tavern, John Cornyn, Amy Klobuchar, Save Our Stages Act, Small Business Administration, ENCORES Act, Entertainment New Credit Opportunity for Relief & Economic Sustainability, Ron Kind, Mike Kelly, Green Mill, SPACE, Jame Samuels, FitzGerald’s, To-Go Concerts, Experimental Sound Studio, Quarantine Concerts, ESS, Olivia Junell, Lincoln Hall, Audiotree, Cole’s Bar, Schubas, Staged, Rosa’s Lounge, Jake Austen, Promontory, Cole Brice, Eric Chial, Montrose Saloon, City Winery, Dan Conroe, Will Duncan, VoiceBox, Subterranean, Beat Kitchen, Robert Gomez, Thalia Hall, Empty Bottle, Tony Mangiullo, the Post, Sheldon Randolph, Constellation, Hungry Brain, Mike Reed, Katie Tuten, Patrick VanWagoner, Audiotree Presents, Carol’s Pub, Ed Warm, Elastic Arts, Adam Zanolini, Video

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jul 21, 2020
Cookies keep you healthy, soup makes you sane

Two books about cooking and community from Belt Publishing
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Belt Publishing, Bonnie Tawse, Martha Bayne, Soup & Bread, Hideout, cookies, Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Ohio, COVID-19, coronavirus

Music, Gig Poster of the Week Jun 24, 2020
Adam and Eve hunt for apples on the gig poster of the week

This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicago artist and publisher Yewon Kwon.
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Gig Poster of the Week, gig poster, gig poster of the week, gig posters, Hideout, Jaimie Branch, Jason Nazary, Anteloper, Yewon Kwon, Tour Beats Vol. 1, Kim Alpert, Theodore Darst, livestream, concerts

Music, Chicagoans of Note Jun 9, 2020
Video
Olivia Junell, codirector of Experimental Sound Studio

“Right before the shelter-in-place got announced, we started thinking: OK, how can we help?”
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Chicagoans of Note, Adam Vida, Alex Inglizian, Ben Billington, Billie Howard, Carrie Cooper, Chicago Jazz String Summit, Corbett vs. Dempsey, COVID-19 relief fundraisers, Creative Audio Archive, Damon Locks, Dan Mohr, Daniel Wyche, Eddy Alvarez, Eduardo Francisco Rosario, Elastic Arts, Elastro, Ende Tymes Festival, Erica Miller, ESS, Experimental Sound Studio, Feed Your Head Collective, Gianna Floyd, Hideout, Honey Pot Performance, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, JayVe Montgomery, Kate Dumbleton, Laetitia Sonami, Lou Mallozzi, Luke Stewart, Lumpen, Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund, Nick Wylie, Olivia Junell, Paul DeMarinis, Quarantine Concerts, Rebuild Foundation, Reclaim the Block, Resonance, Sam Lewis, Shelter in Space, Social Norms, Soundpocket, Sue-C, Tamir Rice Foundation, Tomeka Reid, Vidium, Video

City Life, Stay at Home May 9, 2020
The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 50 and 51

What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Stay at Home, pandemic, COVID-19, coronavirus, stay home order, stay-at-home, stay home, quarantine, Rachael Ray, cooking, High Performance, magazines, durational performance, performance art, Chrissy, Juliana Huxtable, festivals, music festivals, concerts, NFL, The NFL on Fox, Nyege Nyege Festival, Veggie Bingo, Hideout, Twitch, Chicago Ideas

City Life, Stay at Home May 2, 2020
The Reader's stay-at-home chronicles: days 43 and 44

What we're reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Stay at Home, COVID-19, pandemic, quarantine, coronavirus, Lil' Ed, Fire-Toolz, Hideout, FitzGerald's, Ada Limon, poetry, Guggenheim, Dwayne Kennedy, livestream, bandcamp, pigs, donkey, adopt, animal rescue, Them.us, LGBTQ, LGBT, Lori Waxman, artists

Music, Music Feature Apr 28, 2020
Video
Ratboys have been forced off the road, but they’re still on the rails

The Chicago indie rockers recently released their best album yet, and though they can’t tour, they’re finding ways to stay connected to their fans.
- By Tim Crisp
- Tags: Music Feature, Ratboys, Printer’s Devil, GN, Julia Steiner, Dave Sagan, David Sagan, Sean Neumann, Marcus Nuccio, Ian Paine-Jesam, tour, COVID-19, pandemic, coronavirus, Wilco, Topshelf Records, Notre Dame, South by Southwest, SXSW, Pet Symmetry, Twitch, Ratboys Virtual Tour, merch, merchandise, livestream, livestreaming, Diet Cig, Vundabar, Foxing, Soccer Mommy, Pup, Metro, Lincoln Hall, Hideout, AOID, Treefort Music Fest, Waking Windows, High Road Touring, Stereogum, the Grey Estates, the Alternative, Eli Enis, Alien With a Sleep Mask On, Coool, John TerEick, Jake Nokovic, I Go Out at Night, Anj, Chloe the Pug, Paste, Bernie Sanders, Dowsing, Wild Pink, People, Havas, Amazon, Redeye Worldwide, Streamlabs Open Broadcast Software, Gatorade, Super New Songs, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Mar 31, 2020
A new Chicago indie-rock comp benefits Brave Space Alliance and Black & Pink

Plus: Anna Holmquist of Bad Songwriter Podcast drops an album with their band Ester, and dance-pop act Pixel Grip releases a live MCA recording.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Jess Shoman, Tenci, Days Go By, compilation, benefit, Brave Space Alliance, Black & Pink, Fran, Sima Cunningham, Ohmme, Izzy True, Mia Joy, Liam Kazar, Gia Margaret, Dan Wriggins, Friendship, Ester, Anna Holmquist, Bad Songwriter Podcast, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, Julia Steiner, Ratboys, Katelyn Cohen, Chris Colson, Raul Cotaquispe, Chris Harris, Tim Newsum, Turn Around, Hideout, Pixel Grip, MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Soundtrack series, Diamonds

Music, Music Feature Mar 26, 2020
Live music finds a way

Livestreaming allows Chicagoans to continue playing concerts for one another.
- By Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: Music Feature, Quarantine Concerts, Social Distancing Pesents, livestream, streaming concerts, COVID-19, coronavirus, Arcada Live!, Ballroom Boxer, Friday Night Fuzz Box, Third Coast Percussion, Rosa’s Lounge, Experimental Sound Studio, ESS, Hideout, Elastic Arts, Snow Burial

Columns & Opinion, Staff notes Mar 18, 2020
Chicagoans stick together
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Staff notes, coronavirus, COVID-19, Hideout, Virtual Tavern, Spencer Tweedy, Chicago Service Relief, Marc Fischer, Quaranzine

Music, Music Feature Mar 17, 2020
COVID-19 hits live music hard

You can still support artists and staff by buying merch and donating to fundraisers.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Music Feature, COVID-19, coronavirus, outbreak, pandemic, shutdown, closures, social distancing, self-quarantine, fundraisers, staff, merch, support, GoFundMe, Beat Kitchen, Bottom Lounge, Burlington, Cafe Mustache, Cobra Lounge, Constellation, Cole's Bar, Dorian's, Empty Bottle, Bite Cafe, AliveOne, the Owl, Hideout, Hungry Brain, Liar's Club, Live Wire Lounge, Martyrs', Metro, Promontory, Reed's Local, Reggies' Rock Club, Reggies' Music Joint, Smart Bar, Gman Tavern, Sleeping Village, SPACE, Subterranean, Thalia Hall, Dusek's, Punch House, Tonic Room, Whistler, COVID-19 relief fundraisers

Music, Concert Preview Mar 6, 2020
Recommended
Habibi’s gauzy surf rock will have you dreaming of summer
- By Joshua Minsoo Kim
- Tags: Concert Preview, Habibi, New York, surf rock, Anywhere but Here, Muddguts, Rahill Jamalifard, Come My Habibi, Hate Everyone but You, Hideout, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Calendar Mar 6, 2020
Belkis Ayón retrospective, the International Women's Day Festival, and more to do this weekend

Arts and culture happenings from Fri 3/6 to Sun 3/8.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Calendar, Tony Tasset, Kavi Gupta, Belkis Ayón, Chicago Cultural Center, Meshell Ndegeocello, Museum of Contemporary Art, Grey Gardens, Theo Ubique, Kate O'Connor, Hideout, International Women's Day Festival, FitzGeralds, Chicago Sex Workers Art Show, SWOP-Chicago, Agitator Gallery, School Girls; Or The African Mean Girls Play, Goodman Theatre, 90-Second Newbery Film Festival, Harold Washington Library, Fehinty African Theatre Ensemble, WORD DEY!, Green Line Performing Arts Center, Quiz-O, Lumpen Radio, Pleasant House Pub

Arts & Culture, Comedy Mar 2, 2020
Recommended
Gossiping with Caleb Hearon

The comedian on his style, inspiration, and the Chicago comedy scene.
- By Jonathan Dale
- Tags: Comedy, Caleb Hearon, Holmes Holmes, Missouri, Roseanne, comedy, Hideout, Lincoln Lodge, Caleb Says Things With Friends, At What Cost?, Twitter, gossip, Recommended

Music, Concert Preview Feb 26, 2020
A cosmic crossword on the gig poster of the week

This week's featured gig poster was created by Minnesota-based illustrator Shawn Reed.
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Concert Preview, gig poster, gig poster of the week, gig posters, Hideout, Shawn Reed, Digital Sting, Saint Paul, Minnesota, American Dreams Records, Jordan Reyes, American Damage, Forest Management, Civic Center, Itsï, open mouths, turtles, tigers, sedans

Music, Concert Preview Feb 21, 2020
Recommended
Detroit art-rock foursome Saajtak harness the power of improvisation for good
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Concert Preview, Saajtak, University of Michigan, Detroit, art-rock, Creative Arts Orchestra, Ben Willis, Nerve, Jon Taylor, Teiku, Simon Alexander-Adams, Coachella, Alex Koi, Toronto Jazz Festival, If You Ask, Hideout, Michigan, Recommended

Music, Concert Preview Feb 21, 2020
Recommended
Chicago’s Ratboys become the toast of the national indie scene with Printer’s Devil
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Concert Preview, Ratboys, Julia Steiner, David Sagan, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, indie-rock, Marcus Nuccio, Sean Neumann, Printer’s Devil, Topshelf, Louisville, Lincoln Hall, Hideout, Recommended

Music, Concert Preview Jan 24, 2020
Recommended
Lea Bertucci packs the sounds of vast structures into small spaces
- By Bill Meyer
- Tags: Concert Preview, Lea Bertucci, Resonant Field, Phase Eclipse, Saariselka, Brokeback, NNA Tapes, Marine A Grain Elevator, Buffalo, Astral Spirits, Resonance, Hideout, Recommended

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