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Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Aug 2, 2017
Brave Like Them, The Bricklayers of Oz, and ten more new stage shows for the dog days

A "queer as f**k riot grrrl musical" and Chicago Dance Crash's latest story-length hip-hop showcase are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, An American in Paris, Christopher Wheeldon, George and Ira Gershwin, Gene Kelly, I Got Rhythm, Craig Lucas, McGee Maddox, Jerry Mulligan, Ryan Steele, About Face Youth Theatre, riot grrrl movement, Kathleen Hanna, Bikini Kill, 90s punk, Ali Hoefnagel, Kieran Kredell, Kyle Norton, Erin Kilmurray, Nicholas Davio, Brave Like Them, The Fair Maid of the West, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Thomas Heywood, 17th-century comedy, Amanda Forman, Zach Livingston, Kevin Theis, swordplay, Bobby Bowman, Teatro Vista, La Havana Madrid, Sandra Delgado, Latin nightclub, Carpacho y Su Super Combo, Latino immigrants in Chicago, Goodman Theatre, Lakeview, the Comrades, In the Wake, Lisa Kron, Rose Sengenberger, Alison Plott, Mike Newquist, Rachel Rauscher, Bush v. Gore, 2000 presidential election, Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, Ground Zero, Alex Mallory, Black Ensemble Theater, Rueben Echoles, Deverin Deonte, Last Dancer Standing (More Than Hip-Hop), Black Lives Matter, Huggable Riot, sketch comedy, Judgmental Institutions, the Annoyance, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare in the Parks, Marti Lyons, The Vagina Monologues, The Aleatoric Theatre Company, Eve Ensler, Refugee Alliance Group, transgender, Joette Waters, Sandy Smith

Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2016
This weekend the Instigation Orchestra combines musicians from Chicago and New Orleans

This weekend an ambitious project organized by guitarist Steve Marquette and dance producer Marie Casimir brings together musicians and dancers from the Crescent City and the Windy City.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Jazz, Music, Post No Bills, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Lucky 7s, Jeff Albert, Steve Marquette, Marie Casimir, Aurora Nealand, James Singleton, Paul Thibodeaux, Links Hall, dance, Helen Gillet

Blogs, Bleader Dec 3, 2015
This is Rahm Emanuel's Katrina moment

The cover-up of Laquan McDonald’s death is proof that Emanuel and his allies don’t care about black people.
- By Derrick Clifton
- Tags: News, Criminal Justice, Politics, Rahm Emanuel, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Chicago, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Laquan McDonald, Garry McCarthy, police misconduct, police shootings

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Sep 2, 2015
Making art out of Hurricane Katrina's suffering

Ten years after the disaster in New Orleans, true stories of survival fill a pair of Chicago productions.
- By Zac Thompson
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Katrina: Mother-in-Law of 'Em All, The Play About My Dad, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Chicago Tribune, Kristen McQueary, Rob Florence, Mother-in-Law Lounge, Interrobang Theatre Project, Georgette Verdin, Boo Killebrew, Raven Theatre, Marti Lyons, Title and Deed, Bethany

Blogs, Bleader Aug 17, 2015
The Tribune's Kristen McQueary takes a Katrina-strength pounding

Readers overreact to Tribune Editorial Board member Kristen McQueary's column calling for the city of Chicago to face a reckoning.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Politics, Seriously?, Hurricane Katrina, Kristen MQueary, Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Times-Picayune, Gary Rivlin, Katrina: After the Flood, Treme, Wendell Pierce

Blogs, Bleader Aug 12, 2015
Gary Rivlin—the reporter Harold Washington and Hurricane Katrina have in common

Former Reader writer Gary Rivlin has a new book out on the rebuilding of New Orleans postflood.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Books, Media, News, Gary Rivlin, Fire on the Prairie, Katrina: After the Flood, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Chicago Reader, Harold Washington, New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Simon & Schuster, Joseph Canizaro, Ben Loehnen

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Dirty Rice

Analogue
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink, Best of Chicago 2014, dirty rice, Analogue, Hurricane Katrina, Alfredo Nogueira, Paul Prudhomme, Critics' Picks

Blogs, Bleader Feb 6, 2013
Oscar-nominated live-action shorts: The "30-Second Auteur" takes to the high seas in Asad

Oscar-nominated live-action shorts: Asad
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Art House, Film, Brian Buckley, New York Times, Super Bowl, Asad, Somalia, Somali pirates, Harun Mohammed, Behn Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, South Africa, No Autographs, United Nations Human Right’s Council, Luol Deng, Chicago Bulls, Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, Sudan, New York, Massachusetts, Kony 2012

Blogs, Bleader Nov 23, 2012
An echo is also a choice

Facts are fairly inflexible, but reporters can have their way with contexts
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Chicago Humanities Festival, Mother Jones, Monika Bauerlein, Adam Hochschild, Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Katrina, Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic, George Will, context

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Jul 3, 2012
Video
The haunting southern gothic Beasts of the Southern Wild

Benh Zeitlin's film portrays life on a Louisiana floodplain
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Benh Zeitlin, New Orleans, Quvenzhane Wallis, Hurricane Katrina, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 24, 2012
Times-Picayune scales back, but can an iPad produce the same intimacy?

Times-Picayune goes to three days a week publication. Sigh.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Times-Picayune, New Orleans, USA Today, Hurricane Katrina, Ashton Phelps Jr., NOLA Media Group, Clayton Christensen, Larissa MacFarquhar, the NewYorker

Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2010
PBS Launches Arts Website

Online initiative debuts with a focus on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Onstage, Media, Film, Visual Art, Performing Arts, Arts, PBS, Hurricane Katrina

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Mar 25, 2010
Flood Damage

You need a good reason to rewrite history.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, A True History of the Johnstown Flood, Goodman Theatre, Rebecca Gilman, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, Henry Clay Frick, Baxter Theatre Troupe, Robert Falls, Hurricane Katrina, metaphor for class inequity in America

Blogs, Bleader Sep 15, 2009
Ned Sublette on New Orleans and Himself

A new book by Ned Sublette delves into his own history, the rich musical culture of New Orleans, and what Hurricane Katrina meant to both of them.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Ned Sublette, New Orleans, Cuba, books, New York, The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square, Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo, The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans, Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other, Willie Nelson, Hurricane Katrina

Blogs, Bleader Nov 18, 2008
Taking their balls and going home?

Barack Obama doesn't hold any grudges against Joe Lieberman for campaigning against him. There are plenty of other reasons to.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Politics, Barack Obama, Hurricane Katrina, Joe Lieberman, Dick Durbin, FEMA

Blogs, Bleader Sep 5, 2007
The Jonah Goldberg-still-has-a-job watch, part infinity

The Jonah Goldberg-still-has-a-job watch, part infinity.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Chicago Tribune, Hurricane Katrina, Jonah Goldberg

Blogs, Bleader Jan 1, 2007
Spike Lee's best movie?

The awesome When the Levees Broke may be Spike Lee's masterpiece to date.
- By Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Film, DVDs, Spike Lee, Hurricane Katrina, When the Levees Broke, documentary

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A "queer as f**k riot grrrl musical" and Chicago Dance Crash's latest story-length hip-hop showcase are among this week's best bets.

This weekend an ambitious project organized by guitarist Steve Marquette and dance producer Marie Casimir brings together musicians and dancers from the Crescent City and the Windy City.

The cover-up of Laquan McDonald’s death is proof that Emanuel and his allies don’t care about black people.

Ten years after the disaster in New Orleans, true stories of survival fill a pair of Chicago productions.

Readers overreact to Tribune Editorial Board member Kristen McQueary's column calling for the city of Chicago to face a reckoning.

Former Reader writer Gary Rivlin has a new book out on the rebuilding of New Orleans postflood.

Analogue

Oscar-nominated live-action shorts: Asad

Facts are fairly inflexible, but reporters can have their way with contexts

Benh Zeitlin's film portrays life on a Louisiana floodplain

Times-Picayune goes to three days a week publication. Sigh.

Online initiative debuts with a focus on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

You need a good reason to rewrite history.

A new book by Ned Sublette delves into his own history, the rich musical culture of New Orleans, and what Hurricane Katrina meant to both of them.

Barack Obama doesn't hold any grudges against Joe Lieberman for campaigning against him. There are plenty of other reasons to.

The Jonah Goldberg-still-has-a-job watch, part infinity.

The awesome When the Levees Broke may be Spike Lee's masterpiece to date.

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