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- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Feb 16, 2021
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Long live the King-Cat
A history of John Porcellino’s midwest influence
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Feb 9, 2021
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Chicago museums and galleries prepare to optimistically reopen
The leaders of the city’s cultural institutions remain encouraged after facing the most recent round of closings in November.
- Arts & Culture, Dance Jan 25, 2021
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Chicago Dance History Project's Interview Marathon talks up a storm
Local and international luminaries provide a "microcosm" of CDHP's archival mission.
- Music, Chicagoans of Note Oct 15, 2020
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Jumaane Taylor, tap dancer
“I’ve been on this journey to be able to present within the jazz community. . . . To be a union of creative beauty.”
- City Life, Street View Sep 24, 2020
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Dressed to chill
No matter where they are, these friends are clad for their best life.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Apr 23, 2020
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When the lively arts go virtual
Two Reader critics talk about digital dance and theater—and other COVID-19 challenges.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Mar 31, 2020
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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.
- Music, Music Feature Mar 10, 2020
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D-Composed redefines classical music
This Chicago string quartet takes chamber music outside the institutions that have long excluded Black musicians and audiences.
- Arts & Culture, Calendar Mar 6, 2020
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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.
- Music, Concert Preview Feb 14, 2020
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Jacob Wick’s trumpet playing proposes some queer notions
- Arts & Culture, Theater Preview Sep 13, 2019
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The Storefront Project provides a movable feast of devised theater
The Museum of Contemporary Art and Prop Thtr offer directors a chance to adapt between venues.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Aug 16, 2019
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A seat at the table with Janelle Monaé
What happens when you bring 80 Chicago creatives, artists, change makers—and a Reader reporter—to late-night brunch at the MCA.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 8, 2019
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Rap duo Free Snacks celebrate their funky, sample-heavy debut
Plus: CabinFever’s site-specific Merce Cunningham tribute becomes an album, and experimental rock duo Comfort Food play a farewell show.
- Arts & Culture, Dance Sep 27, 2018
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With Unwanted, Dorothée Munyaneza creates a spectacle of grief and resilience
The artist revisits the ongoing horrors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2018
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Flutist Nicole Mitchell uses music to map a possible paradise
She brings her Afrofuturist epic Mandorla Awakening back to Chicago for the Jazz Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 6, 2018
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Chicago’s footwork community takes center stage at the MCA
The Era takes over the museum for a night for a demonstration of footwork, with a special focus on the women.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 12, 2018
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Poet and rapper Tati wants to help you make your own love potion
Tati, 20, debuts her first performance-art piece, Luvpotion, on Saturday as part of the MCA's 21Minus event.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 7, 2018
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New documentary Public Park illuminates Chicago's role in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria
The film by Fieldwork Collaborative Projects follows Puerto Rican evacuees in Humboldt Park.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 21, 2018
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Jaime Fennelly’s Mind Over Mirrors premieres its immersive new multimedia opus Bellowing Sun at the MCA
Mind Over Mirrors will not only give three performances at the museum but also release a stunning recording of the music from the project on April 6.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 19, 2018
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The weekly quiz night Trivia Mafia and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
"Endless Summer" at the MCA and more goings-on 3/19-3/22
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 5, 2018
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My Dad Wrote a Porno and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Harry Potter Trivia and more goings-on March 5-8.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 26, 2018
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‘Endless Summer’ at the MCA, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Ben Franklin reimagined in Franklinland, the documentary Jane, and more goings-on January 26-28
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Dec 19, 2017
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A Kerry James Marshall painting sold for $5 million, but he didn’t see any of it
The U.S. is the only major market that freezes artists out of resale profits.
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Dec 13, 2017
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With Marisol inside the MCA, Jason Hammel paints a new canvas
The Lula Cafe chef’s menu is its own form of contemporary art.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 17, 2017
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The Chicago Art Book Fair and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
The Annoyance Christmas Pageant, a tribute to the late comedian Pat Brice, and more goings-on around town the weekend of 11/17-11/19
