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- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 10, 2020
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Yule be home for Christmas with Manual Cinema and Hell in a Handbag
A Dickens chestnut and a spoof of 1970s celebrity specials join the online holiday theater lineup.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 14, 2020
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Dave ‘Medusa’ Shelton was a fairy godmother to Chicago’s club scene
He didn’t just found the legendary Medusa’s—he also helped everyone in his orbit shine like a star.
- Music, Music Feature May 21, 2019
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Plugging into Chicago’s forgotten house venues
For decades, house music has shaped pop worldwide—but many of the spaces that birthed it here disappeared so quickly they barely left a trace.
- Film, Movie Review Jan 18, 2019
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Life & Nothing More takes a long, hard look at a working-class woman and her son
Antonio Méndez Esparza's unscripted docudrama shows people who are just trying to get by.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 11, 2018
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L'Imitation of Life gives an old-fashioned 'women’s picture' an old-fashioned drag treatment
The caricatures and cock jokes are familiar, but the gowns are fabulous.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Dec 6, 2016
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I Kong Kult end a three-year hiatus to release their ass-shaking debut
Plus: Mako Sica hold a benefit to push back against cycling deaths, and the Dark Matter Series returns to Elastic with two events about dance music.
- Arts & Culture, Festival Nov 9, 2016
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The Humanities Fest goes to Bronzeville
A series of events in the south-side neighborhood is rounded out by a panel and dance party devoted to house music.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Thu 1/30: Out at CHM, Friends and Family Cocktail Challenge, and Drinking Gourd
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, January 30