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City Life, Public Service Announcement Oct 2, 2020
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Get tested and enjoy sweater weather with confidence

Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Public Service Announcement, listings, events, concerts, art, visual art, public art, University of Chicago, COVID-19, health, shopping, zines, ZINEmercado, Logan Square, Comfort Station, Sherman Park, fishing, Chicago Public Library, Chicago Park District, social distancing, Jenny Holzer, Video

City Life, Public Service Announcement Sep 25, 2020
Just got paid

Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Public Service Announcement, listings, events, galleries, shopping, Buddy, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Lumpen Radio, Public Media Institute, art, visual art, Shi-an Costello, Constellation, Aspect/Ratio Gallery, livestream, concerts

Film, Movie Review Sep 4, 2020
The Burnt Orange Heresy critiques the art critic

Giuseppe Capotondi’s latest looks at the dark inauthenticity of the art world.
- By Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Movie Review, The Burnt Orange Heresy, Elizabeth Debicki, Claes Bang, Giuseppe Capotondi, Mick Jagger, Donald Sutherland, art, art critic

Arts & Culture, Art Feature Feb 18, 2020
Art critic Lori Waxman wants to support your artists visa

The 60 wrd/min project aims to keep overseas creatives in the U.S.
- By KT Hawbaker
- Tags: Art Feature, Lori Waxman, 60wrd/min, immigration, artists, visas, art, Lumpen, O1B: Individuals with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement

Arts & Culture, Art Feature Jan 21, 2020
‘Transition’ showcases perseverance

The art exhibit seeks to bring humanity and life to youth experiencing homelessness.
- By Ariel Parrella-Aureli
- Tags: Art Feature, Transition, Zamari Vivens, Gallery 400, Kasey White, One Heart One Soul, Called to Create, Mireya Fouche, homeless youth, art, photography

Music, Concert Preview Dec 13, 2019
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Avreeayl Ra and Time Machine guide the way from suffering to healing at Jazz Occurrence 21
- By Audrey Henderson
- Tags: Concert Preview, Avreeayl Ra, Time Machine, Lewis Achenbach, Jazz Occurrence 21, Marvin Tate, Matt Piet, Jeff Kimnel, Sun Ra Arkestra, Healing Arts, synesthesia, art, Recommended, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Sep 10, 2019
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Saxophonist Hunter Diamond debuts four free shows’ worth of new material at the Whistler

Plus: Matthew Rachman Gallery opens a new exhibit of Wesley Willis’s artwork, and Camp Smokey Bear returns with another free day of top-shelf local hip-hop.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Hunter Diamond, Nicole Mitchell, jazz, improvised music, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Whistler, Cameron Pfiffner, Katie Ernst, Nick Mazzarella, Dana Hall, Wesley Willis, art, drawings, sculpture, Ricky Willis, Project Onward, City of Many Dreams, Matthew Rachman Gallery, Paul Young, Chimeka, Camp Smokey Bear, Camp Smokey Bear Festival, South Holland, hip-hop, Camp Shabbona Woods, ZMoney, Queen Key, Kidd Kenn, Solo the Dweeb, Happy Birthday Calvin, Video

Music, Concert Preview Sep 6, 2019
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Multimedia composer Samson Young presents music from the 1933 Chicago’s World Fair
- By Audrey Henderson
- Tags: Concert Preview, Samson Young, World Fair, Chicago’s World Fair, 1933 Chicago’s World Fair, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Symphony Center, art, Silver Moon or Golden Star, Which Will You Buy of Me?, Hong Kong, Orianna Cacchione, contemporary art, music composition, Recommended, Video

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Aug 27, 2019
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Subversive art-punks Möc Artsy existed mostly on cassette tapes

This stubbornly strange duo gigged only in their apartment, and only one song survives from their hours of bizarre recordings.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Moc Artsy, punk, art, art-punk, postpunk, noise, Michael Latham, Ralph Conception, Cliff Concep, Aaron Detritus, La Mere Vipere, improvisational theater, John Cage, Residents, Pere Ubu, Snakefinger, Autoharp, Do the Acting Up, Let's Go to the Beach, Mrs. Johnson's Dog, Waiting for You, I Dare You to Dance, Jonestown, John Wayne Gacy, Ver Sacrum, Waltz Invention, Audio

Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2018
German pop princess Kim Petras gets dark and campy with a Halloween-themed mixtape

Kim Petras opens for South African singer-songwriter Troye Sivan at the Chicago Theatre this weekend.
- By Julia Hale
- Tags: Music, Do This, Kim Petras, Halloween, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, mixtape, Troye Sivan, spooky, EDM, pop, music, culture, art, techno, goth pop, bubblegum pop, Turn Off the Light Vol. 1

Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2018
Chicago International Film Festival and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

Pop-Up Magazine's Fall Issue tour and other goings on Mon 10/15-Thu 10/18.
- By Julia Hale
- Tags: Arts, Music, Film, art, performing art, visual art, music, film, culture, theater, Chicago International Film Festival, Pop-Up, magazine, improv

Blogs, Bleader Sep 28, 2018
Chicago Votes launches Give a Shit Weekend to get young people in Chicago excited about election season

The nonprofit organization is using art and culture to get young people in the city excited about voting in a world where politics are "pretty boring, pretty old, and pretty white."
- By Julia Hale
- Tags: Arts, Politics, News, Chicago Votes, fashion, art, music, politics, voting, local

Music, Concert Preview Sep 7, 2018
Food, football, fund-raising, and Freddie Gibbs at this weekend’s music fests
- Tags: Concert Preview, Beer & Bands for Comfort Station, Comfort Station, Logan Square, Dos Santos, Phoelix, Dim, Campdogzz, Goose Island Beer Company, Virtue Cider, White Claw, The Breaks, Wu-Tang Clan, Freddie Gibbs, Vic Mensa, Yasiin Bey, Talib Kweli, Hurt Everybody, Toyota Park, football, NFL, Chicago Bears, Atlas Genius, beer, Ember Oceans, Bifunkal, Esso, AMFM, food, art, music, Matt Muse, Solo Sam, Avantist, Tamarie T. & the Elektra Company

Blogs, Bleader Dec 6, 2017
Shambolic rocker Mac Blackout publishes the art book Madman’s Eye

My friend Mac Blackout has found a way to turn his chaotic and provocative personality into chaotic and provocative art, and he celebrates his first book Friday at Galerie F.
- By Brian Costello
- Tags: Books, Music, Visual Art, Mac Blackout, HoZac Books, Madman's Eye: The Art of Mac Blackout, Madman's Eye, Galerie F, painting, art, graffiti, flyers, posters, exhibition, Functional Blackouts, Mickey, Daily Void

Arts & Culture, Art Feature Apr 26, 2017
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Photo book Too Fly Not to Fly celebrates #blackgirlmagic and #blackboyjoy

Educators Briana McLean and Desmond Owusu created a learning tool that also captures the joy of black childhood in Chicago.
- By Briana McLean and Desmond Owusu
- Tags: Art Feature, education, photos, southside, art, Chicago, Loop, Too Fly Not to Fly, books, Art Feature, photo essay, Slideshow

Blogs, Bleader Mar 23, 2017
Remembering underground comics artists Jay Lynch and Skip Williamson

Jane Shay Wald, Lynch's ex-wife, remembers the wild 60s with her former husband, his partner in comics, and their influence on the medium.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Visual Art, History, Jay Lynch, Skip Williamson, Jane Lynch, Jane Shay Wald, Art Spiegelman, Nelson Algren, Simone de Beauvoir, Eliot Wald, Art Shay, Harvey Kurtzman, Mad magazine, R. Crumb, Hugh Hefner, Playboy Mansion, comics, art

Arts & Culture, Art Feature Jan 25, 2017
A candid portrait of a rapidly changing Chinatown

The photographic series "Face Value" depicts the growth and resilience of Armour Square and its surrounding areas.
- By Jacob Yeung
- Tags: Art Feature, Chinatown, Chicago, photo essay, art, Armour Square

Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Dec 13, 2016
Moonlight urges the need for deep self-reflection

The Golden Globe-nominated film poses a simple but profound question.
- By Derrick Clifton
- Tags: Identity & Culture, News, Moonlight, film, movie, art, black, queer, identity, LGBT, young people, safe spaces

Arts & Culture, Art Feature Nov 30, 2016
‘Hoop Dreams’ amid the game of life

Snapshots of basketball courts in Chicago’s overlooked communities offer a plea for investment in the city’s youth.
- By Adam Jason Cohen
- Tags: Art Feature, basketball, photo essay, south side, west side, hoop dreams, wealth gap, youth, teens, children, books, art, Adam Jason Cohen, photography

Blogs, Bleader Oct 20, 2016
Illinois Democrats spend more than $3 million on new anti-Rauner ads, and other Chicago news

Also, the Chicago Park District shuts down 445 outdoor drinking fountains with high lead levels.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Bruce Rauner, Election 2016, Donald Trump, super PACs, police surveillance, Ferguson, social media, Chicago Park District, public health, lead, Theaster Gates, Kerry James Marshall, art, Cubs, ACLU, EPA

Columns & Opinion, Identity & Culture Sep 21, 2016
Performance artist to Chicago: Get off our areolas

Bea Cordelia thinks the city’s liquor-license law has a gender-bias problem.
- By Derrick Clifton
- Tags: Identity & Culture, #FreeTheNipple, Bea Cordelia, Bea Sullivan-Knoff, art, poetry, spoken word, gender, gender identity, trans, transgender, sexism, misogyny, transphobia, women, cisgender, cisgender women, gay, lesbian, bi, LGBT, nipple, nudity, aereolas, performance art, live performance, bars, venues, nightlife

Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2016
Slideshow
The Guerrilla Truck Show returns after a brief hiatus

Photos of the Guerrilla Truck Show at Merchandise Mart during the annual NeoCon commercial design show.
- By Danielle A. Scruggs
- Tags: Arts, Art House, Chicagoland, Guerrilla Truck Show, NeoCon, design, art, Columbia College Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Chicagoland, Slideshow

Blogs, Bleader Jun 3, 2016
Behind the cover art of the Reader's Road Trips and Summer Guide issues

NBDY Design Co.'s covers preserve the bond of the sibling issues.
- By Paul John Higgins
- Tags: Arts, News, Inside the Reader, Vince DeSantiago, Summer Guide, Road Trips, art, illustration, photography, cover art, Springfield, NBDY Design Co., These Parts

Blogs, Bleader Mar 24, 2016
A Chicago artist painted Donald Trump's face on a toilet filled with poop, and it's awesome

Art of the heel: Bat Trump, Forrest Trump, and more of Jacob Thomas's satirical Donald Trump works
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Visual Art, Arts, Politics, Donald Trump, We're Fired, art, Jacob Thomas, Degenerate Art Gallery, Batman, Richie Rich, Mao Zedong, Monopoly, Rich Uncle Pennybags, Forrest Gump

Blogs, Bleader Oct 13, 2015
Jose Guerrero—printmaker, muralist, worker—dies at 77

Guerrero’s prints, tours and murals in Pilsen and Humboldt Park melded the personal and political.
- By John Pitman Weber
- Tags: Arts, Chicagoland, News, Jose Guerrero, Margaret Guerrero, Lynn Takata, Cynthia Weiss, Celia Radek, Carlos Cortez, Oscar Martinez, Hector Duarte, Art Olson, Taller Grafico Mexicano, Obrero Press, Casa de la Cultura Carlos Cortez, Pilsen, Humboldt Park, Mexico, Mexican-American, Latino, Latina, art, murals, painting

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