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- Music, The Listener Aug 31, 2020
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Amira Jazeera’s dreamy pop makes a perfect quarantine soundtrack
Take it from her roommate, who hears every note.
- City Life, Public Service Announcement Jul 24, 2020
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Public Sculpture Opinion Poll
What our listings coordinator is musing about this week
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Aug 20, 2019
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Some of the best entertainment in the city this week is at Potter & Potter’s automata auction
Wind ’em up and watch ’em make magic.
- Music, Concert Preview Jul 18, 2019
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After 25 years, Smash Mouth’s gold still glimmers
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jun 12, 2019
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Jeanette Andrews has mastered the art of 'Bottling the Impossible'
To fully appreciate the magician’s sensory illusions, you need to be in the room with her.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 19, 2018
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Brett Schneider's brand of magic creates Communion
The "shared hallucinations" feel like real illusions.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 6, 2018
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Magician Neil Tobin’s cemetery performance will give you life
A Near Death Experience can be fun!
- Blogs, Bleader May 2, 2017
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Catch the magic-in-crimeland tale Sleight before it disappears from theaters
Director JD Dillard's feature debut is a smart and tender low-budget thriller.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Oct 26, 2016
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The resurgence of magic in Chicago is no illusion
A survey of Chicago magic’s illustrious past, reemergent present—and the woman who could be its future
- Arts & Culture, Feature Oct 26, 2016
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A brief, wondrous history of Chicago magic
New York had Broadway. LA had Hollywood. Chicago had magic.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Oct 26, 2016
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Jeanette Andrews is transforming magic into a contemporary art form
The self-styled “experiential illusionist” is in the midst of the most ambitious trick of her young career.
- News & Politics, Chicagoans Jan 27, 2014
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This week's Chicagoan: Marty Couch, Wiccan
"It was like I was able to see energy."
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 2, 2013
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Hunting for fun on Vic Mensa's Innanetape
One Reader writer went on a scavenger hunt for a CD copy of the brand-new debut mixtape from Save Money cofounder Vic Mensa, Innanetape.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 15, 2013
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When man met mammoth and painted it (part one)
A preview of the Field Museum's Lascaux cave paintings exhibit
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 31, 2012
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The good old supernatural
Call it magic, but don't call it passe
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 26, 2012
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This week in the Reader
What's in the January 26, 2012 issue of the Reader
- News & Politics, Chicagoans Jan 26, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Richard Kieckhefer, historian of magic
"In one of the manuscripts I edited, one of the conjurations is for summoning a flying horse'"
- Film, Movie Critic's Choice Nov 23, 2011
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Hugo, a 3-D children's fantasy by...
Martin Scorsese? Are you breakin' my fuckin' balls, or what?
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 25, 2010
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6/27 — Free Magic Open House in Elmhurst
On Sun 6/27 from 1 to 5 PM, the Elmhurst Historical Museum hosts a free party to celebrate the opening of its Magical History Tour exhibit.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 20, 2010
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4/20 — Free Bad at Sports "Un-lecture" at the MCA
Tonight at 6 PM, the Bad at Sports crew emcees "Cabinet of Curiosities," the free "un-lecture" series at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
- Film, Movie Critic's Choice May 23, 2002
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A Tale of the Wind
