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- Columns & Opinion, Staff notes Jun 10, 2020
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How Chicago musicians are showing up
Thoughts on the shuttered music venues in the city
- Music, Gig Poster of the Week May 20, 2020
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Godzilla can't stop the music on the (fantasy) gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicago artist Jon Natzke.
- Music, Music Review Mar 27, 2020
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Spend quality time in quarantine with your new favorite Chicago albums
Close your eyes and picture yourself at your favorite local venue while listening to these new releases.
- Music, Music Feature Mar 20, 2020
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COVID-19 can close venues, but it can’t stop Chicago’s music community
Concerts are all canceled, but you can still support artists by buying their music.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Mar 13, 2020
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Audio pleasures for self-quarantine
Keep yourself company with these local podcasts and albums.
- City Life, Community Jan 7, 2020
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Kennedy Shanks speaks up
The 16-year-old south side native is creating an artistic safe space for youth to express their voices.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jul 31, 2019
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[PHOTOS] Fiesta del Sol
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Apr 9, 2019
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Meltdown at Pitchfork
An excerpt from Music to My Eyes
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Mar 4, 2019
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Chicago’s black artists are coming home
Despite the black exodus from Chicago, black artists are thriving and tell a story with a common thread: the city provides comfort and inspiration.
- Music, Music Feature Feb 18, 2019
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Photos from the fifth annual Femifest
What began as a high school benefit concert in Des Moines, Iowa, is now a two-day celebration of marginalized artists and fans in Chicago.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2018
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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.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2018
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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.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Oct 9, 2018
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Lyric's La Bohème has its flaws, but Puccini's score overcomes most of them
Heavy-handed direction highlights the outdated sexism of the 19th-century story.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 4, 2018
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Firebrand's Caroline, or Change revels in tension, both racial and domestic
Firebrand's production features fearless, fantastic singers.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 28, 2018
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Lala Lala and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Chicago Votes's Give a Shit and more goings on 9/28-9/30
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 28, 2018
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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."
- Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 19, 2018
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Lyric Opera’s La Bohème is the perfect comfort as winter looms
The 2018 season opens with Puccini's sublime music and a cast primed to make the most of it.
- Music, Fall Preview Sep 19, 2018
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The MC5 celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kick Out the Jams
Wayne Kramer and worthy sidemen play Metro in honor of the protopunk classic.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 8, 2018
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Exploring the shock behind Mac Miller's untimely death
His struggles with sobriety were no secret, yet everyone was surprised when news spread that he died of a drug overdose on Friday.
- Music, Concert Preview Sep 7, 2018
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Food, football, fund-raising, and Freddie Gibbs at this weekend’s music fests
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 5, 2018
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Music critic Peter Margasak says farewell and thanks to the Reader and to Chicago
A sign-off and an appreciation—plus some favorite stories from the past 25 years
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 8, 2018
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Rogers Park gets a new record store
The team that used to run Logan Hardware quietly opened Electric Jungle at the end of July.
- Music, Pitchfork Jul 23, 2018
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Behind the scenes at Pitchfork: Kweku Collins [PHOTOS]
- Film, Movie Review Jun 28, 2018
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Music is the connecting tissue in the indie drama Hearts Beat Loud, starring Nick Offerman
Offerman stars as a record store owner dreading his daughter’s departure for college in Brett Haley's new film.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 25, 2018
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South-side poet Kwynology wants you to fall back in love with Chicago at her open mike
In the Yard will let south- and west-siders share their work in their own community.
