12/03/2024
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From a Samaritan who is looking after his new neighbors to our oldest winner ever (by 150 million years), these 2024 honorees have made a lasting mark on the city...
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A coach house, also known as a carriage house, was common before the advent of automobiles: They were an outbuilding where horse-drawn vehicles were stored, usually located at the rear of the property. Depending on its size, they might als…..
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David Morton has two projects coming to River North in 2025. | Eater The rebranded DMK, now called Episcope, will debut Layla , Ringo’s and DJ’s Great Room in 2025 Started in 2009 by restaurateur David Morton and chef Michael Korni…..
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“Leather and Fur: Uncommitted Crimes” through 12/6 at Parlour and Ramp The post Liberate the flesh appeared first on Chicago Reader. ..
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“The 50th: An Anniversary Exhibition” through 3/2/25 at the Smart Museum The post The evolution of the Smart Museum appeared first on Chicago Reader. ..
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Shutterstock Leave the holiday meal to the experts The holidays can be a stressful time, so this year, take a load off and let someone else handle the cooking. Many Chicago restaurants will be open on Christmas Eve and Day. The fol…..
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No longer an R&B prodigy, a rawer and deeper Tink comes into her own...
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End the year contemplating diaspora as well as the future of Chicago art...
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Chicago is densely populated, meaning there are over a million vehicles on the road daily. This number becomes even higher over public holidays, especially Thanksgiving and Christmas. It… The post Why Speeding Accidents Demand Immed…..
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By Demetrius Amparan The post as a black man appeared first on Chicago Reader. ..
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Alkilith, Thy Dark Majesty The new EP from Alkilith, the minimalist dungeon-synth project of Zak Kiernan, arrives just weeks after he helped organize the Great Lakes Dungeon Siege in Fort Wayne. Despite (or because of) its serene solemnity…..
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Jump Scares, Vol. 1, through 12/8 at Jarvis Square Theater The post Short scary experiments appeared first on Chicago Reader. ..
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Last time Bettye LaVette rolled through Chicago, she performed in front of roughly 60,000 people, opening one of the Rolling Stones’ June 2024 concerts at Soldier Field. By comparison this concert at the Old Town School of Folk Music will …..
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The Reader is available free of charge at more than 1,100 Chicago area locations. Issues are dated Thursday, and distributed Wednesday morning through Thursday night of the issue date. Some locations are restocked the following Wednesday. …..
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The Cherry Circle Room | Barry Brecheisen/Eater Chicago Boka looms as Land , Sea Dept. departs with Cherry Circle Room and Cindy’s Rooftop’s fates up in the air A change is coming to the Chicago Athletic Association, the hotel insi…..
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Asha Omega releases her debut studio album, The Star, on Wednesday, November 27. A follow-up to her first major project, the 2023 EP Alkhemy, it cements her place as a key new figure in the Chicago hip-hop scene. Though her rap career is …..
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Macbeth by the Sea, through 12/15 at the Den Theatre The post Scottish play silliness appeared first on Chicago Reader. ..
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Chicago Reader Volume 54, No. 9. November 28, 2024. The post Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 9 appeared first on Chicago Reader. ..
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Switchboard, through 12/14 at Steppenwolf 1700 Theater The post <i>Eastland</i> stories appeared first on Chicago Reader. ..
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Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, through 12/22 at Greenhouse Theater Center The post Avian hijinks appeared first on Chicago Reader. ..
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A Christmas Carol, through 12/30 at Goodman Theatre The post New Scrooge, same spirit appeared first on Chicago Reader. ..
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The WCGI Big Jam, hosted by the Chicago hip-hop station, celebrates the season with some of the hottest names in rap. Southern powerhouses GloRilla and BossMan Dlow headline a stacked lineup. The former, born Gloria Hallelujah Woods, came …..
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The Reader has spilled plenty of ink over the years in celebration of Robert Hood, who cofounded Detroit techno collective Underground Resistance in 1989. Alongside fellow founders Jeff Mills and “Mad” Mike Banks (who’s also played bass in…..
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ML Buch’s 2023 album, Suntub, feels like a road tripper’s ultimate companion. Its strummed guitar echoes with enough reverb to swallow you with every note as you ruminate on whatever lyric the Danish songwriter throws into the ether. On th…..
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Pharmakon embraces duality through sound. For 17 years, power-electronics artist Margaret Chardiet has been making bristling, textural chaos under the name Pharmakon—a Greek word that can mean remedy and poison. Deconstructionist philosoph…..
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Chicago saxophonist and composer Isaiah Collier conceptualized The Story of 400 Years as a student fellow at the University of the Pacific’s Brubeck Institute seven years ago, then evolved it into a multimedia production that integrates ja…..
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When I first got into hardcore music in the early 2000s, I heard bogeyman-style tales about metalcore giants Coalesce and their chaotic live shows. Those stories were easier to believe after I stumbled across the Missouri band’s 1998 secon…..
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As we gather for yet another holiday putting a mythical glow on the land grab—er, origins—of America, it’s encouraging to know that sometimes, in however minor a way, things can actually get better. Case in point: Evanston’s small but wort…..
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There are big plans for Virtue Cider. | Virtue Cider Planned renovations to the tasting room will help give the farmhouse a more European vibe Back in 2015, Greg Hall sold Virtue Cider to Anheuser Busch-InBev. It was the second ti…..
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The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. My mom was in town for a few days and among the many fun things we did was see Clint Eastwood’s new…..
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"Rooms With Rooms and Games” through 12/21 at Devening Projects The post Nathaniel Robinson’s games appeared first on Chicago Reader. ..
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Shop local this holiday season. Whether you’re searching for the perfect present for someone else or treating yourself after a long year, the Reader staff has you covered with handpicked gift ideas from Chicago artists, nonprofits, and sma…..
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Funeral Potatoes ditches delivery to take over the Moonflower kitchen...
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Paul Virant after winning the Banchet for Chef of The Year earlier in 2024. | Mistey Nguyen Petite Vie gives the chef another stage to demonstrate his love for French cuisine It’s a Saturday afternoon in Western Springs, a town abo…..
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Most of the time, the default organizing principle of my kitchen can be compared to the aftermath of a condiment cyclone. Counters, drawers, shelves, the refrigerator-freezer, and the second fridge (the back porch) spill over with brightly…..
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Last weekend as 58-mile-per-hour winds* whipped off the Bay of Biscay, lashing La Concha Promenade, officials canceled the Zurich Maratón San Sebastián, the second oldest marathon in Spain. Presumably it had no effect on the oldest maratho…..
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Kris Vire wasn’t born and raised in Chicago. Unlike the origin story of a lot of people in the Chicago theater world, he also didn’t move here to study theater at DePaul, or Columbia College Chicago, or Northwestern, and then b…..
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Christkindlmarket returns to Daley Plaza in 2024, but is taking a year off from Wrigleyville. | Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images The best food and drink at Daley Plaza’s annual holiday market It’s the most wonderful time of year …..
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The last time I had Nutella souffle pancakes, I was in the middle of London during my junior year of undergrad. I taste tested them at Westfield Stratford’s Fuwa Fuwa Dessert Cafe with a few of my visiting Eastern European friends. I…..
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The exhibit is centered around two recreations of Kaws studio where artsy furniture is backgrounded by cavalcades of visual stimulation...
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“Working freelance, it can be feast or famine,” Amir Badri tells me. Badri, a native Chicagoan, makes his living as a leather artisan. “You got to go out and hustle, shuck and jive, make cold calls, but I’ve been working the craft for long…..
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You may have heard of Nick Fuentes recently. A longtime character in the extended Manoverse of the Internet, he is especially shrill, sanctimonious, and vile in his approach to the purported problem of what ails the modern man. On election…..
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Goose Island’s 2024 Bourbon County Brand Stou lineup features a wildcard. | Goose Island Beer Co. Black Friday’s release includes Bardstown Cask Finish Stout, a beer aged in hybrid oak and cherrywood barrels Black Friday means dif…..
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In the dark, black letter type appears in supertitles: “Hear me as I will speak.” These words ring strange, not found within the celebrated play, soon shuffled into other anagrams (“I’ll make a wise phrase” “I am a weakish speller”), final…..
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Vera Blossom book event Wed 12/4, 7 PM at Women & Children First The post <I>How to Fuck Like a Girl</I> is for everyone appeared first on Chicago Reader. ..
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