‘He’s a real one’

Chicago Reader (Performing Arts) 3/8 11:00A Maya Dukmasova

Chuy Garcia’s first term in Congress earns progressive accolades, honorary Squad membership This article was reported in collaboration with In These Times magazine.…

$5,000 sweepstakes | Chicago Reader

Chicago Reader (Performing Arts) 3/8 7:00A

Complete the form for your chance to win a $5,000 prize! Entries accepted Monday, March 8, 2021 through Monday, April 5, 2021 Sorry, you are using an unsupported browser. This page will not display...

Altin Gün adds synthpop to their eclectic arsenal on Yol

Chicago Reader (Performing Arts) 3/8 12:00A Jamie Ludwig

Altin Gün kicked off last year with a Grammy nomination (their 2019 release Gece was up for Best World Music Album) and major festival bookings such as SXSW and Coachella. But like virtually every...

Catherine Ringer keeps Les Rita Mitsouko’s music alive

Chicago Reader (Performing Arts) 3/8 12:00A Salem Collo-Julin

Catherine Ringer’s famous duo, Les Rita Mitsouko, are no more—but she performed their punky, jazzy synth-pop songs for a recent live release. I don't remember exactly what year it was when I first...

Coming in hot and justice for Mannix

Chicago Reader (Lit & Lectures) 3/5 10:05A Salem Collo-Julin

Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator March is certainly coming in like a lion with a king’s share of events (see what I did there?…

Raya and the Last Dragon’s representation dilemma

Chicago Reader (Lit & Lectures) 3/5 8:45A Nina Li Coomes

Even with Asian-American talent on and off the screen, the film reflects back a myth of monolith. Raya and the Last Dragon, Disney’s latest glittering offering, follows a girl named Raya (Kelly Marie...

Cabinet of Curiosity and 16th Street let Mickle Maher do it on the radio

Chicago Reader (Performing Arts) 3/5 7:40A Kerry Reid

The longtime Chicago playwright joins a new mini-renaissance of aural drama. In Willy Russell's 1980 play Educating Rita, the title character (a working-class hairdresser taking Open University...

The pandemic, gender, and me

Chicago Reader (Lit & Lectures) 3/5 6:30A Adam M. Rhodes

How a year inside changed my outward expression Like a lot of privileged people I know, I’ve been able to make sweatpants a new staple in my work wardrobe. My general appearance, whether it be...

PAWS Pet Of The Week: Sassy

CBS Chicago (Best Of) 3/5 5:27A Best Of – CBS Chicago

CHICAGO (CBS)   Sassy is the PAWS Pet of the Week. She is the sweetest, happiest dog you ll ever meet. Sassy is a nine-year-old Australian Blue Heeler mix and falls in love with everyone she meets. Sassy also loves nothing more than to be cuddled...

Trust the movement, trust the method

Chicago Reader (Galleries & Museums) 3/5 3:00A Tanji Harper as told to Jamie Lu

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On her final album, composer Pauline Anna Strom cements her legacy in electronic music

Chicago Reader (Performing Arts) 3/5 12:00A Salem Collo-Julin

Pauline Anna Strom’s new album, Angel Tears in Sunlight, features the first new work in 30 years from the legendary Bay Area electronic music composer. Strom made her album debut with 1982’s...

Matches

Chicago Reader (Lit & Lectures) 3/4 1:00P

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"until i see u again"

Chicago Reader (Lit & Lectures) 3/4 9:30A Nishat Ahmed

Indonesian avant-garde duo Senyawa confront the apocalypse with community

Chicago Reader (Performing Arts) 3/4 12:00A Philip Montoro

“Ideas that are seen as progressive, modern, or radical always have these associations that come from the West,” said Senyawa vocalist Rully Shabara in a February interview with Reader contributor...

Windy City Times (PDF)

Chicago Reader (Lit & Lectures) 3/3 10:30A

AIDS @ 40: In this issue Windy City Times speaks with long-time HIV/AIDS survivors, deals with HIV-positive representation in media, checks in on young activists of today and more!