2+ hour, 19+ min ago  (745+ words) Kerry Reid (she/her) has been the theater and dance editor at the Chicago Reader since 2019. Graduating from Columbia College in 1987, she worked with several off-Loop theater companies before beginning her arts journalism career by writing pro bono for Streetwise....

2+ hour, 43+ min ago  (746+ words) Kerry Reid (she/her) has been the theater and dance editor at the Chicago Reader since 2019. Graduating from Columbia College in 1987, she worked with several off-Loop theater companies before beginning her arts journalism career by writing pro bono for Streetwise....

5+ hour, 36+ min ago  (404+ words) Mayor Johnson was greeted with applause and smiles all around as he walked in. Illinois Department of Corrections director Latoya Hughes and Sheridan warden Ryan Woods thanked him for coming. Jennifer Lackey, NPEP director, also thanked him, and we settled…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (765+ words) At that point, Small had already recorded Japanese postrock heroes Mono, British experimental-rock darlings Black Midi, and long-running Boston screamo outfit the Saddest Landscape, among many others. Weiss and drummer Adam Beck ran Type One Studios, and in March 2021 they…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (1062+ words) I started HRT not last January 6 but the January 6 before that. So 2024. I did that so I'd never forget. It's like 9/11 but much stupider." I'm influenced by cyborg feminism. We're already so entwined with technology'we already are cyborgs. We have…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (128+ words) Chicago Reader Another link between the pieces: Ahn's defiance of traditionally framed boundaries. Empty spaces within the works create negative punctures and expose once hidden white walls; at other times, ridged edges construct odd cookie-cutter perimeters'a bit of perspectival shepherding…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (148+ words) Emma Hospelhorn created the detailed, inventive arrangements on Bird or Snake with help from seven other musicians. Cassette label Little Head Butt is releasing the new Menace4 Hire album on tape. The first album in six years from local hardcore crew…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (127+ words) chicagoreader. com Do you ever really know who you're marrying? Once you see a different side of someone, are you able to love them anyway? The Drama, the anxiety-inducing comedy-drama from director Kristoffer Borgli, is centered around these questions. Emma…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (752+ words) Two years ago, the Basque separatist Euskal Herria Bildu party rejected the legitimacy of Spain's King Felipe VI. Along with Catalan and Galician independence parties, they declared that the monarchy was "incompatible with essential democratic principles." If that sounds familiar, it's…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (569+ words) Meet the Flyover Gals: Gertie's Abby Pucker and Chanelle Lacy, alongside Mariane Ibrahim Gallery's Emma Mc Kee'three women rooted in Chicago's art scene, sending back vivid dispatches from their art world journeys across the midwest. In this Chicago Reader series,…...