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P.E.E.'s aesthetic makes them potentially appealing to fans of any style where musicians play their instruments like they've got the zoomies. https://bit.ly/4zCHmCn
All the young emo fans are into P.E.E. - Chicago Reader
P.E.E.'s aesthetic makes them potentially appealing to fans of any style where musicians play their instruments like they've got the zoomies.
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October 16, 2026 at 7:10 PM
P.E.E.'s aesthetic makes them potentially appealing to fans of any style where musicians play their instruments like they've got the zoomies. https://bit.ly/4zCHmCn
Vile Mind's riffs have the tight, grinding inevitability and the guttural roar of thrash or death metal. https://bit.ly/3U6tfGm
Vile Mind scream hardcore truths about the opioid epidemic - Chicago Reader
Vile Mind's riffs have the tight, grinding inevitability and the guttural roar of thrash or death metal.
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October 16, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Vile Mind's riffs have the tight, grinding inevitability and the guttural roar of thrash or death metal. https://bit.ly/3U6tfGm
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October 15, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Find our Cook County judicial election guide in this month's print edition of the @chicagoreader.com!
Members of Let's Talk Womxn stage a night market in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month at the next Monday Night Foodball. https://bit.ly/47WCHzu
A night market opens at Monday Night Foodball
Members of Let's Talk Womxn stage a night market in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month at the next Monday Night Foodball.
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October 15, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Members of Let's Talk Womxn stage a night market in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month at the next Monday Night Foodball. https://bit.ly/47WCHzu
Grey Area Productions and Trap Door Theatre present the local premiere of S.L. Daniels's absurdist twist on the Angry Young Man drama. https://bit.ly/4B6yE0O
Any Rebellion of Will upends the tropes of Angry Young Man dramas - Chicago Reader
Grey Area Productions and Trap Door Theatre present the local premiere of S.L. Daniels's absurdist twist on the Angry Young Man drama.
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October 15, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Grey Area Productions and Trap Door Theatre present the local premiere of S.L. Daniels's absurdist twist on the Angry Young Man drama. https://bit.ly/4B6yE0O
Aguijón Theater Company's production of Flavio González Mello's backstage comedy blends Slings & Arrows with a sci-fi twist. https://bit.ly/4yR5yRA
I.A. Inteligencia Actoral asks if a robot can play Hamlet - Chicago Reader
Aguijón Theater Company's production of Flavio González Mello's backstage comedy blends Slings & Arrows with a sci-fi twist.
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October 15, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Aguijón Theater Company's production of Flavio González Mello's backstage comedy blends Slings & Arrows with a sci-fi twist. https://bit.ly/4yR5yRA
Lifeline's KidSeries takes a stroll on the noir side of the street with this mash-up of Dashiell Hammett and classic fairy tale characters. https://bit.ly/4hZ8Ivp
Sugar Plum Fairy, P.I. gives a noir twist to fairy tales - Chicago Reader
Lifeline's KidSeries takes a stroll on the noir side of the street with this mash-up of Dashiell Hammett and classic fairy tale characters.
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October 15, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Lifeline's KidSeries takes a stroll on the noir side of the street with this mash-up of Dashiell Hammett and classic fairy tale characters. https://bit.ly/4hZ8Ivp
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. https://bit.ly/4zBpGas
The Moviegoer: Zombie-ie-ie - Chicago Reader
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.
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October 15, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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. https://bit.ly/4zBpGas
Amy Herzog's drama about a grandson and grandmother reconnecting through grief and loss gets an intimate revival with A Short Leap Theatre Company at the Den. https://bit.ly/4hQwfQA
4000 Miles crosses the generation gap - Chicago Reader
Amy Herzog's drama about a grandson and grandmother reconnecting through grief and loss gets an intimate revival with A Short Leap Theatre Company at the Den.
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October 15, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Amy Herzog's drama about a grandson and grandmother reconnecting through grief and loss gets an intimate revival with A Short Leap Theatre Company at the Den. https://bit.ly/4hQwfQA
Erika Sheffer's drama at Shattered Globe Theatre offers too many easy truisms in examining corruption in Vladimir Putin's Russia. https://bit.ly/4dZz8MD
Vladimir needs to get beyond headlines to find the drama - Chicago Reader
Erika Sheffer's drama at Shattered Globe Theatre offers too many easy truisms in examining corruption in Vladimir Putin's Russia.
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October 15, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Erika Sheffer's drama at Shattered Globe Theatre offers too many easy truisms in examining corruption in Vladimir Putin's Russia. https://bit.ly/4dZz8MD
In Counterpublic's Coyote Time, St. Louis becomes a site for prototyping what civic renewal might look like. https://bit.ly/3VQIGDd
‘Coyote Time' reimagines civic renewal - Chicago Reader
In Counterpublic's Coyote Time, St. Louis becomes a site for prototyping what civic renewal might look like.
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October 15, 2026 at 2:46 PM
In Counterpublic's Coyote Time, St. Louis becomes a site for prototyping what civic renewal might look like. https://bit.ly/3VQIGDd
Honoring tradition my own way. https://bit.ly/4hPdA7x
Cooking traditions - Chicago Reader
Honoring tradition my own way.
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October 15, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Honoring tradition my own way. https://bit.ly/4hPdA7x
The Bridge has been connecting improvising musicians from France with their midwestern counterparts since 2013. https://bit.ly/4s1pcHX
Chicago-France improvised-music exchange the Bridge taps into the city's diverse venues for its final iteration - Chicago Reader
The Bridge has been connecting improvising musicians from France with their midwestern counterparts since 2013.
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October 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
The Bridge has been connecting improvising musicians from France with their midwestern counterparts since 2013. https://bit.ly/4s1pcHX
In a world of underripe produce shipped from thousands of miles away... celebrate what we have here. https://bit.ly/4yevENf
Indulge in pawpaw season - Chicago Reader
In a world of underripe produce shipped from thousands of miles away... celebrate what we have here.
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October 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
In a world of underripe produce shipped from thousands of miles away... celebrate what we have here. https://bit.ly/4yevENf
Composer Haley Fohr will accompany the classic silent film alongside musician Alan Sparhawk at the Studebaker Theater, kicking off a short European tour. https://bit.ly/4ewHfjE
Nosferatu (1922) screens with a new score by Circuit des Yeux - Chicago Reader
Composer Haley Fohr will accompany the classic silent film alongside musician Alan Sparhawk at the Studebaker Theater, kicking off a short European tour.
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October 14, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Composer Haley Fohr will accompany the classic silent film alongside musician Alan Sparhawk at the Studebaker Theater, kicking off a short European tour. https://bit.ly/4ewHfjE
With his fizzy flagship White Tiger, Peter Chung makes the city safe once again for artisanal Korean rice wine.
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Yido relaunches Chicago’s craft makgeolli movement
Yido, Chicago’s only craft makgeolli brewery, makes the city safe for fizzy, creamy, slightly sweet artisanal Korean rice wine.
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October 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
With his fizzy flagship White Tiger, Peter Chung makes the city safe once again for artisanal Korean rice wine.
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Naza documents the methodology and technology of the Palestinian genocide, making it a difficult but essential watch. https://bit.ly/4hHB6n0
Review: Naza - Chicago Reader
Naza documents the methodology and technology of the Palestinian genocide, making it a difficult but essential watch.
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October 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Naza documents the methodology and technology of the Palestinian genocide, making it a difficult but essential watch. https://bit.ly/4hHB6n0
Robert Falls takes Mozart's opera based on the legend of Don Juan back to 1920s Spain for the third time at Lyric Opera. https://bit.ly/47nDIjV
Don Giovanni returns to the Lyric - Chicago Reader
Robert Falls takes Mozart's opera based on the legend of Don Juan back to 1920s Spain for the third time at Lyric Opera.
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October 13, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Robert Falls takes Mozart's opera based on the legend of Don Juan back to 1920s Spain for the third time at Lyric Opera. https://bit.ly/47nDIjV
Claudio Velez, aka the Tamale Guy, as seen by the musicians, club owners, bar staff, and regulars sustained by the contents of his magical red cooler https://bit.ly/4yXnSbR
An oral history of Chicago nightlife's most beloved visitor - Chicago Reader
Claudio Velez, aka the Tamale Guy, as seen by the musicians, club owners, bar staff, and regulars sustained by the contents of his magical red cooler
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October 13, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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Has anyone experienced as much of Chicago’s late-night musical offerings the past few decades as Claudio Velez? I interviewed 16 musicians, DJs, and nightlife workers about the Tamale Guy’s relationship with Chicago music for this Reader oral history.
An oral history of Chicago nightlife’s most beloved visitor - Chicago Reader
Claudio Velez, aka the Tamale Guy, as seen by the musicians, club owners, bar staff, and regulars sustained by the contents of his magical red cooler
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October 13, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Has anyone experienced as much of Chicago’s late-night musical offerings the past few decades as Claudio Velez? I interviewed 16 musicians, DJs, and nightlife workers about the Tamale Guy’s relationship with Chicago music for this Reader oral history.
Known as Billy offstage, Bullion built a life in storefront theater with wit, intelligence, heart, and "the Style." https://bit.ly/3Wnf806
Remembering Wm. Bullion 1963–2026 - Chicago Reader
Known as Billy offstage, Bullion built a life in storefront theater with wit, intelligence, heart, and "the Style."
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October 13, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Known as Billy offstage, Bullion built a life in storefront theater with wit, intelligence, heart, and "the Style." https://bit.ly/3Wnf806
V.V. Lightbody poured sweat into a serene new album, photographer Jim Newberry celebrates a new book of Chicago music portraits, and more. https://bit.ly/4s1vbwD
V.V. Lightbody poured sweat into a serene new album - Chicago Reader
V.V. Lightbody poured sweat into a serene new album, photographer Jim Newberry celebrates a new book of Chicago music portraits, and more.
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October 13, 2026 at 4:26 PM
V.V. Lightbody poured sweat into a serene new album, photographer Jim Newberry celebrates a new book of Chicago music portraits, and more. https://bit.ly/4s1vbwD
In "The Secondaries," the alien objects of Amay Kataria and Abhishek Narula are aware they are being watched--but don't acknowledge it. https://bit.ly/3Wna9ws
Alien worlds - Chicago Reader
In "The Secondaries," the alien objects of Amay Kataria and Abhishek Narula are aware they are being watched--but don't acknowledge it.
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October 13, 2026 at 12:50 PM
In "The Secondaries," the alien objects of Amay Kataria and Abhishek Narula are aware they are being watched--but don't acknowledge it. https://bit.ly/3Wna9ws