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Moonwater Dance Project rides the wave

Moonwater Dance Project rides the wave

The all-female-identifying company explores water-as-metaphor in its newest piece.

By Nora Paul

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Arts & Culture

PrideArts hires Jay Españo as artistic director

Jay Españo brings international perspective as the new AD for PrideArts; plus Leaders for a New Chicago awards and a new fund in honor of the late Malcolm Ewen

By Kerry Reid
News & Politics

‘I’ll be the first to die’

As Illinois prisons accelerated releases during the pandemic, many were forced into crowded, unmonitored residential reentry centers across Cook County.

By Michael Murney
Music

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Skanking Lizard helped birth Chicago’s live reggae scene

Skanking Lizard’s new vinyl retrospective, Original Chicago Reggae: 1978-1996, quadruples the number of formally released tracks in their discography.

By Steve Krakow

In Trios From the City of Big Shoulders, the Lincoln Trio dusts off overlooked Chicago chamber works

By Hannah Edgar | 06.00 AM
Listen to The Ben Joravsky Show

By Ben Joravsky | 06.17.21
Garbage indicts social injustices on No Gods No Masters

By Kirsten Lambert | 06.17.21
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El Sabor Poblano smells like home

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