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Isabel Ochoa Gold
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Arts & Culture
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Lit Feature
Mar 8, 2017
Trina Robbins’s comic strip is still going
And the underground-comic icon has four new titles expected to be released this year alone.
By Isabel Ochoa Gold
Tags:
Lit Feature
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Trina Robbins
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comics
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It Ain't Me Babe Comix
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Wimmen's Comix
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Wonder Woman
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Vampirella
,
LA Free Press
,
East Village Other
,
feminism
Blogs
,
Bleader
Feb 20, 2017
Bit Bash’s Filthy Pixels, Taco Fest 2017, and more things to do in Chicago this week
Presidents' Day Benefit Dinner, TRL Live, and more happenings from February 20-23.
By Isabel Ochoa Gold
Tags:
Arts
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Do This
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Presidents' Day Benefit
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Saved By the Max
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Ladylike
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Cafe Mustache
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Taco Fest 2017
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Mago Cantina & Grill
,
Crazy World of Arthur Brown
,
Reggie's Rock Club
,
One-Minute Play Festival
,
Den Theatre
,
Filthy Pixels
,
Bit Bash
,
Bottom Lounge
,
Hyperception: Illusions for the Sense
,
Lincoln Park Zoo
,
TRL Live
,
Hideout
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 27, 2017
Bill T. Jones, Chicago Restaurant Week, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Young Playwrights Festival, Forward Motion Activist Fundraiser, and more things to do this weekend.
By Isabel Ochoa Gold
Tags:
Arts
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Do This
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Bill Ayers
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David Omotoso Stovall
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Seminary Co-Op
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Donut Fest
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Chop Shop
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Zlumber Party
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Quimby's
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Revival
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Barron Trump
,
Shannon Noll
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Young Playwrights Festival
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Chinese Lunar New Year
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Art Institute
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Chicago Restaurant Week
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Just Ethos
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Chicago Psych Fest
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Hideout
,
Bill T. Jones
,
Dusable Museum
Blogs
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Bleader
Jan 20, 2017
Artists Against Hate, B-Fest, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Chinese New Year Celebration, Silencio Blanco, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend.
By Isabel Ochoa Gold
Tags:
Arts
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Do This
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Hideout
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Read/Write Library
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Hungry for Stories
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Zoe Zolbrod
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John Cleese
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Chicago Theatre
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Swan Lake
,
State Ballet Theater of Russia
,
Simmer Brown
,
International Museum of Surgical Science
,
Anatomical Theaters of Mixed Reality
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Chicago International Puppet Festival
,
Silencio Blanco
,
Museum of Contemporary Art
,
B-Fest
,
Bughouse Theater
,
Artists Against Hate
,
Uptown Underground
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 9, 2016
Shame on Wheels,
It's a Wonderful Life
, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Donut Fest, Irish Christmas Market, and more happenings from December 9-11.
By Isabel Ochoa Gold
Tags:
Arts
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Do This
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Poetry Foundation
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Nicholas Rudall
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Dylan Thomas
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Electra
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Court Theater
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Irish Christmas Market
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It's a Wonderful Life
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Chicago Symphony Chorus
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American Association of University Women Chicago
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Jane Addams
,
Not Normal Tapes
,
The First Annual Infestational
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ChiTown Futbol
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Donut Fest
,
Moe's Cantina
,
A Voice for Victims
,
Uri-Eichen Gallery
,
We Still Like You
,
Cole's
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Nov 23, 2016
Recommended
Q: Are we not furniture? A: We are “Set”!
Ania Jaworska’s solo show at Volume Gallery is more than just a bunch of black shapes.
By Isabel Ochoa Gold
Tags:
Art Review
,
Ania Jaworska
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University of Illinois Chicago
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UIC
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Set
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shapes
,
hmm
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Recommended
Blogs
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Bleader
Nov 11, 2016
Chicago Book Expo, Pop-Up Magazine, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Fun Home
, Handmade Market Chicago, and more happenings from November 11-13.
By Isabel Ochoa Gold
Tags:
Arts
,
Do This
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Alison Bechdel
,
Fun Home
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Out of This World
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Circus
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Chicago Book Expo
,
Jonathan Giles
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Revival
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Pop-Up Magazine
,
Robert J. Gordon
,
Handmade Market Chicago
,
Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov
,
National Museum of Mexican Art
,
Yollocalli
,
Chill Set
Blogs
,
Bleader
Nov 4, 2016
SOFA Chicago, Strange Foods Festival, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Jessica Campbell,
Criminal
, and more happenings from November 4-6.
By Isabel Ochoa Gold
Tags:
Arts
,
Do This
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SOFA
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Navy Pier
,
Jessica Campbell
,
Quimby's
,
Criminal
,
Thalia Hall
,
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
,
Arts of Life
,
Life Sucks
,
Lookingglass
,
Moonlight Studios
,
Tere O'Connor
,
Strange Foods Festival
,
Feed My Starving Children
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
Nov 2, 2016
Recommended
Brown shoes make it at Clay Hickson’s solo show
The artist takes Johalla Projects back in time to the 1970s.
By Isabel Ochoa Gold
Tags:
Art Review
,
Clay Hickson
,
Johalla Projects
,
Recommended
Blogs
,
Bleader
Oct 31, 2016
Northalsted Halloween Parade, Art Spiegelman, and more things to do in Chicago this week
Ten fun things to do in Chicago on Halloween and the rest of the week.
By Isabel Ochoa Gold
Tags:
Arts
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Do This
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Food & Drink
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Lit & Lectures
,
Halloween
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Northalsted
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Parade
,
Chicago Sinfonietta
,
Dia de los Muertos
,
Chicago Film Archives
,
Porn and Chicken
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Halloween Banger
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Medea Benjamin
,
City Lit
,
Tuesday Funk
,
NaNoWriMo
,
Taste of Clark Street
,
Phillip Glass
,
Art Spiegelman
,
Louder Than a Bomb
Blogs
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Bleader
Oct 21, 2016
The Halloween Gathering Festival, Mutt Strutt, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Portrait of Myself as My Father
, Chicago Moth StorySlam, and more happenings from October 21-23.
By Isabel Ochoa Gold
Tags:
Arts
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Do This
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Wabash Arts Corridor
,
WAC Crawl
,
Columbia College
,
Nora Chipaumire
,
Dance
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Comfort Station
,
Millennium Park
,
Halloween
,
Parade
,
Emporium Arcade Bar
,
Costume
,
Graham Foundation
,
Sarah Schulman
,
Den Theater
,
Spartan Theater Company
,
Lee Blessing
,
Lincoln Hall
,
Women & Children First
Arts & Culture
,
Performing Arts Feature
Oct 19, 2016
Seven theater and comedy shows for the spooky season
From Dracula to the Demon Barber of Fleet Street’s . . . brother
By Tony Adler, Justin Hayford, Jack Helbig, Deanna Isaacs, Dan Jakes, Aimee Levitt, and Isabel Ochoa Gold
Tags:
Performing Arts Feature
,
Are You Still Afraid of the Dark?
,
Under the Gun Theater
,
Nickelodeon
,
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
,
Hobo Junction
,
Bernie Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street . . . 's Brother
,
Kristi Parker Barnhart
,
Camp Psychopathways
,
iO Theater
,
Danny Galvin
,
Brad Pike
,
Robbie Ellis
,
Gretchen Eng
,
Dracula
,
Dr. Seward's Dracula
,
First Folio Theatre
,
Christian Gray
,
Joseph Zettlemaier
,
Alison C. Vesely
,
Waltzing Mechanics
,
Hell Stories
,
El Stories
,
CTA
,
The Medium
,
Gian Carlo Menotti
,
Heather Aranyi
,
ColorBox Theatre
,
Ouija: A Haunted History
,
the Annoyance
,
William Fuld
,
Parker Brothers
,
Sam Locke
Blogs
,
Bleader
Oct 17, 2016
Chicago Ideas Week, Jacqueline Woodson, and more things to do in Chicago this week
Lincoln Square Ravenswood Restaurant Week,
Seinfeld
Trivia, and more happenings from October 17-20.
By Isabel Ochoa Gold
Tags:
Arts
,
Do This
,
Lincoln Square Ravenswood Restaurant Week
,
Chicago Ideas Week
,
Chicago International Film Festival
,
Insatiable: The Homaru Cantu Story
,
Drink N Draw
,
Emporium Arcade Bar
,
Jacqueline Woodson
,
Women and Children First
,
Emerson Quartet
,
Béla Bartók
,
Harris Theater
,
Ann Hatchett
,
First Evangelical Free Church
,
Nerdette
,
Seinfeld Trivia Night
,
Reed's Local
Blogs
,
Bleader
Oct 7, 2016
The Amazing Acro-Cats, Cassette Store Day, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
XX, Will Travel
, Bianca Del Rio, and more happenings from October 7-9.
By Isabel Ochoa Gold
Tags:
Arts
,
Do This
,
Amazing Acro-Cats
,
Vittum Theater
,
Local Brew Local Grooves
,
House of Blues
,
Mujeres Poderosas
,
Pilsen Outpost
,
XX Will Travel
,
Volumes Bookcafe
,
Cassette Store Day
,
Logan Hardware
,
John Olson
,
Quimby's Bookstore
,
Chicago Marathon
,
Grant Park
,
Hasan Minhaj
,
Thalia Hall
,
Bianca Del Rio
,
the Vic
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