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- Music, Concert Preview Jan 12, 2018
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Destroyer’s Ken simplifies symbolism with similes and simpering
- Movies, Movie Review Jan 10, 2018
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The madness to Jim Carrey’s method
Chris Smith’s documentary Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond looks at the actor’s immersive screen performance as Andy Kaufman.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Dec 6, 2017
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Isabelle Frances McGuire’s bread and butter is their art
“I’m a Cliche” at Prairie Gallery uses yeast and fermentation to explore issues of identity.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 22, 2017
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Bill Walker, Dapper Bruce Lafitte, and the virtues of angry art
A review of two concurrent, improbably similar solo shows of artists working in different time periods and locations
- Music, Concert Preview Nov 22, 2017
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Punctuation geniuses Migos put exclamation points on hip-hop
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 16, 2017
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The inaugural Chicago Art Book Fair isn’t for art-book people—it’s for everyone
No Coast Editions launches the city's first fair for both art people, book people, and art-book people.
- Movies, Movie Feature Nov 8, 2017
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Sights to see at CIMMfest
The Chicago Movies & Music Festival makes its November debut with feature films about David Bowie, queer punk, New Orleans piano, gospel quartets, Ozzfest, Malian traditional music, and lots more.
- Music, Music Feature Nov 8, 2017
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Sights to see at CIMMfest
The Chicago International Movies & Music Festival makes its November debut with feature films about David Bowie, queer punk, New Orleans piano, gospel quartets, Ozzfest, Malian traditional music, and lots more.
- Arts & Culture, Dance Nov 8, 2017
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Faye Driscoll gives a welcome flip of the bird to all things stuffy
Expect to have fun at Thank You for Coming: Play.
- Music, Concert Preview Oct 5, 2017
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Randy Newman is still scathing after all these years
- Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 15, 2017
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Ten best bets for fall visual arts
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 6, 2017
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George Takei on his childhood in Japanese internment camps, his career after imprisonment, and, ugh, Donald Trump
The actor, artist, and activist speaks in Chicago in connection with "Then They Came for Me," an art exhibit about Japanese internment during World War II.
- Music, Concert Preview Aug 17, 2017
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Spirit isn’t a classic Depeche Mode album, but it’ll do
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Aug 16, 2017
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At Shane Campbell, another great Japanese art exhibit to see this summer
Painter Yui Yaegashi is the subject of a solo show, and she also curates a charming supplement.
- Movies, Movie Review Aug 9, 2017
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Who was the real Whitney Houston?
A new documentary about the famous singer doubles as a study of identity.
- Movies, Movie Review Aug 2, 2017
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What kind of movie is Detroit trying to be?
The latest from director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal is ambitious but uneven.
- Music, Concert Preview Jul 27, 2017
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Rod Stewart is ridiculous, but he wears it well
- Music, Concert Preview Jul 20, 2017
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In rap right now, there’s Kendrick Lamar and there’s everyone else
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Jul 12, 2017
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Everyone in Chicago should see ‘Then They Came for Me’
A powerful art exhibit about Japanese-Americans and internment camps is also deeply relevant in the current historical moment.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 12, 2017
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A one-man show about Lester Bangs has no psychotic reactions
How to Be a Rock Critic doesn’t quite capture the greatness of the famous writer and critic’s work.
- Music, Concert Preview Jun 29, 2017
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DJ Shadow still makes magic out of the record-store dollar bin
- Best of Chicago, Reasons to love Chicago Jun 22, 2017
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The low pleasures of the Metra train’s top floor
The railway’s “balcony” seating is city life in miniature.
- Music, Concert Preview Jun 15, 2017
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To hell with King Crimson, go see Robert Fripp live while you can
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Jun 14, 2017
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Who’s the octopus in Takashi Murakami’s ‘The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg’?
A new exhibit of the Japanese artist’s work at the Museum of Contemporary Art is a dizzying depiction of the current cultural moment.
- Music, Concert Preview Jun 8, 2017
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Willie Nelson is still very much alive on his new God’s Problem Child