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Music, Music Feature Sep 25, 2019
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Piecing together the story of midwest punk’s great lost talent

Before he died at 24, Peter Laughner cofounded Rocket From the Tombs and Pere Ubu. Had he lived, he could’ve rivaled Patti Smith or Richard Hell—and a new box set shows why.
- By Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: Music Feature, Peter Laughner, box set, Smog Veil, Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu, The Day the Earth Met the Rocket From the Tombs, Dead Boys, Stiv Bators, Cheetah Chrome, Ain’t It Fun, Take the Guitar Player for a Ride, Terry Hartman, Cleveland, punk, Charlotte Pressler, Creem, Zeppelin, Lester Bangs, Adele Bertei, Television, Peter Laughner Is Dead, Nick Blakey, Andrew Russ, Nocturnal Digressions: 1977, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Cinderella Backstreet, Baudelaire, Amphetamine, Wilco, Video

Music, Music Feature Jun 19, 2019
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How Homocore Chicago propped open the gate for queer punks

Today’s activist bookers face dramatically different hurdles, but Joanna Brown and Mark Freitas gave them all a running start with this 1990s concert series.
- By Micco Caporale
- Tags: Music Feature, Homocore, Homocore Chicago, Mark Freitas, Joanna Brown, Martin Sorrondeguy, Los Crudos, Limp Wrist, Fed Up Fest, Black and Brown Punk Show Collective, Black, Brown, and Indigenous Crew, Czar Bar, Fifth Column, Le Tigre, Bikini Kill, G.B. Jones, J.D.s, Bruce LaBruce, Preston Bradley Center, Pansy Division, Tribe 8, Lunachicks, God Is My Co-Pilot, Heterocide, Fireside Bowl, Empty Bottle, Autonomous Zone, Chris Kellner, Hook Torture, Defibrillator, Adele Bertei, Contortions, Lesley Woods, Au Pairs, Back Porch Video, Steve LaFreniere, SPEW, Team Dresch, Huggy Bear, Sleater-Kinney, Tobi Vail, Combating Latent Inequality Together Fest, CLIT Fest, Isabella Mancini, E. Ornelas, Sheer Queer, Mighty Hoopla, Whole Festival, Go West Fest, queer, Pride, LGBTQ+, Video

News & Politics, Comics Feature Dec 7, 2018
Film on fire

A 1983 science fiction film fuels ongoing discussion on racial and gender justice.
- By Anya Davidson
- Tags: Comics Feature, Comics journalism, comics, Anya Davidson, Born in Flames, Lizzie Borden, Kathryn Bigelow, Jean Satterfield, Florynce Kennedy, honey, Adele Bertei, Robert Bird, Dr. Kara Keeling, Cauleen Smith

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