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Sharon Lurye

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News & Politics, Zoom in Sep 5, 2012
Zoom in: South Chicago

There's a velodrome with 50-degree turns on an old U.S. Steel lot
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Zoom in, biking, cycling, velodromes, Chicago Velo Campus, Emanuele Bianchi, U.S. Steel

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Aug 28, 2012
Fringe Without Borders

The Chicago Fringe Fest hosts troupes from as far away as France, Korea, and Highland Park
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, fringe theater, Sarah Mikayla Brown, Vinnie Lacey, Rebecca Kling, White Elephant, Alan Turing, The Island, Dada, Small Fish Radio Theatre, Thespinarium, Doug Vincent, La Petite Famile, George Contini

Arts & Culture, Show us your [____] Aug 22, 2012
Show us your . . . Raggedy Anns

We check out Maggie Chavez's collection that's just raggedy enough
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Show us your [____], Raggedy Ann, Raggedy Andy

Blogs, Bleader Aug 17, 2012
Genderfucks and bouncing boobies: new performing arts reviews

Fresh reviews from Reader performing arts critics
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Dance, All-American Genderfuck Cabaret, All Kinds of Crazy, Holy Bouncing Boobies: A Batman Burlesque, Antigone, Bally Hoo, Untitled, Man of La Mancha, Abbie Hoffman, Dance Critic's Choice

Blogs, Bleader Aug 16, 2012
"I don't want fair treatment—we want propaganda."

An interview from 1969, about fair trials and fair reporting
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Media, Abbie Hoffman, Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins Theatre Festival, Tom LaPorte, Conspiracy Eight, Bobby Seale, Steve Bogira

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Aug 15, 2012
Think of it as Yippie Easter

Mary-Arrchie Theatre resurrects the spirit of Abbie Hoffman with Abbie Fest
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Abbie Hoffman, revolution, the Pentagon, Conspiracy Seven, Richard Cotovsky, Matt Rieger, Rush Pearson, Bilal Dardai, Lola Balatro, Jennifer Olson

Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2012
Therapy. The way a man would do it.

A new website uses humor to promote therapy
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Seriously?, Media, male role models, advertising, tropes, humor, suicide prevention, mental illness, therapy, men

Blogs, Bleader Aug 10, 2012
Pop Sophocles and stormy Shakespeare: midsummer performing arts reviews

Fresh performing arts reviews by Reader critics
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Comedy, Dance, Airline Miles, Devil in the Dirt, Great American Trailer Park Musical, Here Lies Henry, Julius Caesar, Savage Land, Sordid Lives, That Was It, Michael Jackson, Thirty Thousand One, COMEDY MINIS, Barack All Night @ iO (8/4, Sat midnight) (AK), Finally Alone . . . Together @ Annoyance (8/5, Sun 8 PM) (ZT)

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Aug 8, 2012
Calling all fanboys, geeks, and cosplayers

The 2012 Chicago Comic Con is in session
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, nerds, geeks, comics, Tom Felton, Harry Potter, Bruce Campbell, Stan Lee, Star Trek, James Marsters, Star Wars, Nick Gillard

Blogs, Bleader Aug 3, 2012
Tapping and Taming: this week's new performing arts reviews

Fresh performing arts reviews from Reader critics
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Dance, Adrift, Ah Wilderness, Alice in Wonderland, The Glass Menagerie, The Monument, Ren Faire A Fistful of Ducats, The Taming of the Shrew, That's Weird Abuelita, Yo Solo Festival, Ignition Festival, Juba!, tap dance, theater & performance

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Aug 1, 2012
Victory Gardens cultivates the next big thing

Or, to mix metaphors, five plays get a jump-start from the Ignition Festival
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Chay Yew, Martin Zimmerman, Lauren Yee, A. Rey Pamatmat, Yussef El Guindi, Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins

Blogs, Bleader Jul 26, 2012
Smartphones and Soirees: new performing art reviews

New performing arts reviews from Reader critics from the July 26, 2012 issue
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Comedy, Dance, The American Plan, The Dumb Waiter, Harold Pinter, Nickel History: the Nation of Heat, Girls Night: The Musical, Sleeping Beauty, Reefer Madness, Richard III, Smartphones: A Pocket-Sized Farce, La Soiree, The Vortex, WTC View, Noel Coward, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Khecari dance company, Pales, Thodos Dance Chicago

Arts & Culture, Show us your [____] Jul 24, 2012
Show us your . . . synagogue archive

We check out Robb Packer's archive tracking all of the city's current and former synagogues
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Show us your [____], Robb Packer, Chicago synagogues, Judaism, Operation PUSH, synagogues, Judaism, Congregation KAM, Jessie Jackson, KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation

Blogs, Bleader Jul 20, 2012
Oedipus in the barrio and Shakespeare in bikinis: new performing arts reviews

Fresh reviews from Reader critics
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Oedipus el Rey, Alcyone Festival, A Lover's Dismantling, Tip of the Iceberg, Freud on Thin Ice, Two Dead guys and a Banjo, Bikini Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Fame: The Musical, Hot Cha Cha, Kokkola, Merchant of Venice, Moment, Radio Goggles, Salt of the Earth, A Scent of Flowers, Sockhopapocalypse, A Steady Rain, The 39 Steps, Two Gentlemen of Verona

Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2012
Gained in translation: Germans and Americans in a collaborative poetry slam

An interview with J.W. Basilo of Chicago's Speak'Easy Ensemble and Tes Fu of Germany's Team Allen Earnstyzz
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Theater, Arts, J.W. Basilo, Tes Fu, Team Allen Earnstyzz, slam poetry, Chicago Slam Works, The Green Mill, In Any Tongue

Blogs, Bleader Jul 16, 2012
Homer Simpson, Don Draper, and other sociopaths

Adam Kotsko discusses Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television, his book on contemporary television
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Books, Arts, Media, booking signings, book reviews, television, Adam Kotsko, Why We Love Sociopaths, Dexter, Breaking Bad, the Sopranos, Mad Men, 24, Occupy Wall Street, The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, cartoons, reality TV

Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2012
Invasive species, while supplies last!

At Taste of Chicago, Dirk's Fish Shop teams up with the Department of Natural Resources to give out free Asian carp sliders. Yum?
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Foreign, Food Chain, Food & Drink, asian carp, Taste of Chicago, sustainability, asian carp fillet

Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2012
Pole dancers and playground injuries: the Reader's latest performing arts reviews

Fresh opinions from Reader critics
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Dance, Crowns, Three Sisters, Butley, Disney, musicals, Beauty and the Beast, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Hound of the Baskervilles, Anton Chekhov, Sherlock Holmes, Love Thy Neighbor Till It Hurts, Windy City Burlesque Festival, Audible Odyssey, Sound + Resound

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Jul 10, 2012
Celebrating the tasseled tit

Ecdysiasts grind into town for the Windy City Burlesque Fest
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Windy City Burlesque Festival, burlesque, striptease, pole dancing, showgrrrl, Kristina Nekyia, Kitten de Ville, Tiffany Carter, Blaze Starr

Blogs, Bleader Jul 9, 2012
Wilco and Andrew Bird last night: Now I know you'll be listening

Wilco and Andrew Bird at the Fifth Third Bank Ballpark
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Things I Love, Music, music, summer, Wilco, Andrew Bird, cowbell, Whole Love, Woody Guthrie, rock, Higgs boson

Blogs, Bleader Jun 29, 2012
Glory holes and circus feats: new Reader performing arts reviews

The latest performing arts reviews from our critics
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Dance, After the Quake, Haruki Murakami, Common Hatred, Anton Chekhov, Calamity West, Dralion, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, Steamwerkz, The Seldoms, Going Dutch

Arts & Culture, Comedy Critic's Choice Jun 19, 2012
TMLMTBGB goes LGBTQ

Tthe Neo-Futurists celebrate Pride Month with 30 Queer Plays in 60 Straight Minutes
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Comedy Critic's Choice, Neo-Futurists, Pride Month, Pride Week, cross dressing, gender bending, gay plays, LGBTQ Host Home Program, Uhlrich Children's Advantage Network, homeless gay youth

Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2012
Clowns and crazies: new Reader performing arts reviews

Reader performing arts critics look at the latest shows
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Dance, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Next Up, Sketchbook, Collaboraction, Almost an Evening, Bad Trips, California Suite, The Circus Princess, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, My First Time, The Ruby Sunrise, The Rorsky Plays, Savage in Limbo, Marat/Sade, Chicago Dance Crash, Gotham City

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Mar 14, 2012
Video
The dreams are on them

Columbia College’s Story Week Festival of Writers
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, publishing, Columbia College, AWP conference, Shawn Shifflet, Christine Sneed, Nami Mun, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Donna Seaman, Eli Horowitz, Dagoberto Gilb, Achy Obejas, John Sayles, Kevin Coval, Audrey Niffenger, Jerome Ludwig, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Mar 14, 2012
New plays for the new place

The Black Ensemble Theater does its seventh Black Playwrights Festival
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Black Playwrights Festival, Black Ensemble Theater, Black Playwrights Initiative, Regina Taylor, Leonard Ferris, Creola Thomas, Wendell Etherly, Loy Webb, Cory Andre Wright

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