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Quiz: Weed Strain or Chicago Band?
Beach Bunny, Retirement Party, Grapetooth, and more.
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Ten Things to Do in Chicago This Week
The Complete Beethoven Symphonies, C2E2, Elizabeth DeShong, Jessie Edelman, Typeforce 11, and more
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Finally, A Book Club on the Same Page As You
These four reading groups do away with the boxed wine and awkward prompt questions.
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Inside the VR “I Have a Dream” Exhibit
The much-ballyhooed exhibit that employs virtual reality to transport visitors to MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech makes its first stop at the DuSable Museum, opening February 28.
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Jane Byrne’s Cabrini-Green Stunt Gets a Theatrical Treatment at Lookingglass
J. Nicole Brooks’s new play, opening February 26, tackles the mayor’s 1981 move of staying in the Cabrini-Green housing project.
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Mikki Kendall on the Failures of Feminism
The author of the new book Hood Feminism on Lori Lightfoot, civility discourse, and why the women’s empowerment effort has fallen short
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How a Chicago Lit Mag Mounts a Festival in Mexico City
Two thousand miles from home, the artists behind Make magazine have built an audience for their Lit & Luz festival.
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Local Author’s Breakout Debut Is a Novel About a Novel
Books change lives — sometimes literally, as in Michael Zapata’s critically acclaimed “The Lost Book of Adana Moreau.”
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Frequency Fest 2020 Dials in Artists from Around the Globe
This year’s iteration includes rare stateside retrospectives of groundbreaking composers Annea Lockwood and Éliane Radigue.
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Magician Trent James Is the Purveyor of “Pure Lies”
For his next trick, this prodigy from Brookfield will change your perception of old-school magic.
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Gabriel Bump’s Debut Novel Pays Homage to South Shore
In Everywhere You Don’t Belong, Bump explores love, violence, and an ache to fit in on the South Side and beyond.
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A Digital Encyclopedia of Chicago’s Black Music History
A multimedia project by Vince Lawrence retraces four eras that shaped the city’s sound, from 1955 to 1990.
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Stephanie Martinez Shakes Up the Joffrey
The South Loop–based choreographer’s new work “Bliss!” examines Stravinsky through the prism of hip-hop.
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