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[ad_1] Alynda Segarra of Hurray for the Riff Raff in New Mexico with the Edsel Ranger from the video for “Hawkmoon” Credit: Denny Alynda Segarra’s latest album as Hurray for the Riff Raff, last winter’s The Past Is Still Alive, is a folk odyssey in motion, chronicling train hopping and bus trips. Its lyrics name-check

[ad_1] Real talk: The Reader is free—but producing it isn’t. As a nascent nonprofit, we need your support to produce the news, interviews, reviews, columns, and long-form investigations that have made the Reader a Chicago fixture for 50+ years. It costs about $53,000 to produce each issue and bring it to the streets of Chicago

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[ad_1] Cover of Chicago Reader‘s November 21, 2024 issue featuring an illustration by Hannah Bess Ross Credit: Hannah Bess Ross New Locations! As part of an internal audit that the Reader conducted in summer 2024, we consolidated some Reader pick up sites and boxes in some north side and central city neighborhoods.  Don’t worry, we

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[ad_1] “Indigenous Chicago,” created through a collaboration between the Newberry Library and several Native community members, leads with the maxim that “Chicago has always been a Native place”—a lesson for Chicago’s non-Native population.  “Indigenous Chicago”Through 1/4/25: Tue-Thu 10 AM-7 PM, Fri-Sat 10 AM-5 PM, The Newberry, 60 W. Walton, newberry.org/calendar/indigenous-chicago, free The exhibition presents five

[ad_1] Redtwist Theatre bucks the seasonal trend and leans into our current national malaise with Erik Gernand’s The Totality of All Things, now in a world premiere under Enrico Spada’s direction as part of the company’s inaugural Twisted Playfest, a new-plays incubator featuring six pieces at various stages of development. If you’re trying to cut

[ad_1] You could see them all the way from Humboldt Boulevard. An army clad in white T-shirts and blue aprons lined up for inspection in front of a crowd of hundreds stretching across the big hill in Humboldt Park. The crowd was hungry and only one thing could satiate them: a hot chef. Specifically, the

[ad_1] Lauren Gunderson has a knack for bringing 19th-century sisters to life; her ongoing series with Margot Melcon about Jane Austen’s Bennet family has provided seasonal hits for theaters across the country—including Northlight, which has produced all three of the “Christmas at Pemberley” plays. Now Gunderson has tackled Louisa May Alcott’s beloved quartet in Little