Middle Passage is part voyage of the damned, part picaresqueon March 4, 2020 at 12:00 am

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Lighting out for the territory, as Huck Finn put it, may be central to the American dream of liberty, but…

Mrs. Warren’s Profession confronts our hypocrisies about sex workon March 4, 2020 at 12:05 am

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To get an idea of just how convoluted the legal and moral attitudes toward sex work are in the United…

Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman is Gorey-meets-Kafkaon March 4, 2020 at 12:15 am

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Once upon a time, in a room that looked like a fifth-grade classroom after a firebombing followed by an era…

Haven hands us an extra-tense Titus Andronicuson March 4, 2020 at 12:30 am

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Titus Andronicus is a bloody tale about the illusion of peacetime. Despite being a child of the Clinton administration, I…

Michael O’Brien’s high school basketball notebookon March 4, 2020 at 4:16 am

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No game for me tonight, which is always weird with so much going on but a necessary thing while I…

Even in sports, there is no immunity from the coronaviruson March 4, 2020 at 4:42 am

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The coronavirus is here, and it will affect many parts of our lives, though to what degree we don't know.…

Chatham fire injures 1: fire officialson March 4, 2020 at 5:08 am

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Filed under: A 45-year-old man was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in serious-to-critical condition, authorities said. By…

Fans and friends help beloved DJ Teri Bristol pay her medical billson March 3, 2020 at 8:00 pm

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click to enlarge Gossip Wolf has been tearing it up at Chicago clubs to the mixes of legendary DJ…

Noise musician Jason Soliday on a voice that makes electronics mooton March 3, 2020 at 8:25 pm

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A Reader staffer shares three musical obsessions, then asks someone (who asks someone else) to take a turn. click to…

The Make-Up bring their clever, liberation-heavy soul-punk back to the masseson March 3, 2020 at 10:50 pm

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The wit of Ian Svenonius is something to which we've never quite been privy, a clever commentary between him and…