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Marissa Murrell Myers's 2025 chiller about dead friends and a mysterious cabin in the woods makes its local debut Bramble Theatre Company. bit.ly/3VnDwyn
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Black Bear Island puts a supernatural twist on the “man or bear” debate - Chicago Reader
Marissa Murrell Myers's 2025 chiller about dead friends and a mysterious cabin in the woods makes its local debut Bramble Theatre Company.
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Whether in or outside law enforcement, the spread of automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology raises alarms around privacy, data security, and public safety. It also begs the question of how transparent and ethical vendors are in marketing and a... bit.ly/4hud0L2
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Automated license plate readers, explained - Chicago Reader
Whether in or outside law enforcement, the spread of automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology raises alarms around privacy, data security, and public safety. It also begs the question of how transparent and ethical vendors are in marketing and advertising their products.  Would ALPRs be as widely accepted--and even normalized--if the public understood the full [...]
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Nobel laureate Jon Fosse's "cry of existentialist despair" makes its local debut at Theatre Y in a spare but evocative staging. bit.ly/4hW1tpa
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I Am the Wind is an engaging foray into the great nothing - Chicago Reader
Nobel laureate Jon Fosse's "cry of existentialist despair" makes its local debut at Theatre Y in a spare but evocative staging.
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Dexter Bullard's staging of Stuart Dybek's short story fills the Chopin Theatre with music and memories of a vanished Chicago. bit.ly/4AHQZRC
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Chopin in Winter remembers a vanished Chicago - Chicago Reader
Dexter Bullard's staging of Stuart Dybek's short story fills the Chopin Theatre with music and memories of a vanished Chicago.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 21h
Digable Planets became hip-hop darlings early on. bit.ly/4dGE6NU
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Digable Planets celebrate 30 years of the immortal Black opus Blowout Comb - Chicago Reader
Digable Planets became hip-hop darlings early on.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 29/09/2026
Federal authorities tapped into a network of Flock automated license plate readers and surveillance cameras while trying to prosecute Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz last year, according to court records reviewed by the Reader. 🧵
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 29/09/2026
It has been a great run, and now it is time for the grand finale. The Chicago Reader and Pop Quiz Hot Shot are back at The Lincoln Lodge for one last night of comedy. Last chance to check it out. Tickets: popquizhotshot.fun
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Pop Quiz Hot Shot
Chicago's take on the British panel show. Hilarious. Puzzling.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 29/09/2026
Digable Planets became hip-hop darlings early on. bit.ly/4dGE6NU
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Digable Planets celebrate 30 years of the immortal Black opus Blowout Comb  - Chicago Reader
Digable Planets became hip-hop darlings early on.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 28/09/2026
Wishy's brand-new second album, Nature's Pill (Winspear), is a dozen tracks of purely pleasurable pop rock. bit.ly/4hi4r7f
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Indiana power poppers Wishy rock the party on their second LP, Nature's Pill - Chicago Reader
Wishy's brand-new second album, Nature's Pill (Winspear), is a dozen tracks of purely pleasurable pop rock.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 25/09/2026
Dozzy's Ibekwe and Dozzy's Grill return to Monday Night Foodball with a tuberous menu in celebration of Iri Ji, the Igbo New Yam Festival. bit.ly/3Vzvgv8
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Dozzy's Grill yams it up at Monday Night Foodball
Dozzy's Ibekwe and Dozzy's Grill return to Monday Night Foodball with a tuberous menu in celebration of Iri Ji, the Igbo New Yam Festival.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 25/09/2026
Explore the work of the queercore trailblazer with the ten-film series The Revolution Is My Boyfriend: The Films of Bruce LaBruce. bit.ly/3Vepzmj
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A landmark Bruce LaBruce retrospective is coming to Facets - Chicago Reader
Explore the work of the queercore trailblazer with the ten-film series The Revolution Is My Boyfriend: The Films of Bruce LaBruce.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 25/09/2026
Singer Maria Manow and producer Ike Clateman traffic in extremes. bit.ly/4z0BYJe
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UK laptop-twee duo Bassvictim summon strange delights by going to opposite extremes - Chicago Reader
Singer Maria Manow and producer Ike Clateman traffic in extremes.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 25/09/2026
The breadth of Wadada Leo Smith's activity is immense. bit.ly/4rvOayQ
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Midwest free-improv trio collaborates with foundational figure Wadada Leo Smith - Chicago Reader
The breadth of Wadada Leo Smith's activity is immense.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 24/09/2026
This fall, Chicago's architecture takes center stage as Open House Chicago® returns bit.ly/4hL6a56
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Open House Chicago® returns this fall - Chicago Reader
This fall, Chicago's architecture takes center stage as Open House Chicago® returns
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 23/09/2026
The author and the star of A Streetcar Named Desire connect over one tumultuous evening in Gregg Ostrin's play, now at Lookingglass Theatre. bit.ly/4Avp874
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Kowalski explores and explodes the myths of Tennessee Williams and Marlon Brando - Chicago Reader
The author and the star of A Streetcar Named Desire connect over one tumultuous evening in Gregg Ostrin's play, now at Lookingglass Theatre.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 23/09/2026
The gruesome deaths of children provides fodder for performances rooted in burlesque, vaudeville, music, and dance. bit.ly/4iPUjnz
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The Uncanny Attic Chapters I-L keeps Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies alive - Chicago Reader
The gruesome deaths of children provides fodder for performances rooted in burlesque, vaudeville, music, and dance.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 23/09/2026
Play On!, through 10/18 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater bit.ly/4xEhbK8
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Play On! celebrates Duke Ellington by way of Twelfth Night - Chicago Reader
Play On!, through 10/18 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 23/09/2026
The classic comedy (adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher) makes a fine first production for Northlight's Evanston homecoming. bit.ly/4hml2FA
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The Front Page is a rollicking love letter to Chicago theater and journalism - Chicago Reader
The classic comedy (adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher) makes a fine first production for Northlight's Evanston homecoming.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 23/09/2026
The writer and performer's childhood in Western Springs and later adventures in theater resonate in this intimate and warm solo show. bit.ly/3VL9ULk
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Black Girl From a White Suburb traces Tania Richard's ‘double consciousness' - Chicago Reader
The writer and performer's childhood in Western Springs and later adventures in theater resonate in this intimate and warm solo show.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 23/09/2026
Erik Gernand's world premiere offers a provocative premise that doesn't quite pay off, despite committed performances. bit.ly/3T0afsT
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Prayer Circle looks at the power of faith turned deadly - Chicago Reader
Erik Gernand's world premiere offers a provocative premise that doesn't quite pay off, despite committed performances.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 23/09/2026
Austin's Glass Half Full Theatre's show combined puppets, mythic creatures, folklore, and the too-real threat of immigration agents. bit.ly/4iEQUrv
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Yamel Cucuy provides a bold and inspiring kickoff for this year's Destinos festival - Chicago Reader
Austin's Glass Half Full Theatre's show combined puppets, mythic creatures, folklore, and the too-real threat of immigration agents.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 23/09/2026
A Black mother and white father face their fears and recriminations in a police station waiting room while searching for their missing son. bit.ly/3Vwl5aJ
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American Son confronts a Black parent's worst nightmare - Chicago Reader
A Black mother and white father face their fears and recriminations in a police station waiting room while searching for their missing son.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 23/09/2026
The Reader is joining a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. 1/🧵
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 23/09/2026
Brydie O’Connor’s care-filled documentary celebrates lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer. chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...
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Review: Barbara Forever - Chicago Reader
Brydie O’Connor’s care-filled documentary celebrates lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 23/09/2026
A Chicago collective of death doulas wants to make dying and grieving something we do together again. bit.ly/4hkdZgL
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Rehearsing the end - Chicago Reader
A Chicago collective of death doulas wants to make dying and grieving something we do together again.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 22/09/2026
Two-day twee and indie-pop festival the Windy Pop Weekender includes 90s favorites Rocketship, Dressy Bessy, and the Softies. bit.ly/4jgw55Q
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The Windy Pop Weekender hits year two of ‘being super precious and adorable' - Chicago Reader
Two-day twee and indie-pop festival the Windy Pop Weekender includes 90s favorites Rocketship, Dressy Bessy, and the Softies.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 22/09/2026
Based on the same Ferenc Molnár play that inspired Carousel, John Neumeier's 2011 ballet offers nothing in the way of redemption. bit.ly/4AssUy4
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Liliom makes its Joffrey debut - Chicago Reader
Based on the same Ferenc Molnár play that inspired Carousel, John Neumeier's 2011 ballet offers nothing in the way of redemption.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 22/09/2026
The actor and singer discusses Cubs fandom, The Chi's legacy, and what's next. bit.ly/4yRIpOB
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Jason Weaver represents Chicago wherever he goes - Chicago Reader
The actor and singer discusses Cubs fandom, The Chi's legacy, and what's next.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 22/09/2026
Bitknot shows off Feeble Little Horse's grasp of trip-hop, new age minimalism, and atmospheric video-game scoring. bit.ly/4dPRu2a
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Feeble Little Horse diverge from the ever-present presets of shoegaze - Chicago Reader
Bitknot shows off Feeble Little Horse's grasp of trip-hop, new age minimalism, and atmospheric video-game scoring.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 22/09/2026
Marian Runk's musical approach has an unassuming breadth. bit.ly/4yRItxP
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Chicago singer-songwriter Marian Runk captures life's most colorful details - Chicago Reader
Marian Runk's musical approach has an unassuming breadth.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 22/09/2026
This concert celebrates the album's October 23 release on Thrill Jockey. bit.ly/4cZsG7P
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Mike Reed's the Separatist Party creatively cross wires on the new Sing the Color Blue - Chicago Reader
This concert celebrates the album's October 23 release on Thrill Jockey.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 21/09/2026
Zines have been with us for almost a century now! bit.ly/3UOHrUK
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Zines are still being printed in the 21st century - Chicago Reader
Zines have been with us for almost a century now!
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 21/09/2026
Walter Thompson-Hernández's story of a father and son reconnecting is “motion picture poetry.” bit.ly/3UUXyQG
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Review: If I Go Will They Miss Me - Chicago Reader
Walter Thompson-Hernández's story of a father and son reconnecting is “motion picture poetry.”
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 21/09/2026
September 26 sees the first run of the Palestine Film Showcase at the 18th Street Casa de Cultura in Pilsen. The event spotlights four documentary short films by Palestine filmmakers, along with food, live music, and special prize drawings. Chicago film... bit.ly/4hEE1N2
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The Palestine Film Showcase aids filmmakers in Gaza - Chicago Reader
September 26 sees the first run of the Palestine Film Showcase at the 18th Street Casa de Cultura in Pilsen. The event spotlights four documentary short films by Palestine filmmakers, along with food, live music, and special prize drawings. Chicago filmmaker Tom Callahan and Palestinian American activist and organizer Alexis Judeh devised the ticketed event [...]
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 21/09/2026
Rocket From the Crypt emerged in the early 90s with a fiery, maximalist, horn-infused sound and a stage presence that took inspiration from 50s rock 'n' roll, 60s soul and garage, and decades of punk rock. bit.ly/4rjXaah
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Rocket From the Crypt resurrect their full-throttle punk with Scream, Frankenstein, Scream! - Chicago Reader
Rocket From the Crypt emerged in the early 90s with a fiery, maximalist, horn-infused sound and a stage presence that took inspiration from 50s rock 'n' roll, 60s soul and garage, and decades of punk rock.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 21/09/2026
French Police might be the fastest-growing Chicago band with such an underreported story. bit.ly/4y6q1l3
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Chicago's French Police play the kind of postpunk that starts movements - Chicago Reader
French Police might be the fastest-growing Chicago band with such an underreported story.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 18/09/2026
Fall theater season is here, and our theater critics have been hard at work reviewing what Chicago's theater shows have to offer. Here's six they recommend seeing to kick off the fall season! (in no particular order)
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 18/09/2026
Advocates gathered on September 17 in support of reinstating parole in Illinois, which has been abolished since 1978. bit.ly/3VnLF5P
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Rally calls on Governor J.B. Pritzker to honor constitutional right to rehabilitation - Chicago Reader
Advocates gathered on September 17 in support of reinstating parole in Illinois, which has been abolished since 1978.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 18/09/2026
Check out Melanie Hernandez and Cecil Rodriguez’s menu of glowed-up garbage at the Reader ’s weekly chef pop-up at Thattu. chicagoreader.com/food/monday-...
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The Coffee Fairy and FatCap join forces for Monday Night Foodball
Melanie Hernandez, ak the Coffee Fairy, and Cecil Rodriguez, aka FatCap, unite over trashy beach snacks at the next Monday Night Foodball.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 18/09/2026
Kokandy Productions revives last year’s hit just in time for the spooky season. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
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Jekyll & Hyde returns at Broadway Playhouse - Chicago Reader
Kokandy Productions brings their hit seasonal musical from last fall back with fanfare at Broadway Playhouse.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 18/09/2026
A campus free-speech debate ends up spinning its wheels in Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s world premiere at Victory Gardens. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
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The Humanities takes too many easy shots - Chicago Reader
Zayd Dohrn's dramedy about a campus free-speech debate doesn't contain enough new insights to justify the narrative digressions.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 18/09/2026
Comparing the early and upcoming renditions of the Chicago Underground Film Festival with artistic director, programmer, and cofounder Bryan Wendorf chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...
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What does ‘underground film’ mean in 2026? - Chicago Reader
Comparing the early and upcoming renditions of the Chicago Underground Film Festival with artistic director, programmer, and cofounder Bryan Wendorf
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 18/09/2026
The dense text is challenging, but the performances and production elements shine in Lifeline’s new adaptation. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
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A Wrinkle in Time remains a beautiful journey - Chicago Reader
James Sie's adaptation doesn't resolve all the issues in Madeleine L'Engle's dense text, but Lifeline's production offers a lot to enjoy.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 18/09/2026
Tim Kinsella was friends with Danny B when Danny lived in Chicago, but this book is a novel, not a biography. bit.ly/4yHaqs1
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Inside the precarious world of Danny B - Chicago Reader
Tim Kinsella was friends with Danny B when Danny lived in Chicago, but this book is a novel, not a biography.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 17/09/2026
Seismic Waves recorded only demos, and just a few songs ever got released. But these rowdy pranksters' anything-goes spirit lives on in the DIY underground. bit.ly/46vQ0q4
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Seismic Waves helped keep Chicago's baby punk scene fun - Chicago Reader
Seismic Waves recorded only demos, and just a few songs ever got released. But these rowdy pranksters' anything-goes spirit lives on in the DIY underground.
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 17/09/2026
"Each impression records not only the flower itself but a fleeting moment in time." bit.ly/4dpGrN3
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E. Saffronia Downing on her new show, "PRESSED FLOWER" - Chicago Reader
"Each impression records not only the flower itself but a fleeting moment in time."
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 17/09/2026
Keep some dreams just for yourself. bit.ly/473IbYG
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The lesson no one talks about in 1993's Rookie of the Year - Chicago Reader
Keep some dreams just for yourself.
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