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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

An hourlong wait at the Broadway Armory, but it’s done.

Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Just got a sketchy-feeling cold call asking if we’d be interested in selling our condo for a cash offer. Is this a normal thing?

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Tonight’s first-time viewing. She earned that Oscar.

Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito on the witness stand in My Cousin Vinny

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A.A. Dowd @aadowd.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

For Vulture, I picked a bone with JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX's timidity as a song-and-dance spectacle. Why do the Joker musical if you don't want to do the Joker musical? www.vulture.com/article/why-...

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Why Do a Joker Musical If You Don’t Want to Do a Joker Musical?

Todd Phillips, a one-time purveyor of boys-will-be-boys frat comedies, can’t seem to embrace the flamboyance of the genre.

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Today a group of friends put on a “cronening” ceremony on the beach to mark one of my oldest and dearest’s welcome transition into menopause. I have some pretty great friends.

A group of women dressed in red form a circle around the guest of honor, who is dressed in white with a ceremonial red cloak. Men form a larger circle of support around the outside, but do not participate.

The run-of-show for the cronening ceremony.

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Spent the last several days walking around Greenpoint Brooklyn and playing “point out all the dudes who could populate a Jack Antonoff lookalike contest” like it was Slug-Bug

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Rumour has it this is a good one.

The Playbill for “Stereophonic” at the John Golden Theatre

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Chicago magazine’s fall culture package is here: Nine writers (including yours truly) on 10 artists and creators with projects worth your attention. Check it out here or in the October print issue.

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The Best of Fall

The 10 cultural events you won't want to miss this season.

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Just got served a poll about Chicago’s inaugural school board election and discovered that I — a pretty darn civically engaged guy! — know nothing about any of the four candidates in our district. Didn’t recognize a single name! Not great!

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Took a nap and dreamed that I was trying to find a mid-century boulevard comedy to put on with cats. Like, casting actual cats in the play. There was a guidebook full of forgotten titles, all presumably suited for cat-daptation.

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

My Uber driver is listening to a podcast at 3.0x and I can’t imagine actually gleaning anything from this

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

I HAVE CONCEPTS OF A PLAN LMAOOOOOOOOO

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Just imagine being a normie voter trying to understand any goddamn thing he’s talking about

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

This man’s neural connectors are just circling the drain

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

At the risk of manifesting them on this website: It’s gotta be the Oxfordians, who insist that Shakespeare was too low-class to be the actual author of Shakespeare’s works.

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Cool. Now, are there enough theater critics and journalists on here for somebody to populate a starter pack?

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Hey fellow nerds: Is there a particularly favored English translation of “War and Peace”? I might have a wild hair to try and read the whole thing in the two weeks before I see “Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812.”

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Adding my mid-’90s stints running the register at Chick-fil-A and folding jeans at JCPenney to my LinkedIn profile because I have nothing to hide

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Cool new festivals in Evanston and Grant Park, a Newberry survey of Indigenous art, and a ricocheting Riot Fest — find all that and more in my September roundup for Chicago magazine. www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...

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September Agenda

Top 10 reasons to fill up your calendar this month.

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

Just came across one of my top five most insufferable former coworkers on here and it appears they’ve somehow become even more dreadfully self-righteous

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Every right-wing white man complaining about spice jokes should prove their point by ordering off the secret menu at their nearest Thai place. Make them eat on camera.

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

Wild to realize that there are still working PR professionals who think that “earned media” is what you get in return for buying ads.

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

Oh, so Riot Fest was jerking everyone around this whole time? Shocking.

Riot Fest will return to Douglass Park for its 2024 festival
By Doug George
August 14 at 4:03 PM CT
Riot Fest is moving back to Douglass Park for its annual music festival in September.
According to an announcement Wednesday from Riot Fest organizers, Ald. Monique Scott (24th), the City of Chicago and the Chicago Park District, the decision was "pending provisional approval by the Park District Board next month," but that all parties were in favor of the festival's return. Wednesday's surprise came after a calamitous couple of months that saw the music festival announce in June it would depart its longtime home in the North Lawndale neighborhood and move to the campus of Seat-Geek Stadium in southwest suburban Bridgeview.

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

Sorry to sincere-post but I am so freaking hyped for this ticket

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

Tater tot hot dish for one and all!

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

reminded that Phil Collins initially wasn't happy at all with his famous drum break in In The Air Tonight and re-recorded it using longer drumsticks to get a distinctive sound, a decision that had far-reaching repercussions

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Hey journo friends: TapeACall Pro, the app I’ve used for years to record phone interviews, is jacking up its subscription price by 350% — from $19.99 a year to $69.99. Anyone have any good alternatives?

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

Chicago’s getting its own production of Titaníque. 2025 looking better and better

BROADWAY IN CHICAGO TO PRESENT
PORCHLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE
CHICAGO PREMIERE PRODUCTION
OF THE 2023 LORTEL AWARD-WINNING BEST MUSICAL
TITANIQUE
TO PLAY
BROADWAY IN CHICAGO'S
BROADWAY PLAYHOUSE AT WATER TOWER PLACE
March 25 - May 18, 2025

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

Welp, uncharted territory it is.

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

Anyway, who else has had “Unworthy of Your Love” playing in their head all day

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

[Tim-Robinson-hot-dog-suit-meme]

New York Times push alert:
“News Analysis
President Biden's missteps, even if quickly corrected, now take on outsized importance in perceptions about his capacity.
now”

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

Just announced: A new bio-musical about Muhammad Ali (with a largely British pedigree) will premiere in Chicago next spring, Broadway in Chicago says. It’ll be at the Nederlander Theatre April 22–May 18.

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

I see the ed board that endorsed Gary Johnson is back with another totally serious demand

Chicago Tribune push notification reads: “From the Editorial Board: Joe Biden must end his presidential campaign”

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

Not the point I know, but it is sort of interesting that most people seeing that headline about a Marvel “senior editor,” accompanied by a comic-book illustration, still seem to assume it’s talking about movies.

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

So, what, did someone get a minor tax writeoff for wreaking this destruction?

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

Every album from The Decemberists

Book store sign that sounds like the highlights of a cautionary tale.

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

Watched “Luca” tonight for the first time. Did not find it lacking in “clear mass appeal.”

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Pride at the Park night on the South Side, White Sox vs. Astros

A view of Guaranteed Rate Field from the Miller Lite Landing seats, with Pride at the Park graphics visible on the upper deck LED strip. Lots of empty seats.

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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Just noticed that Riot Fest booked The Defiant, the "supergroup" formed by guys kicked out of their original bands for being anti-vaxxer whackjobs. Greaaat.

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

So Riot Fest really thought they could shit on the park district, move the fest to a suburban parking lot after fans have already bought tickets, and displace the newly beloved women’s soccer team, and RF would look like the heroes?

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

Have you heard Chicago band Brigitte Calls Me Baby? If not, you will soon—their debut LP comes out in August, the same month they make their first Lollapalooza appearance. Joshua M. Miller interviewed frontman Wes Leavins for this intro in the June/July issue of Chicago magazine.

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The Swift Rise of Brigitte Calls Me Baby

The local band is riding a wave of momentum and growing up fast.

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

Caught the pre-Broadway opening of “Death Becomes Her” this evening—it’s a lot of fun. Changes from the film are smart, and Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard and Chris Sieber are killing it. I’m afraid Michelle Williams is a bit out of her depth in the Isabella role, but still, it’s a good time.

A hand holding the Playbill for the musical “Death Becomes Her”

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

Looking forward to Chicago ignoring the addition of Ken Griffin’s name to the MSI just as stubbornly as we’ve ignored Willis Tower

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Kris Vire @krisvire.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

Walked to the beach looking for northern lights… either we missed the window or you’re all playing an elaborate prank on me

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