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1 month ago | 
wbez.org | Mary Dixon |Cianna Greaves |Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis
If you’re a fan of artists like Vampire Weekend, Fall Out Boy or Jenny Lewis, chances are that you’ve heard Greta Morgan’s music live. Morgan’s band The Hush Sound — which toured with Fall Out Boy while Morgan was still a suburban Illinois high schooler — signed on to Pete Wentz’s label DCD2 Records (then Decaydance Records) in the mid-aughts. She went on to create a number of projects, from solo band Springtime Carnivore to a punk cover album with LA rocker Katy Goodman.
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1 month ago | 
chicago.suntimes.com | Miriam Di Nunzio |Morgan Ciocca |Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis
Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo, Tyler, The Creator, Doechii and TWICE are among the artists set for Lollapalooza 2025, it was revealed Tuesday morning. They’ll be joined by Korn, RÜFÜS DU SOL, Luke Combs, A$AP Rocky and many more when the festival returns July 31-Aug. 3 at Grant Park. Four-day, lowest-price tickets will be available for one hour only starting at 10 a.m. March 20, and fans will need to pre-register for the offer at lollapalooza.com.
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2 months ago | 
inkl.com | Kaitlin Washburn |Kade Heather |Cianna Greaves |Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis
Nationwide, outbreaks of the virus, also called H5N1 or avian flu, have decimated poultry flocks and infected cattle herds, my colleague Kaitlin Washburn reports. In today's newsletter, we'll fill you in on what you need to know about this illness. Plus, we've got reporting on Chicago's federal transit money troubles, a history-making Art Institute exhibit and more community news you need to know below.
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2 months ago | 
wbez.org | Mark Guarino |Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis |Manuel Martinez |Manuel Martínez |Courtney Kueppers
The Pitchfork Music Festival came very close to celebrating its 20th anniversary this July in Union Park. But late last year, the festival’s parent owner, Condé Nast, announced that it was permanently shuttering the Chicago festival. The news surprised many Chicago music fans, who’d come to rely on the festival as a place to discover music outside the dominant pop mainstream — music that spanned different genres and generations.
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2 months ago | 
wbez.org | Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis |Manuel Martinez |Manuel Martínez |Courtney Kueppers |Maggie Hennessy
The pole is nearly a dozen feet tall, but that doesn’t daunt a pair of actors climbing toward its top, one piggyback on the other. To an average onlooker, this may induce gasps of amazement or stomach pangs of stress, but at Lookingglass Theatre, it’s just another day. This is a rehearsal for Circus Quixote, an adaptation of the classic Miguel de Cervantes epic Don Quixote, opening Thursday.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
chicago.suntimes.com | Cianna Greaves |Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis
The Art Institute of Chicago’s “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica” is massive, featuring 350 works of art, with paintings, sculpture, video and audio, as well as historical objects and ephemera spanning a century. As you travel room to room, the seldom-heard voice of Marcus Garvey and soothing contemplations of Audre Lorde wash over you.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
wbez.org | Cianna Greaves |Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis |Graham Meyer |Anna Savchenko
🎧 Click the red listen button to hear WBEZ’s interview with Antawan Byrd. The Art Institute of Chicago’s Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica is massive, featuring 350 works of art, with paintings, sculpture, video and audio, as well as historical objects and ephemera spanning a century. As you travel room to room, the seldom-heard voice of Marcus Garvey and soothing contemplations of Audre Lorde wash over you.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
wbez.org | Sasha-Ann Simons |Ari Mejia |Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis |Courtney Kueppers
🎧 Click the red listen button to hear Reset‘s interview with Erin Kilmurray and Kara Brody. When thinking of dance performances, a few things may come to mind: jazz, hip-hop, ballet. Chicago dancers Erin Kilmurray and Kara Brody are breaking out of that mold quite literally with their new work Knockout. Knockout opens on Jan. 24 and runs through Feb. 2 at Steppenwolf Theatre as part of the venue’s LookOut performance series, which features local, up-and-coming talent in the arts.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
wbez.org | Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis
The late afternoon sun was setting over United Center Parking Lot K as a line of tittering general admission holders queued up to see Billie Eilish. In the sea of baggy pants and mustard-yellow hoodies stood Paul Sanders, 28, who paid around $200 via Eilish’s presale on Ticketmaster for the November show. “The first time I saw her was at Coachella, and it was probably the best experience I’ve ever had at a concert,” said Sanders.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
chicago.suntimes.com | Erin Allen |Justin Bull |Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis
Chicago artist Theaster Gates got the call around the time the Johnson Publishing Co. closed its Michigan Avenue headquarters in 2011. On the other line was Linda Johnson Rice, the daughter of John and Eunice Johnson, the founders of the historic publisher. “She asked me if I was willing to be the kind of caretaker of the things within that building, [including] the photographs, so the library, the furniture.
