7+ hour, 32+ min ago  (70+ words) Chicago Reader Grose's installations demonstrate our unique ability to constantly apprehend time and place ourselves within it. We want to be eight years old, looking at sauropods and cavemen at the natural history museum. We want to sit around the…...

11+ hour, 19+ min ago  (848+ words) Here, Robinovitz described scent's double role in scripture: it can carry love and holiness, but also decay, mortality, and the death that resurrection is meant to overcome. "Fragrant smells are associated with pure love, care, and tenderness," she said. "In…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (191+ words) Just Neighbors'examines the city's homeless encampment sweeps, focusing on the human impact of a fragmented, interdepartmental process. At the beginning of June, while Chicago's LGBTQ+ community was gearing up for Pride month, Ray was sorting through gender-affirming belongings, trying to…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (641+ words) Divs Ray's therapy budget goes toward Spotify Premium. Her therapists? RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook, otherwise known as the members of the K-pop supergroup BTS. Ray discovered the Bulletproof Boy Scouts in 2017 as she was navigating…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (122+ words) Chicago Reader "Willem de Kooning Drawing" through 9/20 at Art Institute of Chicago I've been spending time with Excavation (1950) ever since I arrived in Chicago in 1990. The painting has hung in many galleries around the museum, but is perhaps shown to…...

1+ year, 1+ week ago  (192+ words) Whether you're visiting the city or just looking to get more acquainted with the art scene, here are eight exhibitions happening during EXPO Art Week that capture the spirit that makes the fair possible. Sukaina Kubba's "Textile Museum" at Western…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (264+ words) We've seen other stations lose support and funding recently," Snyder says. If our materials aren't documented, they're at risk of disappearing completely'and, as you will notice when browsing the available materials, there are many meaningful stories at WHPK that deserve…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (91+ words) Leor Galil (he/him) is a senior writer for the Chicago Reader, which has published his work since 2010. His writing has appeared in Pitchfork, the Washington Post, The A. V. Club, Forbes. com, and many publications that have since gone defunct; he's…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (99+ words) Leor Galil (he/him) is a senior writer for the Chicago Reader, which has published his work since 2010. His writing has appeared in Pitchfork, the Washington Post, The A. V. Club, Forbes. com, and many publications that have since gone defunct; he's…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (953+ words) Mansa build songs layer by layer, with feeling first. Long before instruments enter the process, the Chicago-based collective lay a foundation through language. At the center of the band is Alonzo Sanders Jr. , a 33-year-old producer, songwriter, and saxophonist. "The…...