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Matson withdraws from 48th Ward aldermanic race
- Embattled 48th Ward aldermanic candidate Morry Matson announced on July 17 that he was withdrawing from the 2019 election, citing health reasons. "Mr. Matson suffered ...
Equality Illinois plans Fahrenheit Chicago, End-of-Summer Pride Celebration Aug. 26
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From a press release
- CHICAGO—Equality Illinois is excited to announce Fahrenheit Chicago, the end-of-summer beach party of fun, music, and social networking for LGBTQ Illinoisans, their friends, and families. ...
SOUND THE ALARMS Supreme Court pick could dismantle LGBTQ rights
- The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court should alarm every member of the LGBT community. His record demonstrates that if he is confirmed ...
Trial date set in Aaron Schock case
- U.S. District Judge Colin Bruce has set the corruption trial for former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock ( R-Illinois ) for Jan. 28, 2019, NBC 5 ...
Elder-care support call on July 19
- An elder-care support call will take place Thursday, July 19, 2-2:45 p.m. CT. The dial-in call number is 515-739-1030 and the access code is 784-468-702. ...
Concerns about the afterlife in this life with Trump
- A pall hangs over many Americans since Trump has taken office. One sign of this dark cloud has been an uptick in dystopian novels. Classics ...
THEATER South Side native comes home for 'The Color Purple'
- South Side native Carla R. Stewart looks to Rihanna when summing up Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel "The Color Purple." "It's a story about ...
THEATER REVIEW Pamplona
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Playwright: Jim McGrath At: Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn St. Tickets: GoodmanTheatre.org; 312-443-3800. Runs through: Aug. 19
Stacy Keach tried to bring his Hemingway show ...
THEATER REVIEW Topdog/Underdog
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Playwright: Suzan-Lori Parks At: Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre, 927 Noyes St., Evanston. Tickets: $15; Noyes Cultural Center; 847-866-5915. Runs through: July 29
In the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog, ...
Critic's Picks
- Support Group for Men, Goodman Theatre, through July 29. These are confusing times for everyone, but Ellen Fairey doesn't neglect the other half of the ...
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SPOTLIGHT Bus Stop
- In Bus Stop, director Steve Scott takes on William Inge's classic about a bus stranded by a snow storm and the group of desperate, disparate ...
Ysaguirre named new Court Theatre ED
- Angel Ysaguirre has been appointed executive director of the University of Chicago's Court Theatre, effective Sept. 4. Ysaguirre will join Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director ...
Emanuel announces plan to reopen Uptown Theatre
- Recently, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel joined Ald. James Cappleman, Jam Productions and Farpoint Development to announce Chicago's Uptown Theatre will be restored and reopened. The ...
'Carnaval of New Latinx Work' July 19-21
- The Latinx Theatre Commons ( LTC ) is presenting the 2018 LTC Carnaval of New Latinx Work ( Carnaval 2018: ConeXion! )—featuring readings of six ...
THEATER Medieval morality makeover 'Everybody' at Pride Arts Center
- A 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Everybody is a modern retelling of the 15th-century morality play Everyman, an allegory where the titular ...
MUSIC A more worldly Steve Grand, It's 'not the end of me'
- Steve Grand has been through a lot. That much is evident on not the end of me, Grand's newest album. There are certainly uptempo numbers ...
NUNN ON ONE MUSIC Ezra Furman writes his 'queer outlaw saga'
- Singer Ezra Furman continues to push the boundaries between gender, sexuality and religion on his latest album Transangelic Exodus. The songwriter was born in Chicago ...
Grace under pressure, Ernest Hemingway in 'Pamplona'
- No matter how impressive their canon, glamorous their lifestyle or enduring their legacy, there is nothing more unexciting to watch than a writer working, unless ...
Billy Masters
- "Yes, I did offer them acting jobs in exchange for sex, but so did and still does everyone. But I never, ever forced myself on ...
Market Days acts announced
- The Northalsted Business Alliance ( NBA ) delivers a diverse and dance-heavy line-up for this year's Market Days, set for Aug. 11-12, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. ...
SHOWBIZ 'Pose,' Jane Fonda, 'Queer Eye,' Queen Latifah
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Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
- Janet Mock's directorial debut is one for the history books, NewNowNext.com noted. The writer, TV host and transgender-rights advocate directed the most recent episode of ...
WORLD Surrogacy law, World Cup, message to Trump & Putin
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Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
- The Israeli Parliament ( The Knesset ) approved an amendment to the Israeli Law on Surrogacy, but kept a portion that stipulates same-sex couples are ...
NATIONAL Calif. hate crimes, trans measure, gay mayor, Stonewall Inn
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Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
- Equality California noted in a press release that, for the third consecutive year, California saw a surge in the number of hate crimes reported in ...
DINING Bourbon on Division, Pitchfork special, free ice-cream nachos
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Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
- —The Cajun/Creole food truck Boo Coo Roux is teaming with Bourbon on Division, 2050 W. Division St., for a Southern Night Pop-Up on Wed., July ...
THEATER REVIEW Victims of Duty
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Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
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Author: Eugene Ionesco At: A Red Orchid Theatre, 1531 N. Wells St. Tickets: 312-943-8722 or ARedOrchidTheatre.org; $50. Runs through: Aug. 5
Absurd theater is the ...
THEATER REVIEW The Csardas Princess
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Special to the online edition of Windy City Times
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Playwright: Emmerich Kalman ( music ), Hersh Glagov & Gerald Frantzen ( English libretto ). At: Folks Operetta @ Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave. ...
Allred to address LGBT bar association event
- Famed attorney Gloria Allred will deliver the keynote address and Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke will be honored at the Lesbian and Gay Bar ...
NUNN ON ONE MUSIC Hayley Kiyoko's great 'Expectations'
- Get ready for a new generation of musicians such as Troye Sivan and Hayley Kiyoko, who make no apologies for who they are. They are ...
Gerber/Hart annual book sale July 21
- Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, 6500 N. Clark St., will hold its annual book sale Saturday, July 21, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., in the atrium. The sale ...
Rule could force choice between federal funds or anti-LGBT discrimination
- Grave financial and moral choices await Illinois authorities if the U.S. House of Representatives passes a budget amendment penalizing states prohibiting anti-LGBT discrimination in their ...
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