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THIS WEEK
10 Education Current and former students, staff, and faculty at SAIC describe microaggressions, discrimination, and a failed antiracism campaign.
ARTS & CULTURE
the Reader reviews current releases by Sonny Falls, DJ Corey, Viagra Boys, Old Growth, Steve Earle, and more.
32 Early Warnings Rescheduled concerts and other updated listings
32 Gossip Wolf Chicago’s DIY rock scene mourns Running drummer Alejandro Morales.
City Life
04 Street View Tuckpointer Noah Frazier enjoys being outside.
FOOD & DRINK
05 Feature An unscientific survey of the city’s matzo ball soup options
Film
24 Wellen | Small Screen Why is everyone horny for Bridgerton?
25 Movies of note Herself is a relentlessly hopeful film, Pieces of a Woman is a shallow depiction of female grief, and Soul is a triumph of animation.
NEWS & POLITICS
07 Joravsky | Politics Mayor Lightfoot hires an investigator to tell her what she already knows.
08 Isaacs | Culture The Late Nite nuns will rise again.
16 Art ChiByDesign founder Chris Rudd wants to dismantle racism in the design industry.
19 Visual Art More Postcards Please is an interactive time capsule for our moment.
20 Lit Poet Damian Rogers explores her relationship with her mother in her new memoir.
Theater
22 New Voices Pegasus’s Young Playwrights Festival enters its 34th year.
23 Virtual Sketch Show Hit ‘Em on the Blackside finds the funny for COVID times.
THIS WEEK ON CHICAGOREADER.COM
MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE
26 Collo-Julin | Feature In 1971 the Reader’s free classifieds hosted a future folk star.
28 Records of Note A pandemic can’t stop the music, and this week
Opinion
34 Savage Love Dan Savage offers advice to parents whose teenager is killing their freaky sex life.
Classifieds
35 Jobs
35 Apartments & Spaces
35 Marketplace
It’s
In Her Blood
Three generations of unapologetic Latina activists continue the Lozano family legacy.
A music poll to start 2021
I’m afraid your only choices are Jesu’s “Old Year” and Codeine’s “New Year’s.”
Beautiful heartbreak
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom shows how Black folks navigate the power struggles that white structures create.
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