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THIS WEEK
14 Count For nearly 20 years, the United States was on the verge of adjusting the census and eliminating the Black undercount.
ARTS & CULTURE
19 Essay When does drinking to cope become drinking too much?
20 Lit Evoking memory and mystery, two artists collaborate on Theorem
City Life
04 Shop Local Chicago Tool Library has proven to be a muchneeded lifeline for locals sprucing up spaces while quarantining.
FOOD & DRINK
06 Sula | Review The owners of Serai open the country’s only nyonya restaurant, devoted to the food of Malaysia’s Peranakan culture.
08 Survivial From heated yurts to community support, local eateries are doing what they can to make it through the pandemic’s bleakest months yet.
NEWS & POLITICS
10 Joravsky | Politics Why it’s hard to get outraged about the Steansto-Cassidy handoff
12 Isaacs | Culture The Chicago labs of chemist Percy Julian brought us modern miracle drugs and much more.
22 Visual Art Artist Susan Smith Trees works with the unknown to encourage the “known.”
Theater
24 Reid | History David Blixt finds a treasure trove of 11 unpublished Nellie Bly novels.
programming prepares for the return to theaters and beyond.
28 Movies of Note The Dig leaps into the highest echelons of archaeology movies, #Like is a refreshing retelling of the torture film, and Malcolm & Marie features stellar performances.
MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE
30 Feature With federal aid to venues only now arriving, how are tour managers, stagehands, bookers, and their colleagues in the concert business making ends meet?
GlitterGuts take to Patreon to survive the nightlife drought, artist and musician Hali Palombo creates otherworldly collages from antique audio cylinders, and R&B singer Queen Mars drops the lead single from her upcoming EP.
41 Chicagoans of Note CaSera Heining, producer at WGN Radio and DJ Ca$h Era
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26 Existential Romance Theatre Above the Law drops the masks— momentarily.
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27 Profile The Gene Siskel Film Center’s new director of
36 Records of Note A pandemic can’t stop the music, and this week the Reader reviews current releases by Casper McFadden, Beach Bunny, Sleaford Mods, Coffins, Mukqs, and more.
40 Early Warnings Rescheduled concerts and other updated listings
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Twenty-four points of view on the band Joan of Arc
Tim Kinsella lets everyone else tell the story of his longest-running group— entirely in keeping with their music’s embrace of illogic and reinvention.
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