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THIS WEEK
City Life
04 The To-Do Our new guide to upcoming activities and events
06 Lacrosse Chicago’s south-side high schools are adding lacrosse teams to their sports programs.
FOOD & DRINK
10 Sula Worlds collide with DaNang Kitchen’s Vietnamese brunch.
imagines a dystopian future at Wrightwood 659.
26 Museums A stanley brouwn
NEWS & POLITICS
12 Prisons | Cover Feature Wexford Health and Illinois prisons
Commentary
20 Joravsky | On Politics Mayor Johnson’s new chief of staff has mainstream Chicago abuzz.
21 Isaacs | On Culture The bitter legal battle over Art Shay’s photos
ARTS & CULTURE
22 Books Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes’s vital new handbook
24 Art Review Artist Kongkee exhibition at AIC resists easy interpretation.
27 Comics Journalism | Amanda Williams Coco Picard looks at Williams’s Redefining Redlining.
30 Dance Dance Divas lets concert dancers explore drag for a good cause.
32 Plays of Note New theater reviews including Gender Play, or what you Will at About Face; Hatefuck at First Floor; and The October Storm at Raven.
Film
34 Feature Workshed Animation has a debut feature film on the way.
35 Movies of Note Love Again is a wild bummer of a movie; Love to Love You, Donna Summer is an overwhelmingly human portrait.
Mirani, 5 Magazine founder
44 Secret History of Chicago
Music Austin High Gang
46 Shows and Records of Note
Previews of concerts by Y La Bamba, Kayo, Martin Dupont, and others, plus reviews of new releases by Kari Faux and Yakuza
50 Early Warnings New concerts and other updated listings
50 Gossip Wolf New EP from K.Raydio, the Daoui, and more
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MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE
36 Profile | Viets-VanLear
Shawnee Dez, superstar
Theater
28 Profile Jack Helbig on Matthew C. Yee, whose new musical gives a country-western spin to Asian American identity.
38 French Police The Mexican American postpunk trio play to bigger audiences.
40 Profile | Hernandez Producer Thelonious Martin
42 Chicagoans of Note Czarina
51 Comics
51 Savage Love Dan Savage examines erotic literature and banned books.
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