THIS WEEK

CHICAGO READER | NOVEMBER 12, 2020 | VOLUME 50, NUMBER 4

ARTS & CULTURE

13 Pandemic Cheer Reader staffers on what the holidays look like in 2020.

City Life

04 Quarantine Coping Fire pits, cold-weather sports, and other ideas to li your spirits this winter

Film

26 Feature Black Harvest Film Festival is still a party.

FOOD & DRINK

06 Feature Minahasa brings Indonesian food to your door.

08 Restaurant Review You don’t mess with Teta at this Lincoln Park Lebanese-Mexican mash-up.

NEWS & POLITICS

10 Joravsky | Politics We survived! Trump’s MAGA and other tales of the last week’s election

12 Isaacs | Culture Bisa Butler’s quilts find inspiration in historic photos of Black American life.

15 The Point Tales of the Southside Pod swimmers

20 Lit Jason Diamond reflects on his Chicagoland suburban-spiration.

22 Book Review Riva Lehrer’s Golem Girl unpacks queerness, intimacy, and disability.

Theater

24 Rom-Com Asian American theater company Token Theatre makes its debut with Zac Efron

25 Dance Nick Pupillo’s Visceral Dance Chicago builds a new community space.

28 Movies of Note The biohacking documentary Citizen Bio is a visceral experience, The Dark and the Wicked is filled with shocking scares, and Francisca is a provocative blend of classical and modernist filmmaking.

MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE

29 Galil | Feature Production duo Bless the Mad share their private pantheon of Black Chicago music.

32 Records of Note A pandemic can’t stop the music, and this week the Reader reviews current releases by the Cell Phones, Macabre, Beabadoobee, Cleared, Ausar, and more.

38 Early Warnings Rescheduled concerts and other updated listings

38 Gossip Wolf Hardcore fourpiece Wrong War show Trumpism the door, Oui Ennui puts out a new ambient EP and a collaboration with Angel Bat Dawid, and Hieroglyphic Being drops his tenth new release since July.

Opinion

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41 Savage Love Dan Savage answers the question on everyone’s mind: What’s more taboo, voting for Trump or foursomes?

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Staff Note

THE READER HAS has announced a new leadership structure as it navigates the transition to a full nonprofit. Tracy Baim, publisher for the past two years, will now be co-publisher alongside Karen Hawkins, who has been coeditor in chief with Sujay Kumar since 2019. The Reader Institute for Community Journalism (RICJ), the new organization that will soon take over the Reader , has received its nonprofit designation from the IRS. RICJ has begun operations and is soliciting individual donations and foundation grants. The Read- er ’s former L3C corporation will operate in partnership with RICJ as the business winds down over the next few months, and the nonprofit takes over by spring.

“I am so excited to be joined by Karen as co-publisher,” said Baim. “We worked together 20 years ago at Windy City Times, and have worked to pivot the Reader these past two years. Karen’s leadership and vision will provide a critical role as we seek to navigate the next few years in community media. I am so happy that she has accepted this challenge.”

“After two years at the Reader , I believe more now than ever that nonprofit, community-focused local journalism is the future of the industry,” Hawkins said. “I couldn’t be more proud to be part of this talented and dedicated team of world-class journalists. I’m also thrilled to have proven the strength of the co-leadership model this last year with Sujay Kumar as co-editor in chief, and can’t wait to see what the future holds with Tracy and I in co-publisher roles.”

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