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THIS WEEK
12 Transportation How ancient Jewish religious law influenced the design of a bike bridge in West Rogers Park
14 Isaacs | Culture Isn’t it time we provided a stipend for the state’s poet laureate?
City Life
05 Street View Artist Jenny Kendler keeps both style and the environment in sight.
FOOD & DRINK
06 Drinks at Home Build your own Chicago bar cart.
Children’s Theatre’s Walkie Talkies brings community lore to life.
Film
41 Review Finding Yingying looks at the human impact of a tragic crime.
42 Essay How Chicago-based love stories provide comfort in the middle of a pandemic
43 Movies of note Black Bear is smart and ambitious cultural commentary, Queer Japan paints an electric portrait of the country’s LGBTQ+ community, and Sound of Metal peels back the internalized ableism surrounding deafness.
16 Dukmasova | Feature Current and former employees of Pangea, the city’s top evictor, describe racism, segregation, and a “toxic” workplace.
ARTS & CULTURE
22 Dive Bar History The remarkable life of Art Castillo and Moulin Jimmy’s
52 Records of Note A pandemic can’t stop the music, and this week the Reader reviews current releases by New Goo, Aluna, Moğollar, Guido Gamboa, Mars Williams’s Ayler Xmas project, and more.
56 Early Warnings Rescheduled concerts and other updated listings
56 Gossip Wolf Rapper Matt Muse runs a second Love & Nappyness Hair Care Drive, a new local compilation benefits Chicago Community Jail Support, and former youth poet laureate Kara Jackson releases a Christmas EP.
Opinion
60 Savage Love Dan Savage factchecks a letter about a casserole’s “secret ingredient.”
08 Feature Full Circle Fungi makes like a mushroom and cooperates
NEWS
& POLITICS
10 Joravsky | Politics Teachers, parents, and students have to decide if CPS can keep COVID-19 out of the classroom.
Disappearing hoops
In the last decade the park district has removed 12 of 16 basketball courts from gentrifying neighborhoods.
24 Public Art A photo project highlights the beauty of Logan Square as seen through the eyes of new and old locals.
Theater
26 Dance Ruth Page’s Nutcracker, reimagined for a shutdown
27 Neighborhood Tours Chicago
MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE
44 Feature Internal strife, unpaid royalties, and the looming possibility of a sale have forced venerable Chicago indie Bloodshot Records to a crossroads.
50 Chicagoans of Note Adam Gogola, front man of Blind Adam & the Federal League
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65 Jobs
65 Apartments & Spaces
65 Marketplace
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