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Camper's decades-old experimental film Suicide Note, recently restored by the Chicago Film Society, will premiere locally on November 20. https://t.co/zspNEiajaA

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In early November, underground Chicago electro-pop duo Drasii issued The Seeker via two local labels. https://t.co/7syqruUyKb

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Our "Writing with Care" event in Chicago features two incredible authors, Jason Reynolds and @NifMuhammad, in conversation with our @aijenpoo, plus @Chicago_Reader and @macfound.

Join us for a conversation on art, storytelling, and caring for one another: https://t.co/Okp2ZYYXzv

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Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson's exhilarating and deeply humane hip-hop musical explores a little-known chapter in U.S. history. https://t.co/g1FLVtkGWP

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A friend group deals with end of a relationship that carries cataclysmic implications in Skyler Tarnas's comedy at Avalanche Theatre. https://t.co/flm64dQd8m

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Will Arbery's drama shows a group of Catholic intellectuals wrestling with existential terror during the first Trump administration. https://t.co/8utO0sAkBF

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The connections Erik Gernand's play draws between then and now feel painfully clear in Ego Death Theatre Collective's production. https://t.co/oiXcIjMfFp

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A couple wakes up together with no memory of their names or who they are to one another in Lee Blessing's existential mystery. https://t.co/GTQrGQck3F

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But Edge of the Wood Theatre's take on Anton Chekhov's twisting tragicomedy takes the absurdity a bit too far at times. https://t.co/dpTFAh5l5a

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This residency, his fourth at the Hungry Brain, will kick off on December 3 with a new combination of old pals. https://t.co/7skpBZayTu

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Disorientation is the heart of Mareux's dark electro-pop songs. https://t.co/O8y57mt2zO

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The midterms gave me a 24-hour high. Then the buzz wore off. https://t.co/KwlZk0pyVc

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Feral food goblins Chefs and Tony B Tazm return to Monday NIght Foodball at Thattu with a south of the broder smoke show. https://t.co/U6tBH9AuzQ

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TOMORROW: Join us and @Chicago_Reader for the launch of our Illinois Brady lists reporting. Hear from Max Blaisdell, Sam Stecklow, Stanley Howard, Loren Jones and Arthur Haynes.

Nov. 12, 6–8 p.m. | Westside Justice Center
Register: https://t.co/y1UZHMO2y3

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The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago's independent and underground film scene has to offer. https://t.co/J00bZ9K97q

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“A salvo,” the Selva Aparicio show on view at Volume Gallery, considers the roof as a blindly trusted object. https://t.co/vecoQA0M4H

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Former Dead Steelmill front man Cornelio "Corny" Ramirez has died at 61, after a lifetime of insisting on justice and dignity for his blue-collar comrades. https://t.co/mN1N3nqF9m

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The stalwart of Chicago's storefront scene is entrancing as Winnie, a woman entombed in a mound of dirt, in Samuel Beckett's tragicomedy. https://t.co/yih690MnkF

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Kate Douglas's play, now onstage with Clark Week Productions, offers a blend between screwball workplace comedy and the threat of death. https://t.co/9uXeZ2fqiJ

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"An O & Their ABC (American Born Cat)” at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago points as much to omission as it does to olivier. https://t.co/PJEy7RnKrW