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Jeremy Lindenfeld
Champagne, a Cactus, and a Bike Named Gertrude: Graduating Students Share Their Keepsakes
The relationships between graduating students and their favorite mementos shed light on the transformative, altogether too fast experience that is college.
June 6, 2019
Youtube
Paradise Lost and Found Again, Together
Jorja Smith and Kali Uchis share the Aragon Ballroom stage in a passionate, exuberant double bill.
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June 4, 2019
Montreal Gazette
Cirque du Soleil’s Volta: Acrobats, Actors, and Technicians’ Artistic Haven
“Volta” sees Cirque du Soleil deliver another emphatic bout of acrobatic and aesthetic excellence.
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June 3, 2019
Ricky Novaes
Ricky Novaes Doesn't Want to Write the Next Harry Potter
Fourth-year Ricky Novaes reflects on the road less taken.
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June 3, 2019
Mike Grittani
juhiguptaandherbizarreartpolitic.pdf
Who needs time for conventional art when you're Juhi Gupta?
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June 3, 2019
Adrian Mandeville
Eli Winter’s Time Is Yet to Come (But He’s Pretty Damn Good So Far)
Eli Winter marvels at Constellation with his debut album “The Time To Come,” delivering stunning, passionate performances through his guitar instrumentals.
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June 3, 2019
Maroon TV
Trapped in a World of White People
Maroon TV’s “Writer’s Room” portrays the invisibility of people of color in white-dominated institutions, and the many frustrations that follow.
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May 31, 2019
The Arts Collective
To Redefine, to Relive, to Remember
The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality’s inaugural Arts Collective show “Re : ” sees an exciting array of creative responses from student artists across Chicago.
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May 28, 2019
Jad Dahshan
Florence and the Machine and Its Not-So-Useless Magic
Florence and the Machine mix their mystical, magical, medieval sound with world-weariness at the Huntington Bank Pavilion, speaking out against recent abortion bans in America and scolding toxic masculinity.
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May 28, 2019
Adrian Mandeville
The Wind Blew Me Away, but Aminé and Co. Reeled Me Back in
Our associate editor really hated the rain. Everything else, not so much.
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May 27, 2019
Todd Rosenberg
Kissin’s Ferocity and Uchida’s Velocity Charm the CSO
Mitsuko Uchida and Evgeny Kissin bring different styles to the CSO stage with similarly resounding levels of success.
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May 27, 2019
Activists Discuss Mass Incarceration Crisis at Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
Both speakers pointed to the need to “contextualize, humanize, and render legible,” the complex network of forces, interacting in compounding ways, that serves to maintain oppression.
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May 27, 2019
Billboard
BTS and Their ARMY Overrun Soldier Field
K-pop group BTS asserts itself as the Beatles of the 21st century at the Soldier Field Stadium with humility and grandeur.
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May 22, 2019
Natalia Rodriguez
Indie Sadbois Won't Go Extinct Anytime Soon
Indie group Last Dinosaurs performed at Beat Kitchen on May 9, serving indie boy detachment and groove alike.
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May 20, 2019
Jerry Shi
Audience Falls Flat into a Passion Pit at the Riviera
Passion Pit flatters to deceive in a performance that went heavy on spectacle but fell short in subtlety.
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May 20, 2019
Liz Lauren
No Unanswered Questions in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's "Hamlet"
Running at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier until June 9, director Barbara Gaines’s Hamlet does not shy away from providing answers.
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May 20, 2019
Adrian Mandeville
Photo Essay: Summer Breeze 2019
UChicago students weather the rain delay to turn out for another successful edition of Summer Breeze, headlined this year by Allie X, Becky G, and Aminé.
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May 20, 2019
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