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click to enlarge courtesy Drawn & Quarterly The graphic novel Map of my Heart begins with a cartoon map of Hoffman Estates: the high school, the Barrington Square Mall, a good spot to pick raspberries behind the hospital. At the bottom, everything is labeled: "Map of the Known Universe Circa 1982." The cartographer is comics artist John Po...

Presidents Day is among the most dubious of national holidays. Every presidents legacy is a mixed bag, and with the benefit of hindsight, its easy to argue that some of them have done more harm than good. The federal holiday is called Washingtons Birthday (its "Presidents Day" or some variant thereof in 22 states), and Illinois is one of six states to follow suit—perhaps so no one gets off-message and throws a parade for genocidal maniac Andrew Jackson. Federal buildings, schools, and banks a...

Judas and the Black Messiah: Why Fred Hamptons Fiancée Deborah Changed Her Name 19 Shares If you just finished up watching Judas and the Black Messiah, Shaka Kings film about Black Panther chairman Fred Hamptons assassination by the FBI and the betrayal at the hands of infiltrator William ONeal, you might be wondering about Hamptons fiancée Akua Njeri, formerly known as Deborah Johnson. A crucial part of Hamptons story, Njeri was a mere 19 years old and eight-and-a-half months pregnant with ...

click to enlarge The cast of the NBC show Connecting . . . shot their parts on iPhones from their actual homes, peppered with a few props. The laundry room in the show is actor Parvesh Cheenas actual laundry room. The pink kettle in the kitchen is the actual kettle he bought on Amazon. He refers to the downstairs of his townhome as the "set," and his bedroom upstairs has served as his dressing room. His partner, Eric, ev...

click to enlarge Boudoir photographer Liz Hansen is having a little fun with the pandemic of it all during her shoots. Chicago Boudoir Photography Boudoir photographer Samantha Eppel’s shoot this past October was an intimate affair: just her client, her clients friend, and a dozen North Shore t...

The Chicago-born singer-songwriter beat the odds by turning her debut album, Forever, Ya Girl, into a multidimensional artwork. Sign up for our newsletters Subscribe "Art is what Im meant to do," KeiyaA says. "But I also want this to be a way for me to build a strong foundation and legacy that doesnt have to be attached to me working for somebody else." AnAkA for Chicago Reader ...

February 1998 -  Mansons autobiography featured a number of anecdotes, which  Chicago Reader critic Jim Derogatis called out at the time for “generally mistreating one or more women per page.” In a particularly gruesome chapter, “Meating the Fans / Meat and Greet,” Manson recalled a deaf fan who got covered in raw meat and had sex with a number of band members before getting urinated on by Manson and his bandmate. While that encounter was presented as consensual by Manson, another ...

click to enlarge Judas and the Black Messiah ★★★★ Dir. Shaka King, 126 min. HBO Max Warning: This review contains spoilers. As the same argument about reform plays in a loop, Judas and the Black Messiah is a reminder that there is no such thing as patient protest and that to combat targeted, intentional systems of oppression, it takes a revolution. Because as the real Fred Hampton so famously explained in a commonly quoted 1968 speech, it’s the revolution th...

The rowdy UK postpunk band dropped their eagerly awaited debut album on Friday.

The jealous husband who killed TWO wives: True-crime series retells the shocking tale of how man finally faced justice for strangling his first wife when he murdered his second spouse three years later The murders of Doyle Kelleys first wife, Diana Kelley, and second wife, Christy Kelley, were revisited on the premiere of the new true-crime series Exhumed Diana, 24, was found dead in the passenger seat of her car with blood on her nose and hand on September 26, 1990, two weeks after separating...