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Critic’s Pick

Jay Som at the Green Music Fest in Chicago, July 11, 2017. (PAUL K/Flickr)

Introspection, empathy and bedroom pop: Jay Som in concert

Paulina Campos
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Oct. 26, 2017
Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird. (Courtesy of The B-Side)

Andrew Bird lights up Bing with graceful melodies guaranteed to warm your soul

Olivia Popp
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Oct. 25, 2017
Xandra Ibarra performing 'Nude Laughing.' (Courtesy of Xandra Ibarra)

Xandra Ibarra’s ‘Nude Laughing’ is much more than a few giggles

Mell Chhoy
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Oct. 25, 2017
Harry Gamboa Jr. at the 6th Street Bridge in Los Angeles. (Courtesy of the LA Times)

Harry Gamboa Jr.’s performance art is impactful as ever in ‘Vital Signs’

Natalie Sada
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Oct. 24, 2017
Hip-hop artist R. Kelly performs in Chicago in 2012 (Courtesy of The Chicago Tribune).

On the impossibility of separating art from artist

Jacob Kuppermann
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Oct. 21, 2017
Arts & Life
Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez (Natalia Cordova) sits in a S.H.I.E.L.D. quinjet in the fourth episode of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot" (Courtesy of ABC).

‘Slingshot’ will shoot its way into your geeky heart

Olivia Popp
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Oct. 21, 2017
Artist Nina Katchadourian. (Courtesy of Arts and Culture Texas Magazine)

Down the rabbit hole of Nina Katchadourian’s ‘Curiouser’

Zecheng Wang
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Oct. 19, 2017
'Coast Sentinels' by Pedro de Lemos is on display at the Cantor Arts Center (Courtesy of Pedro de Lemos)

‘The Centennial Exhibition’: Reveling in Pedro de Lemos’ history and simplicity

Julia Gordon
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Oct. 18, 2017
Andy Weir speaks about his writing (Courtesy of Variety).

Cracking open Andy Weir’s ‘The Egg’

Shana E. Hadi
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Oct. 17, 2017
Spencer Finch's "Betelgeuse" is currently on display at the Cantor Art Museum (Courtesy of Spencer Finch).

Spencer Finch’s ‘Betelgeuse’ inspires childlike awe

Angelica Jopling
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Oct. 16, 2017
Arts & Life
(Courtesy of Mads Tolling and The Mads Men)

Jazz is hard and life is easy with Mads Tolling & The Mads Men: ‘Playing the 60s’

Olivia Popp
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Oct. 11, 2017
San (Nora el Samahy) and Xavier (Christopher W. White) have a long history and common enemies in Crowded Fire Theater's "A Tale of Autumn" (CHESHIRE ISAACS/Crowded Fire Theater).

Christopher Chen’s ‘A Tale of Autumn’ contorts reality and perception

Olivia Popp
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Oct. 9, 2017
In the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2017 production 'Hannah and the Dread Gazebo,' Hannah (Cindy Im), Father (Paul Juhn) and Dang (Sean Jones) learn of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s death from South Korean TV news (JENNY GRAHAM/Oregon Shakespeare Festival).

OSF pt. 3: Jiehae Park’s masterful ‘Hannah and the Dread Gazebo’ tackles a multifaceted Korean American experience

Olivia Popp
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Sept. 25, 2017
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Lorde’s ‘Melodrama’ is the most interesting album of the summer

Jacob Kuppermann
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Aug. 15, 2017
Belle (Jennie Greenberry, center) leads the ensemble in song in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2017 production of 'Disney's Beauty and the Beast' (Photo by Jenny Graham).

OSF pt. 2: ‘Disney’s Beauty and the Beast’ is an enchanting classic

Olivia Popp
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Aug. 14, 2017
“Ambition's debt is paid!” proclaims Brutus (Danforth Comins, with knife) after the assassination of Caesar (Armando Durán, in chair), with Metellus Cimber (Ted Deasy), Cassius (Rodney Gardiner) and Caska (Stephen Michael Spencer) in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2017 production of 'Julius Caesar' (Photo by Jenny Graham).

OSF pt. 1: Shaking up Shakespeare with ‘Henry IV, Part 1’ and ‘Julius Caesar’

Olivia Popp
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Aug. 10, 2017
Charlize Theron as MI6 spy Lorraine Broughton in 'Atomic Blonde' (Jonathan Prime/Focus Features).

Charlize Theron shines as an ‘Atomic Blonde’ in new action spy thriller

Evie Sun
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Aug. 9, 2017
Kristen Bell and Jameela Jamil in NBC's 'The Good Place' (Courtesy of NBC).

‘The Good Place’ brings representation and genius-level comedy to the small screen

Olivia Popp
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Aug. 4, 2017
Yvonne Orji, Issa Rae, Amanda Seales and Natasha Rothwell in season two of HBO's "Insecure" (Courtesy of HBO).

Issa Rae’s acclaimed series ‘Insecure’ is back for season two, and it’s ‘hella great’

Olivia Popp
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July 21, 2017
The inner gatefold cover of the Beatles' 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Courtesy of Apple Corps, Ltd.

‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’: Reflections on a Beatles opus, 50 years on

Carlos Valladares
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June 6, 2017
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