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The stalwart alt-weekly
@chicagoreader.com, which has served the city for a half century, returns to print today in a new monthly format.
I talked to new EIC Sarah Conway about what Chicagoans can expect from this new era for
@blockclubchi.bsky.social:
blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/04/i...
It's A 'New Era' For The Chicago Reader As Iconic Alt Weekly Shifts To Monthly Magazine
The Reader has struggled in recent years amid funding gaps and administration changes. Editor-in-Chief Sarah Conway says she plans to honor the paper's history while focusing on its future.
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The look on this dude's face when he gets this 30 Rock answer wrong on Jeopardy. Haha you FOOL
Real ones know
I left my electric toothbrush in Miami this past weekend, so until a replacement comes I've fashioned a makeshift solution:
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Hitting you up at 11pm like
tag yourself i’m I AM MANOEUVRING WITH DIFFICULTY
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Hylnur Pálmason‘s bittersweet family drama THE LOVE THAT REMAINS charts a year in the life of a fragmenting family, with heaps of surrealism, poignant points about loneliness and time, and the cutest sheepdog you ever did see.
For
@ebertvoices.bsky.social:
www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...
The Love That Remains review: Icelandic drama dreamily dissects divorce
"The Love That Remains" plays out with remarkable intuition and sensitivity about its troubled characters.
The real reason I flew to Miami (sorry
@woahitsjuanito.bsky.social)
The person behind me in line at O'Hare is talking about all the ways Spirit cuts costs by sacrificing comfort and I really need him to shut up.
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"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
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Nothing was done, and nothing seemed capable of being done
Tell me your pet's name with a gif.
Man, turning 40/having a comfy couch/falling asleep at 10:30 really puts a damper on the whole "cinephile" thing don't it
We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions.
We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...
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Yeah yeah, Oscars yadda yadda, here's the piece of news I'm most jazzed for today
variety.com/2026/film/ne...
‘Primitive War 2’ Announced: Dinosaurs in Vietnam War Sequel Will Up Drama With ‘Secret Cold War Agendas’ (EXCLUSIVE)
'Primitive War,' the Vietnam War action film that introduces dinosaurs to battle, is getting a sequel with a Cold War twist.
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Lmaooo zero noms for Wicked, get rekt
“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”

AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.
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Holly Hunter walking around Starfleet Academy barefoot is probably the closest we're gonna get to that Quentin Tarantino Trek movie
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Imagine being so grating that you get voted off
#THETRAITORSUSA purely because you're too annoying as a Faithful??
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Kid-centered spinoff STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY can be cringe as all getout. But like any set of young people, it's got potential, and unlike other Star Trek shows, it's got Holly Hunter sitting bisexually in a captain's chair.
For
@ebertvoices.bsky.social:
www.rogerebert.com/streaming/st...
School Spinoff "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" Boldly Goes Through Growing Pains | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert
The latest Trek spinoff takes its characters to space school, and learns some of its own lessons as it goes.
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I just watched him in one of my Walter Hill faves, Southern Comfort. Such a vivid presence; he'll be missed.
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If you liked Stephen Graham's OTHER big 2025 show, rest assured it's back and as hard-hitting as ever, dealing below-the-belt blows to its already bedraggled characters.
My review of Season 2 of Hulu's A THOUSAND BLOWS for
@ebertvoices.bsky.social:
www.rogerebert.com/streaming/a-...
Hulu's A Thousand Blows Season 2 Punches Even Harder: Review
The show remains as elegantly and intensely staged as ever.
If you give ANY ground to the notion that this shit is justified, or anything other than raw, rampant extrajudicial murder of an innocent person in a police state, you and I cannot be kin.
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
Surprising no one, the new January slasher PRIMATE is rock stupid, from its contrived premise to its blinkered cast of characters who exist merely to be ripped apart by a rabid chimp like sentient Slim Jims.
Ofc, it's very my shit.
For
@ebertvoices.bsky.social:
www.rogerebert.com/reviews/prim...
Primate review: Chimp horror offers gnarly, primal thrills
Lean, mean, and chimpanzee-n.
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Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
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I may not have kids but I was enamored of Penny Lane's charming HBO doc HAPPY, AND YOU KNOW IT; for
@ebertvoices.bsky.social, I sat down with her to see why this "childless cat lady" took such an interest in the craft and culture of kids' music, & what she learned.
www.rogerebert.com/streaming/pe...
Cute Chaos: Penny Lane on "Happy And You Know It" | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert
The documentarian discusses the curiously complex world of children's music and her latest Music Box documentary.
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
RIP to one of cinema's greatest purveyors of darkness, and yet one of our most empathetic filmmakers. Seeing DAMNATION last year at @facetschicago - my first Bela - was such a haunting, meditative experience; I was in the hands of someone who knew the depths of the human psyche & held it with care.
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New year, new "turn my
@letterboxd.social top four into a dumb sentence" post:
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Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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No rest for the wicked -- my first review of 2026 is up at
@ebertvoices.bsky.social, this time on the also-ran Netflix Scandi crime show LAND OF SIN. Basically, yawn, if you've seen one of these you've seen em all.
www.rogerebert.com/reviews/land...
Land of Sin movie review & film summary (2026) | Roger Ebert
It's hard to justify watching this one over the scores of other, more interesting takes on the cold-blooded crime show out there.
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
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Chosen queer family Christmas is a helluva thing, and I'm very, very thankful for it.
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