🧀 Leaving Chicago for a museum bathroom

Finding peace away from a busy calendar. [READER]( The Daily Reader November 22, 2023 I spent this past weekend up north in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. I’m not always eager to leave Chicago, since I’m never short on things I want to participate in, regardless of the day of the week. Just before I went north, I took in a Chicago Film Society screening of Michael Roemer’s The Plot Against Harry, which esteemed Reader film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum introduced. (You can read his 1985 capsule review of The Plot Against Harry [right here]( All of which is to say that even as fall drifts into winter my calendar has no relief from events I want to see. But getting away from town for a couple days did me some good; wandering through state parks and art museums I’d never been to rejuvenated me. (I highly recommend taking the trip north just to see the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, a museum with [bathrooms that are also works of art]( Also, yes, I partook in a tiny bit of research related to a long-form story I’m dreaming of writing, but I’ll hold off on saying more about that for the moment. I write this while scrambling to wrap up some deadlines before a long weekend. I’m sticking around town. I enjoy the city when it quiets down for a national holiday—this, too, is rejuvenating. And however you spend the next week, I hope you find whatever peace you need to carry on through the rest of the year. Sincerely, [“Mars Williams, free-jazz musician and saxophonist for the Psychedelic Furs, dies at 68,”]( by Hannah Edgar (Chicago Tribune) [“Journalists in Gaza deserve protection — not death,”]( by Rummana Hussain (Chicago Sun-Times) [“The Cassette-Tape Revolution,”]( by Jon Michaud (New Yorker) [“More Palestinians live in Cook County than any other county in the nation,”]( by Amy Qin (WBEZ) Tek lintowe, [NuHitz The Evolution The Mixtape​.​.]( Animal Hospital, [Shelf Life]( Chuquimamani-Condori, [DJ E]( 🍁 Leor’s [“Day before Thanksgiving 2023 playlist”]( playlist [Cellist and sound artist Dorothy Carlos brings My Ideal is Windy to the Lincoln Park Conservatory]( Plus: Local trad metal hero “Professor” Chris Black drops a new High Spirits album, and local dance label Yearning makes its debut with the Yearning for Beauty compilation. by [J.R. Nelson]( and [Leor Galil]( | [Read more]( → [Noname brings the intimate conversations of Sundial to the Vic]( by [Leor Galil]( | [Read more]( → [An all-star bill gathers at Metro to support saxophonist Mars Williams]( Update: The family of Mars Williams announced that he had succumbed to cancer. The concert will continue as a celebration of life. Rest in peace. by [Monica Kendrick]( | [Read more]( → [Elastic Arts stretches out]( The creative-arts nonprofit exports the daring, community-focused programming at its Logan Square venue to the south and west sides. by [Leor Galil]( | [Read more]( → Reader Giveaways! Fill out the form below - one winner will be chosen Thursday, Nov. 30 to win a pair of tickets. Valid for the January 12, 2024 show at 7 PM. Entries accepted until 11:59 PM November 29, 2023. [ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN!]( [Issue of Nov. 16 – 29, 2023 Vol. 53, No.]( [VIEW / DOWNLOAD ISSUE [PDF]]( [View this e-mail as a web page]( [@chicago_reader]( [/chicagoreader]( [@chicago_reader]( [Chicago Reader on LinkedIn]( [/chicagoreader]( [chicagoreader.com]( [Forward this e-mail to a friend](. Want to change how you receive these e-mails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](. Copyright © 2023 Chicago Reader, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Chicago Reader, 2930 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 102, Chicago, IL 60616