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Leor Galil
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Chicago Reader music writer

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A small Chicago music venue that’s done impressive work spotlighting underground and unknown acts is closing down chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...
Last week, word spread through Chicago’s DIY scene that Avondale venue the Fallen Log was closing. On Friday, the business made it official with a public announcement: Its last day would be Sunday, November 23. The Fallen Log has shared ownership and a building with vegan pizza spot Kitchen 17, which is throwing in the towel. “We decided to close for the same reason many businesses close: Unfortunately, the bottom line just wasn’t there,” says co-owner Joe Mertz.
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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let’s check in on spin magazine
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Fresh SPIN: Exploring AI’s New Frontier Music industry veteran Charles Goldstuck is leading the way on research into AI’s impact on the music industry while also helping create the framework for how we move forward Written by Selena Fragassi | November 12, 2025 - 9:30 am
November 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Nathan and Evren of Trash Tape met during Merge’s 30th anniversary festival in July 2019, after the Telekinesis set in the back room of the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, North Carolina. “Nathan was like, ‘You’re the only guy here who’s under the age of 50,’” Evren says. “Then he gave me a pop quiz on indie bands. Then he was like, ‘We should hang. We should play music together.’” They formed an emo group called Welcome to Berlin and began practicing in a shed behind Evren’s house. During COVID lockdown in spring 2020, they launched the label, and later on Eilee joined them.
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Looks nice in print
Newspaper copy of the latest issues of the Reader opened to my Hallogallo 2.0 story
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Mamdani election sign meme: please for give me as i reshare my story
November 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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“Everyone can feel it when it happens, ’cause it’s a very celebratory, explosive thing,” [Kai Slater of Lifeguard and Sharp Pins] says. “I feel like that’s really what Hallogallo is to me.”

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An array of Hallogallo scene zines
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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“Steve Buscemi dressed up as a teen on 30 Rock” meme format, adjusted to say “how do you do fellow Kendrick Lamar stans”
November 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Good reminder to kill your darlings
The Sun-Times lost a grate editor Monday. Maureen Cotter definitely would have caught the misspelling in that sentence. She kept a lot of reporters out of hot water.
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Adamn Killa got kicked out of the Whole Foods in the west loop and his fans are trolling the reviews
Haley Sharkey [1 star review]: afraid of the grind smh 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼 Kynan Hogan [1 star review]: Its Adamn shame they afraid of the grind 😔 Nathan Owens [1 star review]: Afraid of the grind. Employees kick out people for no reason. Horrible store don't shop here.
November 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Greg Bovino claiming ICE has been welcomed by most Chicagoans
Classic Nathan Fielder tweet focused on a selfie where he’s smiling, clearly standing by himself, captioned “Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too.”
October 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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That is powerful
Warning: This whistle is extremely loud. Keep out of reach of children. Continued use may cause hearing loss. Use ear protection and never blow close to the listener's ear.
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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GRANT PARK — Lollapalooza’s 2025 music festival had a record impact on Chicago’s economy, organizers said this week. The annual four-day music festival in Grant Park generated $480 million in overall economic activity in the city this year, the founders of C3 Presents, Lollapalooza’s parent company, wrote in a letter to City Council members Wednesday. Extra extra bart names worlds greatest sex machine fake simpsons paper
October 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I dig the font for the print version of the story
The headline “J.T. IV’s Wild Horror Trash” in VHS font
October 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Poster for the 2024 movie The Substance of two identical egg yolks
October 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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“They said I was impeding them, that I had cut them off, which was just a complete fabrication,” Sakiyama said. Sakiyama said one of the agents began recording him through the back window of their vehicle, a gray minivan, even before the stop that led to his arrest. He said federal agents jumped out the van with their guns drawn at the intersection of Harvard Street and S. Grove Avenue, and threatened to smash his car’s driver-side window. His claims are corroborated by the available video. “Exit your vehicle, or we’re gonna break your window and we’ll drag you out,” an agent can be heard saying in the footage. The masked agents did eventually remove him from his car, and he shouted his name to people watching nearby. Sakiyama was then taken away in the agents’ minivan while another agent moved his vehicle off the road.
October 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Tfw the album you released two months ago definitely hasn’t been memory-holed
Live Nation show alert email: MULTI-PLATINUM SELLING ARTIST mgk CELEBRATES 5 YEARS OF TICKETS TO MY DOWNFALL ALBUM TO BE PERFORMED ON THE LOST AMERICANA TOUR 2025 RUN
October 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Ralph Wiggum, explaining to his parents how his teacher and principal were making babies and one of the babies looked at him
October 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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“It was half past midnight and eight women had just left the Cook County jail. They hadn’t eaten in hours. They didn’t have their phones, keys, or anything else they had on them when they were arrested; a few didn’t even have sure ways to get home. One, a recent transplant to the city with no close contacts, broke down in tears at the prospect of a night on the streets.”
October 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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“… Chance the Rapper became the object of nearly unanimous adoration in Chicago. As we’ve since seen with The Bear and the rat hole, a public so obsessed can be annoying, territorial, and borderline unhealthy.”
October 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Skinner asking if he’s out of touch
October 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Dr. Spaceman from 30 Rock
October 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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computer… enhance
Close-up crop of the illustration that shows a bag branded with Myopic Books’ logo
October 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Literally one week ago www.nprillinois.org/chicago-il/2...
Dozens of federal immigration agents took individuals into custody during a winding patrol Sunday through downtown Chicago, and a top U.S. Border Patrol official told WBEZ the agents were arresting people based on “how they look.”
October 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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What it’s like when my baby is at daycare
Homer giving advice to itchy and scratchy writers, “whenever Poochie’s not onscreen all the other characters should be asking, ‘where’s Poochie?’”
October 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Gregory Bovino, a chief patrol agent for Customs and Border Protection, joined for the ride and later posted clips from the cruise on social media to the tune of Djo’s Chicago anthem, “End of Beginning.”
September 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM