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05/29/2026

As a studio guitarist, recording engineer, producer, and more, Ron Steele has had a hand in thousands of records without ever becoming a marquee name. https://bit.ly/4uF7SJt

As a studio guitarist, recording engineer, producer, and more, Ron Steele has had a hand in thousands of records without ever becoming a marquee name.

05/29/2026

Aaron Fisher's Corporate Retreat is not great cinema, but it has some gory, mean-spirited fun. https://bit.ly/4dEjGWr

Aaron Fisher's Corporate Retreat is not great cinema, but it has some gory, mean-spirited fun.

05/29/2026

The Mandalorian and Grogu is the first Star Wars movie to bring a Disney+ TV show to the big screen, and you can tell. https://bit.ly/4fUQjjQ

The Mandalorian and Grogu is the first Star Wars movie to bring a Disney+ TV show to the big screen, and you can tell.

05/29/2026

Elujay's newest album, A Constant Charade, confronts the way we behave differently around different people or in different contexts and never allow a glimpse of who we really are to escape. https://bit.ly/4e9zm3Y

Elujay's newest album, A Constant Charade, confronts the way we behave differently around different people or in different contexts and never allow a glimpse of who we really are to escape.

05/29/2026

Pr******te's defiance and rage sit alongside community and hometown pride. https://bit.ly/4wXOBEC

Pr******te’s defiance and rage sit alongside community and hometown pride.

05/29/2026

This High on Fire show at Ramova Theatre serves as the afterparty for motorcycle and hot-rod festival Motoblot. https://bit.ly/4nVsHhh

This High on Fire show at Ramova Theatre serves as the afterparty for motorcycle and hot-rod festival Motoblot.

05/29/2026

Bay Area producer and songwriter April Grey, aka Underscores, became one of the brightest stars in hyperpop thanks to her 2021 self-released album, Fishmonger. https://bit.ly/4wWhYab

Bay Area producer and songwriter April Grey, aka Underscores, became one of the brightest stars in hyperpop thanks to her 2021 self-released album, Fishmonger.

05/29/2026

It’s a Saturday morning at the gun range in Orland Park, and pilates mats are set up in the VIP room—a first for me. To my left are chilled, handcrafted matchas and iced coffees, and to my right is a room full of semi-automatic pistols, revolvers, and rifles. Between three Palestinian-owned businesses—Cello Cafe, Olive Pilates Studio, and Eagle Sports Range—is one unusual, unlikely event.

It may sound like a 2026-word salad, but behind the local class is something real. Gun ownership amongst women in the U.S. is rising steadily and across party lines, and so is pilates. The women who showed up, some 30 miles south of Chicago, look nothing like the assumed demographic for either.

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✍️ Gretchen Sterba
📸 Susanna Turner

05/28/2026

Restaurant pr guru Dave Andrews debuts his homage to Pittsburgh Italian-American red sauce at the next Monday Night Foodball at Thattu. https://bit.ly/4fdx6Kb

Restaurant pr guru Dave Andrews debuts his homage to Pittsburgh Italian-American red sauce at the next Monday Night Foodball at Thattu.

05/28/2026

Dinosaurs and Pokémon might just be the most popular cultural entities that children obsess over. Now, the two are colliding at Chicago’s very own Field Museum with its Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibition.

This is the first time the exhibition is appearing outside of Japan, and features large models of fossil Pokémon from the video game series installed beside real-world fossils. Given our city’s iconic dinosaur residents, this is the perfect North American debut.

Tyrantrum and Tyrunt stand next to a cast of Sue the T. Rex’s skull, while the birdlike Archen and Archeops are appropriately partnered with archaeopteryx. Omanyte and Omastar are joined by actual ammonite fossils.

Read the full story at the link in bio.

✍️ Farouk Kannout ()
📸 Peter Pawinski