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Rising west-side star Mike DFG launched his breakout mixtape, Hei$man, with a tight crew of collaborators instead of a manager. bit.ly/3RoB6hk

Photos from the Chosen Few Picnic, a celebration of house music where fans and artists build a joyous combination of concert and cookout bit.ly/44BffpS

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A $9 billion quantum computing campus is set to rise where U.S. Steel South Works once stood. This Chicago Reader zine traces the implications of this megadevelopment for the people, land, and economy of Chicago's southeast side. bit.ly/3TFW6kc

The art school built its art therapy program around social justice, then claims of anti-Semitism devastated the department. bit.ly/4fEo7Bf

Director Seph Mozes and actor Zoë Christine Rutherford talk about bringing Oscar Wilde's symbolist tragedy to a church sanctuary. bit.ly/4f6zKAR

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago's independent and underground film scene has to offer. bit.ly/44ywh8e

Indigenous-inspired, Midwest Mexican, fermentation freaks Piñatta come out of retirement for a sixth Monday Night Foodball. bit.ly/3QYKeJv

Bartering for scars and faking death at O'Hare's triennial airplane crash simulation bit.ly/3TDThQF

Garage rockers the Huns met as grade-school friends and released one single in 1966. Now they're playing their first headlining set in 57 years. bit.ly/4541sZ0

The 88-year-old artist Doyle Chappell has spent 65 years creating portraits, found-object sculptures, and collages. bit.ly/4fCHnza

Oscar Boyson and Ricky Camilleri's Our Hero, Balthazar is a funny and dangerous future cult classic. bit.ly/4fg7CKh

John Henry Roberts's Dive makes for an intimate and engaging inaugural production with Dark Room District at Fritzy's Tavern. bit.ly/4f3uTR3

Corn Productions celebrates, skewers, and lovingly sends up musical tropes and the people who love them in their latest original comedy. bit.ly/4hdP5Rv

The 2012 musical based on the 1992 Disney film features some strong central performances, but is hampered by some shaky elements. bit.ly/3Tl3dyt

Gwydion Theatre Company's Dry Powder at Greenhouse Theater Center explores the rapacious inner workings of a private equity firm. bit.ly/4f3ij47

Oscar Wilde's comedy about upper-class twits and the women who love them features performances that shine through the slapstick. bit.ly/3RcWndO

Intergenerational trauma and loss take center stage in this new company's revival of Ellen McLaughlin's play about a search-and-rescue pilot. bit.ly/4f3c40b

Héctor Álvarez's multimedia show at Theatre Y focuses on his ancestors' personal history in Spain under Franco, but transposes to our times. bit.ly/4ytiUUz

Film scholar Agata Zborowska's “Not-So-Ordinary” project archives and restores amateur films from the city's Polish immigrant community. bit.ly/4ym0hBQ