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Ariel Clark-Semyck

ARTICLES: 5
Music, Reviews

Review: Ladies’ Night with Chastity Belt, Sneaks, and Bunny at Subterranean

  It was a sure-fire Ladies’ Night at Subterrannean last Thursday as three girl-powered bands graced the stage to play a diverse array of music!   The show’s first opener, […]

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Fiction, Lit, Reviews, Uncategorized

Review: See You in the Morning by Mairead Case

“I think about that a lot.  How if you are a bird, your nest is home.  Absolutely everything else is the world.  You stick out a wing, and there you […]

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Audio, Music, TCR Mixtape

TCR Mixtape No. 24: April Showers Bring May Wallflowers

chicago, local music, mixtape,

Spring has sprung, y’all!  Despite the capricious weather’s best efforts, the flowers are flaunting their new blossoms, the grass is green again, and the sun beams a little brighter and […]

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Music, Reviews

You! Me! Los Campesinos! Dancing at the Metro!

The band Los Campesinos! became important to me during a particularly unremarkable part of my life.  Due to a critical lack of ambition on my part, the summer after my […]

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Lit, Reviews

Review: Donika Kelly’s Bestiary Confronts Monstrous Humanity

As soon as we enter Donika Kelly’s Bestiary through its first poem, “Out West”, we undergo a transformation.  Under Kelly’s invitation to “rely… on the thrumming wilderness of self,” we expand […]

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