Kerry Reid (she/her)
@kerryreid.bsky.social
Theater and Dance Editor for the Chicago Reader. Usual disclaimer that all opinions are my own alone. . .
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I've been working at the Reader, off and on, for over 30 years, and reading it for nearly 40. As the theater and dance editor for the last five years, I know I'm part of a long tradition that stretche...
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I hope whatever you're doing today, you're feeling Gladdy.
November 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I hope whatever you're doing today, you're feeling Gladdy.
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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Man who brags about the Pulitzer Prize he earned for his part in helping Snowden escape to Russia after Snowden stole US classified documents is having a sad because someone leaked Russian documents that are embarrassing to Trump officials - who he does not support.
November 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Man who brags about the Pulitzer Prize he earned for his part in helping Snowden escape to Russia after Snowden stole US classified documents is having a sad because someone leaked Russian documents that are embarrassing to Trump officials - who he does not support.
In honor of the holiday, sharing once again one of my favorite pieces to ever run in the Reader, courtesy of the late Cliff Doerksen. (It's long but so worth it, I promise!) chicagoreader.com/food/food-dr...
The Real American Pie - Chicago Reader
Mince pie was an American staple through the 1940s. So what happened?
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November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
In honor of the holiday, sharing once again one of my favorite pieces to ever run in the Reader, courtesy of the late Cliff Doerksen. (It's long but so worth it, I promise!) chicagoreader.com/food/food-dr...
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First time in history?
US Military and Indigenous Nations
Slave Patrols, including state sanctioned enslavement of FREE people.
Lack of actual law enforcement against the KKK of which many sworn officers were members
Forcible removal and internment of Japanese Americans
Zoot Suit Riots 1/
US Military and Indigenous Nations
Slave Patrols, including state sanctioned enslavement of FREE people.
Lack of actual law enforcement against the KKK of which many sworn officers were members
Forcible removal and internment of Japanese Americans
Zoot Suit Riots 1/
Thanks for sharing this!
We must spread the word about #ICELawlessness!
We must spread the word about #ICELawlessness!
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
First time in history?
US Military and Indigenous Nations
Slave Patrols, including state sanctioned enslavement of FREE people.
Lack of actual law enforcement against the KKK of which many sworn officers were members
Forcible removal and internment of Japanese Americans
Zoot Suit Riots 1/
US Military and Indigenous Nations
Slave Patrols, including state sanctioned enslavement of FREE people.
Lack of actual law enforcement against the KKK of which many sworn officers were members
Forcible removal and internment of Japanese Americans
Zoot Suit Riots 1/
Sometimes I say "I'm old," and people say "OH NO YOU'RE NOT!" as if old is inherently bad and I think that explains a lot.
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Sometimes I say "I'm old," and people say "OH NO YOU'RE NOT!" as if old is inherently bad and I think that explains a lot.
Two Shakespearean comedies with different approaches to gender politics now onstage! Here is my RECOMMENDED @chicagoreader.com reviews of Much Ado About Nothing at Chicago Shakes and Taming of the Shrew at Court. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
Battles of the sexes - Chicago Reader
Much Ado About Nothing at Chicago Shakes and The Taming of the Shrew at Court look at gender relations through different lenses.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Two Shakespearean comedies with different approaches to gender politics now onstage! Here is my RECOMMENDED @chicagoreader.com reviews of Much Ado About Nothing at Chicago Shakes and Taming of the Shrew at Court. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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I’m still thinking about Bari Weiss saying that Hasan Piker (extremely popular influencer) is less of a measure of where Americans are than Alan Dershowitz (extremely unpopular Epstein associate, his own neighbors won’t sell him a pierogi)
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I’m still thinking about Bari Weiss saying that Hasan Piker (extremely popular influencer) is less of a measure of where Americans are than Alan Dershowitz (extremely unpopular Epstein associate, his own neighbors won’t sell him a pierogi)
You'll be visited by three spirits. The three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
You'll be visited by three spirits. The three spirits:
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
Last week I was talking to someone quite a few years younger than I am and they said something about a show that happened
"a really long time ago, like back in 2016."
I'll just be over here looking like Whistler's Mother in my long black dress and white lace cap, sitting in a rocking chair.
"a really long time ago, like back in 2016."
I'll just be over here looking like Whistler's Mother in my long black dress and white lace cap, sitting in a rocking chair.
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Last week I was talking to someone quite a few years younger than I am and they said something about a show that happened
"a really long time ago, like back in 2016."
I'll just be over here looking like Whistler's Mother in my long black dress and white lace cap, sitting in a rocking chair.
"a really long time ago, like back in 2016."
I'll just be over here looking like Whistler's Mother in my long black dress and white lace cap, sitting in a rocking chair.
I wasn't gonna see any shows after "Rapornzel" tonight for an entire week, but since I'm gonna be in Naperville anyway for the holiday, I'll be checking out "White Christmas" at the Paramount in Aurora. I think these are two very different shows!
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I wasn't gonna see any shows after "Rapornzel" tonight for an entire week, but since I'm gonna be in Naperville anyway for the holiday, I'll be checking out "White Christmas" at the Paramount in Aurora. I think these are two very different shows!
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Jamaica is seeing an outbreak of leptospirosis, just one of the many, many ways severe Melissa hits wll sicken and kill people there over the coming months and years
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Jamaica is seeing an outbreak of leptospirosis, just one of the many, many ways severe Melissa hits wll sicken and kill people there over the coming months and years
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America needs more patriots like Senator Mark Kelly and fewer miserable cowards like Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth.
Sen. Mark Kelly facing military investigation after clashing with Trump
A statement from the Pentagon said all service members have a "legal obligation" to "obey lawful orders and that orders are presumed to be lawful."
www.axios.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
America needs more patriots like Senator Mark Kelly and fewer miserable cowards like Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth.
Wondering how many "DO SOMETHING! FIGHT!" screamers will be at the Thanksgiving table this week "going along to get along" with their MAGA relatives.
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Wondering how many "DO SOMETHING! FIGHT!" screamers will be at the Thanksgiving table this week "going along to get along" with their MAGA relatives.
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Seems like reasonable demands.
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Seems like reasonable demands.
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The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
Is this your homework, Charlie Brown?
You cannot kill me in any way that matters, Charlie Brown.
I did it 35 minutes ago, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Is this your homework, Charlie Brown?
I really want a buddy movie with Nick Offerman and Michael Shannon.
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I really want a buddy movie with Nick Offerman and Michael Shannon.
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Oh please.
She was a JOURNALIST.
Having affairs with her SOURCES.
Who she was also writing GLOWING PROFILES on.
Stop this bullshit. You’re enabling the worst people in the world and doing it out of some fake morality scolding.
You’re as trashy as they are.
She was a JOURNALIST.
Having affairs with her SOURCES.
Who she was also writing GLOWING PROFILES on.
Stop this bullshit. You’re enabling the worst people in the world and doing it out of some fake morality scolding.
You’re as trashy as they are.
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Oh please.
She was a JOURNALIST.
Having affairs with her SOURCES.
Who she was also writing GLOWING PROFILES on.
Stop this bullshit. You’re enabling the worst people in the world and doing it out of some fake morality scolding.
You’re as trashy as they are.
She was a JOURNALIST.
Having affairs with her SOURCES.
Who she was also writing GLOWING PROFILES on.
Stop this bullshit. You’re enabling the worst people in the world and doing it out of some fake morality scolding.
You’re as trashy as they are.
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The American voter was really stupid on a random Tuesday in November and now my country is bleeding out because of a realtor
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The American voter was really stupid on a random Tuesday in November and now my country is bleeding out because of a realtor
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How on earth are you this naive? The goal was not to lower budgets or cut spending. How, in 2025, can anyone accept their pretext as good faith?
Hitler didn’t invade Poland to free the oppressed Germans of Danzig, either, Bobby. You can’t fight fascism while accepting their lies as truth.
Hitler didn’t invade Poland to free the oppressed Germans of Danzig, either, Bobby. You can’t fight fascism while accepting their lies as truth.
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
How on earth are you this naive? The goal was not to lower budgets or cut spending. How, in 2025, can anyone accept their pretext as good faith?
Hitler didn’t invade Poland to free the oppressed Germans of Danzig, either, Bobby. You can’t fight fascism while accepting their lies as truth.
Hitler didn’t invade Poland to free the oppressed Germans of Danzig, either, Bobby. You can’t fight fascism while accepting their lies as truth.