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Congrats to Hong Sang-soo for winning Best Direction and Kim Min-hee for winning Best Performance at Locarno ✨

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Watch Anya Live

people straight-up watch this garbage…?

Chase Infiniti is part of a K-pop dance cover group called Duple. They’re based in Chicago and have been making videos for years. Here’s one of NewJeans’ “OMG” where she’s Hanni. They also released a video as recent as two weeks ago for VIVIZ’s “La La Love Me”

Cindy Lee performing “Dracula” at the Empty Bottle in Chicago, 11/5/25

RIP Tony Rayns. Every cinephile encounters his writing at some point, and it’s shocking how his reviews/blurbs are some of the only meaningful words you can find on countless Asian films. Here’s a clip from Seo Won-tae’s film on Tony where he says he loves 간장게장 (soy crab).

In 1999, Nirosta Steel played at the Gin Gin Bookstore and Gallery in Taipei, the only LGBT bookstore in Taiwan. This CD became the first queer album released in the country. One highlight is “Twinkle Angel”: gay 90s slowcore with lyrics based on descriptions for Japanese pornos.

Midwest emo didn’t start in Chicago or Champaign, it started in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1984 Fernando Cabrera - “A la hora señalada / Hermanita” (from the album ‘El viento en la cara’)

Six Sex at Outset in Chicago, 7/31/26

good morning to my fellow kpop fans

Erika de Casier performing “Bikini” at Outset in Chicago, 10/21/25

Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet at Roulette in New York, 3/20/26

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Stereolab will appear in the Lego Pharrell movie to help recreate this scene

when you work a 16 hour work day in urbana-champaign and come back to chicago and then go straight to the $10 footwork show with dj paypal (did an edit of drake’s “how bout now”), traxman (did a “giant steps” remix), jana rush, dj chad, dj manny, dj phats, and more &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;

Bill Orcutt at Roulette in New York, 3/20/26

Chuck Roth at Roulette in New York, 3/20/26

Mk.gee performing a bonkers rendition of “New Low” at the Metro in Chicago, 8/1/25

In the early 1980s, the Boston radio station WGBH commissioned the 28-year-old choreographer Marta Renzi to make a half-hour PBS special. The result was her first film, YOU LITTLE WILD HEART (1981), soundtracked non-stop by Bruce Springsteen songs. It’s so good. Here’s a clip.

Revisiting a bunch of Pat O’Neill films for the first time in years… WATER AND POWER (1989) is still such a classic

2 years since this tweet and Tems is the first big pop star I’ve seen make an Afrobeats 3-Step single. The original South African style is more in the lineage of dance music while Tems is mostly just taking the kick pattern and translating it into a more digestible pop song form.

Zack Sabre Jr. vs Shota Umina at G1 Climax 36 in the NOW Arena, Hoffman Estates; 7/11/26

when you work a 16 hour work day in urbana-champaign and come back to chicago and then go straight to the $10 footwork show with dj paypal (did an edit of drake’s “how bout now”), traxman (did a “giant steps” remix), jana rush, dj chad, dj manny, dj phats, and more >>>>