Leor Galil

@imleor.bsky.social

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Chicago Reader music writer

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:24 UTC

For the evening crowd

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:10 UTC

That’s the stuff!

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:01 UTC

I talked to Care about Mages Guild’s @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social takeover for Friday’s midnight screening of Gamer and Suzanne Shelton about Neo’s 45th anniversary reunion

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:52 UTC

I’ll leave it at “compact mag”

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:55 UTC

Yes indeed!

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:37 UTC

I will not post the shitty hateread written by the dumbest person I’ve worked with, I will not post the shitty hateread written by the dumbest person I’ve worked with, I will not post the shitty hateread written by the dumbest person I’ve worked with, I…

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:51 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:18 UTC

I wrote about NASCAR Street Race and music—the local media’s coverage of the race’s limited musical offerings, the outsized expectations for what that event can be, the overstuffed summer festival season, the Taste of Chicago, and what I want from coverage of tentpole events

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:40 UTC

I wrote about Hotline TNT for the Reader

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:24 UTC

[nine inch nails voice] stars truckers incorporated

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matoswk.bsky.social @matoswk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:57 UTC

Don't miss @themountaingoats.bsky.social picking five killer sets from Mixcloud in the new edition of Beat Connection!
michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc084-five...

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 01:48 UTC

Could’ve sworn this was a Cybertruck

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:31 UTC

The more I think of it, the more jimmy pesto is the bobs burgers character most likely to storm the capitol

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:52 UTC

I must go!!!

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 15:22 UTC

I wrote about Pocketboy Solid, the newish Chicago band whose recent single bears Richard Kind’s name and charmed the actor, who makes a cameo on their new debut album

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 15:10 UTC

I feel seen

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 14:31 UTC

But which diner?!

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 14:01 UTC

I wrote about Saturday’s Chosen Few Picnic for the Reader

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:13 UTC

Since I'm not seeing other news outlets writing about this, I did Column: Paramount’s new president was fired last year as CEO of NBCUniversal after allegations of sexual harassment

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:40 UTC

Here is my 2015 oral history of the Chosen Few Picnic

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:39 UTC

I find it baffling to run this the week of the Chosen Few Picnic, which is generally larger than the two fests mentioned here, and has run longer than both, and simply not mention the Chosen Few Picnic whatsoever

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 00:26 UTC

“Imagine all the worst parts of Lolla,” ok but that also involves seeing the band

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¡matt! (in Chicago) @mattfromchicago.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 23:43 UTC

Making the NASCAR drivers sit in their cars on Lake Shore Drive waiting, a real Chicago experience

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 22:08 UTC

Also seems like generally small crowds for the music portion of the street race (I mean, duh), curious to see if this will have the dramatic financial and tourism boost its loudest champions have suggested is inevitable

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Christy, Butlerian Jihadist @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 20:04 UTC

🎵🎶 Life is a highway 🎶🎵 🎶🎵 It should be maintained 🎵🎶 🎵🎶 With public funds 🎶🎵

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 20:16 UTC

I’d forgotten the Chainsmokers were booked twice to perform the NASCAR Street Race, which simply sounds like the top tier summer event for masochists

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 18:18 UTC

I simply must eat it

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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴 @knilirabaj.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 08:28 UTC

More trains please.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:06 UTC

"there's a huge amount of hype — but so far, the only companies making much actual revenue off AI are the ones selling the hardware it needs, like Nvidia." futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:27 UTC

Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.

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brothers. @hermanos.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:44 UTC

I made a free zine dedicated to the best place to watch pro wrestling, Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. It's 64 pages of photos I've taken from 2019-2023, & one page with a match guide. In between that first run and the last, I got serious about photos. I hope you dig it
davidbrothers.itch.io/korakuen-hal...

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:25 UTC

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[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:16 UTC

If I was a staffer at a daily paper I simply wouldn’t let other media outlets determine how I write about pizza

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see/saw’s Evan Minsker @evanminsker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:22 UTC

absolutely thrilled to have @ninacorcoran.bsky.social contributing to see/saw with this stellar piece on EDGING see-saw.fun/edging-belie...

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:02 UTC

celebrate "independence day" by helping (at least temporarily) free texas women from our state's abortion ban - donate to the texas equal access fund teafund.org

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:11 UTC

I also talked to Robin Hilton for a 40th anniversary program they put together including some old interviews! www.npr.org/2024/07/02/1...

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:27 UTC

That’s right!!

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:33 UTC

I realize there’s a lot going on right now, but I think it’s neat that Czech prog-punk legends Už jsme doma are playing smol bar Cole’s in October

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:05 UTC

IDK kind of feels like we should be paying more attention to a prominent conservative think tank saying we're in the midst of a second american revolution that will remain bloodless as long as long as the left lets it be, then whether or not Biden should step down.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:28 UTC

Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, anti-settlement watchdog says.

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 21:06 UTC

I talked to Angel Bat Dawid about Elastic’s special July 4 Improvised Music Series performance, Kai Slater about the third annual Hallogallo festival, and Starka about the debut of Mutualism (a dance event that centers immunocompromised ravers)

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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy @ugarles.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:35 UTC

the conservative theory of law in one headline

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Costa Koutsoutis @costakout.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 12:29 UTC

ICYMI, for my Patreon patrons (opening up for the plebes next week);

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:12 UTC

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Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:35 UTC

Well they can’t all be correct predictions

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 01:30 UTC

Oh boy, $150,000!

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:51 UTC

Funhouse mirror version of this tweet

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:47 UTC

Maybe I'm super fucked up but having the supreme court declare that J6 was fine and good actually feels worse than J6

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:36 UTC

So he can order the Army to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:34 UTC

I’ve delivered the news (also glad you dig it!)

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