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Marin Alsop takes on a newly created - dual role at the music festival. 2 CHICAOREADER - FEBRUARY ll CITY LIFE diner food in, and putting on Crazy Ex-Girl- #BreakupRituals I made a whole playlist friend (and living vicariously through of autotuned heartbreak songs inspired by Rebecca Bunch) cc: @Racheldoesstuff 808s and heartbreak by Kanye it’s a very #BreakupRituals comforting winter experience lol maybe not for everyone but it helps me cope while also katelyn harper @kharpersays wanting to sing & dance Breakups indeed suck but good jams can help https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7oOR- ease your pain. After mine, I created “but 2fuKx72XQym9IZgiQh?si=Oo6zzP7ZTs6VI- first, forgiveness,” a playlist to help myself UxaycASyA move on and to remember hate doesn’t get you very far. #BreakupRituals Jack Shales @jackshales https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6yi8m2i- I wrote and recorded breakup songs in Chi- 31JiMFAEpFkrMue?si=6FD1lPztTRK7umY- cago a couple years ago. Writing and playing Vdt5Dxg them helped me get over a 7-year relationship that ended suddenly #BreakupRituals mark snyder @marksny08058756 “There’s a thorn tree in the garden”, the last Janaya @janayagr track o¢ the “Layla” LP I go see SEVERAL movies. Live in a theater for a few days and listen to Mariah Carey to Carmen @_carmsolo remember my badassery. #BreakUpRituals KELLYSIKKEMA/UNSPLASH Lean in hard to heartbreak w/ Dismember- ment Plan’s “Time Bomb”, Cafe Tacvba’s Sue Kwong @sue_kwong “Avientame”, “Waiting Game” by Banks and My #BreakupRituals: delete records of the a whole lotta cat power. I make sure I take a person from social media (or mute them), #BREAKUPRITUALS strip of swollen photobooth pics in a bar w/ and my physical journal. It’s cathartic to cross scotch. #BreakupRituals thoughts out. Boi, bye. At the end of the day, no one is more reliable How do you mend a broken miranda @pitymeforever than my femme friends. So I’ll spend at least gotta get away from anything that reminds an afternoon w/ them; watch Daria, Studio me of any man i’ve ever dated so first i Ghibli movies (or MARATHON on a weekend); heart? listen to every frankie cosmos release on cook or share comfort foods. I recommend bandcamp then pick a christopher nolan pizza or Chinese. We asked, you answered. movie to watch based on level of devastation PSA #BreakupRituals: avoid sensitive time #BreakupRituals with heterosexual people of opposite gender. By RT Chances are they have romantic interests. Karen Hawkins @ChiefRebelle Bois, bye. #BreakupRituals in no particular order: -Watch Sense & Sensibility for the trillionth wholesome content farm @lefttheprairie reak ups suck! Do you have a break up playlist, TV show, book or any other break up ritual time The most powerful heartbreak healing magic you practice during a heartbreak? Tag us with the #BreakupRituals hashtag for a chance -Re-read a “You’re Gonna Be OK, Boo” letter I was when @yo_uterus and I baked a cake Bto be published in our special Feb. 13 issue! #TindeRinPrint wrote to myself years ago for when relation- while listening to Taylor Swift’s Red and ship ish goes south talking about Margaret Atwood’s The Edible -Listen to @O¦ cialMeshell’s album Bitter on Woman. We only did it once but it’s sustained repeat me through the last 7 years of singledom and OnTour Magazine @ontourmag nod knowingly, look at my dog like “you see- dating #breakuprituals I allow myself one day of this nonsense. ing this?”, call my mom for the 7th time that Tongue Tied Turtle @zachsparkyt Watch-High Fidelity. Listen-Tom Waits. day, journal about The Tower, lay down in the My #BreakupRituals is pretty simple; @Ala- Nidhi M @Nidhi_Ehm Drink-Chillable Red (a Franzia Production) shower, lean into acceptance, repeat. nis “Jagged Little Pill” full volume on repeat, Law & Order: SVU reruns #BreakupRituals Eat-The Dorito shards that slipped between + anything by @ilovelucius and do the screaming and anger into a pillow couch cushions. #Breakuprituals #stayclassy #BreakupRituals as to not disturb the neighbors.My ultimate Audrey HepBurn Everything @ cathartic pissed o¢ album. noveldeadbeat Layne Dixon @Defi nitelyLayne Brianna Wellen @BriannaWellen I listen to “You’re Not the One” by Sky Ferreira Read my tarot, pull the The Tower, cringe, I love buying a bottle of wine, ordering paige blockiana the 2nd @lee_thirty on repeat. It’s worked for the last 6-7 years v ll FEBRUARY - CHICAOREADER 3 FOOD & DRINK From top, clockwise: Pisto manchego, patatas bravas, tortilla espanola JEFF MARINIFORCHICAGOREADER 4 CHICAOREADER - FEBRUARY ll L| R N. Clark facebook.com/littlemadrid FOOD & DRINK RESTAURANT REVIEW Little Madrid has tapas where you least expect them A native Madrileno in Andersonville knows how it’s done. By MS rancisco Bolanos wouldn’t tell me mounted haunch of Iberico ham, is not im- family’s orchard, or the sauce is spiked with before he moved here, fed up with the law and how he makes the smoky salsa pressed by your patatas bravas, Chicago. hot sauce that obscures the absence of say, intending to open a simple co ee shop and art brava he dresses his fried potatoes After he brought me, unbidden, an order of jamon stock (or whatever it is). gallery in an erstwhile Mexican restaurant. It with. Over the phone he told me it’s this quintessential tapa with my breakfast, I Like most people, the 37-year-old former got o to a rough start. He says he took a call a “family secret,” though I swear had to agree. The irregular chunks of fried po- human rights lawyer has a barometer for at 2 AM and rushed over to fi nd his carpenter Fhe used the words “jamon stock” when he tatoes are lightly frosted with salt, delicately authenticity that’s determined by what he lying on the fl oor bleeding amidst a collapsed served them to me a few mornings earlier at crispy outside, soft and creamy within, and ate growing up versus what he can eat in ceiling and three bottles of tequila. Some Little Madrid Tapas Cafe, a cash-only Ander- they’re draped