notes & things | 7/18/2026

It has been a strange and smoke-filled week, including one night that found the sky and the downtown landscape quite apocalyptic, especially as we made our way Thursday to a back alley freight elevator accessed production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch in a West Loop art space, which was a whole lot of fun (and if I had more money, would go see again since they rotate the cast through the three main…