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• Best cheesemonger

  22-06-2017 18:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• Bears’ $5 Billion Stadium Proposal, No. 1 Draft Pick Shows Team Reinventing Itself

  25-04-2024 22:18 via chicagodefender.com
  
  The Chicago Bears’ $5 billion proposal for a brand new lakefront stadium, ahead of their anticipated No. 1 overall pick at tonight’s NFL Draft, marks an inflection point for a franchise reimagining itself for the future. 
  Under the plan, the new stadium would be built next to the current Soldier Field, one of the NFL’s smaller venues. It would sport a translucent roof and enormous windows to allow natural light to enter while providing spectacular views of the city’s
  
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• Chicago pianist Erwin Helfer is celebrated by musical friends and peers

  25-04-2024 22:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Pianist Erwin Helfer is a local hero who has made a global impact. The 88-year-old musician is resolute in his devotion to early blues, jazz, and ragtime piano, and he’s taught his emotional, succinct style to legions of students. This month, Helfer’s Highland Park–based label, the Sirens, hosts a celebration of his music and influence […]
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• Japanese multi-instrumentalist Eiko Ishibashi performs a live score for the Chicago debut of Gift

  25-04-2024 22:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Even if Japanese songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Eiko Ishibashi collaborated with Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi only once, I’d be grateful. When I saw Hamaguchi’s celebrated 2021 movie, Drive My Car, at the Siskel Film Center (it won an Oscar for Best International Feature Film a couple months later), Ishibashi’s pensive, understated score charmed me completely. […]
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• Experimental-minded locals Meth. find catharsis in bruising noise 

  25-04-2024 22:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When the Reader checked in with local noisemaking polymath Seb Alvarez in 2022, he’d turned his creative focus away from his band Meth. and toward the beats-blasted experimental side project Virgin Mother. In that context, the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist made a weirdo junkyard-fi racket with members of rising Rockford screamo outfit Frail Body and many […]
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• Lutenist Jozef van Wissem portrays forces of life and death on two new albums

  25-04-2024 21:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “The Lute is Eternal” proclaims the text that concludes the ten-minute video to Jozef van Wissem’s recent single, “The Call of the Deathbird.” The Dutch composer’s gruff vocals appear throughout the short film, shot in the vast Soviet mausoleum outside Warsaw, but his singing (and the relative angelic voice of Hillary Woods) directs the listener […]
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• UK rap royal Giggs makes his first North American headlining tour

  25-04-2024 21:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Giggs’s self-released debut full-length, Walk in da Park, is a landmark album in UK hip-hop history, and almost 16 years after its release, the London rapper is making his first North American headlining tour. Giggs still has the coiled menace and cool-headed flow that made his breakout single, the 2007 freestyle “Talkin the Hardest,” a […]
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• Survivor contestant Ben Katzman proves that shredding and DIY touring can prepare you for anything 

  25-04-2024 21:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Countless Survivor contestants have turned to the camera during their confessionals to express the difficult and draining nature of the game—the physical and mental exhaustion, the lack of food, and the constant close proximity to others take an immense toll. Most cast members find this kind of precarity new and very destabilizing. But season 46 […]
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• How Black Sports Agents Are Making A Bigger Impact On The Business Of NFL

  25-04-2024 18:53 via chicagodefender.com
  
  The lives of numerous athletes will be changed today as the NFL Draft kicks off in Detroit. Following the excitement of being selected by an NFL franchise, the players and their families will have to get down to business. Salary negotiations are inevitable, and the right sports agent can help players gain millions when it comes to performance incentives. 
   
  But when it comes to sports agents, the lack of diversity is glaring. Although there are 57.5% of Black players in the NFL, there
  
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• Barrie Cole: Chicago’s short-order chef of language and empathy

  25-04-2024 18:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I saw my first Barrie Cole play the night before the world turned upside down.  On September 10, 2001, I trotted over to Curious Theatre Branchʼs home in the now defunct Lunar Cabaret space on North Lincoln to see To Relax and Laugh in that year’s edition of the Rhino Fest. In Cole’s one-act play, […]
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• Black Man Shot & Killed By Police After Falling Asleep In Car, Family Says

  25-04-2024 14:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  A family is seeking justice after a 20-year-old Black man was fatally shot by police after they said he fell asleep in his car in Richmond, Virginia.
  “My son impacted peoples’ lives and never wanted to do anybody any harm or anything,” Latoya Hardney, the victim’s mother, told 8News. “He was just a lovable person, he would make you smile. He would sit down to talk to you and talk to you for hours, and that’s just the type of person he was.&
  
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• Review: Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver

  24-04-2024 23:17 via chicagoreader.com
  Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver picks up right where the first film left off, continuing writer-director-cinematographer Zack Snyder’s Seven Samurai in space” homage/reimagining/pastiche. (Albeit there isn’t that much space this time.) Unlike the first Rebel Moon film, which saw Kora (Sofia Boutella) and Gunnar (Michiel Huisman) travel across the galaxy recruiting warriors to […]
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• Review: Omen

  24-04-2024 23:17 via chicagoreader.com
  Omen opens on the set of a windswept desert. A horseback rider appears as the score wanes and whistles. This is maybe the only moment of calm in the film, with the remainder involving stunning visuals that juxtapose harrowing dialogue and circumstances. It’s a heartbreaker, for sure.  After residing in Belgium, Koffi (Marc Zinga) prepares […]
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• Review: Macbeth

  24-04-2024 23:17 via chicagoreader.com
  Simon Godwin’s production of Macbeth was filmed live at Dock X in London, but even though it was intended for cinema release, a lot of the production choices don’t work especially well on the big screen. The cast is in military dress intended to evoke contemporary conflicts in Eastern Europe or Syria, but the details […]
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• Review: Abigail

  24-04-2024 23:17 via chicagoreader.com
  In Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, the titular vampire’s victims were initially and primarily women. The bites and the blood were metaphors for sexual awakening, and the femmes who fell to the monster’s fangs howled about being forever damned as “unclean” after they’d been bitten by the big D. Abigail stands the fallen-woman trope on […]
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• The Music Man at Marriott knows the territory

  24-04-2024 19:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the opening scene of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man at Marriott Theatre, a train car full of traveling salesmen showcase their talent and precision as they fast-talk and sing their way through the opening number, “Rock Island” (aka the “Ya gotta know the territory” song). The salesmen, each identified by a different company name […]
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• Jump bridges painful family memories

  24-04-2024 18:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There have been several intriguing plays about siblings dealing with loss onstage this year, including Leah Nanako Winkler’s The Brightest Thing in the World at About Face Theatre and the current production of John Patrick Shanley’s Brooklyn Laundry at Northlight. Charly Evon Simpson’s Jump, now in a midwest premiere with Shattered Globe Theatre under AmBer […]
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• Dane in the mirror

  24-04-2024 17:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A one-person take on Hamlet starring a famous comedian sounds like a recipe for self-indulgence. (Or the opening premise for a deliberately off-kilter affair, as in the ridiculous and sublime Gary Busey’s One-Man Hamlet, performed by David Carl at Chicago Shakespeare as part of the theater’s Shakespeare 400 festival in 2016.) HamletThrough 5/4: Tue and […]
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• This Week In Black History April 24-30, 2024

  24-04-2024 17:45 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  1867—The first national meeting of the Ku Klux Klan is held at the Maxwell House in Nashville, Tenn. The White supremacist organization and its various offshoots would go on to launch a wave of terror, which would result in death and injury to thousands of African Americans over the years. The Klan would remain the nation’s most powerful anti-Black terrorist organization for the next 70 years. The first chapter, however, was actually formed a year earlier in Pulaski, Tenn. M
  
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• Guys and Dolls kills at Drury Lane

  24-04-2024 17:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Some shows age well, some don’t. You’d think a silly 74-year-old musical comedy like Guys and Dolls, with its cartoonish characters and sitcom plotlines (like, gambler makes a bet he can’t get a female preacher to come with him to Havana), would age out first. After all, the stories the musical is based on, written […]
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• Brooklyn Laundry mixes the lights and the darks

  24-04-2024 17:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Brooklyn Laundry is a deceptive show: It begins with a meet-cute and briefly lulls you into the sense that it will unspool as something of a rom-com. But playwright John Patrick Shanley isn’t one for gauzy love stories. His dialogue is spiked with knives, his humor darker than the grave. Budding romance is fragile under […]
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• Simple Simon

  24-04-2024 16:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s tempting to say that Neil Simon’s 1963 romantic comedy Barefoot in the Park hasn’t aged well. But even when it premiered on Broadway with Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley as newlyweds Paul and Corie Bratter (Redford went on to star in the 1967 film version, with Jane Fonda stepping into Ashley’s role), critics noted […]
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• Baby shows its age at Citadel

  24-04-2024 16:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Under the best of circumstances, it would be hard to make this 1983 musical soar. The story by playwright Sybille Pearson about three prosperous white, middle-class couples coping with pregnancy (or trying to become pregnant) feels creaky and dated. In different hands, these three couples—ranging in age from early 20s to early 40s—might have been […]
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• Sensing wood, sculpting ecology

  24-04-2024 16:08 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last summer, Galen Odell-Smedley opened a solo show, “Peach Peach,” at Humboldt’s Ignition Project Space. The exhibition hinted at a meticulously arranged artist’s wood shop: What we normally consider raw material, waste material, and tools came to the foreground in intricate attire and partied with other elaborate kinetic sculptures.  It was hard to define what […]
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• This House Currently Holds the Title for Priciest Property on the South Side

  24-04-2024 16:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Neighborhood: Kenwood
  Price:$1,99 million
  Bedrooms/Bathrooms: 6 Beds, 4.5 baths
  Home is a haven where cleanliness, inspiration, and comfort tailored to your preferences abound, filled with laughter and love. It’s a refuge from the chaos of the outside world. 
  With that spirit, The Chicago Defender is spotlighting the most luxurious and captivating homes in the Chicagoland area.
  For this story, we spotlight one of the most expensive homes for sale on the South Side.
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• South Suburban College Foundation Hosts ‘Hollywood Awards’ Gala for Deserving Students

  24-04-2024 14:30 via chicagodefender.com
  
  The South Suburban College Foundation hosts its annual “Hollywood Awards: A Black & White Affair, A Night of Dreams, Success, and Scholarships,” on Saturday, April 27 at 5 p.m. at the Odyssey Country Club in Tinley Park.
  After a hiatus due to the pandemic, this highly anticipated event is back to support scholarship programs and deserving students.
  This spring scholarship gala will feature dinner, dancing and an electrifying silent auction. 
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• The Carr Report: Understanding how to complete Form W-4 Employee Withholding Certificate

  24-04-2024 14:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  A W-4 form, or “Employee’s Withhold­ing Certificate,” is an IRS tax document that employees fill out and submit to their employers. Employers use the information on a W-4 to calculate how much tax to withhold from an employ­ee’s paycheck.
  When you complete Form W-4, you’re instructing the employer on how much taxes to withhold from each paycheck. The W-4 Form takes into account vari­ous things including: filing status, mul­tiple jobs adjustments, amo
  
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for April 24, 2024

  24-04-2024 14:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
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• Chicago Reader presents Fashion Forward!

  23-04-2024 23:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Come mingle and listen to an insider’s conversation on fashion and journalism. We have an esteemed group of panelists, from SAIC, the Chicago Fashion Coalition, and our very own editor-in-chief. You’ll also get to view the designs of emerging fashion designers. This event is free for our Reader members and $15 for the general public. All proceeds […]
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• Biden To Deliver Commencement Speech At Morehouse College

  23-04-2024 21:30 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  President Joe Biden is set to deliver a commencement address at Morehouse College next month.
  On Monday (April 22), the White House confirmed that Biden will speak at Morehouse College’s commencement, which is scheduled for May 19 at 9 a.m., per 11Alive News.
  The decision to make Biden Morehouse’s commencement speaker has sparked faculty concern, NBC News reports.
  In an email reportedly sent by Kendrick Brown, Morehouse’s provost and senior vice president fo
  
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