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• Packing follows one gay man's journey to confront his midwestern ghosts

  12-11-2019 23:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Scott Bradley's solo show for About Face creates an important document of queer life.Living out and proud in a coastal queer mecca full of historic gayborhoods, vocally supportive senators, and Hamburger Mary's locations is one thing; learning to love yourself in rural America can be another. For writer and performer Scott Bradley, embracing himself and his upbringing after returning as an adult to his roots in Iowa (he attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop) meant reckoning with the ghosts and sel
  
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• Ladylike lets women be as gross as they please

  12-11-2019 22:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The live show and podcast aim to shake the shame from our most disgusting moments.Bodies are gross. It's true of all bodies, but while men are often encouraged to embrace the disgusting, women are often taught to be ashamed of it.…
  
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• Drummer Tim Daisy hits a hot streak with his record label

  12-11-2019 22:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Drummer Tim Daisy hits a hot streak with his record label, indie rockers Jupiter Styles celebrate a star-studded sophomore album, and more. Relay Recordings, run by Chicago percussionist and composer Tim Daisy, is on a roll.…
  
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• Mayor Lightfoot announces first set of comprehensive fines and fees reforms

  12-11-2019 21:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot announced plans to introduce legislation addressing residents’ vehicle ticket debt at the upcoming City Council meeting.  The new policies will change enforcement practices and provide residents with relief from City ticket debt to create a viable pathway to economic stability for residents with outstanding fines. The legislation will call for ending driver’s license suspensions for non-payment of non-moving and vehicle compliance violations, create more
  
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• Lynda Barry gives a master class in creation in Making Comics

  12-11-2019 20:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The comics artist’s latest book is the culmination of lessons learned in her decades-long career.Lynda Barry is now officially a genius. She was bestowed with the title MacArthur fellow this September along with 24 other creative people from a variety of fields.…
  
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• Ex-con congressional candidate Sarah Gad hosts 2020 job fair

  12-11-2019 16:30 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Sarah Gad recently launched her campaign for U.S. Congress in Illinois’ First District, and she is already starting to go after key issues in her platform.
  Nov.12, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — Chicago-based activist Sarah Gad recently kicked off her campaign for U.S. Congress in Illinois’ First District. The 32-year old law student and former Cook County inmate has only been in the running for a few weeks, but has already raised close to $30,000 and garnered attention from importa
  
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• New map shows thousands of lynchings throughout American history

  12-11-2019 15:29 via chicagodefender.com
  By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia
  In the century following the Civil War, as many as 5,000 people of color were murdered by mobs who believed in the cause of white supremacy.
  On average, mobs killed nine people per month during the 1890s. Over the next 20 years, seven people each month were victims of lynch mobs.
  The figures are all according to an interactive map project that tracks the history of lynching in America – state-by-state.
  The map
  
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• Modify your savings strategy as your life evolves

  12-11-2019 14:29 via chicagodefender.com
  Make sure you’re still saving enough as your situation changes.
  What did your life look like when you started saving for your goals? Since then, maybe you’ve gotten married, moved, or bought a car. All these events may change how you think about your savings.
  Learn how you can modify your savings plan to fit your changing needs.
  What can you save for?
  Did you buy a home recently? Thinking about starting a family? This can change how you need to save. For instance, the cost of raising
  
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• Rink Life takes us on a circular journey through collaboration

  12-11-2019 11:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Lucky Plush's new ensemble piece uses the roller rink as a metaphor for community.Ah, the roller rink—a community center where everyone keeps moving in circles, forever, to retro pop songs, in colored slacks and bowl cuts. There is no time there.…
  
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• P.Y.G. or the Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle cuts with double-edged satire

  12-11-2019 11:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A white Canadian pop star and two Black hip-hop artists share a reality-TV crib.There are two specific places in Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm's P.Y.G. or the Mis-Edumacaton of Dorian Belle that are likely to change every time this play (which premiered in Washington, D.C., this past April) hits the stage. One is a montage of news reports on unarmed Black people killed by police and other acts of white supremacist terror, such as Charlottesville.…
  
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• Do You Believe in Madness? is more befuddled than angry

  12-11-2019 11:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In its 108th main-stage revue, Second City tries to get a handle on our crazy times.A year ago, Second City unveiled Algorithm Nation or the Static Quo, a grim affair featuring simulated onstage shootings and torture as well as an extended rant from an unapologetic female Trump supporter. In its place, we now have the 108th main-stage revue, Do You Believe in Madness?, a more endearing though frustratingly shapeless endeavor directed by Ryan Bernier and featuring a brand-new cast devoted more to
  
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• A heart transplant reveals old heartaches in Exquisita Agonía

  12-11-2019 11:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Aguijón Theater's production of Nilo Cruz's drama is searing and sharp.Nilo Cruz's plays often center on people suffering displacement and trying to find distractions for that pain, as in his 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics, about a group of Cuban immigrants working in the cigar industry in 1929 Florida who take comfort from hearing Anna Karenina read aloud—and like Anna, engage in their own passionate infidelities. In 2018's Exquisita Agonía, the characters a
  
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• 3 events to stem gun violence in Chicago launch Tuesday, Nov. 12

  12-11-2019 03:56 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  Support grows for City Council Ordinance urging full funding of violence prevention programs
  Advocates working to end gun violence will gather multiple times this week to hear from survivors and experts and to explore strategies for reducing gun-related homicides and shootings.
  On Tuesday, Nov. 12 at Kennedy-King College, 740 W. 63rd St., WTTW is partnering with Heartland Alliance’s READI Chicago program to present a screening of a new documen
  
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