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• Porchlight puts Passing Strange in the spotlight

  16-05-2022 23:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For Chicago-based director Donterrio, the late-00s musical Passing Strange represents a road map for how an artist—no matter the medium in which they create—can live their life.  The show’s story of a Black musician’s coming-of-age depicts “what happens once you have this crazy dream as a teenager to be an artist, and this is how […]
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• Loving, repeating, collaborating, and intimacy

  16-05-2022 20:57 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In a new exhibition, longtime collaborators Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger created an immersive multimedia installation that explores intimacy, distance, and the fluctuations between. The above comic captures their reflections on making together and materials in play. Text from the comic is transcribed here to ease readability. Our collaboration developed organically. We were both ceramic […]
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• Bewjeweled butt plugs and the war on abortion

  16-05-2022 19:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• Elastic Arts’ AfriClassical Futures series continues with the Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker

  16-05-2022 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Since January 2020, vocalist Julian Otis and Elastic Arts executive director Adam Zanolini have programmed AfriClassical Futures, a series offering an antidote to the overwhelming whiteness and deadness of the classical canon. Each AfriClassical concert invites a Black artist working in or springboarding from the Western classical tradition for an intimate live performance and conversation, […]
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• True biz? There’s a lot to learn in Sara Nović’s new book.

  16-05-2022 18:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Eyeth—get it? In the Deaf storytelling tradition, utopia is called Eyeth because it’s a society that centers the eye, not the ear, like here on Earth.” That’s the opener to “Ear vs. Eye: Deaf Mythology,” one of the many brief lessons sprinkled between the chapters of Sara Nović’s realistic fiction novel True Biz, released March […]
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• Shooting Leads to Millenium Park Curfew for Minors

  16-05-2022 18:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  After a shooting left a 16-year-old dead and a 17-year-old charged with the murder, unoccupied minors will no longer be allowed at Millenium Park after 6pm on weekends. Effective immediately, Mayor Lightfoot issued a statement saying, “from Thursday through Sunday, unaccompanied minors are not allowed in Millennium Park after 6:00 pm. This new policy will be strictly enforced, and violations will be dealt with swiftly. All of our residents and visitors under the age of 18 are welcome at th
  
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• Baby Formula Crisis Decreases Supply by Nearly Half

  16-05-2022 15:42 via chicagodefender.com
  The worsening baby formula shortage is forcing millions of parents across the nation to drastic measures to meet the nutritional needs of infant children. Their exhaustive searches for baby formula have caused a number of actions from traveling long distances to find formula to watering down formula in an attempt to stretch it.
  Some parents have admitted trying to make their own DIY formulas, while others confess that they continue to use the recalled powdered formula to feed infants. “I&r
  
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• 18-Year-Old Racist Kills Ten at Buffalo Supermarket

  16-05-2022 15:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Saturday an 18-year-old white racist shot 13 people and killed ten at a supermarket in Buffalo, NY. Payton Gendron (18) live-streamed the shooting spree on the social media platform Twitch. The video was removed minutes later. He was later arrested without incident and charged with first-degree murder.
  Of the 13 victims, ten were killed and 11 of the victims were Black and elderly. US Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Department of Justice was “Investigating the mass shooting as a
  
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• London label Touch brings its 40th-anniversary celebration to the International Museum of Surgical Science

  16-05-2022 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  London-based Touch isn’t a record label in the traditional sense; it’s far more multifaceted. It might be more accurate to describe Touch as a collective that also extends into publishing, performance curation, and site-specific multimedia events driven by a loosely defined stable of international avant-garde electronic and sound artists, who include guitarist and producer Fennesz, […]
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• Math Books Rejected for “Indoctrinating Students” in Florida

  16-05-2022 11:27 via chicagodefender.com
  
  In April 2022, the Florida Department of Education rejected 41% of new math books citing references to Critical Race Theory (CRT) among the reasons. In a statement, the Florida Department of Education said it “rejected publishers’ attempts to indoctrinate” students”.   Of the 41% of rejected textbooks, 21% were rejected for “incorporating prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies including CRT. Another 11% were rejected “because they do not properl
  
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• One on One with Secretary of State Candidate Alderman David Moore

  16-05-2022 11:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  An Alderman for the last seven years, David Moore is an Englewood resident running for the office of Secretary of State in Illinois. With his experience in corporate America, politics, and community organizing, he has connected with residents and issues throughout the state. He says his grassroots and corporate background give him the skills needed to be effective.
  Moore worked in the private sector at several Fortune 500 companies during his accounting career. In addition, he’s worked wit
  
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