Illinois news

• Superintendent Brown resisted CCPSA goal-setting

  27-01-2023 21:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  According to commissioners, Brown claimed the federal consent decree limited their ability to set goals for him as mandated in the ECPS ordinance.
  The post Superintendent Brown resisted CCPSA goal-setting appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Protected: Chicago Reader welcomes four new staff members

  27-01-2023 20:11 via chicagoreader.com
  There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
  The post Protected: Chicago Reader welcomes four new staff members appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Veteran local percussionist Avreeayl Ra celebrates the release of a new documentary

  27-01-2023 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Avreeayl Ra is quite literally a driving force in Chicago jazz. He’s an enduring member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) who’s spent decades drumming for countless local and visiting eminences, including Ernest Dawkins, Ari Brown, Fred Anderson, and Nicole Mitchell. While he can be counted upon to bring emphatic, surging […]
  The post <strong>Veteran local percussionist Avreeayl Ra celebrates the release of a new documentary</strong&
  
  Read more

• Grimm and surreal

  27-01-2023 18:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This surrealistic production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s 1893 opera version of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale—seen twice before at Lyric—should probably be a Christmas show. But since Joffrey became Lyric’s roommate, we’re getting it now. Visually it’s nightmarish, claustrophobic, and monochromatic as a gray January day—but also striking: think fish-headed dream-scene maitre d’ overseeing a troop […]
  The post Grimm and surreal appeared first
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• The Best Things to Happen to Black People in 2023 (So Far)

  27-01-2023 18:14
  We’re celebrating all of the good news happening and the inspiring Black folk creating positive change in our communities.
   by Word In Black
   
  2022 was a *wild* year. Book bans swept the country, the U.S. The Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, and 10 Black people were tragically gunned down in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. 
  But there was also plenty to celebrate in the Black community. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman to b
  
  Read more

• The Seven Faces of Jane

  27-01-2023 18:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For the most part, despite its adventurous structure, The Seven Faces of Jane shows us features we’ve seen before.
  The post The Seven Faces of Jane appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Plane

  27-01-2023 18:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Stereotype and cliche remain alive and well on the big screen.
  The post Plane appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• No Bears

  27-01-2023 18:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Panahi’s latest film interrogates the limits of art, placing cinema and documentation under a critical eye.
  The post No Bears appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Missing

  27-01-2023 17:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Overall, Missing is just about as fun as a couple of hours flicking through Instagram or knocking out levels in Candy Crush.
  The post Missing appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Blood

  27-01-2023 17:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What do you call a vampire movie with no teeth? Blood.
  The post Blood appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Waves of memory

  27-01-2023 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Christina Anderson’s luminous and wise the ripple, the wave that carried me home (now at the Goodman in a coproduction with Berkeley Rep, where it played in fall 2022) unfolds in mesmerizing capillary waves of memory, selective and otherwise. (“This country is built on selective memory,” one character observes while watching the Rodney King trial […]
  The post Waves of memory appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Viking rock

  27-01-2023 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In a world . . . where Norse mythology meets prog rock on a set seemingly built by precocious middle-schoolers, brothers Jorik and Jarl battle one another and several deities (best known to modern audiences via the Marvel Universe) to wear the crown of their kingdom. Songs are sung, seas traversed, swords crossed, and evil […]
  The post Viking rock appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• The great con

  27-01-2023 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Redtwist’s rolling world premiere of The Great Khan with the National New Play Network couldn’t be better timed. When Florida’s Department of Education had just rejected an Advanced Placement course in African American studies. When Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders just signed an executive order banning critical theory in public schools, making Arkansas the 18th state […]
  The post The great con appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Don’t miss this Birthday Party

  27-01-2023 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If you were concerned that Chicago’s storefront theaters lost their mojo during the pandemic, get thee to Terry McCabe’s gripping production of The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter. It’s a meta-accomplishment: not a false note in this version of a play that’s entirely about false notes. Pinter’s breakthrough piece (albeit a flop at the time), […]
  The post Don’t miss this <i>Birthday Party</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• An emotional willkommen

  27-01-2023 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Like many of the American musical theater greats, Cabaret is one of those shows that can suffer from style-creep, wherein an unwritten but generally agreed-upon aesthetic tradition grows into self-parody. For John Kander and Fred Ebb’s legendary pre-WWII Berlin-set romantic drama (based on the 1951 play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten and […]
  The post An emotional willkommen appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Watch the Cambodian Bear forage Indian fruit pies this winter

  27-01-2023 16:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There’s no restaurant opening in 2023 more desperately anticipated than Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto’s transformation of his brother’s venerable but grotty River North beef joint into a fine dining destina—uhhh, wait. No. I’m thinking of season two of The Bear, the fictionalized heart-attack-on-a-plate that might be the most harrowing depiction of life on the line ever […]
  The post Watch the Cambodian Bear forage Indian fruit pies this winter appeared
  
  Read more

• Calling all rat lovers

  27-01-2023 16:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If you, like me, are a fan of the humble city rat, then the relationship between our fair city and New York is an instructive one. Like all things New York, the allure of America’s biggest city seems to make everything, including its relationship to the quintessential urban rodent, more grandiose. Whether it’s the high-profile […]
  The post Calling all rat lovers appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Early Voting in Downtown Chicago Now Open

  27-01-2023 16:15
  
  Early voting in Downtown Chicago for the February 28, 2023 Municipal Election is now open at two vote centers – the Voter Supersite at 191 N. Clark and Board Offices at 69 W. Washington, 6th Floor.
  Secure Drop Boxes for completed Vote By Mail ballots will also be open and available at both of these sites starting Thursday.
  Early Voting in all 50 Wards of Chicago will begin Monday, February 13 and run through February 28, 2023 (Election Day). All 50 Ward Early Voting sites an
  
  Read more

• BREAKING NEWS!

  27-01-2023 16:07
  The 5 former Memphis Police Department officers have been indicted by a grand jury on charges ranging from second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression for the death of Tyre Nichols.
  The post BREAKING NEWS! appeared first on Chicago Defender.
  
  Read more

• BDM Sports & Education Project’s 4th Annual Business Behind the 🏀 $1,000 Essay Contest

  27-01-2023 14:48
  
  Getty Images
  4th Annual Youth NBA All-Star Essay Contest
  The average NBA playing career is about 5 years, how should players maximize their opportunities for personal growth and professional development, during their time playing in the league, while also preparing for when their NBA playing career comes to an end… Life Beyond the ball?
  Minimum of 500 Words
  Deadline to enter, Sunday, January 29, 2022
  11:59 pm cst
  CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
  The post BDM Sports & Education Project’s 4
  
  Read more

• David Razowsky wants to set “yes, and” on fire

  27-01-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Improvisers from around the globe flock to Chicago to learn the “right” way to improvise, yet veteran actor (actor, not improviser) David Razowsky’s new book throws “yes, and” in the trash, sets it on fire, composts it, and plants a tree with it. He’s earned the right, after ten years on Second City Chicago’s mainstage […]
  The post David Razowsky wants to set “yes, and” on fire appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
  Read more

• Percussionist Daniel Villarreal plays songs from the intersection of his many musical lives

  27-01-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Panama-born, Chicago-based drummer Daniel Villarreal is involved with myriad musical projects. He coleads the groups Dos Santos, Valebol, the Los Sundowns, and Ida y Vuelta; he’s collaborated extensively with grab-bag marching band Mucca Pazza, sibling duo Wild Belle, and soulful psych-pop singer Rudy De Anda; and he’s a familiar face on Pilsen’s DJ circuit. At […]
  The post <strong>Percussionist Daniel Villarreal plays songs from the intersection of his many music
  
  Read more

• Peters statement on the high-rise fire in Kenwood

  27-01-2023 02:42
  Getty Images
   
  CHICAGO – Following the Wednesday morning high-rise fire at the Harper Square Cooperative apartments in Kenwood that killed one person and injured seven, State Senator Robert Peters (D-Chicago) issued the following statement:
  “I’m deeply saddened to hear about the deadly fire that happened earlier today at Harper Square Cooperative, and would like to send my deepest condolences to the family members that unfortunately lost their loved one today. Tragedi
  
  Read more

Follow @NewsIllinois_ on Twitter!