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• The Music Box cancels Actors, but the discourse continues

  02-02-2023 22:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Music Box Theatre found itself at the center of controversy in the local LGBTQ+ film space when it planned a February 2 screening of Actors by Betsey Brown.
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• Bradley University’s “Intern of the Year” has been helped along by CHA/S2S Scholarship

  02-02-2023 22:07
  
  Residents can apply for one of 125, $2k scholarships until May 16thCHICAGO (Feb. 2, 2023) – De’Jah Donahue has taken advantage of the Chicago Housing Authority’s full range of resources during her time as a high school and college student. She interned in the Resident Services department and worked in the Youth Opportunities division. She also used the CHA/Springboard to Success (S2S) Scholarship to help pay tuition at Bradley University, where last year she was named the Colle
  
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• The City Council’s “newbie caucus” prep for their first aldermanic race

  02-02-2023 21:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In recent interviews with the Reader, none of Mayor Lightfoot's appointees endorsed her reelection campaign.
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• You People

  02-02-2023 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The film is much more interested in social embarrassment cringe and gags than it is in any sort of close examination of how racism affects interracial couples.
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• Unicorn Wars

  02-02-2023 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The wilfully mean-spirited desecration feels at points like wallowing in unpleasantness for its own sake. But the film has a larger point than adolescent snickering. 
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• Review: You People

  02-02-2023 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The film is much more interested in social embarrassment cringe and gags than it is in any sort of close examination of how racism affects interracial couples.
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• Review: Unicorn Wars

  02-02-2023 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The wilfully mean-spirited desecration feels at points like wallowing in unpleasantness for its own sake. But the film has a larger point than adolescent snickering. 
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• Review: One Fine Morning

  02-02-2023 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This movie is about everyday life, and it’s all the more transcendent for it.
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• Review: Close

  02-02-2023 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Inspired by Niobe Way’s nonfiction book Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection, this moving 2022 French drama from Lukas Dhont unfolds as a familiar tale of tragedy, guilt, and forgiveness.
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• Review: 80 for Brady

  02-02-2023 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Not even a (criminally underproduced) Billy Porter musical number can fix this nonsense.
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• One Fine Morning

  02-02-2023 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This movie is about everyday life, and it’s all the more transcendent for it.
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• Magic Mike’s Last Dance

  02-02-2023 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Splitting the difference between the tightly structured drama of the original and the looser, feel-good energy of the sequel, Magic Mike’s Last Dance continues to embody the series’ central thesis that a lap dance has the power to change lives. 
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• Close

  02-02-2023 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Inspired by Niobe Way’s nonfiction book Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection, this moving 2022 French drama from Lukas Dhont unfolds as a familiar tale of tragedy, guilt, and forgiveness.
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• 80 for Brady

  02-02-2023 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Not even a (criminally underproduced) Billy Porter musical number can fix this nonsense.
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• MAYOR LIGHTFOOT ANNOUNCES CHICAGO RESILIENCY FUND 2.0 IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FROM DOMESTIC WORKERS AND UNDOCUMENTED RESIDENTS SEEKING FINANCIAL RELIEF

  02-02-2023 17:15
  
  Second round of the $14.68M fund will provide up to 17,000 eligible domestic workers and undocumented Chicago residents with one-time, $500 relief payments 
   
  CHICAGO — Today, Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and Department of Family and Support Services (DFSS) Commissioner Brandie Knazze announced that domestic workers and undocumented residents are now eligible to apply for the Chicago Resiliency Fund 2.0, which will provide one-time, $500 relief payments to populations that had di
  
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• City of Harvey Sees Significant Increase in Public Safety

  02-02-2023 17:01
  
  Mayor and Police Chief to Share Results at Public Safety Forum Feb. 4
  (HARVEY, IL) The City of Harvey ended 2022 with a significant decrease in homicides, and that trend continues into 2023 with City of Harvey Mayor, Christopher J. Clark focusing on several proactive measures designed to increase public safety.
  The implementation of Clark’s public safety initiatives resulted in a 38% reduction in gunshot victim crimes, 161 illegal guns removed from Harvey streets, several murder cases bein
  
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• Sentrock takes flight

  02-02-2023 16:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Before you even step inside the museum, you are greeted outside by a Bird City Saint vinyl—the artist’s signature character. Walking into the first gallery, I see a giant wooden sculpture filled with congratulations written in red and black ink from various folks from the opening. Although signing the wall or pieces during an opening […]
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• Dead romantics

  02-02-2023 16:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Every time I hear someone describe Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights as a “romance,” I die a little inside. It’s a portrait of dysfunction, abuse, codependency, and revenge. Which, sure, I guess is romantic in its own way, but c’mon: Heathcliff and Catherine are the Sid and Nancy of the moors. (Maybe too many people got […]
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• FOX SPORTS FILMS PRESENTS BACK TO SCHOOL WITH GUS JOHNSON PREMIERING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 ON FOX

  02-02-2023 16:06
  
  New Documentary Celebrates Veteran FOX Sports Announcer’s Renowned Career and Enrollment in Harvard University’s Prestigious Fellowship Program
  First-look Trailer Unveiled Today (Click Here)
   
  LOS ANGELES – FOX Sports Films announces today, its new documentary BACK TO SCHOOL WITH GUS JOHNSON, a powerful one-hour special celebrating our very own Gus Johnson, one of the most exciting and passionate voices in all of sports broadcasting, from past to present as he returns to s
  
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• Toxic claustrophobia

  02-02-2023 15:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Jasmine Sharma’s Radial Gradient, directed in its world premiere at Shattered Globe Theatre by Grace Dolezal-Ng, is the story of two students and their bid to enter a sorority at their university. Anjani (Simran Deokule) is American-born, of Indian descent, and her family has lived in the United States for at least two generations. Her […]
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• Celtic conflicts

  02-02-2023 15:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Ann Noble’s play about an Irish family decompensating after the mother’s death had its premiere in Chicago nearly 30 years ago, and it’s showing its age. There are plots and subplots and Irish-lit tropes like a storytelling session apropos of nothing, but none of these achieves warp, or even tarantella, speed. As the dutiful daughter […]
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• Toyota to Kick Off Chicago Auto Show By Donating Winter Boots and Socks to Chicagoland Homeless Families

  02-02-2023 15:09
  
  ‘Walk In My Boots’ Community Outreach Project
  Transforming Lives…One Step At A Time at The Salvation Army Evangeline Booth LodgeChicago, IL – While preparing to showcase an array of new vehicles at the 2023 Chicago Auto Show, Toyota will first highlight its commitment to support Chicago families through its “Walk In My Boots” community outreach project.  Toyota will donate new insulated winter boots and socks along with a home-style buffet
  
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