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• Joanne Aono’s feast for the senses

  07-02-2023 20:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “We plant in phases because we know that not everything will grow,” says Joanne Aono, the artist and holistic farmer whose installation, “Prairie Passage,” is on view at the Geneva Center for the Arts. Aono speaks in accidental metaphors, offering anecdotes and descriptions that could be about her farm or her art, but are probably […]
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• Midnight Minds drop a new album of serene and soothing ambient psychedelia

  07-02-2023 20:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  During the political tumult and COVID-19 spikes of autumn and winter 2020, when the world felt overwhelming, Gossip Wolf often found brief respite via the self-titled debut album by Chicago duo Midnight Minds, which came out on cassette that September. Allison Trumbo (director of outreach education for Music House) plays violin, guitar, and flute, while […]
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• Review: Magic Mike’s Last Dance

  07-02-2023 19:00 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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• Chicago band Anatomy of Habit explore dark moods on Black Openings

  07-02-2023 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago band Anatomy of Habit have been around in various forms since 2008, sporadically releasing music that hammers together metal, industrial, postrock, avant-garde composition, and more. Originally a sort of floating supergroup with no fixed lineup, in the past few years they’ve solidified into a steady quintet around founder and front man Mark Solotroff. The […]
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• J. Pharoah Doss: ‘Cop City’— martyr or cautionary tale?

  07-02-2023 14:38
  
  by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier
  In September of 2021, the Atlanta City Council leased forested land to the Atlanta Police Foundation to build a training facility. Atlanta’s mayor, Keisha Lance Bottom, said the facility will provide the necessary space to ensure that police officers and first responders receive 21st-century training.
  “Abolish the police” activists insisted law enforcement didn’t deserve a new facility, and environmentalists expected the area
  
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• Classick Studios expands into the Soundscape space

  07-02-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last week, Classick Studios founder Chris Inumerable signed paperwork to buy the East Humboldt Park building occupied by the recently shuttered Soundscape Studios. Soundscape founder Michael Kolar had announced in late December that he was closing his studio after a 26-year run that’d made it a hub for the local hip-hop scene. Since late summer, […]
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• Chicago indie rockers Fran help cushion the world’s tough blows with Leaving

  07-02-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Maybe the Chicago mayoral campaign is getting to me, but I’m tired of candidates who think any of the city’s problems can be solved by one person. (It’s even worse when that person wants to increase the police budget again.) On Leaving (Fire Talk), the new second album from Chicago indie-rock outfit Fran, front woman […]
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• Chaos theory

  07-02-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  One of the more revealing scenes in City So Real—Steve James’s insightful documentary about Chicago politics, takes place in a Gold Coast penthouse. It’s 2019. And James, chronicling the last mayoral election, is filming a dinner party hosted by Christie Hefner. They’re talking politics and one of the guests—Norman Bobins, a retired banker—opines that no […]
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• Healing the black man one piece at a time.

  07-02-2023 03:02
  
  Our contributing journalist Amber Marie Green had the opportunity to speak with Sharita who founded the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Idell-McCarthy Foundation to house her desire to give back to the community and make a difference where she can, as an advocate for mental health awareness & well-being.
  Born and raised on the Westside of Chicago, Sharita birthed the Pieces of a Man program that provides a safe, supportive, and engaging space for men to be empowered, honest, speak vulnerabl
  
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• ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL ANNOUNCES ONLINE SAFETY WEBINARS AHEAD OF SAFER INTERNET DAY

  07-02-2023 00:10
  
  Raoul Encourages Adults to Participate in Online Trainings Focused on Financial SextortionChicago – In recognition of Safer Internet Day on Feb. 7, Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced two webinars focused on protecting children from financial sextortion, an online exploitation crime directed toward youth in which money is demanded from the victim.
  According to the Attorney General’s office, self-generated content sharing, or sexting, can lead to sextortion sca
  
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