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• Sundance: risk-free in 2023

  14-02-2023 23:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This year’s Sundance Film Festival was a quieter affair.
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• Taco Sublime’s vampiros will drain your hunger at the next Monday Night Foodball

  14-02-2023 22:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Vampiros infiltrated the transient community during the pandemic. No, not bloodthirsty ghouls, but Khaled Simon’s riff on the alluring griddled Sinaloense taco with melted cheese—not atop—but between the filling and tortilla (also, known as volcanes). Simon flips his tortillas onto the plancha cheese-side-down, achieving a caramelized lattice of queso Chihuahua that drains hunger the way […]
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• Farewell to DJ Dave Roberts of Planet Earth and Late Bar

  14-02-2023 19:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Veteran local DJ Dave Roberts died at 64 on Monday, February 6, after a bacterial infection spread from his spine into his bloodstream. In 1994, Roberts cofounded popular weekly new-wave party Planet Earth with his longtime partner and collaborator, Kristine Hengl, at Lincoln Park alternative bar Club 950 (aka Lucky Number). Planet Earth moved to […]
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• ‘This feels like losing a family member’

  14-02-2023 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On February 10, Chicago’s skateboarding community gathered at Grant Skate Park for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of Tyre Nichols and all victims of police brutality. 
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• “All Love and No Hate” for Tyre Nichols

  14-02-2023 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On February 10, Chicago’s skateboarding community gathered at Grant Skate Park for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of Tyre Nichols and all victims of police brutality. 
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Diversity is essential in lowering police violence?

  14-02-2023 14:00
  
  by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier
  By now, the name Tyre Nichols is synonymous with police brutality.
  Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was accused of reckless driving by Memphis police. Police body camera footage showed five Black police officers dragging Nichols out of his vehicle, pepper spraying Nichols, and striking Nichols with a baton plus their fists and feet.
  These five Black police officers were members of a special unit called SCORPION.  According to the Memphis Polic
  
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• Defying gravity

  14-02-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Suddenly the audience was enveloped in darkness. We awaited the commencement. Two screens turn on, showing poetic verses scrolling up. Then, the music started flowing through the space, conducted by Asante Owusu-Brafi, Angel Bat Dawid, and Ishmael Ali as they sat under a somber blue light. Ethereal sounds and light piano keys echoed. I see […]
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• All in at Western Exhibition’s “Drawing Biennial”

  14-02-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Drawing is a foundational art form, which may make it one of the most difficult to exhibit. The line between a schematic and a doodle and a cohesive final product can be, well, sketchy. Some of the pieces in Western Exhibition’s second “Drawing Biennial” are keenly aware of this flexibility and use it to their […]
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• SZA taps into universal experiences on the genre-bending SOS

  14-02-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Don’t lie. You’ve sat up like a fool and cried over a love interest before, just like the rest of us. SZA’s ability to tap into that universal experience is what makes her work so good. At times her lyrics sprain the heart. On “Gone Girl,” from her long-awaited second album, SOS, she sings, “I […]
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• Billy the Kid

  14-02-2023 00:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Everyone knows him because of his glasses. He’s the kid.”  Campaign volunteer Ava Gal gestured to William “The Kid” Guerrero, the 21-year-old artist running for a council seat in the 12th Chicago Police District. It was 6 PM on a Friday night in early February, and Guerrero’s supporters waited for guests to arrive at his […]
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