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• Review: Full Time

  15-02-2023 23:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Julie, a single mother of two played by Laure Calamy, lives in the Parisian suburbs but works tirelessly as the head housemaid for a five-star hotel located in the heart of Paris. Her daily routine begins by waking up the children and gathering herself for a lengthy, claustrophobic commute. Once she drops the children off […]
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• Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

  15-02-2023 23:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will be a blockbuster due to its amazing cast, outstanding special effects, and family-friendly fare replete with enough funny lines and cameos to keep people entertained. Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is back, riding his fame after saving the world with the Avengers in Avengers: Endgame (2019). But when his daughter […]
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• Review: All That Breathes

  15-02-2023 23:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Delhi is a gaping wound,” says Mohammad Saud in director Shaunak Sen’s Oscar-nominated documentary All That Breathes. The documentary opens at night, fixed on a horde of rats racing across an otherwise arid wasteland. For longer than expected, Sen leaves the audience with the vermin before introducing the skies, narrowing in on the black kite—a […]
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• Trial in the Delta revisits the murder of Emmett Till

  15-02-2023 22:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A murder trial transcript that went missing, not to be found until 2004—decades after the murder of Emmett Till. The Black Chicago teen whose unfathomable death in 1955 sparked the Civil Rights Movement didn’t get justice through a broken court system. Now, decades later, audiences can witness scenes from the murder trial of Till’s killers […]
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• Ezekiel’s Wheel is an absorbing fable

  15-02-2023 21:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Like most speculative fiction (and every original Star Trek episode), Ezekiel’s Wheel is a fable: a story whose moral applies to circumstances other than those being described. Determining whether that moral is “Absolute power corrupts absolutely,” or “You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything,” or even “We have met the enemy […]
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• Right To Be Forgotten questions how much the Internet should remember

  15-02-2023 21:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Producing a commentary on the Internet is typically an exercise in redundancy, tasked with avoiding tropes beaten into media by shows like Black Mirror or 13 Reasons Why. At this point, we clearly understand that we live inseparably from our digital footprints as we inadvertently document our own legacies. Despite the risk of redundancy, the […]
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• Seeing the forest and the trees

  15-02-2023 21:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical Into the Woods premiered three years before Robert Bly’s Iron John sent men into the wilderness as part of the “mythopoetic men’s movement,” complete with sweat lodges, drum circles, chanting, and other rituals designed to restore a pre-industrialization notion of masculinity, combined with Joseph Campbell’s “hero’s journey” narratives. The […]
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• #OscarsSoWhite

  15-02-2023 20:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This past fall, TimeLine offered a blistering revival of Alice Childress’s Trouble in Mind, in which a Black actress in a 1950s Broadway play about lynching (penned and directed by white men, naturally) takes a stand against the insulting stereotypes in the script and the microaggressions in the rehearsal room. They’ve followed that up with […]
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• Chicago gets its first Alamo Drafthouse

  15-02-2023 19:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The vibes are immaculate, joked one of my friends as we walked into the new Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Wrigleyville, which opened a few weeks ago.
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• Here’s Why Positive Black Birth Stories Are Needed

  15-02-2023 18:10
  Maternal telehealth has become the norm, but some Black birthing people can’t access the benefits. That’s why Kimberly Seals Allers created a free hotline to share positive Black birth stories.
   by Alexa Spencer
   Soon-to-be mothers deserve to hear positive Black birth stories — these are not details that should be held back. Especially when narratives about our tragic, often preventable, deaths are recycled constantly. 
  Having access to informative, supporti
  
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• The Carr Report: How do I reduce my taxable income?

  15-02-2023 14:00
  
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  by Damon Carr, For New Pittsburgh Courier
  I need to find out strategies on how to lower my taxable income.
  ~ Steve
  Damon says: That’s the easiest question that I’ve received to date. Here’s what you do: March down to your human resources department and ask to meet with a payroll specialist.  Inform the payroll specialist that in an effort to reduce your taxable income, you’d like a pay cut IMMEDIATELY! You don’t like that strategy, do you? I&r
  
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• Linsey Alexander started a second career in the blues at 58

  15-02-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s important to pay tribute to our living legends, and I like to think that the Secret History of Chicago Music does so at least as often as it honors the departed. Guitarist and singer Linsey Alexander has been laying down blistering electric blues in the Windy City for five decades, but he didn’t become […]
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