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• Fight or Fold: A Creed III Exclusive Interview

  22-02-2023 23:26
  
  By: Arika Linton
  It’s giving…charm, skill and above all five stars! Spoiler alert ladies, there are tons of chest and body shots that make you lean into the movie that much more. These black men are beautiful and you’re sure to swoon in any fight scene. There’s something to be said about star power, quality acting and a great screenplay that makes a film top tier. Creed III is no exception. From start to finish, the captivating plot between Jordan and Majors’ chara
  
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• Caroline Patton, founder of the Chicago Weekly Show Calendar

  22-02-2023 19:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Caroline Patton is the faceless giant behind the Chicago Weekly Show Calendar, an Instagram account and weekly email newsletter that tries to detail all the concerts happening in the city at a range of venues. Launched in August 2021, the account has nearly 6,000 followers, and weekly posts average around 350 likes.  Patton graduated with […]
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• Floor Show keeps swinging

  22-02-2023 19:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Alex Grelle and Jesse Morgan Young’s Floor Show premiered in a brief electric run in February 2020 at the Chopin. The plan was to bring it back later that spring. But then . . . you know. Blessedly, this compelling exploration/channeling of the chameleonic (and always self-aware) spirit of David Bowie—to call it a “tribute […]
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• Teenage traumas

  22-02-2023 19:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Ask any middle-aged person about their first romantic breakup, and there’s a good chance they’ll laugh. Ask about their first friend breakup, on the other hand: no laughter. Director Ericka Ratcliff’s Steppenwolf for Young Adults stage adaptation of Mahogany L. Browne’s 2021 novel-in-verse Chlorine Sky uses the dissolution of a relationship between two high school […]
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• Sisters in war

  22-02-2023 19:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Dominick Alesia’s original musical, now in a world premiere with the Impostors under Stefan Roseen’s direction, follows a young girl, Amelia, as she searches through a country shattered by war for Miranda, the older sister she never knew she had. Along the way, much like Dorothy and Alice, she encounters helpmates who are on their […]
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• Failure to launch

  22-02-2023 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Wax nostalgic for the pandemic shutdown as Red Theater presents the world premiere of Indoor Cats by Mora V. Harris, directed by Wyatt Kent. Meet Jules (Karylin Veres), an entitled, selfish twentysomething “artiste” whose fellowship gets canceled, leaving her to endure the early days of COVID at her parents’ second home, a cottage in the […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 52, No. 10

  22-02-2023 18:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 52, Number 10. February 23, 2023
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• Nobody knows the Troubles they’ve seen

  22-02-2023 17:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There are not many names more Irish than Shannon O’Neill. “I’m like the John Smith of Ireland,” O’Neill quips. So it only makes sense that the sixth-generation Irish American (whose people fled the Emerald Isle in the 1840s during the potato famine) “fell in love with being Irish at a very early age.”  As a […]
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• Julian ‘Jumpin’ Perez makes the leap into Chicago politics

  22-02-2023 16:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Julian “Jumpin” Perez has a cough. He hasn’t let his recent illness stop him from granting me an interview, but it sneaks up on him as he talks about his storied career in music and his future ambitions in politics. His stories get longer and longer because they so rarely move in a straight line. […]
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• Transit 4 All campaigns for equity, accessibility, and improved service for Chicago transit riders

  22-02-2023 16:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago has one of the largest transit systems in the United States, but despite its size, it has many flaws and challenges that prevent it from serving all Chicagoans equally and equitably. Transit 4 All seeks to change that by expanding and improving public transit while making it safer, more equitable, and more affordable.  Launched […]
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• Meet the rising bread queen of Chicago

  22-02-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the video for the song “Agege Bread,” the late comedian Sir Kay Kamoru plays a naif—a rural, Igbo visitor to the UK who, when confronted with a full English breakfast (bacon, sausages, eggs, beans, tomatoes, etc.), embarks on a madcap quest across London in search of the soft, squishy brioche-like staple bread of Nigeria. […]
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• The writing is on the wall at two Roe-themed shows

  22-02-2023 15:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last summer the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion, overturning previous decisions made in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in a case that is now ubiquitously known as the Dobbs decision. Choice and decision go hand in hand, but they are not the same […]
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• Many Americans wrongly assume they understand what normal blood pressure is – and that false confidence can be deadly

  22-02-2023 14:51
  
  High blood pressure has no symptoms, so you could have it and not be aware. nortonsx/iStock via Getty Images Plus
  by Wändi Bruine de Bruin, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Mark Huffman, Washington University in St Louis
  Stunning as it may sound, nearly half of Americans ages 20 years and up – or more than 122 million people – have high blood pressure, according to a 2023 report from the American Heart Association. And even if your numbers are normal right
  
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• The Carr Report: Should I accept a $2 million offer for my waterfront property?

  22-02-2023 14:00
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  by Damon Carr, For New Pittsburgh Courier
  Damon, I’m curious to know what your take is on this. Someone is begging me to sell them my waterfront villa that I purchased 4 years ago at $730k. It’s now valued at $1.7 million. He is willing to pay $2 million. There are no more waterfront villas available. Should I hold on to it or cash in?
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  I put this question before my Facebook audience to weigh in. The overall response was 50/50. Half suggested holding the prope
  
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• Juan de Marcos & the Afro-Cuban All Stars celebrate the effervescence of Cuban music

  22-02-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There are unlimited reasons to love Cuban music, but what draws me the most is the relentless, resilient joy at its heart. The island’s grooves have a century-long history of sparking international music crazes, and it’s hard to imagine the panorama of contemporary music without the influences of artists such as Pérez Prado or the […]
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