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• Chicago punk loses a champion

  23-02-2023 17:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 1980, Chris Bjorklund frequented a River North bar called Oz, which two years earlier had become one of the first places in Chicago to embrace punk. He visited often enough that he got to know the owner, Dem Hopkins. Bjorklund played in a band called Strike Under, and Hopkins offered to introduce him to […]
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• Quixote goes airborne

  23-02-2023 16:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Circus Quixotic, the winter circus production at The Actors Gymnasium, flips the story of Don Quixote into a modern retelling. Through metaphor and audience asides from the actors, director and adapter duo David and Kerry Catlin condense Miguel de Cervantes’s 1,072-page tome of misadventures into a family-friendly chunk of mayhem featuring the title character and […]
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• To Our Flags

  23-02-2023 16:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• To Our Flag

  23-02-2023 16:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• Warm and fuzzy

  23-02-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Charles Dickens’s schoolmaster Mr. Gradgrind from Hard Times (he who insists, “Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts”) would feel right at home in the grim factory town run by a petulant archduke in Mac Barnett’s 2012 children’s book Extra Yarn. There, young Annabelle and her schoolmates are […]
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• Take that, Jane!

  23-02-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Lookingglass Theatre Company’s world premiere of Villette, a modern adaptation (written by Sara Gmitter and directed by Tracy Walsh) of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, explores the travails of a woman determined to stand on her own and not live in a fairy-tale world of romance. Graced with a rock-solid work ethic, Lucy Snowe is unwilling to […]
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• Summer and smoke

  23-02-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Nilo Cruz’s 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics is a lit-fuse kind of drama, beginning with a slow but unmistakable simmer that ultimately detonates with scorching, devastating impact. Directed by Laura Alcalá Baker for Remy Bumppo Theatre, this lavishly produced, powerfully cast production shows just how relevant—and compelling—Cruz’s words remain.  Anna in the Tropics […]
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• Harold Dennis’s diamonds are in his own backyard

  23-02-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Every year, countless local actors move to LA to pursue a career onscreen. But what about the ones who stay? What does it mean to be a working actor in Chicago?
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• Brief encounter

  23-02-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Some believe that those who suspect death is near can often feel it approaching, and in Invictus Theatre’s rendition of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. senses his end is coming.  This fictional and subversive play, directed by Aaron Reese Boseman, imagines the evening after King (Mikha’el Amin) has delivered his “I’ve […]
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• A bright spot in contemporary painting

  23-02-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Contemporary painting is vast terrain. Its broad, shimmering beauty and stylistic scope eludes easy classification. In spite of digital reproduction’s awesome omnipresence and the mobile Internet’s unrestrained reach, a comprehensive view will forever exceed our vision. While we can’t see or speak of linear movements, we can still witness formal affinities and visit thematic encampments. […]
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• Commercial Real Estate Development and the Need for Inclusivity

  23-02-2023 13:57
  Quintin E. Primo III is one of relatively few African Americans operating at the highest level of the commercial real estate business. His company, the Chicago-based Capri Investment Group, boasts more than $14 billion in real estate investment transactions completed – with more high-profile deals in the pipeline.
  In late 2021, Capri Investment Group and commercial and residential real estate development company, The Prime Group, acquired the James R. Thompson Center, an historic building
  
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• Dance producer Hagop Tchaparian synthesizes a lifetime of global travels on Bolts

  23-02-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As a teenager in the late 90s, Hagop Tchaparian played in a hyped-up London pop-punk band, Symposium, whose dizzying rise and fall left its five members saddled with debt in excess of a quarter million dollars. In the early 2000s, as Tchaparian rebuilt his life, he took gigs flyering outside London nightclubs, and dance music […]
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• This Week In Black History February 22 – February 28, 2023

  23-02-2023 05:45
  
   
  February 22
  1950—Basketball legend Julius “Dr. J” Erving is born in Roosevelt, N.Y. He was the most dominant NBA player of his era. The former Philadelphia 76’er was 6’7”, 210 pounds.
   
  February 231868—Dr. W.E.B. DuBois is born William Edward Burghardt DuBois in Great Barrington, Mass. DuBois can easily qualify as Black America’s leading scholar and intellectual of the late 1800s and early 1900s. He was also an educator and social activ
  
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