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• Tales of our nights

  08-03-2023 22:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There’s a tranquil moment of healing in act two, when a teary-eyed Marwa turns to their older brother Yousif and pleads, “I don’t want 17 years to pass.” That instant captures the heartbeat of Layalina (lay-ali-na), a new play at the Goodman that aims to remind us what family can truly mean at best.  Layalina […]
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• The great touring gamble

  08-03-2023 22:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Elijah Montez launched his psych-pop project, Daydream Review, after moving to Chicago from Austin in 2018. He put together a band to play his material live, and they planned their first tour for March 2020. We all know what happened next. “It kind of derailed where we were at,” Montez says. “We were playing a […]
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• Medical racism

  08-03-2023 22:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 1932, Green Adair was one of 399 Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, just east of Montgomery, who tested positive for “bad blood.” He and over 600 other Black men were deceived by the U.S. Public Health Service and enlisted to participate in a study originally called the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the […]
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• a poem for america

  08-03-2023 20:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• Don’t worry, Sleaford Mods are still pissed off at everyone

  08-03-2023 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When a band have as limited a format and as minimalist an approach as Sleaford Mods, it’s always great to hear them come out with completely fresh and exciting sounds. The British postpunk duo have done this time and time again for more than 15 years, and every one of their releases is engaging, unnerving, […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 52, No. 11

  08-03-2023 18:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 52, Number 10. February 23, 2023
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• Stop by Pink Salt and Maa Maa Dei’s Bangkok rice and curry shop at the next Monday Night Foodball

  08-03-2023 17:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  You’re tired. You’re hungry. You’ve spent all day staring at the walls of your cubicle. All you want is a home-cooked meal, but the last thing you need right now is to haul up your granite mortar and pound out your own green curry paste from scratch. You don’t care about the inevitable side-eyes on […]
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• Hello, Dalí

  08-03-2023 17:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I was a reporter at the St. Petersburg Times in 1980, when St. Pete got the idea of turning itself into Salvador Dalíwood. Not everyone was on board: on the one hand, there were grumbles about Dalí’s apparent tolerance for fascism (including a cozy long-term relationship with Franco), and on the other, sneering art-world objections […]
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• Red Bull Dance Your Style returns to Chicago in May

  08-03-2023 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Red Bull has revealed that the national final for its third annual Dance Your Style competition will take place in Chicago on May 20, with related programming in the days leading up to the event. The announcement took place at an invitation-only launch party for the 2023 season on February 22 at Smartbar, less than […]
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• Dance Your Style returns to Chicago in May

  08-03-2023 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Red Bull has revealed that the national final for its third annual Dance Your Style competition will take place in Chicago on May 20, with related programming in the days leading up to the event. The announcement took place at an invitation-only launch party for the 2023 season on February 22 at Smartbar, less than […]
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• Help support Multiple Sclerosis research with your purchase of a “It Takes 2” specialty ticket from the Illinois Lottery

  08-03-2023 16:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2008, the Illinois Lottery launched a specialty ticket benefiting the Illinois Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS). Funds raised from Illinois Lottery specialty tickets are distributed through grants awarded to numerous organizations working in a specific area, such as veterans programs or breast cancer research, but the Illinois Lottery specialty ticket in […]
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• Heather Gabel, collage artist and singer of Hide

  08-03-2023 15:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Heather Gabel is an icon of the midwestern industrial scene. As singer for Hide, their electronic duo with Seth Sher, they control the stage like a bionic witch who’s just emerged from a scrap heap to reveal truths both prophetic and profane. Offstage they’ve been a support professional in varied musical communities, working as a […]
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• Republicans are trying to build a multiracial right – will it work?

  08-03-2023 15:30
  
  GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event on Feb. 16, 2023, in Exeter, N.H. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
  by Joseph Lowndes, University of Oregon and Daniel Martinez HoSang, Yale Divinity School
  Former Republican South Carolina Governor and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley launched her bid for president recently in a video that began by describing the racial division that marked her small hometown of Bamberg, South Carolina.
  Meanwhile, another presumptive GOP
  
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• What are the limits of presidential power to forgive student loans?

  08-03-2023 15:10
  
  The sculpture of U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln towers over the Black Hills at Mount Rushmore, near Keystone, S.D.Scott Olson/Getty Images News via Getty Images
  by Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina
  There’s about US$430 billion on the line for 40 million people in the Supreme Court’s upcoming decisions on student debt forgiveness.
  But for President Joe Biden, the extent of the executive branch’s power is als
  
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• The Carr Report: Is buying a home a terrible investment?

  08-03-2023 14:00
  
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  One of my Facebook followers recently inboxed an article from cnbc.com to me titled, “Buying a home is a terrible investment.” She captioned this article with, “I don’t agree with this advice.”
  Here’s the advice: A lot of people will tell you that buying a home is a good investment, but “that couldn’t be further from the truth,” says Peter Mallouk, a certified financial planner and president of wealth management firm Creative Pla
  
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• Cycles of grief

  08-03-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Ecuador celebrates the New Year with fire and ashes. Every year’s final day is defined by reflection and renewal as people erect bonfires to burn painted effigies assembled from old clothes, sawdust, and papier-mâché. These figures, the año viejos, embody the misfortunes of the previous year. Together, Ecuadorians engage in the ritual of rejuvenation, discarding […]
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• Julia Holter and Spektral Quartet’s Behind the Wallpaper promises that better worlds are possible

  08-03-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  One of my favorite moments in music comes in the fourth movement of Arnold Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 2. In that piece, the quartet is joined by a soprano, who floats a verse by poet Stefan George over the soft glow of strings: “Ich fühle Luft von anderem Planeten.” (“I feel air from another planet.”) […]
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