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• Review: Scream VI

  09-03-2023 19:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Aside from one effectively tense sequence set in a New York City bodega, there’s a weariness to this entry that it tries to make up for by being in love with itself.
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• Review: Champions

  09-03-2023 19:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Overall, Champions is endearing at times with some slow moments, but it’s a good movie if you’re a fan of the genre.
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• Son Rompe Pera polish up the punk in their cumbia and infuse it with pan-Latinx vibes

  09-03-2023 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The marimba-forward folkloric cumbia of Son Rompe Pera’s 2020 debut album, Batuco, didn’t entirely prepare me for the Mexican quintet’s visceral, madcap live shows. The style of cumbia in which they specialize more typically soundtracks intergenerational family celebrations than crowd surfing and mosh pits. But the group’s new second album, Chimborazo, sheds light on how […]
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• Queer gun owners are ‘American as fuck’

  09-03-2023 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Dina fascinated me. So much of the national conversation around gun use and control depicts gun owners as white, conservative, heterosexual men, but here in Chicago was a trans, nonbinary musician and performer who makes songs about pussy, money, weed, and pizza, and who also conceals and carries.
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• Review: Sound of Silence

  09-03-2023 17:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  An atmospheric and ambitious haunted-house movie that will call to mind Oculus (2013), Sound of Silence plays like a radio.
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• Review: Art Talent Show

  09-03-2023 17:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This funny, thoughtful, verité look at the yearly selection process in Prague’s Academy of Fine Arts manages to pack insights about education, societal shifts, and intellectual differences without getting bogged down in culture war cliches.
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• Brittany Devon’s ‘quiet subtleness of sureness’

  09-03-2023 16:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Devon, 30, runs She | Them Productions, a Chicago-based production company dedicated to telling inclusive and original stories.
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• Creating A Model for Black Economic Citizenship Open Discussion

  09-03-2023 16:28
  March 14, 2023 | 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern TimeThe Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys invites you to join an open discussion on Tuesday,March 14, 2023. The discussion will focus on the most pressing issues affecting Black men and boys, includingpolicies and actions that can prevent these issues. Each participant will speak from their area of expertise. Atthis public briefing, the CSSBMB Commissioners will hear from subject matter experts such as governmentofficials, acti
  
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• Don’t ask why it’s funny

  09-03-2023 16:13 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A lot of funny people would call Bruce McCulloch a comedy legend—just none of them named “Bruce McCulloch.” For more than 30 years, the writer, director, actor, musician, and founding member of The Kids in the Hall has been an influential voice across comedy mediums. A punk aficionado with a love of the inexplicable, McCulloch […]
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• White people have Emily Dickinson, Mexicans have José Olivarez 

  09-03-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The first time I met José Olivarez was in 2018, while organizing with Brown and Proud Press. BPP hosted a series of events we called “Cumbia & Stanzas” where poets shared the stage with DJs. We were so excited to welcome Olivarez, who graciously agreed to be a part of our Pilsen DIY event; this […]
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• A new compilation recalls a beloved queer performance series in New York’s underground

  09-03-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  You know a compilation is “peak New York club” when it features Joey Arias. On Blacklips Bar: Androgyns and Deviants—Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered Angels, 1992–1995, the cabaret star and former Fiorucci store manager (who’s also executor of Klaus Nomi’s estate) appears right out of the gate with a breathy, aching rendition of “Good […]
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• This Week In Black History March 8-14, 2023

  09-03-2023 05:00
  
  This Dec. 6, 1995, file photo shows Notorious B.I.G, born Christopher Wallace, accepting rap artist and rap single of the year during the Billboard Music Awards in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)March 8
  1993—Jazz great Billy Eckstine dies at 78 in Pittsburgh, Pa. Eckstine came to fame in the 1940’s and 1950’s as a singer and bandleader who worked with some of the greatest names of the era including Louis Armstrong and Lena Horne. He was one of the greatest influences u
  
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