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• BCAM brings diversity to the circus

  22-03-2023 22:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The BIPOC Circus Alliance Midwest, a thriving performance troupe in Chicago, played to sold-out audiences in venues around Chicago in February and March. Affectionately called BCAM by their members and fans, they are more than just a collective of circus artists. BCAM is an organization that emerged from the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 […]
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• Better Boy reveals an easygoing, fine-dining future at the next Monday Night Foodball

  22-03-2023 22:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Better Boy works hard. Better Boy thrives anywhere it grows. Better Boy is meaty and juicy. Better Boy explodes with flavor. No, I’m not talking about Solanum lycopersicum, everybody’s favorite brawny, bloodred, beefsteak tomato. I’m talking about Adam McFarland and Tom Rogers, the chef duo that grew out of a fertile landscape of esteemed fine-dining […]
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• So you think you know dance

  22-03-2023 22:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Chicago Cultural Center knows how to provide visceral and engaging Chicago-created content. Last year the city celebrated the Year of Chicago Dance, which highlighted our thriving and diverse dance community. During that time, the Chicago Cultural Center Dance Studio installed a new dance floor and provided space, time, and funding for Chicago dancemakers to […]
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• ‘It’s about finding those visceral connections to dance’

  22-03-2023 21:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On January 6, the dance department at Columbia College announced Meredith Sutton as the interim director of the Dance Presenting Series at its Dance Center. Sutton served as program manager for the Dance Presenting Series since February of the previous year. Before moving to Chicago, Sutton was associate professor of dance at the University of […]
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• Building COMMON ground

  22-03-2023 21:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  During the second iteration of COMMON canvas, bodies circled around a center point: a pile of clothes in an upstage corner. For a moment, the pile of clothes moved, as if to take a breath, and the bodies around it held still. The performance, which Chicago dance artist and current Hubbard Street member Alysia L. […]
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• Spring in our steps

  22-03-2023 20:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Winter might have been more mild than usual this year, but spring is coming in hot with live performances to light up the season. From remounts of favorites to world premieres, Chicago stages offer an intriguing seasonal bouquet in dance, opera, theater, comedy, and more. Here are 20 shows to consider in the days and […]
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• Review: Shazam! Fury of the Gods

  22-03-2023 18:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The first iteration contained some intriguing comedic explorations into what it means to have near-limitless power with a limited maturity level, and it seems like the creative team used up all their thoughts on it in the first go-round.
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• Review: John Wick 4

  22-03-2023 18:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  You would think that by John Wick 4 the franchise would be tired and out of tricks—and you would be dead wrong.
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• Review: Country Gold

  22-03-2023 18:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s a little late in the day for a Garth Brooks parody, but Mickey Reece’s Country Gold is fully aware of its own obsolescence.
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• The Understudy is ready for the spotlight

  22-03-2023 18:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Almost a year ago, I talked to Danny Fender and Adam Crawford about their plans for the Understudy, a new theater bookstore and coffee bar in Andersonville. At that time, they were aiming for an opening in August 2022. City permits and supply chains being what they are, those plans got pushed back by several […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 52, No. 12

  22-03-2023 18:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 52, Number 12. March 23, 2023
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• Acid King return to form with the powerful Beyond Vision

  22-03-2023 18:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Acid King’s new full-length, Beyond Vision (Blues Funeral), wasn’t originally intended to be an Acid King record at all. As lead guitarist, front woman, and sole permanent member Lori S. (aka Lori Joseph) told Guitar World magazine in a February interview, she meant to make an experimental collaborative album with guitarist Jason Landrian of Black […]
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• Late jazz pianist Bob Dogan gets a tribute show at Elastic Arts

  22-03-2023 16:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Chicago pianist and composer Bob Dogan died in Tallahassee, Florida, in 2020 after a brief illness, our city lost a jazz giant. In 2005, longtime Reader writer Neil Tesser hailed his small-group compositions for their “strong, meaty lines with attractive harmonic schemes that engage and propel the soloists,” while also noting the airy, economical […]
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• Spring awakening

  22-03-2023 16:13 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Never mind those icy patches on the sidewalk: spring is here, bringing with it our seasonal theater and arts preview issue. Accordingly, while the global banking system teeters, Xi and Vlad (nukes in their back pockets) rendezvous, and Trump seems poised to take the first-ever presidential perp walk, the issue I’m stewing about is this: […]
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• Shanquella Robinson’s Friends Laughed, Went for Dinner After Death

  22-03-2023 15:59
  
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  The group traveling with Shanquella Robinson, a 25-year-old North Carolina woman found dead at a resort in Mexico, was heard laughing and went out to dinner shortly after her death, according to a concierge.
  Robinson was found dead in October while on a group vacation to a resort in San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico. The group initially claimed that Robinson died of alcohol poisoning, but an autopsy report determined the 25-year-old suffered trauma to her neck and sp
  
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• Celebrating Women’s History Month: 10 Inspiring Black Women

  22-03-2023 15:40
  
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  March is Women’s History Month, and Black women have certainly made history, many charting paths that hadn’t yet been forged. For Black women in America, the duality of existing as both Black and woman has often created a complicated web of barriers, setbacks, and discouragement.
  Through it all, change has come, history has been made, generations have been inspired through diligence, sacrifice, grit, and an unrelenting notion of possibility. The ingenuity that gro
  
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• In Motion: The Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project centers equity and opportunity while celebrating local artistry

  22-03-2023 15:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Amid an inequitable arts landscape, an innovative, multi-year initiative called the Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project [CBDLP] has emerged to bolster Chicago’s most beloved Black dance institutions.  For more than a century, Chicago-based Black dance organizations and artists have pioneered numerous styles, including, modern, jazz, hip-hop, tap, and footwork. They’ve also helped introduce African dance […]
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• “Voices from inside”

  22-03-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Walking up and down the galleries, I’d hear some really deep conversations,” Renaldo Hudson said, recalling the origins of Stateville Speaks, the newspaper he founded in prison almost 20 years ago. “I would hear people talk about Socrates, the stuff that people don’t think happens in prison.”  Despite living under the oppressive conditions of prison, […]
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• The Carr Report: Stop making excuses!

  22-03-2023 13:00
  
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  When you make an excuse, you are seeking to defend or justify something. There are things that happen in life that catch us completely off-guard.  When this happens, it flips whatever we had planned inside out.  There are some things that are a matter of fact.  It is what it is! You have limited to no ability to change it in the short-term. These are the unpredictable circumstances and the realities of life that we all face.  When life throws you an unpredictable
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Woke, equity, and anti-concepts

  22-03-2023 13:00
  
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  Recently, HBO talk show host Bill Maher was interviewed by CNN. Maher expressed that wokeness, regardless of how it’s defined, is a collection of ideas that depart from liberalism, and those that embrace woke ideology shut down debate.
  Maher also said ten years ago we were “striving to be a color-blind society where we don’t see race. Woke is something very different—it’s identity politics—woke sees [race] all the time. [Race] is the most importan
  
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• TmbaTa Orchestra electrify Armenian folk tradition

  22-03-2023 12:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Armenian folk music has retained its compelling singularity for centuries, through all the tribulations faced by the nation and its people, but TmbaTa Orchestra show that a deep respect for this tradition does not preclude reinventing it. The band, whose name derives from a musical exercise, grew out of an education program launched a decade […]
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