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• Best of Chicago 2022: Arts & Culture

  04-04-2023 23:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• Why Angel Reese Keeps Winning

  04-04-2023 21:00
  
  Superstar basketball player Angel Reese, who trashed-talked her opponent and received backlash for it all, still came out on top — beyond being crowned champion of her sport.
  By now, you know that Reese’s LSU Tigers resoundingly defeated the Iowa Hawkeyes and their dynamic lead guard Caitlin Clark to win the NCAA Women’s Championship. 
  By now you also know that the biting criticism Reese got for showing up Clark — from prominent media members to Twitter trolls &mdash
  
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• Dream-pop artist Lipsticism celebrates a new collaborative single at Sleeping Village

  04-04-2023 19:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago dream-pop artist Alana Schachtel, who records and performs as Lipsticism, has a seemingly effortless command of melody, and her ethereal, diaphanous productions make her songs feel like floating through a tranquil sky filled with gorgeous fluffy clouds. In December, she released the outstanding album Two Mirrors Facing Each Other (Earth Libraries), and it’s been […]
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• Princess Sarah Culberson Will Speak To The Students of Rich Township High School District 227 On Wednesday, April 5th!

  04-04-2023 19:26
  
  Princess Sarah Jane Culberson is an American philanthropist, public speaker, educator, writer and actress.
  By birth she is a Mende princess of Bumpe–Gao Chiefdom in Sierra Leone. She is the co-founder of Sierra Leone Rising, a non-profit organization that raises funds to improve education, economic opportunities, and sustainable living for people in Sierra Leone. The organization also distributed aid during the COVID-19 crises and the Ebola outbreak.  On Wednesday, April 5th at 11:00
  
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• Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife

  04-04-2023 18:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• Local venue Constellation celebrates its first decade of nurturing and presenting cutting-edge music

  04-04-2023 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Given the relentless corporatization of American life, any place you can find that isn’t a front for faceless, rent-seeking conglomerate feels special. Certain independent music venues earn a special reverence by establishing a center of gravity for communities and movements in need. Since April 2013, when Constellation opened on Western Avenue in a shared space […]
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• Brandon Johnson speaks with Black LGBTQ+ leaders

  04-04-2023 16:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The day mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson descended upon Lighthouse Church of Chicago UCC was reminiscent of any other political season meet and greet between a hopeful candidate and an inquisitive community of faith. Except it wasn’t the same because Lighthouse is the only predominantly African American and LGBTQ+ -inclusive congregation in the city. The church, […]
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• The Struggle Dr. King Gave His Life For

  04-04-2023 15:00
  
  By Ben Jealous
  (TriceEdneyWire.com) – This week in 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated leading a bold effort to teach America an urgent lesson: Racism is not just the boot on the neck of people of color, it is also the great wedge that divides Americans. And everyone who gets divided loses.
  On Dec. 4, 1967, King announced a multiracial “Poor People’s Campaign” that would march on Washington, DC, that summer.The idea gained traction as groups of poor Wh
  
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• NAN Convention to bring together VP Harris, Tyler Perry, Kerry Washington, Magic Johnson and More

  04-04-2023 14:00
  
  Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN), will kick off the Annual Convention in New York City next Wednesday, with the four-day summit bringing together the likes of Vice President Kamala Harris and nearly a dozen Biden Administration officials, Tyler Perry, Kerry Washington, Magic Johnson, and other leaders in entertainment, business, civil rights, education, and other fields.  
   
  This year’s convention comes at a pivotal moment both in histo
  
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• Hands-on reading

  04-04-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The act of reading is rarely just a simple matter of decoding text, but as this diverting exhibition demonstrates, book designers have been augmenting blocks of words with fold-out extensions, rotating dials, opening doorways, and 3D elements for almost as long as there’s been a printing press. Composed of objects from the Newberry Library’s own […]
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• Angel Marcloid drops another bold and inexplicable album as Fire-Toolz

  04-04-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If I had my way, there’d be several fully staffed news operations focused just on Chicago music, and each one would have a reporter dedicated full-time to the work of experimental producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and recording engineer Angel Marcloid. All on her own, Marcloid produces as much fascinating, discombobulating music—glitchy screamo, proggy smooth jazz, […]
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