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• Review: The Super Mario Bros. Movie

  14-04-2023 23:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Don’t try to make these guys more real, because that was never the point.
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• Review: Renfield

  14-04-2023 23:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Get ready, because there’s yet another new take on Dracula. But no need to brace yourself, because Renfield feels surprisingly fresh. 
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• Review: Mafia Mamma

  14-04-2023 23:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Mafia Mamma has the makings of a cult classic. On paper, that is.The post Review: Mafia Mamma appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
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• ​Review: Hilma

  14-04-2023 23:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Watch the excellent 2019 documentary Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint, or better yet, just look at the paintings.
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• Review: Tommy Guns

  14-04-2023 23:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Carlos Conceição has created a smart, strange film that is disjointed because colonialism is a thing of disjointed desires, histories, and deaths.
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• Finding billboards

  14-04-2023 22:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  To see “OVERRIDE,” I had to really look hard for billboards.  “OVERRIDE” has been a public art program of EXPO Chicago since 2016, extending the reach of the art fair beyond Navy Pier’s Festival Hall to different locales of the city. “Override,” literally, is an industry term that indicates the continuation of an outdoor advertising […]
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• Art-school punks Poison Squirrel released their lone single in 1980

  14-04-2023 20:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The early history of Chicago punk is a tough nut to crack. Because the scene here isn’t seen as groundbreaking or cohesive, it hasn’t been nearly as thoroughly researched or documented as the scene in New York City. The 2007 documentary You Weren’t There, directed by Joe Losurdo and Christina Tillman, tried to pick up […]
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• A mother of a play

  14-04-2023 16:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Motherhouse begins with a recently bereaved daughter struggling to write her mother’s eulogy.  Her mother’s four sisters arrive to help with the task but instead reenact every unresolved family trauma. (Suffice it to say that the best-adjusted of the sisters is the one estranged from the others by her membership in a cult.) Under the […]
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• Englewood Barbie: A Bold Activist With A Bolder Vision

  14-04-2023 16:00
  
  On a recent April night that felt like Summer, a woman known as Englewood Barbie makes her nightly dinner call to her neighbors — one of the last ones she’ll make for a while.
  “Let’s go, friends!” She calls out, strolling down a line of orange tents nestled under a viaduct that supports a stretch of the Dan Ryan Expressway in East Pilsen. 
  “Mr. Raymond, you eatin tonight?” She asks, directing her question into an open flap of a tent.
  She hears a res
  
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• Tucker Carlson Goes On Racist Tirade Against Black Lawmaker Justin Pearson

  14-04-2023 15:30
  
  Fox News host Tucker Carlson went on a racist rant targeting Democratic Rep. Justin Pearson, one of the two Black Tennesee lawmakers who were expelled from the state legislature over a gun violence protest, the HuffPost reports.
  Pearson and his colleague Justin Jones were ousted from the Tennessee House last week after leading a gun violence protest on the chamber floor in the wake of the Nashville school shooting. Jones was reinstated to the state legislature on Monday (April 10) following a vo
  
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• Black Man Sentenced To 70 Years In Prison For Spitting On Police

  14-04-2023 15:00
  
  A Texas man has been sentenced to 70 years in prison after he allegedly spat on police officers.
  Larry Pearson, 36, was arrested on domestic violence charges in May 2022, per PIX 11. The victim told police that Pearson hit her several times and was armed.
  The firearm was actually an airsoft gun, according to prosecutor Jessica Gorman.
  A police report stated that the victim suffered from “multiple visible injuries” on her face. When Pearson was taken into custody, he was upset that th
  
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• It’s season-announcement season

  14-04-2023 00:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The warmer temperatures, blossoming flowers, and budding trees aren’t the only harbingers of spring. It’s also the season of the season announcements, with the major Chicago companies letting us know what to expect in 2023-24 on their stages. The Goodman presents the first season selected by Susan V. Booth, who took over as artistic director […]
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