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• From classic to kitsch

  17-04-2023 23:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In general, touring performances of dance companies strive to show the range of the company’s work. And the performance by American Ballet Theatre at the Auditorium Theatre Friday, April 14, fit that bill. With a quartet of works that showed the company’s technical expertise, it included a range of choreographic voices and seemed designed to […]
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• Black Teen Shot In Head After Going To Wrong House To Pick Up Siblings

  17-04-2023 20:45
  
  A 16-year-old teenager is recovering from severe gun wounds after he mistakenly went to the wrong address to pick up his siblings in Kansas City, Missouri.According to CNN, Ralph Yarl, 16, was “shot twice and struck in the head and arm” by a homeowner on Thursday (April 13) when he arrived at the wrong pickup location, Kansas City police and family attorneys said.Yarl’s parents instructed the teen to pick up his siblings at a home on 115th Terrace, but he accidentally went to a
  
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• Review: Chevalier

  17-04-2023 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Historical dramas can be tricky; it’s hard to bring accuracy and authenticity while trying to captivate an audience. And where Chevalier succeeds with a decently entertaining story, it does falter slightly with the facts.
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• Oregon doom-metal band Hell revisit their first album

  17-04-2023 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Extreme heavy music can seem like loud, scary noise for the sake of loud, scary noise. But if you’re drawn to intense, cavernously dark sounds, they can also be a portal through which to process emotions and find catharsis. (I don’t think it’s a coincidence that doom and drone metal have become more popular as […]
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• Oregon doom-metal band Hell revisit their 2017 self-titled album

  17-04-2023 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Extreme heavy music can seem like loud, scary noise for the sake of loud, scary noise. But if you’re drawn to intense, cavernously dark sounds, they can also be a portal through which to process emotions and find catharsis. (I don’t think it’s a coincidence that doom and drone metal have become more popular as […]
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• Electro-industrial artist Debby Friday explores a world of emotion

  17-04-2023 18:57 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Debby Friday kicks off the title track that opens her debut album, Good Luck (Sub Pop), with a fiery declaration: “Get it while it’s hot!” The Nigerian-born, Toronto-based artist sounds commanding atop the song’s lurching electro-industrial beats, but even as she confidently seizes our attention, there’s a sense that she’s tormented too. When she exclaims […]
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• Seth Parker Woods’s Difficult Grace is a portrait of the artist as he is now

  17-04-2023 18:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Cellist Seth Parker Woods didn’t compose the music on Difficult Grace, but you’d be forgiven for second-guessing that. By his admission, this expansive multimedia project, recently adapted into an album for Chicago’s Cedille Records, is semi-autobiographical; its repertoire list nods to Woods’s spiritual forebears (Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and Alvin Singleton contribute the closest things to “canonical” […]
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• Making History in Tennessee

  17-04-2023 15:30
  
  By Svante Myrick
  (TriceEdneyWire.com) – There are moments when we know, suddenly and with total clarity, that we have just experienced a seminal moment in history. Sometimes those events are tragic. And sometimes, as in the last two weeks, they are beautiful and inspiring and renew our faith in humanity.
  I’m talking about the history that was made in Tennessee this month by “the Justins,” Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson. I was in Tennessee for the fight to rein
  
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• Little Owners Foundation Inc. Announces Youth CEO Fest, an Event Designed to Teach Kids and Teens How to Become Entrepreneurs

  17-04-2023 15:00
  
  The free event promises a plethora of amazing benefits for participants including a $250 prize for a pitching competition
  Entrepreneurship is generally considered a thing for adults. However, teaching children about entrepreneurship and starting their own businesses can benefit them greatly by giving them a sense of independence and responsibility, while developing important life skills. This can be especially useful in today’s economy where traditional jobs are not as readily available. S
  
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• Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson Issues Statement on Weekend Violence

  17-04-2023 03:58
  
  This weekend, the violence and lawlessness that transpired across portions of Chicago’s downtown and lakefront areas prompted Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson, who hasn’t assumed office yet, to issue an official statement. 
  “In no way do I condone the destructive activity we saw in the Loop and lakefront this weekend. It is unacceptable and has no place in our city,” Johnson wrote in a statement on his social media pages. “However, it is not constructive to demonize
  
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