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• Scene-powering fusion collective Cordoba celebrate a new album at Constellation

  18-04-2023 20:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The members of Chicago jazz-fusion sextet Cordoba drive an inventive creative community with their many overlapping projects. Vocalist Brianna Tong, for instance, also sings in funky experimental ensemble Je’raf and punky trio Bussy Kween Power Trip, both of which also feature prolific Cordoba bassist Khalyle Hagood. Hagood, meanwhile, also plays in soul outfit the Devonns […]
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• Nate and Mike Kinsella take a turn toward electro-pop in the new project Lies

  18-04-2023 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s an unwritten law that anyone who talks about a new musical project involving a member of the Kinsella family has to mention one of four Kinsella-related bands. First there’s the ur-group, Cap’n Jazz, which vocalist Tim Kinsella cofounded as a teenager in 1989 with his younger brother, Mike, on drums; the most recent reunion […]
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• Public Notice – Interagency Signs Expansion

  18-04-2023 16:49
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• Gift of Hope Honors Executive Jack Lynch in Building Dedication

  18-04-2023 15:00
  
  On Monday, the Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network held a dedication for a newly renovated facility in Chatham that will serve as a beacon of hope for so many and an enduring monument to the work of retiring civic leader and executive Jack Lynch.
  “Gift of Hope has been around for almost four decades, and in those four decades, there have been three CEOs,” said current Gift of Hope CEO Dr. Harry Wilkins.
  “Gift of Hope has operated under two different names, and in that
  
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• Tongue tied

  18-04-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The best way to approach “Tongue & Nail” is by starting with the artworks that inspired the ensemble. And you won’t miss them. Kat Bawden’s visceral microfilm, Tongue Tie, is playing on loop on Iceberg’s gallery wall. The black-and-white video displays a tongue, close-up and painfully bound by thin twine. Beneath the video is Tarik […]
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• Shooter Of Black Teen Who Went To Wrong Home Identified As White Man In 80s

  18-04-2023 14:00
  
  A white man in his 80s has been identified as the Kansas City homeowner who shot 16-year-old Ralph Yarl, a Black teen who accidentally went to the wrong address to pick up his siblings, per CNN.
  The outlet declined to name the man because he hasn’t been charged in the April 13 shooting of Yarl.
  Two representatives at the Kansas City Police Department detention confirmed that a white man in his 80s with a matching address of the shooting was booked on Thursday (April 13) and released the fo
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: ‘The View,’ double standards, and concentration camp denial

  18-04-2023 14:00
  
  Last year, ABC suspended Whoopi Goldberg from hosting The View after Goldberg insisted the Holocaust wasn’t about race. Goldberg’s television co-hosts told her that the Nazis considered Jews a different race. Goldberg replied that these were two groups of White people demonstrating man’s inhumanity to man.
  ABC stated that Goldberg’s two-week suspension was due to her inaccurate comments. In Goldberg’s defense, there was a brand-new definition of racism that justifie
  
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• Grand Jury Declines To Indict Police Officers In Killing Of Jayland Walker 

  18-04-2023 14:00
  
  A grand jury in Ohio declined to indict several Akron police officers on state criminal charges in the death of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man who was shot and killed during a police pursuit last year, according to ABC News.”The grand jury just a little while ago issued what is called a no bill, meaning that there will be no state criminal action, no charges at the state level,” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said during a press conference on Monday, April 17.
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• Chicago punk noisemakers No Men will give you a reason to Fear This

  18-04-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Chicago punk trio No Men issued their 2016 debut, Dear God, Bring the Doom, they proved to me they could hurl noise with crushing force. Their new third album, the self-released Fear This, proves that they can also make that bracing racket groove like hell. Bassist DB saturates No Men’s songs with thick, melodic […]
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• What goes around comes back around

  18-04-2023 00:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A simple lit rooftop, church steeple, or body-as-a-temple metaphor greets you as you enter the theater. Two bright lines meet in the middle, seemingly pointing upwards towards something greater. Designed by Riccardo Hernández, with lighting brought to life by designer Justin Townsend, the simplicity of the set is apt. Perhaps it serves as a reminder […]
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