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• The Reader’s guide to Record Store Day 2023

  20-04-2023 22:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Record Store Day began 15 years ago as a way to mobilize consumer support for independent brick-and-mortar record stores, which were seen as niche enough to be at risk of extinction from big online retailers. Streaming wasn’t yet the behemoth business it is today—Spotify also launched in 2008, and it wouldn’t reach the U.S. till […]
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• Chicago rapper SolarFive joins forces with producer Custom Made for Paved With Good Intentions

  20-04-2023 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Quentin Cole, who makes music as SolarFive, has given a lot to modern Chicago hip-hop. The diligent rapper, beat slinger, and engineer has made superb albums with his beat collective, OnGaud, and he’s collaborated with some of the city’s brightest hip-hop artists, including Defcee, Mick Jenkins, and Pivot Gang’s MFn Melo.  SolarFive flexes his soulful, […]
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• ‘Why you talking to a bum?’

  20-04-2023 17:14 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For a while now, I’ve no longer understood what we’re talking about when we talk about public safety on the CTA. By “we” I mean housed Chicagoans who ride the trains, but also media and local politicians. 
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• The Chicano futurists of No Sé Discos share cosmic sounds from the working class

  20-04-2023 16:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Musicians such as Woody Guthrie, Victor Jara, and Chuy Negrete have championed the working class in their struggle for dignity, justice, and fair pay by telling their stories in song. In Chicago, Brandon Johnson’s victory in the mayoral election demonstrated the power of the working class (and of young people), and he’s named his transition […]
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• Explore the blessings of cinema with Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul

  20-04-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Between Monday, April 24, and Friday, April 28, Apichatpong Weerasethakul will again appear in person, this time at several screenings of his films (most on 35-millimeter) between Block Cinema at Northwestern University and the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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• ‘Elevate’ Your 4/20 With Grasshopper Club, Chicago’s First Black, Independent Dispensary

  20-04-2023 15:30
  
  Grasshopper Club x Big Kids Partner for a Special 4/20 Nostalgic Inspired Meal
  Although April brings showers, one of the best things to brighten your day may be “flowers.”
  Chicago’s first Black independently owned dispensary The Grasshopper Club just announced its partnership with Big Kids, the sandwich bar, for a collaboration that will brighten and elevate anyone’s day.
  The 4/20 “Hoppy Meal,” features a special “Grasshopper Club” Sandwich and Big
  
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• Mayor Lightfoot Announces 2023 Mayor’s Medal of Honor Winners

  20-04-2023 15:00
  
  The 2023 awardees include Chicago residents and organizations dedicated to equity, public safety, mental healthcare, and more
  Today, Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot announced the winners of the 2023 Mayor’s Medal of Honor. The Mayor’s Medal of Honor, launched in 2021, is an annual award presented by the Mayor to remarkable individuals, organizations, and collaboratives demonstrating extraordinary leadership, a passion for advancing equity across the City, and a commitment to improving the li
  
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• Correctional Officer Charged with Aggravated Battery in Jail Incident

  20-04-2023 14:30
  
  Correctional Officer Reginald Roberson, 52, has been charged with aggravated battery and official misconduct following a Cook County Sheriff’s Office investigation of an incident in the Cook County Jail, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today.
  The Sheriff’s Office installed cameras, over a decade ago, throughout the jail to ensure the safety and security of staff and individuals in custody. Additionally, the Sheriff has put several processes in place to identify any instances of the
  
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• Untangling identity

  20-04-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Sarah Whyte was a child, her parents said it didn’t matter that she was Asian and they were white. What mattered, they said, was that she was their daughter.  That didn’t stop adults from reminding her she was adopted, telling her to be grateful she’d been “saved” from the orphanage in China. Nor did […]
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• 9 Months Pregnant Woman Fatally Shot By Teens Who Mistook Her Identity

  20-04-2023 14:00
  
  Three teenagers have been charged with murder in the shooting death of a pregnant woman who they allegedly mistook for someone else.According to an arrest warrant obtained by ABC News, 36-year-old Kerisha Johnson was “due to give birth within several days” on Sunday (April 16) when she was shot and killed at a party in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  Three 19-year-old teenagers — Marques Porch, Gregory Parker, and Derrick Curry — allegedly opened fire at Johnson’s car after
  
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• Jay-Z and Mom, Gloria, Celebrate 20 Years of Giving Back With 2023 Scholarship Fund

  20-04-2023 13:45
  
  The Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund (SCSF), founded by rapper turned business mogul Jay-Z and his philanthropist mother Gloria, has been helping low-income students achieve their dreams of higher education since 2003. With the deadline for this year’s scholarship fast approaching, the SCSF is once again urging eligible students to apply.
  The program provides individual scholarships directly to educational institutions to cover tuition and related expenses, including books, lab fees, travel,
  
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• Dorthia Cottrell explores the horror and comfort of death on Death Folk Country

  20-04-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Singer-songwriter Dorthia Cottrell hails from King George, Virginia, a rural town about an hour and a half from Washington, D.C. Best known as front woman of underrated Richmond doom-metal band Windhand, Cottrell also makes solo recordings that recall the beauty and terror of the music of her youth—the folk songs she heard with family as […]
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• Two Jennifer Kims will cook at the Liquid Funk Fermentation Bistro for the next Monday Night Foodball

  20-04-2023 00:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Jennifer Kim was just gonna let things ripen. “Sometimes you gotta sit and let shit get good,” the chef told me just days before she closed her restaurant two and a half years ago. “Let it do what it needs to do to turn into something else.” Kim wasn’t exactly talking about her own future […]
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