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• Rejoice, Bears Fans! Your Nemesis Just Got Traded

  24-04-2023 23:24
  
  Chicago Bears fans, you can breathe now. Your nemesis, Aaron Rodgers, is no longer a member of the Green Bay Packers, and you won’t play him twice a year anymore.
  The four-time MVP and bane of your very existence has been traded to the New York Jets in a blockbuster deal, according to ESPN.Trade compensation, per sources:
  Jets get:
  🏈Aaron Rodgers, pick No. 15, a 2023 5th-rd pick (No. 170).
  Packers get:
  🏈Pick No. 13, a 2023 2nd-rd pick (No. 42), a 6th-rd pick (No. 207), a co
  
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• Review: Beau Is Afraid

  24-04-2023 22:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Beau is Afraid demonstrates to audiences that the Hereditary and Midsommar director previously held back the full scale of his surrealist inclinations. And that’s a tough pill to swallow.
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• Review: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

  24-04-2023 22:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Like the book, the Lionsgate movie offers a gently informative, often hilarious, and always empathetic depiction of a sixth grader yearning for, getting, and celebrating her first period.
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• Review: Personality Crisis: One Night Only

  24-04-2023 22:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What raises this above the typical nostalgia-logged music doc is the clear sense that Johansen is not reliving his long discography onstage but continuing to live it in that moment.
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• Review: Evil Dead Rise

  24-04-2023 22:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The first sequel in a full decade, this should feel like getting an Evil Dead reunion, but instead it’s more akin to a so-so tribute band.
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• Ghosts, cryptids, and Chicago

  24-04-2023 21:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Jack Wagner was 15, he made a documentary about the haunting of Wheaton’s Grand Theatre. Built in 1925, the historic theater went through several identities over the decades (including an aughts-era punk venue where Wagner’s band played). When he showed up with his camera, the owner shut Wagner and his buddies in the empty […]
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• Don Lemon Fired By CNN, Blasts Network In Statement

  24-04-2023 20:09
  
  Longtime anchor Don Lemon says he has been fired by CNN.
  On Monday (April 24), Lemon blasted the network on Twitter as he announced his termination, per NBC News.”I am stunned,” Lemon wrote. “After 17 years at CNN, I would have thought someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly.”
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  — Don Lemon (@donlemon) April 24, 2023Lemon first joined CNN in 2006. The anchor faced backlash over sexist comments he made on air in F
  
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• First Lady MK Pritzker To Honor Artist Richard Hunt

  24-04-2023 15:15
  
  Illinois First Lady MK Pritzker will host a cocktail reception at the Governor’s Mansion the evening of Monday, April 24, 2023, to welcome Illinois’ cultural leaders attending the “One State Conference and Capital Day” in Springfield. Inside, the First Lady will deliver a proclamation honoring world-renowned sculptor Richard Hunt and will declare April 24, 2023, Richard Hunt Day in Illinois.
  “Richard Hunt reflects the best of Illinois- a creativity, passion, and car
  
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• Ex-Cop Who Fatally Shot Breonna Taylor Hired By New Police Department

  24-04-2023 14:45
  
  The man who fired the shot that killed Breonna Taylor is no longer a former officer.According to WLKY, former Louisville Metro Police officer Myles Cosgrove was hired as a sheriff’s deputy in Carroll County last week.Cosgrove was one of the officers who shot Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, in a botched, no-knock raid of her Louisville apartment in 2020. According to officials, Cosgrove fired the fatal shot.The ex-LMPD officer is already on active duty in Caroll County.
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• Kim Potter, Ex-Cop Who Killed Daunte Wright, To Be Released From Prison

  24-04-2023 14:30
  
  Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who killed 20-year-old Black man Daunte Wright when she allegedly mistook her firearm for a stun gun, will soon be freed from prison.On Monday (April 24), Potter is set to be released after serving 16 months at Shakopee Minnesota Correctional Facility for Wright’s death, according to jail records obtained by Fox News.
  Wright was killed on April 11, 2021, after he was pulled over for expired license tags just miles from where George Floyd was
  
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• Transcending boundaries

  24-04-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In Roadworks (1985), Mona Hatoum walks barefoot through the streets of Brixton dragging a large pair of Dr. Martens boots (the same brand previously favored by the British police) attached to her ankles by their laces. The short video is edited from documentation of the artist’s hour-long performance of the same title. The Negotiating Table […]
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• On their second full-length,. . . So Unknown, Philly’s Jesus Piece reach ridiculous levels of heaviness

  24-04-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  From the moment Jesus Piece issued their self-titled 2016 debut EP, the Philly metalcore five-piece were clearly the real deal. Slamming together the most intense parts of hardcore and death metal into something guttural and ferocious, the band arrived like a manifesto nailed to your forehead, declaring that they could bring it as hard and […]
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