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• Giống Giống gets grilled at the next Monday Night Foodball

  25-04-2023 23:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Do you know how to celebrate a 65th pop-up anniversary? You gather around a whole grilled lemongrass- and chili-stuffed sea bream. You unwrap it from its banana cocoon and begin chopsticking morsels of its firm, sweet, steaming white flesh, folding them into soft rice paper parcels bulging with a bouquet of herbs. You swipe these […]
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• Farewell to Record Wonderland architect Pat Deasey

  25-04-2023 21:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Record Wonderland co-owner Pat Deasey died unexpectedly on Saturday, April 22, at age 55. “He was a workhorse—you didn’t always know he was here, but he kept the place together,” says his friend Steve Young, co-owner of the store. “He was the order agent, and I’m the chaos agent.” Young met Deasey in the 1980s […]
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• ‘Inform, energize, and engage’

  25-04-2023 21:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This year, the eighth annual Doc10 Film Festival will strive to engage Chicago residents with stories that illuminate the real-life experiences and struggles of people, both locally and globally.
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• Twitter Reacts to the Passing of Harry Belafonte

  25-04-2023 20:54
  
  We lost a giant today.
  Legendary singer, actor, and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte died from congestive heart failure at 96.
  When news of Belafonte’s passing circulated around social media Tuesday morning, it drew passionate responses from almost every corner of the universe, including famous politicians, actors, academics, athletes, musicians and media figures.
  They took to Twitter to express sadness, reverence and adoration for a man who influenced generations.In addition, those w
  
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• Tink comes home to thank the fans who’ve stood by her from the start

  25-04-2023 20:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This Sunday at the Chicago Theatre, Tink began her sold-out show by dimming the lights, hushing the murmur of a crowd of thousands. Her voice filled the space as she thanked an ex-lover for his deceit and betrayal: “Thanks for showing me I could survive, I could thrive without you,” she sang. “Thanks for nothing.” […]
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• Shi-An Costello confronts prejudice with the piano in The Orient

  25-04-2023 16:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2015, when pianist and composer Shi-An Costello was 28 years old, he learned his Chinese given name. It was written in his maternal grandfather’s hand, on an errant slip of paper tucked between old medical documents: 可 世 安, or “Co Shi-An.” For his entire life, Costello had been going by Andrew, his legal […]
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• Harry Belafonte Dead At 96

  25-04-2023 16:33
  
  Legendary singer, actor, and activist Harry Belafonte has passed away at age 96, New York Times reports.Belafonte died on Tuesday (April 25) at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The cause was congestive heart failure, his longtime spokesman, Ken Sunshine, told NYT.
  Born in Harlem, NYC, in 1927, Harold George Bellanfanti Jr broke barriers in the entertainment industry while promoting civil rights for African Americans and Black people across the globe. In 1956, the Jamaican-American
  
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• Battle royale

  25-04-2023 15:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Nikko Washington grew up in a family of trained martial artists. Mastering discipline and control served him beyond the fact that he earned a black belt at a young age—harnessing the power of physical training and mental fortitude has elevated his practice to the next level. As Ciera McKissick writes in the exhibition text, painting […]
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• Mayor Lightfoot Announces the Launch of Re-Entry Resource Website and City Re-Entry Goals In Honor of Second Chance Month

  25-04-2023 15:15
  
  On Monday, Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot, in partnership with Director of Re-Entry Willette Benford, announced the launch of the City of Chicago’s Re-Entry Resource Website in honor of Second Chance Month, a month designated to raise awareness of the challenges faced by individuals with prior convictions and promote opportunities for a successful return home after incarceration.
  The new City website, chicago.gov/reentry, provides a central hub of all re-entry related information, to give returni
  
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• Republican Suggests Reparations For White Descendants of Civil War Soldiers

  25-04-2023 15:00
  
  Bernie Moreno, a Republican who is vying for a Senate seat in Ohio, has suggested that white descendants of Civil War soldiers who “died to free Black people” receive reparations for their efforts.According to Fox News, Moreno floated the idea of reparations for white people last week during a campaign event in Ohio.
  “We stand at the shoulders of giants, don’t we? We stand on shoulders of people like John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington. That t
  
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• City of Chicago Announces Inaugural Chicago Poet Laureate Avery R. Young

  25-04-2023 14:00
  
  Chicago has its first ever poet laureate and he is Black.
  On Monday, Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot, in partnership with the Chicago Public Library (CPL), the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), and the Poetry Foundation, named avery r. young as the inaugural Chicago Poet Laureate.
  “I am proud to name avery r. young as the first-ever Chicago Poet Laureate,” said Mayor Lightfoot. “As a multifaceted, boundary-breaking poet and transformational youth educator who w
  
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• Omar Sosa, Seckou Keita, and Gustavo Ovalles reveal the essence of Africa in the Americas with their musical conversation as Suba Trio

  25-04-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Cuban pianist and composer Omar Sosa has spent nearly 30 years exploring different facets of African music. He’s recorded more than two dozen albums, and each one is a journey of discovery and wonder. Among the most sublime are his collaborations with virtuosos from Africa and the African diaspora, including his two most recent, 2017’s […]
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