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• Born in Puerto Rico, seared, stewed, and fried in Chicago: Moncho Moncheo headlines the next Monday Night Foodball

  02-05-2023 23:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Quique and Ale both got McNuggets for lunch. Quique ordered barbecue sauce. Ale had sweet and sour. “Hey, let’s just make sauce,” said Quique. That was 2006, on a third-grade field trip to Arecibo Observatory west of San Juan, Puerto Rico, “and that was the beginning of our culinary adventure,” says Alejandro Gonzalez. “We still […]
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• Ex-Officer Who Held Back Bystanders Found Guilty In George Floyd’s Murder

  02-05-2023 21:47
  
  A former Minneapolis police officer who stopped concerned bystanders from intervening as one of his colleagues fatally knelt on George Floyd’s neck has been found guilty of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.
  According to court documents filed on Monday (May 1), Minnesota judge Peter Cahill handed down the guilty verdict to ex-officer Tou Thao who he said “actively encouraged his three colleagues’ dangerous prone restraint of Floyd” during the 2020 killing, pe
  
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• Lovely, dark, and deep

  02-05-2023 19:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The woods are leaf-free spires of light, Cinderella’s sisters are outfitted in bad 80s prom dresses, and Rapunzel’s coil of blonde hair is a rope in the national touring production of Into the Woods. Directed by Lear deBessonet, Stephen Sondheim’s musical is one of endlessly intricate lyrics packaged in broad suggestions of time and place […]
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• Bridging the gap

  02-05-2023 19:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The exhibition “Iridescent Footprints: Stories and Glories of Our Lives” opened Friday at the Center on Addison in collaboration with queer faculty at SAIC, UIC, and the University of Chicago. The show is part of the LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project, a program that brings together multigenerational LGBTQ+ adults to promote discussion about the joys and […]
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• Two guitar-oriented instrumental ensembles with their sights set on transcendence share a bill at the Hungry Brain

  02-05-2023 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This spring, east-coast instrumental duo Elkhorn released On the Whole Universe in All Directions (Centripetal Force), and Chicago’s Elijah McLaughlin Ensemble released the equally game-changing III (Astral Spirits). Though their sounds are distinct, the two bands aim at a common goal of musical transcendence—which may help explain how they ended up on this bill together. […]
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• Brick by brick

  02-05-2023 18:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Will Quam found his love of bricks by accident. While working as an itinerant theater teacher in Chicago, he would travel around the city for work, and as he traveled, he started to notice Chicago’s bricks.  “Before 2016 if you’d have asked me what a brick looks like, I would have said, ‘red,’ and I […]
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• Over 130 City Organizations Are Finalists for $54 Million in City Grants

  02-05-2023 17:39
  
  Today Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot named 133 Chicago small businesses, not-for-profits, cooperatives, and environmental organizations as finalists for more than $54M in City grants.
  The finalists were selected from over 670 applications received by the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) in early 2023 and represent the largest single round of economic development grant-making in Chicago history. Award amounts range from $10,000 to $5.9M. Collectively, the finalists announced today promote bu
  
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• These 7 Mental Health Organizations Cater To Black Communities

  02-05-2023 14:00
  
  May is Mental Health Awareness Month.
  Over the last few decades, more people and institutions are recognizing the importance of mental health, especially in the Black community. Despite more visibility on people of color in general, some of the community lack access to resources to help them, whether it’s expensive therapy costs or access to doctors who are more sensitive to the Black experience.Here are some organizations and initiatives that provide those resources to both Black people
  
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• ‘One Poem, One Chicago’ Invites City to Celebrate Gwendolyn Brooks

  02-05-2023 14:00
  
  Bringing poetry and the legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks to more Chicagoans
  The Poetry Foundation, in partnership with Chicago Public Library (CPL), Third World Press Foundation, Brooks Permissions, and Northwestern University Press, is proud to announce One Poem, One Chicago.
  An opportunity to engage Chicagoans in poetry and foster a sense of community through reading, One Poem, One Chicago will launch with a reissue of Gwendolyn Brooks’s landmark poetry collection Blacks, which will be availab
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Workers in contempt of social justice?

  02-05-2023 13:00
  
  Amazon decided in 2019 not to construct a second headquarters in New York. Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York, stated that Amazon would have brought 25,000 to 40,000 well-paying jobs and nearly $30 billion in new revenue to finance transit improvements, new housing, schools, and numerous other quality-of-life improvements.
  Cuomo attributed this lost economic opportunity to “a small group of politicians who prioritized their own narrow political interests over the community.”
  The poli
  
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• Chicago power-pop trio Xyzxyz make a big first impression

  02-05-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Xyzxyz guitarist, singer, and songwriter Samuel Fadness helps his spiteful lyrics go down with honeyed melodies and a trove of power-pop hooks. Having collaborators who can play tight-as-hell rhythms goes a long way too. On the trio’s new self-released, self-titled album, bassist Karen Mooney and drummer Krystal Rosenbrock (who also plays in local postpunk trio […]
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• Are Workers in Contempt of Social Justice?

  02-05-2023 13:00
  
  by J. Pharoah Doss
  Amazon decided in 2019 not to construct a second headquarters in New York. Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York, stated that Amazon would have brought 25,000 to 40,000 well-paying jobs and nearly $30 billion in new revenue to finance transit improvements, new housing, schools, and numerous other quality-of-life improvements.
  Cuomo attributed this lost economic opportunity to “a small group of politicians who prioritized their own narrow political interests over the communi
  
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• All-Male Fashion Show ‘Struts’ the Runway for a Great Cause

  02-05-2023 02:30
  
  At a large banquet hall in South Suburban Lansing, some 200 people gathered to see some distinguished gentlemen strut their stuff.
  “This is not your average dinner, okay,” said one of the event’s emcees. “Just sit back, relax and let your hair down. It’s about to go down.”
  It went down indeed — all for a great cause.
  The event is an all-male fashion show called “STRUT,” organized by Carolyn’s Kids Foundation. Founded by Carolyn Griffin
  
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• Debra Lee Reveals How BET Advanced Black Programming During Her Tenure As CEO

  02-05-2023 00:38
  Debra Lee served as CEO of Black Entertainment Television in an era when the cable station found ways to be innovative and entertaining. Signature programs such as “106 & Park,” “Rap City,” “BET Awards,” “The Game,” and “Being Mary Jane” proved that BET could create original programming that focused on Black culture while consistently garnering major viewership numbers. 
  Lee, who recently released the book, I Am Debra Lee:A Mem
  
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