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• Windy City Playhouse goes on the market

  12-05-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Windy City Playhouse first opened on Irving Park Road in 2015, the company won nearly as much attention for its comfortable audience perks (swivel seats and food and beverage service, like a luxe movie theater) as it did for its programming, which for the most part focused on contemporary plays like Deborah Zoe Laufer’s […]
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• Review: What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?

  12-05-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It's is long overdue vindication for the band, about whom Donn Cambern, director of the ill-fated concert film, succinctly states, “They really got screwed.”
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• Review: The Mother

  12-05-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If you’re looking for wit or charm or invention or frills, you should probably skip it. But if you want to see Jennifer Lopez bloodily take apart a bunch of bad guys in the name of maternal love—well, The Mother will take care of you.
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• Review: Tantura

  12-05-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The film focuses on Tantura but studies a broader cultural phenomenon where cruelty is rationalized or forgotten over time.The post Review: Tantura appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
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• Review: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

  12-05-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The unforgettable documentary demonstrates realism and emotion, while never going too far down the rabbit hole of sadness, finding the light in Fox’s life as well.
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• Review: Love Again

  12-05-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s got a Hallmark-level plot, and in other hands, perhaps the movie could be a little charming.
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• Meet Genesis A. Emery-Foley: Millennial ‘Boss Mom’

  12-05-2023 16:00
  
  For Mother’s Day weekend, the Chicago Defender shares stories of dynamic Black women thriving in their careers and providing loving guidance for their families.   
  Today’s millennial woman is layered. She has the brilliance to close multi-million dollar deals, the heart to raise amazing children and the authenticity to lead as a purpose partner with her mate. To quote Queen Bey, “…strong enough to bear the children, then get back to business.”
  This woman
  
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• Specters of material

  12-05-2023 15:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  At first glance, Tanya Aguiñiga’s “Swallowing Dirt” seems to gesture to the phantasmagoric. Her spectral rope and terra-cotta sculptures fill Volume Gallery, suspended from the walls and ceiling. The figures ostensibly depict the uncanny body, which produces our premature illusory response. But under closer examination, Aguiñiga’s sculptures are corporeal. She threads together her two material […]
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• A meditation on the flow of being

  12-05-2023 15:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Lake Michigan has served as my compass since I moved to Chicago. I will never forget an old coworker telling me to remember “the lake is always east!” when I described how lost I’d get trying to find my way around the city. It took a few years for it to click, but once I […]
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• Bears 2023 Schedule: A New Rival Enters the Chat

  12-05-2023 15:00
  
  For the first time in over 30 years, the Chicago Bears will not have to deal with a Green Bay Packers team led by a Hall of Fame-bound quarterback. Aaron Rodgers is a New York Jet, and Brett Favre is retired and still in hot water.
  For one lifelong Bears fan, Rodgers being gone is music to his ears.
  “The fact that Aaron Rodgers is out of the picture,” said Brandon Willis, “I think it’s now time to dominate the Packers first and foremost. It’s Justin Fields&rsqu
  
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• GLMPI Will Host “Little Mermaid” Experience With National Geographic’s Alyea Pierce

  12-05-2023 14:00
  
  The Girls Like Me Project, Inc., in partnership with National Geographic Explorer Alyea Pierce, aims to expose girls to powerful narratives and contributions of Black girls in spaces that have otherwise muted their impact by hosting an exclusive screening of Disney’s most anticipated film, “Enchanted: The Little Mermaid,” Saturday, May 27th from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM at Cinema Chatham: Powered by Emagine (210 W. 87th St. Chicago, IL. 60620).This event will create an interact
  
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• Daniel Penny Charged in Fatal Chokehold of Jordan Neely 

  12-05-2023 00:35
  
  The Manhattan District Attorney’s office announced that Daniel Penny, who applied a fatal chokehold to a man on a New York City subway, will be charged with manslaughter.
  “We cannot provide any additional information until he has been arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court, which we expect to take place tomorrow,” the Manhattan district attorney’s office said in a statement on Thursday.
  Penny, a former Marine, will be arrested and charged with second-degree mansl
  
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