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• Fool’s journey

  24-05-2023 23:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing that Theater Wit’s local premiere of 2019’s The Whistleblower by Itamar Moses is opening in the midst of the WGA strike. Certainly Eli (Ben Faigus), the insufferable screenwriter-manchild at the center of the show, won’t win the hearts and minds of anyone who […]
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• The state of our rights

  24-05-2023 23:13 via chicagoreader.com
  
  To say that Heidi Schreck’s 2017 Pulitizer-and-Tony-nominated play What the Constitution Means to Me hits differently in a post-Roe v. Wade world is a huge understatement. TimeLine’s current production (the first by a local company—Schreck’s piece, which she originally performed, has been seen here twice on tour, pre- and post-COVID shutdown), moves the show from […]
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• The Gospel at Colonus gets a rousing revival at Court

  24-05-2023 23:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Lee Breuer’s 1983 reimagining of Sophocles’s Oedipus at Colonus as a Black Pentecostal church service (featuring music by Bob Telson) didn’t make it to Chicago until 1990. But that local premiere at the old Goodman Theatre (where the Art Institute’s modern wing now stands), featuring the Five Blind Boys of Alabama and “Pops” Staples, among […]
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• The Dream King delivers heartbreaking hilarity

  24-05-2023 22:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Silent Marvin is living in a silent world that is just as monotonous as ours. The daily grind of shuffling papers at his office job and flipping channels at night leaves him unsatisfied. Where is the purpose? Fortunately for Silent Marvin, he has his dreams. Each night he enters a Dadaesque landscape where flowers are […]
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• A claustrophobic Crucible

  24-05-2023 22:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Puritans in New England lived fearful, close-minded, claustrophobic lives. Disdainful of all other Christian sects (especially Catholics and Quakers) and of the Native Americans who they were certain worshipped Satan, they were terrified they would burn in Hell forever if they strayed from the tiny path their narrow-minded, authoritarian religious leaders set out for […]
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• Bowie in Warsaw serves up a moonage nightmare

  24-05-2023 22:14 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Paweł Świątek directs the U.S. premiere of Dorota Masłowska’s arch 70s-era murder mystery/comedy of manners (translated by Soren Gauger). Rumors fly wild in the streets of Warsaw about a mythical stalker terrorizing the citizenry while the true villain pervading their society seems to be a blanketing existential despair. In the last days of Soviet hegemony, […]
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• Tina Turner, Iconic and Trailblazing Superstar, Dies at 83

  24-05-2023 22:05
  
  Tina Turner, one of the most iconic and best-selling recording artists ever, has died at 83. 
  She passed away on Tuesday in her home near Zurich, Switzerland, after battling a long illness, stated her manager. 
  Turner, who became a Swiss citizen a decade ago, came a long way — literally and figuratively, from her humble beginnings as Anna Mae Bullock, born in a segregated Tennessee hospital. 
  She first started with the “Ike and Tina Turner Revue” as a side player
  
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• Barack Obama, Oprah, Atlanta Officials Mourn Passing of Trailblazing Singer Tina Turner

  24-05-2023 21:59
  One of the most celebrated artists in music, Rock N Roll Hall of Famer, Tina Turner, has died. Dubbed the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, she was world known for her electrifying stage performances and her remarkable repertoire of hit songs blew open the music industry and redefined musical genres with her raw Rock ‘n’ Roll R&B sound.
  “Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock’n Roll’ has died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home,&r
  
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• Jazz bassist Cleveland Eaton had a career almost too vast to imagine

  24-05-2023 19:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’ve been covering underappreciated artists in the Secret History for Chicago Music for more than 18 years, but as I research a subject, I still sometimes catch myself wondering: “Why is this person not a universally beloved household name?” Cleveland Eaton is just such a case. He was a composer, bandleader, producer, arranger, publisher, and […]
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• Stand Your Ground Law Allows Killer to Avoid Murder Charges

  24-05-2023 15:56
  Krieg Butler, an Ohio man will finally face charges in the shooting death of a 13-year-old boy in the fall of 2022. Unfortunately non of those charges are for the actual killing, they are instead firearms charges, resulting in the death of the boy. 
  Butler was initially arrested a day after shooting and killing Sinzae Reed and charged with murder after a witness reported having seen Franklin shooting at the boy. Although Butler had a $1 million dollar bond he was released from jail eight da
  
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• Florida School Bans Amanda Gorman Poem Read At Biden’s Inauguration

  24-05-2023 14:30
  
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  Elementary schools in Miami-Dade County, Florida have barred the poem read by Amanda Gorman at President Joe Biden’s inauguration following a parent’s complaint.
  According to the Miami Herald, Gorman’s poem titled “The Hills We Climb” was removed from the K-5 curriculum in the county.
  Local parent Daily Salinas complained that the poem and four other books including “The ABCs of Black History,” “Cuban Kids,” “Countri
  
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• Pritzker Administration Announces Citywide Crisis Prevention and Response Unit

  24-05-2023 14:00
  
  The unit will focus on preventing violence and addressing conflict in Chicago via community Peacekeepers
  Ahead of Memorial Day Weekend, Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Human Services are launching a Citywide Crisis Prevention & Response Unit (CPRU), a highly mobile team that is specifically designed to prevent violence and address conflict and crises in the City of Chicago. The CPRU will coordinate with community-based organizations and City and State agencies to deploy 3
  
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• Only romance

  24-05-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If there’s one thing we know about Afrofuturism, it’s that it uses speculative genres as a future-imagining device to share criticism and discontent about the present. Asian Futurism, as discussed by scholars such as Dawn Chan and Xin Wang is a loose discourse that struggles to find footholds in the west outside of techno-Orientalism. There […]
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• 15-Year-Old Black Teen Shot & Killed By Former Police Officer, Mom Says

  24-05-2023 13:30
  
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  Fifteen-year-old Cornelius McGee Jr. was shot and killed by a former police officer who was upset that the teen was dating his daughter, according to the boy’s mom.
  On Monday (May 22), Clarksdale Police Department said McGee Jr., 15, was fatally shot by a former officer but did not clarify which department he belonged to,Fox 13 reports.
  The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI) said investigators are “actively gathering information on a shooting in C
  
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• The Carr Report: Double Up!

  24-05-2023 13:00
  
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  The late great Nipsey Hussle left us with some jams and gems.  I heard about Nipsey but I didn’t get a full appreciation for what he stood for until after his death. All the attention he received around the time of his death prompted me to listen to his catalog of songs and the various interviews he did.  IMPRESSIVE!
   As a financial planner, one of the songs that caught my attention was “Double Up.” Wisdom in those lyrics!  I’ll paraphrase
  
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• ITAV Launches Crowdfunding Campaign to Send Students to Rwanda

  24-05-2023 13:00
  
  It Takes A Village Family of Schools Launches World Scholars Program Crowdfunding on Indiegogo
  It Takes a Village Family of Schools (ITAV) is excited to bring back the World Scholars Program (WSP) this year! Since 2010, we have traveled internationally with over 300 students and we are excited to continue post-COVID. This year 25 third through eighth-grade Village Leadership Academy (VLA) students will be traveling to Rwanda.
  The ultimate goal is to develop our VLA students into conscientious gl
  
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• Hip-hop artist Kari Faux found musical joy in Chicago while making Real B*tches Don’t Die

  24-05-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Finally! An album for the real bitches. The ones who let their heart override their wounds and will flash fangs when necessary. This type of R&B- and funk-tinged, southern-fried hip-hop can’t be duplicated, only demonstrated, and that’s exactly what rapper Kari Faux does on her anthemic new album, Real B*tches Don’t Die. Every artist wants […]
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