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• Cronenberg, comedy, and weirdo music

  25-05-2023 23:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Warmer weather is finally here to stay. You’re probably hoping to be everywhere all at once, but here are a few things you won’t want to miss, in the first iteration of our new column, The To-Do. MargueriteFri 5/26, 8 PM, Color Club, 4146 N. Elston, sold out, 18+ ReveriesSat 5/27, 8 PM, Color Club, […]
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• What Happened to Racial Reckoning?

  25-05-2023 22:57
  
  This story is part of “All Those ‘Racial Reckoning’ Promises,” Word In Black’s series exploring the pledges made to the Black community following the Summer of George Floyd and what organizations and leaders can still do now to promote racial equity and justice.Black journalists are constantly afraid of retaliation. 
  After George Floyd was murdered, newsrooms pledged to hire more Black staff, address racism in the workplace, and ensure the standard of objectivi
  
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• Where Does Your Right to Bear Arms End and Mine Begin?

  25-05-2023 22:43
  
  Despite over 280 mass shootings in just the first 150 days of 2023, the urgent call to action in the face of this escalating wave of violence remains largely unheeded across the United States.
  Faced with the mounting number of tragedies in the wake of the unprecedented and recurrent acts of violence in every sector of the nation, what is particularly disturbing about this social psychosis is that the wanton disregard for life continues to proliferate. 
  The Gun Violence Archive tracked more
  
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• Review: About My Father

  25-05-2023 19:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What’s more American for the 1 percent than smiling in the face of blood money while hiding behind a family name and claiming to have the same interests as the very people they most despise?
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• Review: The Little Mermaid

  25-05-2023 19:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Overall, it’s a visually gorgeous film, buoyed by a strong ingenue in Bailey with enough laughs for the kids and the nostalgic adults—just don’t expect anything new.
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• Review: Kandahar

  25-05-2023 19:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If I’m going to watch this man retcon the war on terror to look heroic, it should at the very least be over-the-top enough to be entertaining.
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• Review: Fast X

  25-05-2023 19:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Fast X continues the franchise’s mission to scale bigger and campier heights with each movie, and there are moments that will have you full-volume hooting and hollering in your seat, but it’s undone by the gravest sin of this cinematic universe: it breaks up the family.The post Review: Fast X appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
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• Review: All Man: The International Male Story

  25-05-2023 19:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  All Man: The International Male Story offers a touching retrospect of this nearly forgotten landmark of men’s fashion.
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• BoHo Theatre calls it quits

  25-05-2023 17:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  BoHo Theatre (founded in 2003 as Bohemian Theatre Ensemble around “the Bohemian pillars of Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and Love”) started out with a production of Yasmina Reza’s Art in 2004, on the stage of the old Bailiwick Repertory studio. Bailiwick is long gone (Theater Wit took over the Belmont Avenue space). And now BoHo has […]
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• Brianna Grier’s Family Files $100M Lawsuit Over Fatal Fall From Police Car

  25-05-2023 17:21
  
  The family of Brianna Grier, a 28-year-old Black woman in Georgia who died after falling out of a moving patrol car, has filed a $100 million civil rights lawsuit over her death, per Fox5.
  Grier, a mother of young twin daughters, died on July 21, 2022, just days after her mother, Mary Grier, called authorities to her home while she experienced a mental health crisis.
  “They wanted the police to help her – take her to the hospital to get help. They had called before asking them for hel
  
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• Mother of Slain Police Officer Wants Community Center Honoring Daughter

  25-05-2023 15:30
  
  The mother of fallen Chicago police officer Aréanah Preston has launched a GoFundMe page to establish a community center for young people. Dionne Mhoon, who created the campaign, says the fundraising effort is “a call for Action.”
  “It is now with heavy hearts that we seek support to uphold the legacy of Aréanah Preston by establishing a community center that will provide a safe place and support for Chicago’s youth,” states the GoFundMe page.
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• Who’s afraid of stanley brouwn?

  25-05-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I don’t understand. stanley brouwn steps? Oh, another place!He walks. . . . He appears in places and walks maybe, and he’s video-ing while he walks?stanley brouwn steps! [Laughs, whispers.] What? [Laughs.]Where’s he going to appear? [Laughs.]London!  So flowed a conversation between two seven-year-olds who sat next to me on a bench nestled in the Art Institute’s […]
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• This Week In Black History May 24-30, 2023

  25-05-2023 05:20
  
  PAM GRIERMay 241854—Anthony Burns, one of the most celebrated fugitive slaves in American history, is captured by deputy U.S. Marshals in Boston. But at the time anti-slavery feeling was running high in Boston and it was one of the cities which had vowed not to obey the Fugitive Slave Act—a federal law that required even those opposed to slavery to help slave owners capture run-away slaves. For fear that Boston residents would help Burns escape to Canada, the U.S. government sent 2,0
  
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