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• Review: The Quiet Epidemic

  01-06-2023 21:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Quiet Epidemic is no cinematic masterpiece—ultimately it’s more about advocacy, with calls to action on how to support the community, than it is about any kind of aesthetic rigor. But it’s hard to deny that CLD and the controversy surrounding it evoke many existential questions about the reality of suffering that are best served by this particular medium.
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• Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

  01-06-2023 21:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s hard to follow up such a success, but Across the Spider-Verse (the second of a planned trilogy) takes the action and the story to the next level and may just be a superior film.
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• Review: Shooting Stars

  01-06-2023 21:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This adaptation of Lebron James’s and Buzz Bissinger’s 2009 book would have done better as a six-to-eight-hour limited series. There’s a compelling story here, but this version isn’t it.
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• Review: Reality

  01-06-2023 21:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By presenting testimony without editorializing, the film becomes a searing indictment of a country that routinely punishes low-level true believers while rewarding traitors and opportunists up the food chain for their treachery.
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• Review: Past Lives

  01-06-2023 21:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Celine Song’s debut film is, without a doubt, one of the best films of the year.
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• Review: The Boogeyman

  01-06-2023 21:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It fits neatly into this lineage of trauma monster movies like Smile, Men, and Hatching that want to be sure—really sure—you understand what the big scary monster represents. Thankfully, despite the lack of subtlety inherent to that approach, it’s probably the best of the bunch so far.
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• The spice must flow with Tasting India and Friends at the next Monday Night Foodball

  01-06-2023 18:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On Memorial Day I rubbed some fat, Red Wattle pork chops with Vadouvan Masala, and the golden turmeric crust they developed on the grill lit up the night. Last summer I got my mitts on some ramen noodles freshly cut from a half-ton sentient machine and couldn’t think of a better prep than a raw […]
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• Keeping it real about musical marriages

  01-06-2023 17:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For better or (probably for) worse, The Real Housewives of (enter location here) reality TV show franchise is an American institution that has infiltrated mainstream society. The show documents the incredibly intimate details of the partners and mostly stay-at-home wives of prominent public figures. Peeling back the layers of the housewives’ professional and personal lives […]
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• Worth the risk?

  01-06-2023 17:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Fallout from a queer erotica screening at Sleeping Village exhibits how far cultural institutions still have to go to support the entire LGBTQ+ community.
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• City Council Approves $51 Million for Asylum Seekers Amid Controversy

  01-06-2023 15:30
  
  The City Council voted 34-13 for $51 million in emergency services and housing for asylum seekers in Chicago. But the passage of this ordinance was not without controversy and tension. 
  Before the ordinance was even voted upon, there was opposition. Speakers from the gallery and key alderpersons expressed their frustration at the measure, noting that existing city residents, particularly Black Chicagoans and homeless people, have not received the aid, attention or compassion that the asylum
  
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• Just stick to it

  01-06-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As the saying goes, Chicago is a big small town. We’re always bumping into each other. Artist, photographer, zine maker and promoter, curator, event organizer, and lifetime Chicagoan Oscar Arriola, 51, is one of those welcoming, familiar faces often present at the coolest, most underground happenings. As an appreciator, connector, and maker, Arriola is a […]
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• Colleges Will Soon Be Able To Hide Student Race, Ethnicity On Applications

  01-06-2023 14:00
  
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  Colleges across the globe will soon have the option to hide students’ race and ethnicity on applications submitted through Common App, per CNN.
  According to the organization, over 1 million students use Common App every year to efficiently apply for several colleges at a time. The tool provides access to more than 1,000 colleges and universities across 20 countries.
  All of these institutions will have the ability to hide students’ race and ethnicity information am
  
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• Alderwoman Stephanie Coleman Chosen as Chicago Aldermanic Black Caucus Chair

  01-06-2023 13:30
  
  Stephanie D. Coleman, Alderwoman of Chicago’s 16th Ward, has been elected as the new Chairman of the Chicago Aldermanic Black Caucus. This significant appointment comes as recognition of Coleman’s dedication to the community, her advocacy for a fair and balanced Chicago, and her deep appreciation of history.
  In a majority vote, Coleman secured a four-year term, receiving the support and confidence of her fellow African American Aldermen. Expressing her gratitude, Alderwoman Coleman s
  
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• Five ensembles, including a contrabass and cello choir, gather to honor the departed Harrison Bankhead

  01-06-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Histories of jazz tend to play up the significance of composers and conceptual innovators who also lead bands. Harrison Bankhead will not stand in their ranks; during a career that began in the 1970s and lasted until his death in Waukegan on April 5, he only made two albums as a leader. But as a […]
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• 14 Best Sugar Daddy Websites For Sugar Daddies and Sugar Babies To Meet (2023)

  01-06-2023 08:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A sugar daddy is always looking for his sugar baby, and vice versa. These are the top sites where sugar daddies and babies connect for real sugar relationships.
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• This Week In Black History May 31 – June 6

  01-06-2023 05:37
  
  DR. MAE JEMISONMay 311870—Congress passes the first Enforcement Act providing stiff punishment for both private citizens and public officials who conspired to deprive the recently freed slaves of either their civil rights or their right to vote. The Act was in response to the old plantation aristocracy and the defeated rebel soldiers who were taking control of Southern governments and enacting “Black Codes” aimed at the suppression of Black freedoms and voting rights. The Act w
  
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• Sugar Pie DeSanto returns to Chicago for a Blues Festival tribute

  01-06-2023 03:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Women in Blues Tribute to Deitra Farr, Katherine Davis, and Sugar Pie DeSantoSugar Pie DeSanto appears on day three of the Chicago Blues Festival, at a tribute set that also includes Lynne Jordan, Sheryl Youngblood, Joanna Connor, Radka Kasparcova, Sherri Weathersby, Roosevelt Purifoy, Dujuan Austin, and Johnny Iguana. Sat 6/10, 2:30 PM (music starts at […]
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• The Blues Festival’s unofficial headliner

  01-06-2023 02:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Live blues music is even better outdoors in the summertime. Folks definitely understood that at the old Maxwell Street Market, which became a grassroots hot spot for the blues before World War II. Lots of Chicago fans are old enough to remember the market in the 1970s, ’80s, and early ’90s, when the likes of […]
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• Being the best Smiley he can be

  01-06-2023 02:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Smiley Tillmon Band featuring Kate MossTillmon and his band perform on the second day of the Chicago Blues Festival. Fri 6/9, 6:15 PM (music starts at noon), Rosa’s Lounge stage (North Promenade), Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph, free, all ages Anyone under the mistaken impression that blues music is depressing has never seen Chicago guitarist […]
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• Dave Herrero connects new roots to the blues

  01-06-2023 01:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Dave Herrero and friendsPart of the Chicago Blues Festival. Sat 6/10, 12:30 PM (music starts at noon), Rosa’s Lounge stage (North Promenade), Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph, free, all ages My love of music, especially Chicago blues, was strongly influenced by the weekly trips my family took to la pulga, as we called the famous […]
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• $5 Million Lawsuit Filed By Family Of 11-Year-Old Black Boy Shot By Police

  01-06-2023 01:06
  
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  The family of Aderrien Murry, an 11-year-old Black boy shot by Mississippi police after calling for help with a domestic dispute, has filed a $5 million lawsuit, per CNN.
  Aderrien’s shooting unfolded on May 20 when police responded to a domestic disturbance call at his mother’s home. His mother, Nakala Murry, had asked Aderrien to call 911 after the father of one of her children showed up at their home “irate” at 4 a.m.
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