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• Pianist Dorothy Donegan gave zero fucks

  22-06-2023 19:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Musicians who transcend genre and expectation often have to settle for being described decades later as “ahead of their time.” Multifaceted jazz pianist and vocalist Dorothy Donegan overcame racial prejudice, sexism, and musical gatekeeping to grow into her own bad self in the 1950s—to borrow a contemporary phrase, she gave zero fucks. She once described […]
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• Finding meaning in abstraction

  22-06-2023 15:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Carmen Neely’s large-scale abstract paintings fill Mariane Ibrahim gallery with energy—feminine, intimate, and sensual but also strong and purposeful. “Sometimes a painting is a prayer” is a very personal exhibition; it’s almost esoteric. Soothing hues—creamy beige, earthy maroon, and soft pink—blend with wine burgundy, dark plum, and intense black. Lines, scribbles, and symbols take on […]
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• Chicago Landmark Status Granted to Birthplace of House Music

  22-06-2023 15:00
  
  Once upon a time, a three-story loft building on the Near West Side that operated as The Warehouse dance club birthed a musical revolution that brought people together.
  On Wednesday, the City Council designated that unassuming structure on 206 S. Jefferson St. as an official Chicago landmark, recognizing its pivotal role as the birthplace of house music.
  From 1977 to 1982, The Warehouse was a destination dance club where a resident DJ named Frankie Knuckles alchemized an entirely new sound from
  
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• Myetie Hamilton Becomes First Black American Woman CEO of Leadership Greater Chicago

  22-06-2023 14:00
  
  Myetie Hamilton has been appointed as the next CEO of Leadership Greater Chicago (LGC), effective July 24. The LGC Search Committee, in collaboration with Koya Partners, conducted an extensive national search for the position. A LGC Fellow since 2016, Myetie will become the organization’s first Black American woman to serve as CEO.
  “Myetie is a purpose-driven leader of high integrity and possesses the visionary leadership to achieve the next level of impact for LGC,” said Miche
  
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• Family secrets with a touch of the supernatural

  22-06-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home, a new collection of seven short stories by Ana Castillo, family secrets inspire several characters to travel to Mexico and retrace their relatives’ footsteps. Sometimes the answers they find feel like “flying sacks loaded with surprises that hit you right in the chest and [leave] you gasping for air.” Others […]
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• Two Chicagoans Produce Black and Latino Film Backed by Jamie Foxx

  22-06-2023 00:36
  
  What if I told you that two Chicagoans — one from Little Village and the other from Austin — executive-produced a gritty, coming-of-age tale that centers Black and Latino actors and lists Jamie Foxx as a producer?
  That’s precisely the case with Martin Cabrera, Jr. and Robert Aguilar, the Chief Executive Officer and President of Cabrera Capital Markets, a Latino-owned investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Chicago.
  Cabrera and Aguilar helped finance the film “
  
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