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• 8 Fun Things To Do in Chicago This Weekend

  23-06-2023 22:22
  
  From Clockwise TLC, DJ Roy Davis Jr., Chicago Pride Parade, Glorilla, Future, G Herbo, Dwight White II and Shaggy (Photos: Facebook and Wikimedia Commons).
  The first official weekend of Summer is here, and, as usual, there are many, many things you can get into. 
  If you’re a music lover, then say less. This weekend is all about you. 
  For the House Heads, there’s the Chicago House Music Festival at the Humboldt Park Boathouse. We can’t leave out the Hip-hop lovers
  
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• Bound for the floor

  23-06-2023 21:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Just as The Matrix invites a trans textual reevaluation—spurred from its creators coming out as trans women years after release—Bound subconsciously uses its genre-bending cinematic elements toward corporeal freedom and autonomy.
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• Tommy takes flight

  23-06-2023 19:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Goodman’s season closer, The Who’s Tommy, promises to be a blockbuster (it’s already extended through July). But the story of the pinball wizard—first introduced in the Who’s 1969 double album, then seen in a 1975 film, and finally as a Broadway musical in 1992—isn’t just about the familiar anthemic songs. Dance and movement play huge […]
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• Undiscovered country?

  23-06-2023 18:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This world premiere from the Plagiarists, written by Chicago-based playwright Alexander Utz and directed by Jonathan Shaboo, has a unique premise and immersive staging (watch out for sand) but lacks focus and clear direction. The story is based on a 1761 Danish expedition to explore the Arabian Peninsula; in this case, a narrator (Maliha Sayed) […]
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• Long in the tooth

  23-06-2023 18:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Practical Theatre Company has earned its place in Chicago comedy history. In the 80s, this plucky troupe of young, energetic, gifted comic actors lit up stages around Chicago—including CrossCurrents, the Goodman Studio, the space that later became Second City’s e.t.c. space, and their own home theater on Howard Street in Evanston—with their bright, witty, […]
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• Getting to know Lloyd Price

  23-06-2023 17:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The venerable Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts building opened its newly renovated auditorium last summer with the underwhelming musical Skates. This summer, it’s rolling the dice on Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical, a biographical jukebox show about the hugely talented, but relatively overlooked, force behind the title song, as well as “Stagger Lee”  and […]
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• Passing Strange feels comfortably at home at Theo

  23-06-2023 17:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Fifteen years after its Broadway debut, Passing Strange, Stew’s bildungsroman set to rock and pop songs (Heidi Rodewald cowrote the music) still has the power to captivate. Tim Rhoze’s production for Theo takes full advantage of the cozy Howard Street Theatre to make us feel like we’re riding alongside the Narrator (Jordan DeBose) on the […]
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• More madness than Method

  23-06-2023 16:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Many decades ago, the late (and much missed) humor magazine Spy ran a feature entitled “Why Johnny Can’t Act,” outlining the bizarre techniques of acting teachers in New York. More recently, the Cut ran a long exposé on Lonsdale Smith & Company, an acting studio in LA and Canada run by Michèle Lonsdale-Smith, featuring an […]
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• Sales floor Stockholm syndrome

  23-06-2023 16:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Remote work, for those fortunate enough to enjoy it, has killed off many aspects of professional life that were long overdue to be put down: Agonizing commutes. $18 cafeteria salads. Rambling daily standup meetings. But one collateral casualty worth mourning has been the workplace friendship, where—through a mix of Stockholm syndrome and shared experiences—people who […]
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• Puffs of Potter

  23-06-2023 16:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Otherworld Theatre’s latest production offers a unique experience for Harry Potter enthusiasts and theater lovers alike, delving into the captivating journey of seven years at a particular school of magic and focusing not on the main wizard but on the Puffs who just happened to be there at the time. One of the strengths of […]
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• Contrasts and connections

  23-06-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  After the velvet curtains close on glistening spring art fairs and innumerable MFA shows, summer’s strange pitch descends. The next two months can be slow. Drowsy weekend tranquility punctuated, maybe, by a big name (Van Gogh at the Art Institute!), provocative content (Gary Simmons at the MCA!), or a modest but somehow more satisfying group […]
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• NBA Draft: Bulls Trade Into the 2nd Round and Pick Julian Phillips

  23-06-2023 14:30
  
  The Chicago Bulls didn’t have a pick before Thursday night’s NBA draft. By night’s end, they traded into the second round to select athletic forward Julian Phillips with the 35th pick.
  The Bulls reportedly gave up two second-round picks to acquire Phillips, who played one year at the University of Tennessee. In Phillips Chicago gets a wiry 6-7 forward with a large wingspan and ample athleticism.  
  How ample? He notched a 43-inch max-vertical jump, the highest mark at
  
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• The limits of solidarity

  23-06-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’ve often described my advocacy and communications work as “translation,” learning a person’s story and molding it into a form—a news article, an op-ed, an action toolkit, or an application—in an attempt to fulfill needs by way of words. Translation can build connections and prompt material change, but it can also exclude and yield toward […]
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• EPIC Academy Raises Nearly $120,000 at 2023 Dare to Imagine Gala

  23-06-2023 14:00
  
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  EPIC Academy, a charter high school in South Chicago, hosted its 2023 Dare to Imagine Gala with the theme “Building the Future Together” at The Carter Chicago.
  Approximately 150 guests attended the event, enjoying an evening filled with networking, music and inspiring stories. Through generous support from sponsors, attendees and donations, EPIC raised nearly $120,000. Corporate sponsors, including Apogem Capital, BMO, Black McDonald’s Operators Association
  
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• All 5 Killed When Submersible Imploded Near Titanic, Says Coast Guard

  23-06-2023 13:00
  
  The submersible that transported five men to the site of the Titanic imploded near the shipwreck, killing everyone aboard.   
  The U.S. Coast Guard announced the news on Thursday, marking the tragic end of a case that riveted observers worldwide. 
  Since its Sunday launch, the 96-hour oxygen supply dwindled daily for the passengers until it was projected to run out by early Thursday. The Coast Guard announced that debris was found about 1,600 feet from the Titanic in North Atla
  
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• This Week In Black History June 21-27, 2023

  23-06-2023 00:00
  
  June 211832—Joseph Haynes Rainey, the first African American to serve in the United States House of Representatives, is born in Georgetown, S.C. He was elected in 1870 from the state of South Carolina. He served five terms in Congress and died in 1887. In 2005, a portrait of Rainey was finally hung in the U.S. Capitol Building.1859—Henry O. Tanner, the first African American painter to achieve international acclaim, is born in Pittsburgh, Pa, to a middle class Black family. His most
  
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