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• The Chosen Few have cracked the code for the perfect Chicago music festival

  28-06-2023 23:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicagoans rarely suffer from a shortage of music festivals, but few such events make me feel like I’m participating in the city’s cultural fabric like the Chosen Few Picnic. The long-running house-music celebration began informally in 1990, and its roots extend even further back. Wayne Williams founded the Chosen Few DJ collective in 1977 as […]
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• Trumpeter Emily Kuhn and her quintet eschew youthful fires on Ghosts of Us

  28-06-2023 22:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  An up-and-coming musician usually gives themselves a starring role on their first record as a bandleader—what better time to show the world what they’re made of? But trumpeter Emily Kuhn, who moved to Chicago after graduating from Oberlin in 2016, bucked that tradition on her eclectic, dreamy 2020 debut, Sky Stories, which diplomatically spotlights her […]
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• Punky Chicago four-piece Rotundos deliver a fast-acting shot of DIY rock energy

  28-06-2023 22:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Rising Chicago four-piece Rotundos make lo-fi rock with the kind of freewheeling glee that feeds any good DIY scene. They’ve released a handful of singles and demos, and they’re headlining Beat Kitchen to celebrate their new debut EP, Ya Nos Conocen (Sawyer), which corrals bubblegum-sweet power-pop hooks and rough-and-tumble punk grit into six lean bilingual […]
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• Pianist Pandelis Karayorgis renews his Chicago connections and makes some new ones

  28-06-2023 21:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Pandelis Karayorgis is all about connections. On The Hasaan, Hope & Monk Project, a fantastic trio session released last year by Driff Records, the Boston-based keyboardist explores the overlapping idiosyncrasies of fellow pianists Thelonious Monk, Elmo Hope, and Hasaan Ibn Ali. In other settings, he has delved deeply into the music of Misha Mengelberg, Duke […]
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• Nataliia Kuryliak, piano instructor and Ukrainian refugee

  28-06-2023 19:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Nataliia Kuryliak is an accomplished musician and educator working as a piano instructor at the Christopher Laughlin School of Music in Northbrook. Born in Koropets in western Ukraine, Kuryliak graduated from the Denys Sichynskyi Music College in Ivano-Frankivsk in 2015 and later earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Lviv National Music Academy. In February […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 52, No. 19

  28-06-2023 19:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 52, Number 19. June 29, 2023
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• CantBuyDeem to Black men: go to therapy

  28-06-2023 18:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “I got all these friends but I still feel alone, imagine that,” says CantBuyDeem. These are the first words in Reality Raps, a short film created by and starring the multidisciplinary south-side artist. He’s a rapper, a model, a graphic designer, and now a filmmaker. Reality Raps, like the album of the same name that […]
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• Godzilla is coming to the Music Box Garden

  28-06-2023 18:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Music Box Theatre and Chicago film critic and programmer Katie Rife are showing several different sides of Godzilla with four screenings of his later, lesser-seen classics, playing at sundown in the Music Box Garden every night from July 24-27.
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• Port of Entry creates a home for immigrant stories

  28-06-2023 18:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2016, Albany Park Theater Project took over the closed Saint Hyacinth Basilica School in Logan Square and transformed it into the fictional Ellen Gates Starr High School for their ambitious (and hugely successful) immersive ambulatory production, Learning Curve. That show took audiences throughout the school—from classrooms to bathrooms—and deep into the experience of being […]
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• Monumental endeavor

  28-06-2023 17:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  We’re coming up on the three-year anniversary of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s stealth eviction of Christopher Columbus from Grant Park. Under the cover of darkness—and for his own good, she said—the larger-than-life explorer/looter was separated from his 20-foot pedestal and hustled off to storage where he’d no longer offend the protesters seeking to topple him for […]
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• Café Nova has a strategy for Sri Lankan food in Chicago and beyond

  28-06-2023 17:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The first Sri Lankan Panda Express quietly opened in Rogers Park late last March. That’s what Kiso Sivarasa and his partners hoped when they launched Café Nova on the ground floor of Loyola University’s Granada Center, just a few doors down from Subway and across Sheridan from Taco Bell and Potbelly. “We want to grow […]
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• See beyond disability in The Unseen

  28-06-2023 16:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Inspiration and overcoming are the Hollywood disability default. Jennifer Goodman, RJ Mitte, and their collaborators suggest that there’s a lot more to see.
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• In Motion: Chicago’s M.A.D.D. Rhythms is on a mission to share the gospel of tap

  28-06-2023 16:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Around the dawn of the new millennium, Chicago tap dancer Bril Barrett began to share his love of tap dance with his little brother and other local Black kids at the Sammy Dyer School of the Theatre as a way to keep them out of trouble. As word spread, attendance at his weekly sessions began […]
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• Bubba Wallace Hosts Free, NASCAR-Themed Block Party at DuSable Museum

  28-06-2023 15:00
  
  Before Bubba Wallace hits the track for the inaugural NASCAR Chicago Street Race this weekend, he’s throwing a giant block party at a Southside institution today — and the general public is welcome.
  Wallace will host Bubba’s Block Party, a nationwide community initiative, at The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center. Hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco will close the event with a performance.
  So what can patrons expect at a NASCAR-themed block party hosted by Wallace, one of
  
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• The Air-Quality Alert in Chicago is Expected to Continue Wednesday

  28-06-2023 14:30
  
  On Tuesday, the City of Chicago had the worst air quality of any major city in the world, thanks to the persistent, ever-spreading Canadian wildfires.
  As a result, curtains of haze that smelled of smoke hung in the sky, from the City to the suburbs, and those conditions could continue.
  The blazes in Canada have resulted from 490 fires burning, with 255 considered out of control, reported the Associated Press.
  The air quality in Chicago, Detroit and Milwaukee was categorized as “very u
  
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• University of Chicago Medicine Granted Approval for $815 Million Cancer Pavilion, Elevating Cancer Care and Research on South Side

  28-06-2023 14:00
  
  The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board approved the University of Chicago Medicine’s plans to build an $815 million, 575,000-square-foot building dedicated to cancer research and care on its medical campus on the city’s South Side.
  The freestanding cancer pavilion — the first of its kind in Chicago — represents one of the largest investments made by the academic health system for patients and the community. It builds off the University of Chicago’s
  
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• Embodied growth

  28-06-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What does it mean to grow—to become—while sitting comfortably on the cusp of discovery? Rohan Ayinde, “Outmoded Shapes” curator and Blanc gallery director, describes this exhibition as a virtual conversation between artists Ricki Dwyer, John Alleyne, and Zachary Nicol, and their selected anchor texts by Audre Lorde, Gordon Hall, bell hooks, and Mlondolozi Zondi. Over […]
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• The Carr Report: Why the S&P 500 should be your core investment holdings!

  28-06-2023 13:00
  
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  Some years ago I wrote an article titled, “How to invest with confidence.” In this article I delved into key investment fundamentals to consider when investing in the stock market. Below is a short summary of those investment fundamentals:
  Objective—Every dollar saved and every dollar invested should have a clear definitive purpose or goal.
  Time Horizon—Now that you have a goal and you’re accumulating money to
  
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