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• A local industry renaissance

  12-07-2023 21:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Film and television production in Chicago still lacks the resources, glamour, and consistency of opportunity found on the coasts—but you can’t build Chicago’s community and authenticity in a Hollywood hangar.
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• The Magic Number convenes six veteran improvisers for an unprecedented celebration of creative uncertainty

  12-07-2023 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Magic Number is three. It’s the number of musicians that gallerist, record label proprietor, and music scholar John Corbett deems to be ideal for an improvisational encounter. And since he’s organizing this event—which coincides with his observation of a significant birthday that’s divisible by three—he gets to pick the terms of engagement under which […]
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• Spongeworthy

  12-07-2023 18:57 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The SpongeBob Musical had its pre-Broadway run here in 2016. I missed that, but I can’t imagine it was any more delightful than what Kokandy Productions has concocted in the basement at the Chopin. Stephen Hillenburg’s Nickelodeon series about the plucky and absorbent title character inspired this toe-tapping, whimsical explosion featuring songs by a murderers’ […]
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• Shakespearean shaggy dog

  12-07-2023 18:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For Midsommer Flight’s tenth annual production of free Shakespeare in Chicago’s parks, the company has chosen as shaggy a dog story as the Bard had in his quiver. In ancient Britain, Princess Imogen secretly weds Posthumus to get out of marrying her stepmother’s odious son, Cloten. What follows includes (but is not limited to) alleged […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 52, No. 20

  12-07-2023 18:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 52, Number 20. July 13, 2023
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• Anatomy of an intervention

  12-07-2023 17:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Incidents like this happen, or almost happen, on the CTA every day, so why am I telling you about this one?
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• What we talk about when we talk about guns

  12-07-2023 17:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On July 4, 2023, the hottest day on earth, residents of Highland Park gathered in front of their city hall to remember the victims of the massacre that took place there a year earlier. There was music, a moment of silence, and Mayor Nancy Rotering spoke of the damage done by a single gun in […]
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• Jinkx Monsoon: Drag, witchcraft, and Doctor Who

  12-07-2023 17:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Just like magic, Jinkx Monsoon is coming to Chicago for their latest show, Everything at Stake. The reigning champion of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 7: All Winners has a brand-new title. All hail Jinkx Monsoon—queen amongst queens, legal spouse of a husband, cat mother of Tildee Swintee, avid advocate for therapy—and as always, a […]
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• Emma McKee, aka hip-hop cross-stitch firebrand Stitch Gawd

  12-07-2023 17:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2012, Emma McKee taught herself to cross-stitch to make a Christmas present for her mother. Shortly after taking her talent public, she began making elaborate cross-stitched jackets for local hip-hop artists. Her first commission was for Chance the Rapper in 2014, but since then she’s worked with the likes of Lil Yachty and Saba. […]
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• War Effort drop a scorching EP of ‘first thought, best thought’ D-beat hardcore

  12-07-2023 17:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The punishing five-song cassette that local D-beat crew War Effort dropped last summer was rumored to have been written and recorded in one day—and the band have maintained that pace on Path to Glory, a scorching seven-inch EP (released last month via Bay Area label Warthog Speak) that ups the ante on the tape’s aggression […]
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• From the finest kitchen scraps in the city, Wilson Bauer summons the best worm poop

  12-07-2023 17:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For more than a year, Flour Power has produced almost no food waste. It all gets tossed into two large Amazon courier totes Wilson Bauer stores just to the right of his toilet.
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• Comedic meditations

  12-07-2023 17:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Since making her network television debut in 2015 on Last Call with Carson Daly, Marcella Arguello has been annihilating crowds with her stand-up. A native of Modesto, California, who now resides in Los Angeles, Arguello is one of the hardest working comedians around. In 2023 she made her HBO Max half-hour special debut with Bitch, […]
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• In Motion: Move Me Soul invests in Chicago youth to uplift a rising generation of professional dancers

  12-07-2023 16:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Since 2008, Chicago dance organization Move Me Soul has shaped the lives of hundreds of local teens through preprofessional dance training.  The company was born out of a dance elective course led by founder and artistic director Ayesha Jaco at Austin High School. Inspired by the success of that class, she adapted her teachings—which center […]
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• Footballhead will make you believe in alt-rock again

  12-07-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last year, Chicago multi-instrumentalist Ryan Nolen launched a solo project called Footballhead as an outlet for material too poppy for his ongoing band, Kirby Grip, who play soaring, sometimes serious space rock. On Footballhead’s debut, the July 2022 EP Kitchen Fly, Nolen made his affection for 90s alt-rock radio hits, caramel-sweet emo, and turn-of-the-century pop […]
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• Cook County Issues Disaster Proclamation for July 2 Storms and Flash Flooding

  12-07-2023 14:30
  
  Thousands of households and businesses impacted by weather eventCook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle issued a disaster proclamation on Tuesday for suburban Cook County in response to storms that hit the region on July 2. Several rounds of storms dumped nearly nine inches of rain in less than 24 hours in parts of the County, leading to severe flooding and other storm damage. Berwyn, Cicero and Stickney were the hardest hit suburban Cook County municipalities.
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• United Working Families Names Kennedy Bartley as New Executive Director

  12-07-2023 13:30
  
  The United Working Families Party Committee unanimously voted to hire Kennedy Bartley, a grassroots movement organizer, as the organization’s new Executive Director. She will assume the role on July 13, coinciding with the Netroots Nation conference in Chicago, where progressives from around the country will convene.
  “UWF and the City of Chicago are uniquely positioned to be national leaders for what a sustainable, equitable, and just future can look like with bold, organized progres
  
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• The Carr Report: All about IRAs (Individual Retirement Accounts)

  12-07-2023 13:00
  
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  When it comes to saving for retirement and wealth-building, taking advantage of tax advantged saving and investment accounts should be top priority. Very few people like paying taxes on their hard-earned income.   Tax advantaged saving plans such as 401(k)s 403(b)s Thrift Saving Plans and IRAs come with two primary benefits. 1. They’re dedicated accounts earmarked for retirement helping you to build your retirement nest egg. 2. They keep the IRA paws off
  
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• California Bill Could Soon Require Judges To Consider Race In Sentencing

  12-07-2023 04:24
  
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  A California bill could soon require judges to consider one’s race when determining the length of their prison sentence.
  According to Fox News, Bill 852 was first introduced in February by Reggie Jones-Sawyer, the Democratic chair of the California Assembly’s Public Safety Committee.
  The bill would add a section to the Penal Code of California, requiring courts to consider race in sentencing in an effort to “rectify the racial bias” in the criminal jus
  
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• M. Sage conjures serene, naturalistic sounds in his old Chicago home

  12-07-2023 00:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Experimental artist Matthew Sage, better known as M. Sage, moved to Chicago from Colorado in 2014, and within a couple years I’d become quite fond of his work. The reflective solo material he’d put out on Atlanta label Geographic North and the gigabytes of other peoples’ recordings he issued via his own label Patient Sounds […]
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• Protomartyr expand their sonic palette and add depth on the sophisticated new Formal Growth in the Desert

  12-07-2023 00:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Protomartyr are the kind of band who create a lot with a very minimal palette. Ever since the Detroit four-piece began releasing music in 2012, they’ve made postpunk with a capital P: wiry guitar, throbbing bass, and jumpy drums topped with the dry, deadpan speak-singing of front man Joe Casey. The first few seconds of […]
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