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• Peter Brown is an A+ argument against dissing disco

  19-07-2023 22:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’d like to think the narrative has changed on Chicago and disco since the infamous Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in 1979. White rock fans blowing up disco records was never a good look, in no small part because the genre was so heavily Black, Brown, and queer. I’ll allow that some of the […]
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• It’s West African street food with Dozzy’s Grill at the next Monday Night Foodball

  19-07-2023 19:14 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There would be no jambalaya without jollof rice, and yet Dozzy Ibekwe figures most people in Chicago can’t name one West African restaurant. “[West African food has] been around since the beginning of time,” he says. “So it’s really not something that’s foreign. In fact, it’s been a part of the American journey since the […]
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• Sisters in song

  19-07-2023 17:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  George Brant’s Marie and Rosetta, now at Northlight in a production directed by E. Faye Butler, is a tribute to the contributions of Black women in gospel, rhythm and blues, and rock, as embodied by Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight—neither of whom are as nearly well known as they deserve to be (even though […]
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• A Midsummer with some twists

  19-07-2023 17:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Is there a Shakespeare comedy better suited for an outdoor production in a park in July than A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Much of the play itself takes place outdoors in the summer, in the woods on the outskirts of a very English-seeming Athens. And the stories that unfold there are just twisty enough to keep […]
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• Elements of Style has substance

  19-07-2023 17:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Dorothy Parker once famously observed, “If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.” The latest prime-time offering from the Neo-Futurists, Elements of […]
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• Princess Di—Gone But Still Kicking! paints a divisive portrait of the late royal

  19-07-2023 17:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  An icon and legend, the late Princess Diana, first wife to King Charles III, lends herself to many different interpretations.  Jillann Gabrielle has established herself as a creator and performer of one-woman musicals about such iconic women as Greta Garbo, Hedda Hopper, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Now Gabrielle presents her interpretation […]
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• The Art of Bowing gives us too much of nothing

  19-07-2023 17:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Ian Damont Martin directs the world premiere of Nathan Alan Davis’s post-everything meta intergalactic meditation on what it’s all about. Akwasi (David Goodloe)—on a bare stage save for a blinding, bare light bulb on a stand—tells the audience that theater’s dead and that he’s not an actor. He’s joined by Enoch (Beck Nolan), who has […]
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• Build your own narrative

  19-07-2023 16:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Exploring intimacy, memory, and human connection through personal experience, Brenda Draney employs a less-is-more approach to painting. Here, absence and presence don’t seem to matter. Born in Sawridge First Nation, by the town of Slave Lake in Alberta, Canada, the Edmonton-based artist uses thick brushstrokes to depict aspects of contemporary Indigenous life. “Drink from the […]
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• Chicago Football Classic Returns Sept. 2, Marking 25 Years of HBCU Culture

  19-07-2023 16:00
  
  For Black College football in Chicago, the Chicago Football Classic is a tradition unlike any other. The storied game returns to Soldier Field on Sept. 2 after a 4-year hiatus.
  The Labor Day weekend contest between Mississippi Valley State and Central State will mark the 25th anniversary of this HBCU football event. The game will serve as the culminating event in a week of activities throughout the city to highlight the enriching and enlightening culture of HBCUs. It’s what organizers call
  
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• Chicago percussionist and composer Sam Scranton merges introspection and jittery energy on Body Pillow

  19-07-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On his new solo album, Body Pillow, Chicago percussionist, composer, and improviser Sam Scranton presents a menagerie of immersive, bubbly electronics. I’d become familiar with Scranton through his work with local new-music ensemble Honestly Same, so I expected this record to be an electroacoustic sound pastiche—along the lines of The Ceiling Reposes, a stunning album […]
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• Black Tech Week Convenes Large Gathering of Black Innovators

  19-07-2023 14:26
  Black Tech Week, (BTW) returned Tuesday, connecting tech entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals to educational opportunities, resources, and to one another.
  The conference has sparked the inspiration of many first time attendees, excited by the opportunity to meet and network with investors for their creative new tech ideas while learning the variety of speaker sessions.
  Candice Matthews Brackeen, Organizer of Black Tech Week, aims to bring together some of the greatest innovators in techno
  
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• The Carr Report: Aspire to be rich…FILTHY RICH!!

  19-07-2023 13:00
  
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  To be rich is to have an abundance of something.  To be filthy rich is to have an abundance of something to serve you throughout your lifetime and leave enough of something behind to have an indelible impression on the lives of others. 
  I recently saw a meme that read, “I have 99 problems and money can solve about 73 of them.” What about the other 26 problems?  If you still have problems that you’re wrestling with after you’ve recei
  
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