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• Review: Oppenheimer

  26-07-2023 23:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s a film about the creation of something not before seen and the consequences this entails.
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• Review: Barbie

  26-07-2023 23:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Greta Gerwig serves up a frothy confection of fashion and fun coupled with searing social critique of the iconic doll in the movie Barbie.
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• No easy answers

  26-07-2023 23:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “A String of Pearls: The Films of Camille Billops & James Hatch” is a complete retrospective of their film work, the first-ever in Chicago.
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• Urban Prep Academies to Remain Open and Will Welcome Students This Fall

  26-07-2023 23:13
  
  Urban Prep Wins Permanent Injunction Against Chicago Public Schools to Take Over Charters
  Cook County Circuit Court Judge Anna M. Loftus has granted Urban Prep Academies a permanent injunction, effectively nullifying Chicago Public Schools’ decision to non-renew the charters and close the all-boys schools located in Bronzeville and Englewood.
  The Court determined that CPS’ actions of not renewing the charters and subsequently deciding to close the schools were in violation of Chicago
  
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• Public Notice – Illinois Power Agency

  26-07-2023 22:34
  
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• No country for old men

  26-07-2023 22:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Harold Pinter’s 1974 play No Man’s Land occupies the territory between his earlier “comedies of menace,” such as The Birthday Party and The Caretaker, and the more overtly political work he’d create in the 1980s (Mountain Language, One for the Road). But it’s primarily a comedy of language, at least in Steppenwolf’s current intriguing staging […]
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• Hair metal hijinks

  26-07-2023 22:13 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Mercury Theater production of this five-time Tony-nominated musical re-creates the 80s with such abandon that the audience’s fervor was palpable (and loud) on the night I attended. Tommy Novak’s staging of Rock of Ages creates a fun environment where musical theater mainstays intermingle with fresh standouts on the local scene. Reminiscent of the Emcee […]
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• Disney delight

  26-07-2023 22:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The stages at Chicago Shakespeare Theater are accustomed to classic tales of daring sword fights, magic spells, and a prince in disguise—just the kinds of stories that Belle loves to read. Although Navy Pier is far from Belle’s French provincial town, CST’s production of the Disney favorite Beauty and the Beast roars to life nonetheless. […]
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• The magic of romance

  26-07-2023 21:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The description for Henok Negash’s Meant to Be at the Chicago Magic Lounge makes it sound a little like a navel-gazing self-actualization exercise. Negash, we’re told, “specializes in offering a personalized mystery; meaning that he is not looking for perfection but rather connection.” Rest assured that what you’re in for at the show is a […]
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• Nine great Chicago records to hear now

  26-07-2023 21:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Most music outlets have already published their listicles spotlighting the best albums of the first half of the year. As usual, I’m not even thinking about picking my favorites from among every album released anywhere—I’m overwhelmed just by the volume of quality Chicago music that I haven’t gotten to write about yet. This felt like […]
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• The Wiz Walk shows us a way forward

  26-07-2023 21:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There are days I don’t think I can handle one more essay on the precarious state of the American theater. It’s not that I’m in denial about the existential threats facing so many institutions large and small. I just feel rather helpless to change what’s going on. And let’s be honest—even a wistful desire to […]
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• Bow before the Hot Dog Box at the next Monday Night Foodball

  26-07-2023 19:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Sausage King and Boss Lady Brooklyn have conquered Bronzeville. They wielded their blinged-out, quarter-pound steak scepters in Portage Park. Currently they’re—ahem—reigning hot dogs on Block 37 at Urbanspace. But there’s really only one way to bend the knee under the shimmering lights in the warm summer breeze with a gator sausage in your paw, […]
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• Lily Glick Finnegan, drummer and Option Series curator

  26-07-2023 19:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Lily Glick Finnegan, 25, is a drummer, composer, improviser, and curator. A Chicago native, she returned to the city in 2022 after completing a master’s degree in music at Berklee. She manages the online record store for nonprofit artists’ collective Catalytic Sound, a job she took at the invitation of local reedist Ken Vandermark, who […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 52, No. 21

  26-07-2023 17:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 52, Number 20. July 13, 2023
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• Building hope with Free Street

  26-07-2023 17:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Free Street Theater has been making theater in Chicago, connecting communities through art, since 1969. They do itinerant touring work across the city, creating accessible, inclusive, and transformational performances that seek connections between different issues facing Chicago communities. Their newest performance, There Is a Future/Tenemos un Futuro (TIAF), is an outdoor show directed by Elizabeth […]
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• The Chicago Project

  26-07-2023 16:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What’s the Chicago connection to the events depicted in Christopher Nolan’s explosive, confusing, and acclaimed Oppenheimer film? Here’s what I learned from University of Chicago professor emeritus and astrophysicist Don Lamb. We spoke last week, before the film opened.   J. Robert Oppenheimer led the World War II effort known as the Manhattan Project, but the […]
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• In Motion: Muntu Dance Theatre celebrates the African diaspora through dance, music, and folklore

  26-07-2023 16:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Muntu Dance Theatre is a Chicago-based West African dance company that’s beloved for its commitment to innovation, community, and culture. Their stage work centers the African and African American experience, but their message is universal. “We believe that there is merit in all cultures and that we should strive to celebrate our similarities instead of […]
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• Iowa stoner duo Telekinetic Yeti and Philly power trio Stinking Lizaveta bring eclectic, ambitious metal to Chicago

  26-07-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Telekinetic Yeti’s 2017 debut album, Abominable, hit like a fat slab of bloody blubber dropped hard enough on a snow-covered mountainside to cause an avalanche. The Iowa duo’s music stood out for its superheavy stoner-doom riffs as well as for the whimsy and tongue-in-cheek humor in its lyrics (on tracks such as “Stoned and Feathered” […]
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• Illinois EPA Allocates $14M to Rehab Dixmoor’s Water Distribution and Remove Lead Service Lines

  26-07-2023 15:00
  
  Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Director John J. Kim recently announced a total of $14 million in funding to the Village of Dixmoor.
  A $10 million grant, made available through Gov. Pritzker’s historic Rebuild Illinois Capital Plan, will provide for construction improvements to rehabilitate the water distribution system, and restore reliable potable water within the Village. An additional $4 million in funding is being provided to the Village for lead service line replacement thro
  
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• Obama Chef Tafari Campbell Found Dead At Pond Near Martha’s Vineyard Estate

  26-07-2023 14:30
  
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  A personal chef for the Obamas was found dead on Monday (July 24) in a pond near their Martha’s Vineyard estate, CNN reports.
  Tafari Campell, 45, was visiting the south shore of Martha’s Vineyard when he went missing on Sunday (July 23) after going paddleboarding, according to Massachusetts State Police.
  While paddleboarding, Campell went “into the water, appeared to briefly struggle to stay on the surface, and then submerged and did not resurface,” po
  
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• Inside the currents of life

  26-07-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On a page in Donald Barthelme’s 1974 book Guilty Pleasures, there is a collage of a collision between two ships. Under the graphite lines of their hulls, the words “not our fault!” ring like a bell. In artist Mark Fingerhut’s software poem “HALCYON.EXE: THE RIDE,” currently up at Sulk Chicago, two cargo freighters, with a […]
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• Cusp have made one of the best Chicago indie-rock albums of the year

  26-07-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  So far this summer, few new indie-rock songs have affected me as much as “You Can’t Do It All,” the not-quite-title track from Cusp’s self-released debut album, You Can Do It All. Jen Bender’s sweet, straightforward vocals snuggle up against a fogbank of guitar fuzz, a quietly humming bass line, a waltz-time beat, and an […]
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• Carlee Russell’s Boyfriend Slams Her For Lying About Kidnapping

  26-07-2023 13:30
  
  The boyfriend of Carlee Russell, the 25-year-old woman who disappeared after calling 911 to report a child alone on the side of an Alabama highway, blasted her after news surfaced that she lied about being kidnapped.Thomar Simmons took to Instagram to address news of the fake abduction, slamming Russell for falsifying the incident and referring to himself as her ex-boyfriend, per TMZ.
  “Carlee’s actions created hurt, confusion, and dishonesty,” Simmons wrote. “I was made a
  
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