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• Review: Theater Camp

  28-07-2023 21:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The film deftly captures the high emotional stakes of being a theater kid, whether you’re still a child or a full-grown adult.
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• Review: The Beanie Bubble

  28-07-2023 21:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It is dispiriting to watch such talented people try to animate this turgid blueprint.
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• Watch Now: Is it “Modern Day Welfare” when cities give free funds to low-income families?

  28-07-2023 20:23
  On Episode 18 of “Frankie Darcell Has A Big Mouth Podcast”, Frankie and her guests discuss recent initiatives that propose giving direct money to low-income families. Is it “Modern Day Welfare” when cities give free funds to low-income families? Watch the entire episode below.  
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• Roman Banks Set to Star in ‘MJ: The Musical’ at the Nederlander Theatre

  28-07-2023 16:30
  
  Roman Banks once aspired to be “a serious actor,” in the vein of Will Smith’s Robert Neville in the 2007 film “I Am Legend.”
  But those aspirations changed when he got his hands on a bootleg copy of Hamilton and saw Black actor and singer Leslie Odom, Jr. play Aaron Burr. 
  “When I saw myself represented on stage when that musical struck a chord in me that I didn’t know I had, I said, ‘I’ve got to give that back to somebody else,'” t
  
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• This Saturday, Burst Into Books Presents the 2nd Annual W.O.W. Lit Fest

  28-07-2023 16:00
  
  Burst Into Books is a nonprofit offering literacy and resources for children six months to eighteen years old and providing representation by diverse authors, books & storytellers. 
  Burst Into Books is committed to helping the youth deepen their love of reading by integrating the arts, providing opportunities to engage with those connected to the literacy field, and creating a space to express themselves.
  The 2nd Annual W.O.W. Literary Festival, hosted by Burst Into Books, is the ultima
  
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• ‘A quiet giant’…Ulish Carter, longtime Courier managing editor, passes

  28-07-2023 15:00
  
  ULISH CARTER
  Simply put, Ulish Carter was a man of the Black Press.
  In his own words, Carter wrote in the New Pittsburgh Courier in 2011 that “after graduating from Southern Illinois University with my degree in hand…I was ready to see what was out there. I wanted to work for a Black newspaper, and nothing less would do. I wanted to make a difference in the Black community.”
  Making a difference in the Black community, specifically Pittsburgh’s Black community, is exactly
  
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• Postpunk trio Uniflora take Chicago’s teen scene by storm

  28-07-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Until this summer, I’d have struggled to think of a trio of rising high school sophomores who’d landed a slot at West Fest just a few months after forming their band—but then Chicago postpunks Uniflora went ahead and did it. Drummer Ruby O’Brien and bassist Theo Williams have been friends since kindergarten, and guitarist-vocalist Quinn […]
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• Hundreds of Loretto Hospital Workers Are Threatening to Strike on Monday

  28-07-2023 14:00
  
  A strike by hundreds of Loretto Hospital workers could happen come Monday.
  This decision comes after Loretto management left the negotiation table, sparking intense calls for the hospital to reevaluate its priorities.
  Taking their stand for safe staffing and better wages, frontline service, care and technical workers congregated with faith leaders and State Representative Lakesia Collins in a spirited rally across the street from the Loretto Emergency Room.
  During the event, SEIU Healthcare Illi
  
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• Extraordinary ability, extraordinary burden

  28-07-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  After Rui Sha graduated from the MFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019, she explored options to stay in the U.S. beyond the end of her student visa. An interdisciplinary artist, Sha felt the choice was more or less obvious: she would apply for the O-1B visa, the only […]
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• Family Seeks Answers As Black Woman Remains Missing After Nearly Two Weeks

  28-07-2023 00:39
  
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  Family members are seeking answers in the case of a 39-year-old North Carolina woman who has been missing for nearly two weeks.
  According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, Allisha Dene Watts was last seen leaving a home on Pamela Lorraine Drive in Charlotte, N.C. on July 16, per People. Watts was driving her vehicle toward Moore County, police said. The family said she was visiting her boyfriend, James Dunmore.
  On July 18, Watts’ vehicle was found in the p
  
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• New Witness Of Malcolm X Assassination Suggests Police Were In On Killing

  28-07-2023 00:32
  
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  A witness of Malcolm X’s assassination, who says he was never questioned by police, believes authorities tried to help the killer get away from the scene.
  During a press conference on Tuesday (July 25), attorney Ben Crump and co-council Ray Hamlin unveiled a new witness and more alleged information on the 1965 assassination, suggesting that authorities covered up a conspiracy to murder Malcolm X, per the New York Post.
  Mustafa Hassan, 84, said he was a part of Malcolm X
  
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• A journey into the unknown at Pitchfork

  28-07-2023 00:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Free Space: Weather Delay” is a four-word story I didn’t expect to write this past weekend, even though I’d put those words in the center square of a Pitchfork bingo card on my second trip to the festival as the Chicago Reader’s official bingo correspondent. Aside from a flurry of alarm that the dreadful Canadian […]
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