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• Punks love waffles

  08-08-2023 22:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Punks love waffles, and Andy King has proof. At the release show for Cut Your Losses’ self-titled debut Reflections of Ghosts at Schubas Tavern this past spring, local podcast producer and DIY chef King only had a few minutes to talk with acoustic punk artist Joe Costa, professionally known as Tourist Season, and rising punk […]
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• DJ Casper, Creator of Iconic ‘Cha Cha Slide,’ Dies After Cancer Battle

  08-08-2023 15:30
  
  DJ Casper, the Chicago native behind the internationally renowned “Cha Cha Slide,” died Monday at 58, according to relatives.
  He passed after a lengthy battle with cancer. 
  The Chicago legend is the creator of perhaps one of the most popular and ubiquitous dancefloor songs of the last 25 years. Initially, Casper had created the “Cha Cha Slide” in 1998 for his nephew, a personal trainer at a gym. The song became an aerobic and fitness anthem. 
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• Rising star David Virelles joins jazz eminences Andrew Cyrille and Reggie Workman in Trio Imagination

  08-08-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Drummer Andrew Cyrille (born 1939) and double bassist Reggie Workman (born 1937) have worked with many of the most profoundly influential figures in post-1950 jazz; a short list of artists with whom one or both musicians have recorded includes Art Blakey, Alice and John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Cecil Taylor, Marion Brown, Peter Brötzmann, Mal Waldron, […]
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Don’t say African American History Standards 

  08-08-2023 15:00
  Vintage illustration features portraits of African-American heroes, including Blanche Kelso Bruce, Frederick Douglass, and Hiram Rhoades Revels, surrounded by scenes of African-American life in the mid 1800s and portraits of Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, and Ulysses S. Grant. Getty Images
  Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, signed into law the Parental Rights in Education Act in 2022. It said that classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity by school offic
  
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• Local darkwave outfit Replicant return to Chicago stages with new music

  08-08-2023 14:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Replicant are a Chicago three-piece who make dark, sleek synth-pop that could score a blockbuster dystopian epic as easily as it could provide a scuzzy, sensual soundtrack for an all-night subterranean club. The group’s members—brothers Jordan and Justin DeLay and longtime friend Garrett Vernon—moved here separately from Michigan and formed Replicant in 2012, and they’ve […]
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• New Video Emerges Of Alabama Boat Brawl Between Security Guard & White Men

  08-08-2023 14:00
  
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  More footage is continuing to surface from the Alabama boat brawl that appeared to start with a group of white men attacking a Black security guard.
  On Sunday (August 6), several videos began to circulate on social media of a Black man being charged at and hit by a white assailant on a dock at Riverfront Park in Montgomery, Alabama. According to witnesses, per Revolt, the Black man was a security guard who told a parked pontoon to move from the dock to make room for the Harri
  
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• Australian four-piece Psycroptic drown you in epic blackened death metal

  08-08-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The core of Australian four-piece Psycroptic is two prolific Australian brothers, drummer Dave Haley and guitarist Joe Haley, and they’ve been bashing out clotted tendrils of technical death metal with their main project for nearly a quarter century. The band’s early self-released albums are defined by charismatic vocalist Matthew “Chalky” Chalk, who alternated between bloody […]
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• Ex-Officer Who Held Back Bystanders During George Floyd’s Murder Sentenced

  08-08-2023 13:30
  
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  Tou Thao, a former Minneapolis police officer who stopped concerned bystanders from intervening as one of his colleagues fatally knelt on George Floyd’s neck, was sentenced on Monday (August 7) to 4 years and 9 months in prison.
  The sentencing comes after Hennepin County District judge Peter Cahill found Thao guilty in May of aiding and abetting manslaughter in the 2020 killing of Floyd, per Reuters.
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• Double-Lung Transplant Gives Commissioner Deer a Second Chance at Life

  08-08-2023 00:27
  
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  Cook County Commissioner Dennis Deer received the best early birthday gift anyone could receive: the gift of a better life thanks to a double-lung transplant.
  Earlier this year, Northwestern Medicine surgeons performed the first-ever double-lung transplants on Commissioner Deer and patient Yahaira Vega of Elgin.
  “It is certainly a miracle,” Commissioner Deer said at a Monday press conference at Northwestern Memorial Hospital&rsq
  
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