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• NU’s Streisand effect

  11-08-2023 19:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Content note: This column contains mention of hazing and sexual assault. Northwestern University (NU) may not win many, or any, football games this season. But, man, when it comes to cynical acts of duplicity and deceit, they may already be the champs. Oh, where to start with the football hazing scandal that gets more scandalous […]
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• Review: The Unknown Country

  11-08-2023 18:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A solitary figure in a car traversing the American West in a movie can be as iconic as it is innocuous: a placeholder for every kind of journey, be it spiritual or material; a seeking of or a fleeing from.The post Review: The Unknown Country appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
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• Review: The Last Voyage of the Demeter

  11-08-2023 18:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredaldirected this predictable, gruesome, but unscary horror tale, which is inspired by chapter seven of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, known as “The Captain’s Log.”
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• Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

  11-08-2023 18:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  These turtles are animated in an electric style that resembles clay splashed with vibrant colors and rough sketch lines. It’s enough to power this loving, if somewhat tame, reboot. 
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• Review: Meg 2: The Trench

  11-08-2023 18:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It's a clumsy action movie with the occasional spurt of fun monster conflict amidst a sea of flat characters and a tiresome plot of corporate espionage.
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• Review: Amanda

  11-08-2023 18:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For her debut feature, Cavalli’s character study of a sardonic protagonist offers a unique voice to coming-of-age anxiety.
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• Here Are the 10 Most Influential Chicago Hip-Hop Albums of All Time

  11-08-2023 16:30
  
  We celebrate Hip-hop’s 50th Birthday and Chicago’s indelible influence on the genre.Hip-hop is officially old enough to start getting mail from AARP. 
  Friday marks the 50th anniversary of its founding, a historical benchmark for one of the most innovative, transgressive, and revolutionary music genres.
  The popular narrative is that Hip-hop music was born on August 11, 1973, when a man named DJ Kool Herc used two turntables to create a breakbeat at a Bronx birthday party. Hip-Hop
  
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• Through space and rhyme: How hip-hop uses Afrofuturism to take listeners on journeys of empowerment

  11-08-2023 16:00
  
  The exhibit “Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., on May 4, 2023. Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images
  by Roy Whitaker, San Diego State University
  It is perhaps only natural, as hip-hop celebrates its 50th anniversary, that people look to the genre’s future. But for some rappers, the future has always been part of the story.
  Ever since August 1973, hip-hop artists have turned
  
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• Black Mother Sues Hospital After Baby Was ‘Decapitated’ During Delivery

  11-08-2023 15:30
  
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  A Georgia mother has filed a lawsuit alleging her child was decapitated during delivery.
  On Wednesday (August 9), an attorney for 20-year-old Jessica Ross and her boyfriend, Treveon Isaiah Taylor Sr., announced the lawsuit against Southern Regional Medical Center, where the alleged “nightmare” incident unfolded, WSB-TV reports.
  “This is one of the most sad, egregious, and horrific situations that I’ve ever seen,” attorney Dr. Roderick Edmond said
  
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• White Woman Allegedly Spit, Kicked Black Man During Alabama Boat Brawl

  11-08-2023 15:00
  
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  Calls are growing for a white woman to be charged and arrested after she allegedly kicked and spit on a Black man during the massive brawl that occurred at an Alabama riverfront dock.
  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 reports, the Black victim, identified as Damien Pickett, was a riverboat co-captain who instructe
  
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• Savoring culture

  11-08-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Celebrating the rich tapestry of Black and African identities, “Gumbo,” reveals the multifaceted narratives, cultural nuances, and poignant perspectives of the Black experience by bringing together 20 artists whose work spans mediums and scale. The works are carefully arranged within the Fulton Market gallery and rightfully so—each one demands a closer look so sufficient white […]
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• London chamber-pop group the Clientele return to the U.S. in support of a new double LP

  11-08-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  London psychedelic chamber-pop outfit the Clientele have been making their hushed, literate songs for 32 years, evoking peers such as the Go-Betweens, the Left Banke, and Felt while maintaining their own baroque and brainy mystique. Earlier this year, they released an ambitious double LP, I Am Not There Anymore (Merge), which lead singer and guitarist […]
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