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• Bally’s Chicago Casino Set to Open This Saturday at the Medinah Temple

  08-09-2023 23:40
  
  Photo: Bally’s Corporation
  Bally’s, Chicago’s first and only casino, will open this Saturday at its temporary River North location.
  As The Chicago Defender reported on Wednesday, the casino at the historic Medinah Temple would open by this weekend, pending Illinois Gaming Board approval of Bally’s gaming sessions.
  According to Bally’s, state gaming officials approved the casino’s opening after reviewing those rehearsal events, which occurred on September 6 and
  
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• Review: The Equalizer 3

  08-09-2023 19:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There are dad movies, and then there’s the Equalizer, a John Wick-adjacent franchise composed of 50 percent semi-retired assassin Denzel Washington inflicting bone-crunching violence on the criminals of the world, and 50 percent average Joe Denzel Washington performing community service with a smile. Neither of the first two movies in the series are all that […]
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• Review: The Mountain

  08-09-2023 19:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On a whim, Pierre, a robotics engineer played by Thomas Salvador (also a cowriter and director), abandons his comfortable life in Paris. Before traveling to the French Alps for work, he sits sullenly in his modern apartment, deep in thought, sipping an espresso alone. Immediately, we see that Pierre is contemplative, often lost in thought, […]
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• Review: Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind

  08-09-2023 19:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For nearly ten years, Stig Björkman endeavored to get Joyce Carol Oates on board for a documentary. At first, Oates denied his request, opting to keep her life and mind private. But eventually, the beloved American author accepted Björkman’s proposal, which, admittedly, seemed to verge on incessant prying. Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the […]
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• ‘That land was promised to us’

  08-09-2023 17:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  One morning in late August, 20 renters and public housing advocates marched in a circle in front of the Chicago Housing Authority’s (CHA) headquarters, holding signs and chanting to protest the agency’s recent decision to sell land meant for public housing to private companies. “Mayor Johnson!” the chant-leader yelled through a megaphone. “Stop CHA!” responded […]
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• Stock Marley invites us to show genuine love

  08-09-2023 16:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “I’m not tryna get high, man. I’m tryna get righteous,” says Stock Marley. He’s in his west-side apartment, delicately rolling up a joint. “This is a daily sacrament. It’s a way of life. I’m not tryna do things fast—I’m trying to do it right. With the weed, with the music, we’re just trying to be […]
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• Finding poetry in flyover country

  08-09-2023 16:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “A writer of nonfiction discovers their own authority by telling. The good essays tell. They pronounce. They manifesto. They ask and wonder and feint and layer.” So proclaims author Sonya Huber, in a few-years-old article for LitHub, about unlearning long-accepted rules of writing. Huber puts these proclamations into action in her forthcoming essay collection, Love […]
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• Food From These Black-Owned Vendors Will Be Available at Bears Games

  08-09-2023 16:00
  
  Football season is back! In addition to tailgating, the singing of the national anthem, roaring crowds, touchdowns, tackles and more, one of the main highlights of the game day experience is the food. 
  Ahead of this Sunday’s season opener, the Chicago Bears and Aramark Sports + Entertainment (Aramark) hosted a tasting event at Soldier Field, introducing new food and beverage items that will be available this season. 
  “We’ve appreciated the collaboration and the hard w
  
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• The Impromptu Fest celebrates classical music’s fringe with its most ambitious year yet

  08-09-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago has its fair share of festivals that orbit within the solar system of contemporary classical music, including the smartly curated Frequency Festival, the block-party celebration of Thirsty Ears, and the citywide extravaganza Ear Taxi, which returns every few years. But the vibrancy of the city’s contemporary classical community is such that there isn’t just […]
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• Experimental musicians Bill Nace and Haley Fohr team up for two nights at the Hungry Brain

  08-09-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For more than a decade, Chicago musician Haley Fohr, who also makes music as Circuit des Yeux, has been honing and expanding her craft. She’s taken her transcendent vocal explorations, art-rock ensembles, and live film scores to far-off places around the globe. Just when I thought I’d witnessed her lend her powerful four-octave voice to […]
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• ‘Black Light Cinema Project’ brings film to the forefront

  08-09-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Black Light Cinema Project” opened July 7 at the South Side Community Art Center with a focus on belonging, home, archival materials, and the self. The topic of identity saturates both galleries, although with different content, allowing them to juxtapose one another while working in unison.  The Center’s 1893 mansion, a former home in the […]
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• After ten years in action, the Chris Speed Trio gets to the gist

  08-09-2023 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In his own projects and his collaborations with others, tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Chris Speed often makes music with a compounded quality, as though he and his associates are trying to concentrate as much information as possible into the available space. Human Feel packed the divergent aesthetics of four strong players into each tune; Pachora […]
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• Missing Netflix Engineer Yohanes Kidane Found Dead In San Francisco Bay

  08-09-2023 14:00
  
  Photo: San Jose Police Department
  The body of a 22-year-old Netflix engineer who went missing last month was found in the San Francisco Bay, CBS News reports.
  Yohanes Kidane, 22, was last seen in security footage leaving his apartment building and entering an Uber vehicle on August 14 in downtown San Jose.
  “Two young colleagues of his saw him and were able to talk to him,” Yosief Kidane, Yohanes’ brother, previously said. “He said he was heading to San Francisco to maybe
  
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• A new home for experimental literature

  08-09-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “We are identifying ‘micro-movements’ and allowing others to explain them to us,” says Jourdain Barton, a cofounder of Chicago’s TEMPER Press. Born to foster experimental writing, TEMPER emerged from such a micro-movement: a bond shared by Barton and her grad school classmates Geoffrey Billetter and Nat Holtzmann. To them, micro-movements are smaller, unidentified capsules of […]
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• Free Root Operation Hosts a South Side Community Cleanup Led by Black Moms

  08-09-2023 13:45
  
  Free Root Operation (FRO) will host a community cleanup day at Abbott (Robert) Park on September 9th, 2023 from 9 am-1 pm as part of the nourishment pillar of their 6-month wellness program, BLOOM. The BLOOM Program serves Black women and single mothers from the South and West sides, often erased from gun violence advocacy, as a public safety infrastructure.
  Planned and executed by participants, this cleanup day is a pivotal step in empowering the women FRO serves to be active agents of change i
  
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