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• Review: The Nun II

  15-09-2023 23:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Catholic horror wheel isn’t reinvented, but the jump scares are so nonstop and occasionally clever that I was left wondering: is this the most fun I’ve had at the movies all summer?
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• Review: A Haunting in Venice

  15-09-2023 23:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A Haunting in Venice officially derails Kenneth Branagh’s rebooted Agatha Christie films.
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• Book by block

  15-09-2023 21:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When I think of summer reading I think of book challenges from my local library. I’d sign up as a kid and track my reading habits for the chance of winning something fun like tickets to Six Flags or—more likely—a special bookmark or T-shirt. I never got the Six Flags tickets, but I always had […]
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• ‘Don’t just say it—do it’

  15-09-2023 16:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On Tuesday, September 12, Enrich Chicago released the results for its first racial equity report for the arts sector in the city: “Work Remains To Be Done: A Baseline Survey of Chicago’s BIPOC Arts & Culture Workers.” Enrich Chicago, founded in 2014, is a collaborative composed of arts and culture organizations and funders (nearly 40 […]
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• Iridescent illusions

  15-09-2023 16:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The minute you step into the gallery, the clock starts ticking: you only have 30 seconds to experience María Burundarena’s world—if you choose not to return, that is. The line outside the door says otherwise. People are lining up, eager to get back in for another half-minute solitary experience that is what you make it—a […]
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• Goapele: From ‘Closer’ to ‘COLOURS,’ The Journey of a Neo-Soul Visionary

  15-09-2023 16:30
  
  At a Bay Area studio over twenty years ago, singer Goapele heard the bare bones of a song that would ultimately change her life. 
  “As soon as I heard it, it just captured a feeling for me,” Goapele said in a recent interview with The Chicago Defender. “I was finishing my EP project. And I felt really excited. I felt fearful. I felt vulnerable. I felt proud.” 
  “I just felt like I was at the edge of something that I hadn’t reached, but I was just gonna
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda Talks ‘Hamilton’ as the Musical Returns to Chicago 

  15-09-2023 16:00
  
  Don’t expect Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of one of the most successful Broadway productions ever, to make another Hamilton or anything like it. 
  “I don’t think I’m writing another history musical ever f–king again. You think I can top this?” he asked during a Thursday interview at the Broadway in Chicago offices. 
  Thanks to Hamilton’s enduring appeal and longevity, the momentum for the eight-year-old musical isn’t slowing down anytime soo
  
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• This Week In Black History Sept. 13-19. 2023

  15-09-2023 15:00
  
  In this Sept. 15, 1963, file photo, firefighters and ambulance attendants remove a covered body from the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., after by a deadly explosion detonated by members of the Ku Klux Klan during services.  (AP Photo)
  September 13
  1663—The first documented slave rebellion in America is set to take place. The revolt in Gloucester County, Va., involved Black slaves and White indentured servants. However, it was betrayed by a White indentured servant.
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• Black Business Owners Must Now Prove ‘Social Disadvantage’ To Get SBA Loans

  15-09-2023 14:00
  
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  Black business owners now have to prove they are “socially disadvantaged” to qualify for certain loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
  According to Business Insider, all participants of the SBA 8a Business Development program are required to write a “social disadvantage narrative” in order to continue to be eligible to receive monetary awards.
  The requirement comes after the Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action. I
  
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• Narcan for everyone

  15-09-2023 12:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Despite a precipitous drop in the overall number of opioids prescribed in Illinois, the number of accidental overdoses—both fatal and nonfatal—have continually risen over the last decade, according to the Illinois Prescription Monitoring Program and the Illinois Department of Public Health’s (IDPH) opioid data dashboard. Since 2017, overdose deaths in Illinois have exceeded the state’s […]
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