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• The Hyde Park Jazz Festival’s richly varied program opens doors to musical growth with new alliances

  20-09-2023 21:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Hyde Park Jazz Festival may bear the name of a single neighborhood, but it’s a world-class event. The programming draws heavily from local talent, but Chicagoans such as saxophonist Ari Brown and vocalist Dee Alexander have earned international profiles. And the performers from elsewhere include the likes of Detroit drummer Louis Hayes and Philadelphia […]
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• From Le Perroquet to STREET 

  20-09-2023 20:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As one of the featured titles at this year’s Reeling Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, FORKED shows a different side of the restaurant industry.
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• Chicago Reader Volume 52, No. 25

  20-09-2023 19:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 52, Number 23. August 24, 2023
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• CIFF’s killer lineup

  20-09-2023 18:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Starting October 11, CIFF will once again grace the halls of the Music Box Theatre (and a number of other local venues), delivering 150 films from more than a dozen countries to movie lovers across Chicago. 
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• The quest for Eleven

  20-09-2023 18:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Curtain up. I’m sitting at the Harold Washington Library, looking through the Godzilla Rainbow Troupe file in the Chicago Theater Collection archives for my dramaturgy class final at the Theatre School at DePaul. In it, I see old programs, reviews, and even a script for a show called Whores of Babylon. But what fascinates me […]
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• Josh Horton, music videographer

  20-09-2023 18:36 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I discovered the work of videographer Josh Horton through local music-media outlet Real Ones, which began as a podcast in 2020 and evolved to produce concerts and shoot interviews with local and national artists. Horton has shot Real Ones interviews at several festivals. He immersed himself in Chicago’s overlapping hip-hop and R&B scenes after graduating […]
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• Reeling returns

  20-09-2023 18:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Reeling International Film Festival is back to showcase a dizzying array of LGBTQ+ content, from campy horror to historical documentaries.
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• High-wire act

  20-09-2023 18:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If you were a Bloomie’s Chicago customer at the River North store, you won’t be hugely surprised when you walk into Bally’s new pop-up casino in the 111-year-old Medinah Temple. Bloomingdale’s saved this massive Moorish Revival architectural fantasy (at 600 N. Wabash) from demolition when it opened a store there in 2003, restoring the dome-topped […]
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• ‘We don’t want to get bigger. We want to get deeper.’

  20-09-2023 17:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This week, we’re kicking off a new occasional series, Stages of Survival, spotlighting theater companies that are, despite the pervasive gloom-and-doom narratives about the performing arts, still producing. The plan is to eventually encompass a broad range of companies: Equity and non-Equity, those that are itinerant and those that have their own spaces, and companies […]
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• Setting the stage for queer stories

  20-09-2023 17:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  One of Chicago’s greatest treasures for its LGBTQ+ community and its allies is the city’s queer theater scene. As the 2023–24 season kicks in, there will be no shortage of queer stories playing out on Chicago’s stages.  Uptown-based LGBTQ+ theater stalwart PrideArts got an early start, kicking off its fall season back in August with […]
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• [PRESS RELEASE] GRAMMY Award winner Peter CottonTale headlines Chicago Reader’s Annual UnGala Celebration

  20-09-2023 17:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHICAGO, September 20, 2023 – Chicago Reader announced today that multi-platinum recording artist and producer Peter CottonTale, who has collaborated with Chance the Rapper, SZA, and others, will be headlining its second annual Reader UnGala Celebration on October 18, 2023. Held at Epiphany Center for the Arts, the evening will begin at […]
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• ‘125 is feeling very good’

  20-09-2023 16:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Because Chicago is so well known for its “Magnificent Mile” retail district—North Michigan Avenue between Oak Street and the Chicago River—it’s all too easy to overlook, or take for granted, the importance of what can be called the city’s cultural corridor: Michigan Avenue stretching south from the river to Roosevelt Road.  What an extraordinary array […]
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• Help end Alzheimer’s with your purchase of a Wild Tripler Win ticket from the Illinois Lottery

  20-09-2023 16:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) impact people of every walk of life. In 2020, Illinois Lottery launched a new specialty Instant Lottery ticket called The End of Alzheimer’s Begins With Me, designating 100 percent of its profits to the Alzheimer’s Association, Illinois Chapter. To date, the Illinois Lottery has raised more than $3 million […]
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• 52nd Annual Legislative Conference: Tackling Black America’s Critical Issues

  20-09-2023 16:00
  
  Over the next five days, thousands will converge on the nation’s Capitol to tackle the most consequential issues impacting Black life in America.  
  The 52nd Annual Legislative Conference, presented by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, occurs from September 20-24 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center under the following theme: “Securing Our Democracy. Protecting Our Freedoms. Uplifting Our Culture.”
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• Comcast Gives $250K for Digital Navigators, 1,000 Laptops to Chicago Libraries and Non-profits

  20-09-2023 14:30
  
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  Company leaders join Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Public Library Commissioner Chris Brown to announce the next phase of its more than decade-long initiative to make digital equity a reality in Chicago
  National and local Comcast leaders joined Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Public Library (CPL) Commissioner Chris Brown on Tuesday to announce a $250,000 donation to the Chicago Public Library Foundation to fund digital navigators at 26 city library branches.
  
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• The Carr Report: Should We Buy a Home Outright or Get a Mortgage?

  20-09-2023 14:00
  
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  My wife and I have nearly $600,000 in our investment portfolio. Should we buy a home outright or get a mortgage?
  My wife and I are in our mid-30s. We have no kids and no desire to have a family, and we’re currently sitting on about $580,000 in our investment portfolio. This amount does not include our retirement savings. 
  We think we know where and how much we want to spend on a house (around $400,000), but we don’t know how we should buy that house. Is
  
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for Sept. 20

  20-09-2023 14:00
  
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• Biennial as experimentation

  20-09-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2017, a barge drifted along the Chicago River. It wasn’t carrying the usual Ozinga concrete or gravel; instead it floated a museum. Produced by the Floating Museum, an interdisciplinary collective comprised of architect Andrew Schachman, artists Faheem Majeed and Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, and poet avery r. young, the museum barge showcased artwork from dozens of […]
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• Dive Bistro creates a Waffle House à la campagne at the next Monday Night Foodball

  20-09-2023 01:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  At La Maison de la Gaufre in the tiny French village of Pourriture, they serve boudin noir Big Macs with pork blood Special Sauce until the sun comes up. It was a life-changing, late-night hangover helper at this mythical oasis that inspired chefs Kevin Ealey, Joy Kirkland, and John Dahlstrom to unite under the banner […]
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