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• The Hyde Park Jazz Festival reached new heights in 2023

  02-10-2023 20:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Hyde Park Jazz Festival is one of the best-programmed events of its kind anywhere, thanks to the resilient and resourceful people, many of them volunteers, who organize and coordinate it. It’s also one of the most frustrating, because there’s so much good stuff to see that schedule clashes are inevitable—especially on Saturday, when 31 […]
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• The Lehman Trilogy is TimeLine at its finest

  02-10-2023 17:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Three actors play more than 50 characters over a span of some 160 years in the TimeLine Theatre/Broadway in Chicago collaboration on the epic drama The Lehman Trilogy. But it’s not daunting statistics that propel this powerful production, codirected by Vanessa Stalling and TimeLine associate artistic director (and cofounder) Nick Bowling. When house lights come […]
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• The Surge Institute: Empowering Leaders of Color to Impact Communities

  02-10-2023 15:30
  
  Suppose you’re like me and constantly pursuing professional and workforce development opportunities that provide access, community and champion leaders of color to serve as disruptors and shake up the norm for educational equity. In that case, you’ve heard of The Surge Institute.
  For those unfamiliar, The Surge Institute is a national nonprofit organization with a mission to educate and develop leaders of color who create transformative change for young people, their f
  
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• High-Profile Suicides Spotlight Rising Rates Among Black People

  02-10-2023 15:00
  
  Stephen tWitch Boss (Photo Facebook).
  Many were shocked to learn about the deaths of well-known individuals like Stephen Laurel “tWitch” Boss, a So You Think You Can Dance dancer, judge, and DJ on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, who died by suicide. 
  It left people wondering how someone who appeared so happy could take his own life, leaving behind a beautiful family. This shock echoed when attorney, former Miss USA, activist and entertainment news correspondent Cheslie Kryst and Ian K
  
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• The Clean Energy Transition Must Be a Just Transition

  02-10-2023 14:00
  
  By Ben Jealous
  When General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford – the “Big Three” American automakers – were close to extinction 15 years ago, their workers and the American people stepped in to save them. The United Auto Workers (UAW) gave back wages and benefits they had every right to get under a contract they had negotiated just a year before.
  Now, rather than being paid back, union workers face getting left out of the future of the car business. And the rest of the country is
  
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• Pools of time

  02-10-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What narrative can we tell of a fractured life when gleaned through the nature of the anthropogenic? Possibly a fragmented story of being. “Life Cycles,” a group show curated by Ionit Behar at the DePaul Art Museum, gathers more than 50 artists in various mediums whose work shares a common border in exploring subjectivity through […]
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•  In the vast universe of cosmic jazz, Rami Atassi’s Dancing Together, spins in its own orbit

  02-10-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Rami Atassi gets around: he’s a prolific music educator, a guitarist in local alt-rock projects the Curls and Ester, the bandleader of Blow Wind Blow, and a trusted collaborator of Chicago bassist Tatsu Aoki, with whom he recorded 2020’s criminally underrated duo album Atashi Wa Rami. But so far he’s never had the spotlight to […]
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