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• Chicago’s Viva Acid fest brings Eris Drew back to town

  03-10-2023 23:14 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Eris Drew’s debut album, 2021’s Quivering in Time, embeds lots of attention-grabbing details in its collagelike, psychedelic-tinged dance tracks—among them sounds of turntable scratching. There’s one near the end of “Time to Move Close,” after a slyly funky and somnolent synth melody guides listeners through six minutes of Hi-NRG percussive loops and several divergent synth […]
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• Chicago indie rock mourns Ryan Deffet of Space Gators

  03-10-2023 20:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For the past week, Chicago’s indie-rock scene has been mourning the unexpected death of Ryan Deffet, who played guitar and sang in Space Gators and Faux Furrs. Deffet moved here from Dayton, Ohio, and enmeshed himself in the northwest-side underground scene in the 2010s; for years he organized Deff Jam, a DIY festival that presented […]
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• Tank and The Bangas Join Chicago’s Best Orchestra for Epic Musical Mashup

  03-10-2023 16:00
  
  Photos by Todd Rosenberg
  Tank and the Bangas brought their eclectic, undefinable amalgam of soul, funk, Hip-hop,  jazz and rock to the Auditorium Theatre last Saturday. They made beautiful music with the Chicago Philharmonic.
  The Grammy-nominated New Orleans-based group, led by the incomparable Tarriona “Tank” Ball, did what they always do: ultimately rivet audiences with their dynamic live performance. And Chicago’s “Ferrari of orchestras” was right there with
  
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• Laimoon normalizes wood-fired pita at the next Monday Night Foodball

  03-10-2023 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  Brandon Dumot traffics in soft, warm five-inch saucers of astonishment, pillows of char-stippled pita bread that gently exhale steamy gusts when he pulls them from the fire. They taste like they’re alive. Most of us are so accustomed to plastic-shrouded factory flatbread—dead bread—that when you first encounter a fresh one, licked by live fire and […]
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• J. Pharoah Doss: What Stands Out More than Fetterman’s Hoodie?

  03-10-2023 15:00
  
  U.S. SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN
  During the mid-twentieth century, anti-capitalist leaders all over the world fashioned themselves after the working class. These leaders dressed like common workers in order to position themselves as “men of the people.”
  Long-shot local politicians in the United States acquired the “man of the people” persona over time in order to run non-traditional campaigns. Working-class voters appreciate the sentiment, but many expect the “man of the
  
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• Laphonza Butler Tapped To Fill Dianne Feinstein’s Senate Seat

  03-10-2023 14:00
  
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  Democratic strategist Laphonza Butler is set to make history in the U.S. Senate.
  On Sunday (October 1), California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Butler will fill Dianne Feinstein’s seat, days after the senator died at the age of 90, per People.
  The appointment will make Butler the first Black lesbian to serve in the U.S. Senate and the first LGBTQ person to represent California in the Senate.
  Butler currently serves as the president of EMILY’s List, an American
  
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• Get Smart! can teach you more about punk’s past in person

  03-10-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If it hadn’t been for the COVID pandemic, power-poppy Kansas punk trio Get Smart! would’ve played a 40th-anniversary show—their first gig in three decades—in November 2020. That date ended up pushed back to November 2021, and luckily for us, it didn’t turn out to be a one-off affair. The band formed in Lawrence in 1980 […]
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• Finding a connection through art and poetry

  03-10-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Americans continue to live through a silent epidemic of loneliness where over half of minority and low-income populations feel isolated and alone. “Threads,” on view at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) through October 22, invites visitors to reconsider how humans develop emotional ties and find new ways to emphasize compassion and connectivity. “Threads” […]
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• Federal Court Blocks Grant Program For Black Women Entrepreneurs

  03-10-2023 13:45
  
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  A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked an Atlanta-based venture capital firm from offering grants to Black women entrepreneurs amid a lawsuit alleging the program illegally excludes other races.
  On Saturday (September 30), the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that Fearless Fund could no longer offer the Strivers Grant, which awards $20,000 to businesses owned by Black women, per AP.
  The decision was a reversal of Tuesday’s ruling by U.
  
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• Chicago Reader announces two promotions

  03-10-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Reader Institute for Community Journalism (RICJ), which operates the Chicago Reader, announces recent promotions. Shawnee Day is now multimedia content producer. Day (she/they) joined the Chicago Reader in 2021 as the Special Projects Associate. In her role as Multimedia Content Producer, she will infuse her creative energy to craft compelling visual and auditory experiences […]
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