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• Best of Chicago 2023 Digital Toolkit

  13-10-2023 21:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The polls are open for nominations beginning October 13: chicagoreader.com/best
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• In the wake of a new study, the city declares Theater Season

  13-10-2023 19:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Fall is traditionally the start of the performing arts season in Chicago (and elsewhere), but in the wake of so many stories about the precarious state of theater companies around the city and the nation, it feels even more important to highlight the work happening onstage right now. Last week, Mayor Brandon Johnson, Choose Chicago, […]
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• Man meets monster at the Joffrey

  13-10-2023 18:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Just before the lights dimmed and the Lyric Opera Orchestra signaled that the show was about to begin, two glamorous older women beside me kept repeating to each other, “We are blessed.” The characters in Frankenstein are not so lucky. In this Joffrey Ballet production, the story is condensed into three acts that use tension […]
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• Chicago Filmmaker Dwayne Johnson-Cochran on New Movie, ‘Heist 88′

  13-10-2023 16:30
  
  And just like that, Chicago is up 200 points in the new film “Heist 88,” written and executively produced by Chicago native Dwayne Johnson-Cochran. The Paramount+ and Showtime film, “Heist 88,” stars award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance and is produced by Vance and his wife, award-winning actress Angela Bassett, under the Bassett Vance Productions banner. Johnson-Cochran has worked in many facets of the entertainment industry, specifically on the Chicago scene as a forme
  
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• Young Chicago Filmmakers Showcase Their Work, Saturday at Chatham Theater

  13-10-2023 15:15
  
  This past summer, young filmmakers, ages 14 to 24, participated in a script competition where they were able to direct a short film. Now, nearly two months later, their hard work will pay off as they are set to make their feature debuts Saturday, Oct.14, 3pm at the Chatham Theater on Chicago’s Southside.
  This year, “Flip The Script,” a film fellowship program, powered by the nonprofit True Star Media will celebrate the meteoric rise of two young, avant-garde filmmakers who have
  
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• Black Teen Suspended Over Locs After CROWN Act Sent To Disciplinary Program

  13-10-2023 15:00
  
  Photo: Darresha George
  Darryl George, the Black student suspended twice for his locs around the same time Texas’ CROWN Act went into effect, will be sent to a disciplinary education program amidst a looming legal battle with the state.
  According to CBS News, Principal Lance Murphy of Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu sent the 18-year-old’s family a letter on Wednesday (October 11) saying that the student will be sent to EPIC, an alternative school program, for “failure t
  
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• Jury Reaches Split Verdict In Elijah McClain Case

  13-10-2023 14:15
  
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  A jury has reached a split verdict in the trial of two Colorado officers who arrested Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died in 2019 after being restrained by police and injected with ketamine by paramedics.
  The split verdict was reached on Thursday (October 12). The jury found Randy Roedema guilty of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault, while Jason Rosenblatt was found not guilty of manslaughter and assault.
  The former officers each faced charges
  
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• Join the Filipino food movement with Mabu Yami at the next Monday Night Foodball

  13-10-2023 00:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Matisse and Buko are good boys who have been best friends from the beginning. Together they’re known as “Mabu,” which makes their ears perk up whenever anyone shouts “Mabuhay!” Matisse and Buko are the Shiba Inu and Australian shepherd-Lab mix that are also best friends with, respectively, best friends Nicholas del Carmen and Evan Kalaw, […]
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