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• Surviving rat poisoning, as a rat

  19-10-2023 22:13 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When a beloved family pet finds poison intended for rodent invaders, a handful of local exotic animal hospitals can help save them.
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• Hollywood Hates Rats

  19-10-2023 21:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If rats can’t get fair treatment in the court of public opinion, they can at least get justice from the next best judicial institutions: Hollywood movie studios, where people treat each other right.
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• Rocking With Chekhov

  19-10-2023 20:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There is something about Anton Chekhov’s first successful full-length play, The Seagull, that attracts playwrights to try their hand at creating their own adaptations—faithful or otherwise.  Maybe it’s the fact that the characters at the center of this nearly 130-year-old play—the narcissistic mother, her emotionally damaged son, his talented but blindly ambitious girlfriend—feel so contemporary […]
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• Cosmic Country celebrates five years of inclusive, trippy country music

  19-10-2023 19:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Five years ago, the Hideout’s talent booker at the time, Sullivan Davis, teamed up with producer and musician Dorian Gehrig to start the Cosmic Country Showcase. Their dream was to bring to life Gram Parsons’s philosophy of a welcoming, expansive, and absolutely trippy form of country music, freed of its hidebound and less imaginative old […]
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• To Improve Our Health, Change Our Story

  19-10-2023 19:18
  
  Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation framework author Gail Christopher says Black health starts with changing America’s racial narrative.
   by Joseph Williams
   From disproportionately high rates of chronic diseases like hypertension and diabetes to women being three times more likely to die during childbirth than whites, the data confirms a simple, indisputable, alarming fact: Being Black in America is hazardous to your health. 
  Multiple studies have shown that struc
  
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• ‘For me, music and spirituality are intertwined as one’

  19-10-2023 19:08 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Music is a spiritual thing.” These are the words of legendary Nigerian musician and activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, and if any artist in Chicago still carries the same pan-African spirit Fela did so many years ago, it’s Chai Tulani. Born in Kenya and raised in Chicago, Tulani has been a fixture in the city’s creative community […]
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• Satchmo at the Cadillac Palace

  19-10-2023 18:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Now in a short run with Broadway in Chicago before a planned New York production, A Wonderful World still has a ways to go before it feels like a fully realized portrait of Louis Armstrong. Then again, there were so many facets to the musician that it’s hard to imagine anyone could do full justice […]
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• Whose body?

  19-10-2023 18:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last year for the Destinos festival and Teatro Vista, Georgette Verdin directed Paloma Nozicka’s haunting Enough to Let the Light In, which amply demonstrated her ability to create chilling atmospherics onstage. Night Watch, Verdin’s latest production, doesn’t have the same depth as Nozicka’s play, which was as much about guilt, loss, and isolation as it […]
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• Games people play

  19-10-2023 17:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Nestled in a strip of storefronts in Marquette Park, Teatro Tariakuri (led by founder and artistic director Karla Galván) has been offering Spanish-language comedies and family shows for 20 years. (They first produced in Pilsen, before rising rents pushed them further south, and took a seven-year break before opening their current cozy venue.) Their latest, […]
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• Ghosts and dysfunction

  19-10-2023 17:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Mia McCullough’s play, now receiving its world premiere at Theater Wit, is about the immovable object (denial) meeting the irresistible force (the past), with a family crushed in between. So far, I could be describing Long Day’s Journey Into Night or August: Osage County, but the wrinkle here is that the past is literally sitting […]
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• Rep. Jackson Wants Texas Gov. Federally Investigated Over Migrant Busing

  19-10-2023 16:00
  
  U.S. Rep. Jonathan Jackson is calling for an investigation into Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas state agencies over the busing of migrants to Chicago and other Democrat-led cities. 
  Rep. Jackson wrote a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security requesting an inquiry into Gov. Abbott, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Military Department for the busing campaign, deeming it “human smuggling.”  
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• This Week In Black History October 18 – 24, 2023

  19-10-2023 15:00
  
  THE BANJO by HENRY OSSAWA TANNER
   
   October 18
  1917—“Dizzy” Gillespie, bandleader and pioneer of “B-bop Jazz,” is born John Birks Gillespie in Cheraw, S.C.
  1945—Actor, singer, activist and socialist Paul Robeson receives the NAACP’s prestigious Spingarn Medal for his artistic achievements. Robeson would be hounded by the U.S. government because of his leftist leanings. He was labeled a communist, blocked from working in America and later denied
  
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• Viral Thanksgiving Grandma & Guest Will Celebrate Together For 8th Year

  19-10-2023 14:30
  
  Photo: Twitter
  A viral Thanksgiving tradition is set to continue for its eighth year.
  Jamal Hinton took to social media to announce his plans to spend Thanksgiving with “Grandma” Wanda Dench for the eighth consecutive year.
  “Thanksgiving around the corner and I am still receiving text from random number! Year 8 plans are set with a great surprise!!!” Hinton wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
  Dench initially texted Hinton by accident in 2016, believing that his number belonged
  
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• My love affair with rats

  19-10-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  My love affair with rats came imperceptibly, without ready origins. Certainly, it didn’t start with a youthful embrace of pet rats—my friend Will had a few, and their furry bodies scampering around his bedroom only unsettled me. A decade ago, in my first fall at Northwestern University, my friend Ramona slipped a plastic rat into […]
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• FDA Considers Banning Hair Relaxers With Formaldehyde Over Cancer Concerns

  19-10-2023 14:00
  
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  The Food and Drug Administration has proposed a ban on certain hair relaxers, citing its link to cancer and other “long-term adverse health effects.”
  According to Fox News, the FDA is considering a ban on formaldehyde and other formaldehyde-releasing chemicals like methylene glycol found in many hair straightening products, the agency said in a release.
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