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• Chicago SAG-AFTRA’s Charles Gardner Talks Acting and Entrepreneurship

  20-10-2023 22:48
  
  Before the SAG-AFTRA protesters came into view, their rallying cries echoed loudly and powerfully: “PAY YOUR ACTORS, pay your actors, PAY YOUR WRITERS, pay your writers, ONE DAY LONGER, one day stronger!” Actors, writers and creators in the TV and film industry, all from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, marched together to achieve equality and equitable compensation for all. 
  The premise is simple: no one should work for free. As the cost of living continues to rise,
  
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• Pumpkins, Sanctum, and lowriders

  20-10-2023 22:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s scary how much fun stuff is happening right now! Spooky season never misses.  It Takes a Village (ITAV) Pumpkin PatchSat 10/21, includes a petting zoo, a bounce house, face painting, food, games, and a train, 4020 W. Division, free to attend, all-ages. Reservations required events.eventnoire.com/e/itav-pumpkin-patch-2023 For a classic autumn adventure appropriate for the whole […]
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• The Heavy Chicago fest debuts with Trouble’s first local show in five years

  20-10-2023 22:14 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The folks at Last Rites know that if you’re going to launch a metal festival, you better have an irreplaceable Rolodex. For the debut of Heavy Chicago, these veteran local underground rock promoters have booked some huge out-of-town headliners whose histories go back to the early 1980s: sludgy riff masters Corrosion of Conformity (Saturday, November […]
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• Apocalyptic vaudeville

  20-10-2023 21:14 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There’s a long tradition of Black American playwrights and filmmakers subverting the tropes of vaudeville and other popular entertainments to critique white supremacy and its violent power structures—power structures that of course also include American theater and filmmaking.  Douglas Turner Ward’s 1965 satire Day of Absence (which led to the creation of the Negro Ensemble […]
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• Geneva Jacuzzi is a vibrant goth weirdo

  20-10-2023 18:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Geneva Jacuzzi is like if Nina Hagen grew up in a doomsday cult. (And Jacuzzi did, in fact, grow up in a doomsday cult.) In a 2020 interview with Genius List, the Los Angeles-based artist explained her love of jacuzzis, describing them as “these tiny, weird, warm whirlpools of bacteria, chemicals, pleasure, and relaxation.” She […]
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• Review: Old Dads

  20-10-2023 17:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The film is ultimately a mixed bag of social commentary that mistakes being cranky for being compelling.
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• Review: Killers of the Flower Moon

  20-10-2023 17:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Scorcese studies evil’s facade and then peeks inside. To no one’s surprise, it’s an ugly truth.
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• Jussie Smollett Enters Rehab Following Hate Crime Hoax Conviction: Report

  20-10-2023 15:00
  
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  New reports reveal that Jussie Smollett is entering rehab following the high-profile case of his 2019 hate crime hoax. A representative for the ex-Empire star told TMZ he’s in an outpatient program, though it’s unclear what Smollett’s getting treatment for.
  “Jussie has had an extremely difficult past few years. He has quietly been working very hard for some time now and we are proud of him for taking these
  
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• Why Mass Incarceration Still Has Mass Appeal

  20-10-2023 14:35
  
  There’s plenty of profit to be made by exploiting Black people in America’s system of punitive laws, privatization, and systemic racism.
  by Hiram Jackson
  America’s love affair with incarceration unnecessarily deprives people of their freedom. It also comes with enormous social and economic costs for formerly incarcerated individuals, their families, and their communities.
  More than 10.2 million people are held in penal institutions throughout the world, mostly as pre-trial deta
  
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• The Vineyard Church Opens Justice Center Offering Affordable Legal Aid

  20-10-2023 14:30
  
  The Vineyard Church will host a Grand Opening of the Vineyard Justice Center on Oct. 21, from 8:30-9:00 AM.The Grand Opening will feature a welcome to our community partners, volunteers, and clients as this low-cost community legal service is launched, in addition to refreshments, raffle prizes and a ribbon-cutting to mark the start of this new center.The Vineyard Justice Center will be open for clients from 9 a.m.-Noon this Saturday and the third Saturday of each month. More information can be
  
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