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• Not-so-secret speakeasies

  31-10-2023 23:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Max Mirho, a Lakeview resident, lived in Pittsburgh three years ago, he found himself at a secret party. It was a gay, techno sex club downtown, next to a tiny ATM, underneath a gay bathhouse, “in the middle of frickin’ nowhere.”  To get in, Mirho used a passcode found on a Facebook page called […]
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• La Casa de Satanas wants you to get hysterical

  31-10-2023 22:36 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I spent Valentine’s Day on my back at Co-Prosperity getting waterboarded by a sassy little Cupid with a glittering beard and sumptuous breasts. There was a wet pillowcase over my head and a specimen cup in my mouth in a room that smelled of hot piss (my group and I had poured our urine into […]
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• CICFF40 teaches families that ‘Chicago is a film town’

  31-10-2023 22:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival celebrates its 40th year, festival program director Deidre Searcy wants people to know it offers something for everyone.
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• Power trio Chicken Happen whip up a new album with a dash of Meat Wave

  31-10-2023 19:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Since 2013, local power trio Chicken Happen have been making excellent tunes that share more than a vibe with 90s alternative rock. Gossip Wolf can imagine the band landing a video or three in MTV’s Buzz Bin, alongside Veruca Salt, Jawbox, or maybe Letters to Cleo. Over the past few months, singer, guitarist, and keyboardist […]
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• Why Atlanta Restaurants Fear The Wrath Of Food Critic Keith Lee

  31-10-2023 18:19
  
  Keith Lee’s visit to Atlanta has gone viral for multiple reasons. Lee, 27, is a food critic who has over 12 million followers on TikTok. 
  He samples a variety of restaurants which include mom-and-pop businesses and major food chains. Some of his content has received over 500 million likes. When a restaurant receives a stamp of approval from Lee, it often equates to a surge in business. 
  However, several Atlanta-based restaurants have felt Lee’s wrath. 
  He announced his
  
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• Deeply Rooted Dance Theater celebrates new work and makes plans for a new home

  31-10-2023 17:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On November 3, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater kicks off the Auditorium Theatre’s 2023-24 Made in Chicago dance series with a mixed bill featuring the premiere of artistic director Nicole Clarke-Springer’s Madonna Anno Domini, the company premiere of Keith Lee’s Mama Rose (performed by 2023 Princess Grace awardee Emani Drake), as well as the return of […]
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• CHA Launches Down Payment Assistance Program to Help Families Buy Homes

  31-10-2023 14:30
  
  By the Chicago Housing Authority
  Samantha Stokes grew up one of four children living under the roof of hard-working parents. Ends didn’t always meet, and she remembers being evicted as a child – something she vowed never to experience as an adult.
  Which is why Stokes says she is lucky to be the first Chicago Housing Authority resident to close on a home in the CHA’s new Down Payment Assistance (DPA) program, which helps residents and qualified low-income applicants achieve thei
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: BLM stands unwaveringly with the oppressed?

  31-10-2023 14:00
  
  After Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel on October 7, which U.S. President Joe Biden described as the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, Black Lives Matter groups voiced their support for “the resistance” in Palestine.
  BLM also asserted that state violence against Black Americans in the United States and state violence against Palestinians in Israel were similar. Therefore, “Palestinian resistance” must be understood as a desperate act of self-defense and n
  
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• Shanquella Robinson’s Family Suing ‘Friends’ She Traveled To Mexico With

  31-10-2023 13:00
  
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  An attorney for the family of Shanquella Robinson, a 25-year-old North Carolina woman who was found dead last year at a resort in Mexico, plans to file a lawsuit against the six “friends” she traveled with.
  Robinson died on October 29, 2022 while on a group vacation to a resort in Cabo, Mexico. The group initially claimed that Robinson died of alcohol poisoning, but an autopsy report determined the 25-year-old suffered trauma to her neck and spine.
  Following her d
  
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• Black Transgender Woman Shot & Killed While Walking Home in Chicago

  31-10-2023 12:30
  
  Photo: Human Rights Campaign
  A Black transgender woman was fatally shot while walking home in Chicago.
  Lisa Love, 35, was shot in the chest and back on October 17 after leaving a friend’s home, per WGN.
  Love’s family said they believe she was targeted. According to the family, people in the neighborhood knew was transgender.
  “A car just drove up, made a U-turn and (saw) my cousin,” Love’s cousin said. “Approximately 30 seconds later, the car stopped and my cou
  
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• AG Raoul Urges Families to Check Sex Offender Registry for Halloween Safety

  31-10-2023 12:15
  
  Attorney General Kwame Raoul is reminding parents and guardians to check the state’s sex offender registry and with local law enforcement agencies before finalizing Halloween plans.
  “Halloween should be a night of fun, family, and of course, candy. I am encouraging parents, grandparents and guardians to keep their families safe by checking Illinois’ sex offender registry before leaving home,” Raoul said. “While Illinois law prohibits child sex offenders from distrib
  
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