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• Ana Everling proves the language of music is universal

  01-11-2023 23:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Ana Everling channels a world of music through her singing. Born in Moldova, she studied voice, piano, composition, and music theory at a conservatory, then went on to study jazz performance. But when she moved to Chicago in 2010, she put her music career on the back burner for years as she settled into her […]
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• Bears: Bolster Defense with Montez Sweat Trade, Fire RB Coach

  01-11-2023 22:10
  
  The Chicago Bears added one of the better pass rushers in the league via trade on Tuesday. 
  The Bears acquired Washington Commanders defensive end Montez Sweat in exchange for a 2024 2nd-round pick. In Sweat, the Bears get a player they have been sorely lacking: an explosive, rangy pass rusher who knows how to get to the quarterback. Chicago is currently last in the NFL as a team in sacks, having only 10 so far this season. 
  Since being drafted in the first round by Washington in 2019,
  
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• Awakebutstillinbed know emo’s past and command its future

  01-11-2023 22:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  No one can accuse Awakebutstillinbed guitarist, vocalist, and bandleader Shannon Taylor of not knowing emo. Her fidelity to the genre’s traditional use of all-lowercase letters (she styles the band’s name and all its song and album titles that way, even though the Reader doesn’t) and her equally traditional omission of spaces between words ought to […]
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• Review: Priscilla

  01-11-2023 20:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Based on Priscilla Presley’s memoir, Elvis and Me, Priscilla isolates a portion of the Elvis mythology, reframing it from the perspective of his wife.
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• Review: All the Light We Cannot See (Miniseries)

  01-11-2023 20:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This Netflix original miniseries suffers from the same sickly sweet sentimental shortcomings as the novel, if not more so.
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• 18th Street Distillery brings weird, wonderful new spirits to the midwest

  01-11-2023 20:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A 25-gallon oak barrel sits upright on a pallet among hundreds of others in a former furniture factory in Hammond, Indiana. Drew Fox lays it on its side, yanks out the bung, and inserts a long, copper whiskey thief into its depths. From that he drains a luminous, tobacco-colored liquid into a pair of juice glasses […]
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• Fuck Around and Find Out with Rafa Esparza and Anthony Baier at the next Monday Night Foodball

  01-11-2023 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The voice on the phone cracked with emotion. “When I ask people, ‘Did you like it?’ I really want them to be honest. I mean, if there’s something about it that’s a mess, they can let me know as long as they’re not assholes about it. Because yeah, I’m a person. My feelings get hurt […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 2

  01-11-2023 17:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 1. October 19, 2023. The Rats Issue.The post Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 2 appeared first on Chicago Reader.
  
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• DJ Slugo, ghetto house champion

  01-11-2023 17:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For more than three decades, Thomas Kendricks, better known as DJ Slugo, has been DJing, producing, and celebrating ghetto house, a sound he helped pioneer. Slugo grew up in the Robert Taylor Homes and began building his reputation in his neighborhood; in the 1990s, he became part of a network of underground house producers connected […]
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• Navigating a rocky arts and culture recovery

  01-11-2023 15:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Years ago, when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, which is the business end of the CSO, was undergoing one of its periodic contract negotiating face-offs with its unionized musicians, someone close to the musicians told me something surprising: the administration wouldn’t really mind a strike. If the orchestra doesn’t play, they save money. It’s better […]
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• Cause Of Death Revealed For LA Model Found Dead In Her Refrigerator

  01-11-2023 14:30
  
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  A Los Angeles model found dead in a refrigerator in her apartment last month died by homicide, according to an autopsy report.
  Los Angeles police found the body of Maleesa Mooney, 31, in her refrigerator on Sept. 12 after her mother requested a welfare check because she hadn’t been in touch with her daughter.
  Upon entering Mooney’s apartment, officers said food that’s normally refrigerated was out on the counter while the 31-year-old was inside the refrigerator
  
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• The Carr Report: Are there ‘Big Coins’ to be made in Bitcoins?

  01-11-2023 14:00
  
  There was a time where I would get asked questions about Bitcoins on a daily basis. Clearly, those in the cryptocurrency space have done a great job spreading the word about cryptocurrency. I once heard a report over a podcast stating that more people have heard about cryptocurrency  than have heard about Exchange Traded Funds (EFTs), mutual funds, and index funds. I find that report interesting when you consider the fact that Bitcoin has only been around since 2009. That’s right, as
  
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• ‘Not in our name’: Chicago’s Jewish left demands a ceasefire in Gaza

  01-11-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Two Jews, three opinions” is an old saying used by Jewish people to express the beautiful (and often maddening) diversity of perspective found inside their communities. The saying could have been a slogan for the October 23 crowd gathering at 3:30 PM in Federal Plaza when Jews and others came out to blockade the streets […]
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• New gadgets, old problems

  01-11-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art,” a tech-heavy exhibition that features 17 international artists and 20 artworks, invites exhibition-goers to survey a slice of recent technology history wrought with excitement, problems, and critical reflections. The works confirm what we already know—technology does not solve human problems; instead, it exposes them brutally, increasing inequality […]
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for Nov. 1

  01-11-2023 13:00
  
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• Six-Time Felon Faces 15 Attempted Murder Charges Over Mass Shooting

  01-11-2023 12:45
  
  The person who allegedly carried out a mass shooting at a North Lawndale Halloween party early Sunday morning has been arrested and remains detained.
  William Groves, a 48-year-old, six-time felon, is being accused of opening fire into a crowd of people at the party, injuring six women and nine men between the ages of 26 and 53.
  According to multiple reports, the suspected shooter acted out of retaliation when he was asked to leave the party before returning and opening fire.
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