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• Rats have empathy for strangers, but do we?

  02-11-2023 22:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  OK, here we go: I’m writing an op-ed to defend rats. Not a popular stance, I am aware.  In my practice as an artist concerned with climate change and biodiversity loss, I suggest that we must move beyond human supremacy if we are to come back into alignment with a world pushed dangerously out of […]
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• Unemployed

  02-11-2023 21:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By Britteney Black Rose Kapri
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• Review: Rustin

  02-11-2023 20:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  George C. Wolfe’s Rustin leans firmly toward optimism. That’s understandable; this is the first film centering Bayard Rustin, a key civil rights organizer whose influence on the movement has been downplayed in part because of his homosexuality. 
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• Review: Fingernails

  02-11-2023 20:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The film is successful because it manages to create its own logical, nonsensical rules, which love then snaps.
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• DJ Swisha and Kush Jones find heaven in footwork

  02-11-2023 18:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  New York dance DJs and producers DJ Swisha and Kush Jones befriended each other through Soundcloud, but they soon became part of the same footwork-loving collective, the Juke Bounce Werk crew. Their collaborative tracks thrum with giddy looseness and always feel like they could change shape at a moment’s notice. In February, they self-released (Respectfully), […]
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• When Sly Stone fronted a Chicagoland bar band

  02-11-2023 17:36 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Jack Sweeney was on tour with Sly Stone, and business was slow. His Chicago-based seven-piece, One Eyed Jacks, had accepted a job as the erratic pop star’s backing band in late 1982. Long past his Woodstock-era prime, Stone had all but abandoned live performance seven years earlier. He was now attempting a comeback via small […]
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• Mayor Johnson to Visit DC with Other Mayors to Request Migrant Crisis Help

  02-11-2023 14:30
  
  Mayor Brandon Johnson is joining four other mayors of major U.S. cities to ask President Joe Biden for federal assistance in handling the waves of migrants arriving in their municipalities. 
  In a letter addressed to President Biden, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, New York Mayor Eric Adams and Mayor Johnson express appreciation for his administration’s efforts in helping them address the migrant crises in their cities but argue
  
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• Chicago indie rockers Slow Pulp reveal their inner strength on the new Yard

  02-11-2023 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Slow Pulp have been through a lot. First, lyricist and lead vocalist Emily Massey was diagnosed with Lyme disease and chronic mononucleosis. Next, the pandemic hit. Then, as the four-piece band, which formed in Madison before moving to Chicago in 2018, worked on their debut LP, 2020’s Moveys, Massey’s parents were injured in a serious […]
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• Industrial pioneers Skinny Puppy bid farewell with a final tour

  02-11-2023 13:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If you’re a Nine Inch Nails fan who has yet to heed the siren bark of Skinny Puppy, it’s not too late to fix your life. NIN came up in the scene opening for these Canadian industrial pioneers, and in a mid-90s interview with a Dutch radio station, NIN founder Trent Reznor admitted that his […]
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• GOP Chief Resigns After Suggesting Black People Belong In Wakanda

  02-11-2023 13:30
  
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  The executive director of the North Dakota Republican Party has resigned after a series of controversial social media posts surfaced.
  “I believe the best path forward for the NDGOP is for me to take a different path,” Dave Roetman said in a statement announcing his resignation, per Raw Story. “I wish them all the best.”
  The resignation came less than two weeks after Roetman was appointed to the position. According to a report by the Forum of Fargo-Moorhead
  
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• Mexican garage-rock greats Los Johnny Jets keep the spirit of the 60s alive

  02-11-2023 13:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  During the great rock ’n’ roll explosion of the early 60s, American and British acts hogged much of the limelight, but people got together in their garages (or other informal spaces) and started bands around the world. Los Johnny Jets formed in 1964 in Tamaulipas, Mexico, and made sure that the “garage” sound took off […]
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• Valerie June makes everything sound like old-time folk

  02-11-2023 13:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Singer and guitarist Valerie June takes a broad-church approach to roots music. She incorporates elements of old-time, country, electric blues, rock, R&B, and neosoul into her vision of a single seamless American tradition. A big part of June’s secret is her distinctive voice, simultaneously nasal, rough, and dreamy, which recalls iconic singers such as Sara […]
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• The stories behind Cherylle Booker’s sculptures 

  02-11-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Judy Istock Butterfly Haven at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is one of Cherylle Booker’s cherished sanctuaries. A fortress of butterflies and solace that never fails to soothe her soul. “Every time I go there, I reach out my hand, and a butterfly lands on me,” Booker recalls. “How could you not feel more […]
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• Omaha hardcore band Bib will drag you through the muck in fifth gear

  02-11-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Omaha five-piece Bib play hardcore like the last survivor in a horror film, army crawling through the mud to escape something so nasty they don’t dare look back. On the August release Live in Liverpool (Convulse), Bib make their case as skilled purveyors of filth: they can use their collective brawn to stir up a […]
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• Your Favorite Woman, Samantha Bee, Playing at the Broadway Playhouse!

  02-11-2023 12:00
  
  She’s here! Award-winning comedian Award-winning comedian Samantha Bee is the sex ed teacher you never knew you needed. The former host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is excited to announce YOUR FAVORITE WOMAN: The Joy of Sex Education tour is currently playing two nights only at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place on November 2 – 3.
  Tickets are available with prices ranging from $50-$90. A select number of premium and Meet & Greet tickets are also available. Tickets a
  
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• This Week In Black History Nov. 1-7, 2023

  02-11-2023 05:00
  
   
  November 1
  1604—William Shakespeare’s great play “Othello” was first performed at Whitehall Palace in London. It is the earliest known European play with a Black lead character.
  1866—America’s first Civil Rights Act is passed over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. In part, it was Johnson’s opposition to such pro-Black legislation that led a group called the “Radical Republicans” to seek his impeachment. Johnson had become president
  
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