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• Mixtape Trilogy, queer spaces, Brazilian Film Festival, and more

  03-11-2023 18:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Mostra XIV: Brazilian Film Festival opening nightSat 11/4: reception and silent auction begin at 5 PM with music by Dil Costa and refreshments, followed by remarks at 6 PM. Paloma screening begins at 6:15 PM, followed by a Q&A with producer Ernesto Souto. Instituto Cervantes, 31 W. Ohio, $55.85, tickets through Eventbrite. Full festival schedule […]
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• NASCAR’s Diversity Combine Fuels Dreams of Young Black and Brown Drivers

  03-11-2023 15:30
  
  CONCORD, N.C. – NASCAR fans of every stripe attend races, cheer on their favorite drivers and know the exact moment when they fell hard for the sport. 
  Yet, there’s a particular subset who become so enamored that they want to race cars themselves. So, they jump in go-karts, midget cars and online racing simulators for the exhilaration their heroes experience flying around raceways at top speeds, feeling momentarily immortal. 
  Among those dreamers are Black and Brown kids wh
  
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• Chaos in the co-op

  03-11-2023 15:11 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A stellar cast more than makes up for some of the inherent unevenness in Charles Busch’s The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, produced at Skokie Theatre as part of MadKap Productions’s 2023-24 season.  Julie Stevens is terrific as Marjorie Taub, an Upper West Side housewife recovering from a nervous breakdown—triggered after the death of her […]
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• Neighborly nightmares

  03-11-2023 14:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If you look at French-Canadian playwright Catherine-Anne Toupin’s Right Now with an eye toward finding narrative antecedents, you won’t be disappointed. There’s the young couple living across the hall from an older couple who seem a little too interested in them (shades of Rosemary’s Baby). There are boozy parties (and a possibly imaginary child) straight […]
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• All about their mother

  03-11-2023 14:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The four sisters in Teatro Vista’s ¡Bernarda! often complain about the heat, but the stifling Spanish summer is no match for the passions roiling under their mother’s roof. This stylish, sexy new adaption of Federico García Lorca’s 1936 play, The House of Bernarda Alba, is written by Emilio Williams, directed by Teatro Vista producing artistic […]
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• City Lit’s The Night of the Hunter is a satisfying dark yarn

  03-11-2023 14:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  City Lit Theater’s stage adaptation of Davis Grubb’s 1953 novel has a dark, homespun, campfire-tale feel that suits the folksy tone of its suspenseful Southern Gothic narrative. The Night of the Hunter recounts the ordeal of two runaway children—ten-year-old John Harper and his five-year-old sister, Pearl—being pursued by a vicious killer in rural 1930s West […]
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• All the single ladies

  03-11-2023 14:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Doing a gender reversal for Company, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1970 ironic comedy of marriage vs. singledom, is such a great idea it’s surprising that nobody thought to do it before Marianne Elliott’s 2021 revival. In Elliott’s production, bachelor Bobby is now Bobbie, a woman turning 35 and wondering just why everyone (meaning, her […]
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• Ex-Memphis Officer Pleads Guilty In Tyre Nichols Death

  03-11-2023 14:15
  
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  A former Memphis police officer has struck a plea deal in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, WREG reports.
  On Thursday (Nov. 2), ex-officer Desmond Mills pleaded guilty to federal charges and agreed to plead guilty to state charges in connection to Nichols’ death, the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office said.
  Federal and state prosecutors agreed to a recommended sentence of 15 years. Judge Mark Norris will hand down Mills’ sentence at an upcoming hearin
  
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• This Bitter Earth dives into the roots of political and personal commitment

  03-11-2023 14:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
  At one point in Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre’s excellent production of Harrison David Rivers’s This Bitter Earth, the central character, Jesse (Matthew Lolar-Johnson), says to his activist boyfriend, Neil (Tiemen Godwaldt), that “all lives matter.” Neil, surprised and disgusted, replies, “Saying all lives matter is like running through an anti-cancer rally and saying, ‘You know, there are […]
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• Howard University Becomes First HBCU To Have Figure Skating Team

  03-11-2023 13:00
  
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  Howard University is making history as the first HBCU to have an intercollegiate figure skating team, U.S. Figure Skating reports.
  The team was founded by Howard students Maya James and Cheyenne Walker, both of whom have been involved in figure skating since childhood and were looking for ways to get back on the ice.
  “I just missed the sport, honestly,” James said. “I didn’t really skate that much during the pandemic; I stopped skating for like two yea
  
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• ‘Healing happens in community’: Therapist makes space for grief, solidarity amid Israel-Hamas war

  03-11-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Nearly 100 queer people of Middle Eastern heritage are gathering each week for an online peer support group in response to Israel’s attacks on Palestinians.  Led by Finlay Sarafa McHale, a queer and transgender Iraqi Chaldean clinical social worker, the online group of queer SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) people aims to provide a […]
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• Del principio hasta el final/From the beginning to the end

  03-11-2023 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Much of Louis De Guzman’s practice involves his signature geometric abstraction style, which creates worlds within worlds, often blending the past and present into one. “Along the Way” is the Chicago-based Filipino American artist and designer’s first solo exhibition in over three years.  It comes after many collaborations, including “SpongeBob SquarePants x Louis De Guzman […]
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• Accused Killer of Migos’ Takeoff Allowed to Roam Free

  03-11-2023 02:11
  
  One year to the day when Migos group member Takeoff, was gunned down at 810 Billiards & Bowling in Houston, the man charged in his murder has been released from house arrest and will be allowed to enjoy the freedoms he was unable to enjoy while confined to his home. 
  A little less than a year after Patrick Xavier Clark was charged, and arrested in the murder of Atlanta-based rap group Migos’ beloved member Takeoff, the accused killed can venture beyond the general perimeter of his
  
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