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• Don’t miss the historic Laos to Your House three-peat at the next Monday Night Foodball

  21-02-2024 23:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last week, Stacy Seuamsothabandith took a victory lap around the United Center on the Blackhawks’ Zamboni.  She had nothing to do with the 4–2 loss to the Canucks, but rather was receiving a figurative high five from the organization for winning five large from its Support West Program, benefiting minority-owned west-side small businesses.  That’s for […]
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• Bearing witness

  21-02-2024 22:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Wendy Kesselman’s 1997 adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank did some things that original adapters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett didn’t back in 1955 (slightly more than ten years after Anne’s death from typhus at Bergen-Belsen). In Kesselman’s version, Anne, like any adolescent, complains a lot about her mother, Edith. (Reportedly, Anne’s father, Otto, […]
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• Coal miner’s dancer

  21-02-2024 22:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I spent a semester studying in London in the winter of 1985, and one of the first concerts I attended was a benefit at Brixton Academy for the striking coal miners, featuring Aztec Camera and Everything but the Girl. It was an amazing show. Unfortunately, the strike ended six weeks later, with the miners returning […]
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• Stellar drama

  21-02-2024 21:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This is a perfect production of Lauren Gunderson’s biographical drama about Henrietta Leavitt and her sister astronomers at Harvard in the early 20th century. Under Beth Wolf’s direction, the five-person ensemble brings touching human-scale emotion to a story about the vastness of the universe. As Leavitt, Melissa Harlow—new to Chicago; let’s hang onto her!—is persuasively […]
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• A box of treasures

  21-02-2024 21:08 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The view is sumptuous even before the curtain rises on Mary Zimmerman’s The Matchbox Magic Flute: chandeliers dripping with gems, stars on a painted firmament, a cascade of crimson velvet, musicians in satin and fezzes, over which Mozart’s silhouette presides. Spirit enters (fantastically fae Reese Parish), and three beats of her staff begin the action: […]
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• Best of Chicago 2023 final ballot

  21-02-2024 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The best of Chicago, nominated and voted on by our readers.
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• 2023 Sports & Recreation poll winners

  21-02-2024 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The people, places, and things voted Chicago's best—and runners-up: Sports & Recreation
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• 2023 Music & Nightlife poll winners

  21-02-2024 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The people, places, and things voted Chicago's best—and runners-up: Music & Nightlife
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• 2023 Food & Drink poll winners

  21-02-2024 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The people, places, and things voted Chicago's best—and runners-up: Food & Drink
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• 2023 City Life poll winners

  21-02-2024 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The people, places, and things voted Chicago's best—and runners-up: City Life
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• 2023 Cannabis poll winners

  21-02-2024 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The people, places, and things voted Chicago's best—and runners-up: Cannabis
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• 2023 Buy Local poll winners

  21-02-2024 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The people, places, and things voted Chicago's best—and runners-up: Buy Local
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• 2023 Arts & Culture poll winners

  21-02-2024 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The people, places, and things voted Chicago's best—and runners-up: Arts & Culture
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• Pippen, Grant and Longley to Set the Record Straight with ‘No Bull’ Tour

  21-02-2024 20:46
  
  As it turns out, “The Last Dance” isn’t the last dance for the acclaimed sports docu-series on the Chicago Bulls dynasty and the drama that resulted from it. 
  Four years later, Michael Jordan’s teammates Scottie Pippen, Horace Grant and Luc Longley are telling their side of the story. They are teaming up with Australia’s National Basketball League for a tour called — wait for it — “No Bull.” 
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• Review: Drive-Away Dolls

  21-02-2024 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Drive-Away Dolls succeeds in its die-hard punchiness and only works because the entire cast is genuinely charming.
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 10

  21-02-2024 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 7. January 11, 2024
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• Harmony in the Middle East

  21-02-2024 18:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Scheduled long before the current conflagration in the Middle East, Writers Theatre’s lovely, intimate staging of The Band’s Visit, the multiple Tony Award–winning musical, which premiered off Broadway in 2016 featuring music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Itamar Moses, feels like a wishful relic in some ways now.  But that’s not […]
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• Damon Williams carries AirGo Radio’s revolutionary conversations onto his debut album

  21-02-2024 17:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The late revolutionary artist Gil Scott-Heron released the definitive recording of his most famous poem, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” more than 50 years ago. “You will not be able to stay home, brother,” he says. “You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out.”  That sentiment may seem dated […]
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• A gripping game

  21-02-2024 17:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Invictus Theatre Company’s production of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Topdog/Underdog is gripping from start to finish. Since being abandoned by their parents as teens, brothers Lincoln (Mikha’el Amin) and Booth (DeMorris Burrows) have contended with poverty, racism, violence, struggles at work, and complex relationships with women. As they attempt to fight their demons and the perils of […]
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• High on mythology

  21-02-2024 17:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Despite my years of research in the fields of using cannabis and watching funny things, I have to confess: I have no idea what qualifies as “stoner comedy.” Is it when the characters are high, like in Pineapple Express? Or is it when I should be high to get the full experience, like The Drew […]
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• Demystifying Acupuncture provides answers for the curious skeptic

  21-02-2024 17:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Acupuncture is a form of Traditional East Asian Medicine (TEAM) that involves the placement of hair-thin needles into specific meridian points across the body to stimulate the body’s energy flow (Qi), and promote physical and mental well-being. While the method has been practiced for more than 2,500 years, it is often misunderstood because of differences […]
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• Help the United Negro College Fund provide scholarships to Illinois students by playing the $200,000! Bingo Tripler!

  21-02-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For nearly two decades, the Illinois Lottery has been a pioneer in creating specialty lottery tickets dedicated to raising awareness and funding for specific causes that impact our local communities. In January 2024, the organization introduced their joint specialty ticket, the $200,000! Bingo Tripler! Instant Ticket, which will provide a portion of its funds to […]
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• Just for Us unpacks Jewish identity

  21-02-2024 16:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Alex Edelman’s Just for Us is a ridiculously funny show about going to a white supremacist meeting in Queens, NY, falling for a girl, and wondering if it could work. Edelman interrogates our views of others and whether we can empathize with those who hate us. And most delightfully, in a time when it’s difficult […]
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• Chicago City Council calls for a ceasefire

  21-02-2024 16:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Green and red squares lit up on the projector screen in the Chicago City Council chamber on January 31 as members voted “yea” or “nay” on a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Alderpeople Rossana Rodríguez, of the 33rd Ward, and Daniel La Spata, of the First Ward, spearheaded the resolution calling for “a […]
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• Chicago Bears Hire Black Woman as First Female Coach in Team History

  21-02-2024 16:30
  
  The first female coach in Chicago Bears history is a Black woman.On Tuesday (Feb. 20), the Bears hired 39-year-old Jennifer King as an offensive assistant who will work with the running backs. The Bears are hiring Jennifer King as an assistant coach with running backs, sources say. The first Black woman coach in NFL history, King previously coached for the Commanders and Panthers.
  — Jonathan Jones (@jjones9) February 20, 2024
   
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• Empowering Black Wealth: Insights from Northwestern Mutual Event

  21-02-2024 16:00
  
  In honor of Black History Month, Northwestern Mutual – Chicago hosted an event on Thursday, Feb. 15, to discuss the racial wealth gap and ways to help close it. Panelists provided finance-related anecdotes from their lives, inspiring testimonies and knowledge regarding the African-American community on advancing racial equity.
  Wealth increases throughout life, but there is a concern about whether African Americans reap the benefits.
  For Black households, many social media gurus try to get
  
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• Woman’s 50-Part Story About Marrying ‘Pathological Liar’ Goes Viral

  21-02-2024 15:30
  
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  An Atlanta woman has become a viral sensation after sharing dozens of videos detailing her marriage to a “pathological liar.”
  In a 50-part series called “Who TF Did I Marry,” TikTok user Reesa Teesa dived into the red flags she ignored before marrying a man she nicknamed “Legion” to protect his identity.
  Teesa said in her videos that she met “Legion” on Facebook Dating in March 2020. The TikToker thought she was living a romantic fair
  
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• The Carr Report: Social Security Pop Quiz

  21-02-2024 14:00
  
  How much do you know about social se­curity?
  MassMutual recently gave a social se­curity true/false quiz to 1,500 individuals ages 55 through 65. According to the re­sults, 65 percent of people either failed or got a D grade, 18 percent of respondents earned a C, 12 percent got a B and 6 per­cent received an A. Only 1 percent of re­spondents got a perfect score.
  I went onto the MassMutual website and took the quiz. I’m happy to report, I got a perfect score.
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for Feb. 21

  21-02-2024 14:00
  
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• Mayor Johnson, City Sue Oil And Gas Companies For Climate Deception

  21-02-2024 13:30
  
  On Tuesday (Feb. 20), Mayor Brandon Johnson announced that the City of Chicago is suing six oil and gas corporations and their largest trade association for deceiving Chicago consumers about the climate dangers associated with their products. 
  Filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, the complaint names BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, Phillips 66, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute as Defendants.
  “There is no justice without accountability,” said Mayor Johns
  
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