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• Dusty Brown left behind a discography much smaller than his talent

  28-02-2024 19:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Some musicians use formal training to reach the pinnacle of their craft, but others get there without it—that’s probably why people say that musicians like Dusty Brown were “born” to play the blues. This underrated harmonica player grew up in a sharecropper’s family in the Mississippi Delta, just like many of the blues legends he’d […]
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• Dr. Emmanuel Ortega on redefining ex-votos

  28-02-2024 19:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Editor’s note: Coco Picard spoke with Dr. Emmanuel Ortega about the exhibition “Contemporary Ex-Votos: Devotion Beyond Medium,” on view at Gallery 400 and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. Edited text from the comic is transcribed here to ease readability. Split between UlC’s Gallery 400 + the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is “Contemporary Ex-Votos: Devotion Beyond Medium,” an […]
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• Reclaiming history

  28-02-2024 18:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Charles Smith writes historical plays with lively consciences that provide ample opportunities for his characters to debate. But first and foremost, he writes plays about people who are negotiating tricky emotional and moral terrain with limited power to determine the outcome of their lives. And unsurprisingly, his subjects are often drawn from America’s own fraught […]
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• Jackalope’s The Smuggler is a mix of thriller and morality play

  28-02-2024 17:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Ronán Noone’s 2019 solo play, The Smuggler, now in a local premiere with Jackalope Theatre Company, seems to carry the DNA of early Conor McPherson plays in its bones. In particular, Noone’s story of a down-on-his-luck Irishman, Tim Finnegan, facing increasingly fraught and compounding moral and financial circumstances, has echoes of McPherson’s 1994 solo The […]
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• Short, sapphic, and stirring

  28-02-2024 16:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Violence, vengeance, and a moment’s glimmer of peace and love in between the mayhem. That is the ageless story amongst humans. This time it comes to Chicago in stereo: the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet plays as part of Chicago Shakespeare’s Short Shakespeare! series, and Joe Calarco’s Shakespeare’s R & J is now running at […]
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• Missing Black Children Deserve Justice Too

  28-02-2024 16:00
  
  MISSINGPERSONS: Hundreds of Chicago residents joined KOCO organizers at the 6th annual We Walk For Her march. June 7th, 2023. Photo by Sebasti‡n Hidalgo for City Bureau Credit: Photo by Sebastián Hidalgo for City Bureau
  by Trina Reynolds-Tyler, Invisible Institute, and Sarah Conway, City Bureau
  This story is part two of Chicago Missing Persons, a two-year investigation by City Bureau and Invisible Institute, two Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organizations. This series
  
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• Don Lemon To Receive $24.5 Million In Separation Deal With CNN

  28-02-2024 14:30
  
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  Don Lemon and CNN have reportedly reached an agreement following his firing last year.
  According to TheWrap, the former CNN anchor will receive approximately $24.5 million from his former employer in a separation deal that equals what Lemon would have been paid had he been allowed to stay at the network through the end of his contract three-and-a-half years from the time of his firing.
  In April, Lemon announced his firing from CNN on X (formerly known as Twitter). “I a
  
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• The Carr Report: Elderly woman was told a whole lie about her Whole Life Insurance policy

  28-02-2024 14:00
  
  I recently read an article from “Moneywise.” This article shares a story about a 72-year-old woman whose life insurance policy is being terminated despite her life insurance premiums being paid every month since 1987. It goes on to say that this is a very common issue. I shared this story with my Facebook followers with the caption, “Don’t let this happen to you or your elderly loved ones!”
  The post generated a lot of reactions and responses. I’m going to shar
  
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for Feb. 28

  28-02-2024 14:00
  
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