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• For young students, the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival ‘makes school stuff seem real’

  05-03-2024 22:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Aspiring filmmakers and bookworms alike can showcase their unique interpretations of classic children’s literature at the 13th annual 90-Second Newbery Film Festival.
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• Footballhead celebrate the vinyl arrival of their charismatic alt-rock

  05-03-2024 20:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Ryan Nolen began his Footballhead project, he never intended it to play live. In spring 2022, when he and his friend Eric Reyes, aka Snow Ellet, started writing radio-style pop songs with heavy, fuzzy guitars, he was just looking for an outlet for the material in his head that wouldn’t fit with his main […]
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• Nakba. Again.

  05-03-2024 19:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By Linda Abdullah
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• Nejla Yatkin’s Ouroboros combines dance with healing circles

  05-03-2024 18:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  So much contemporary dance is codified in Western dance traditions and practices that it is often difficult to find pieces, companies, and artists that embody anything else. And when they do, the work is frequently embedded in the language of “traditional” or “ethnic” dance, with the meaning and context stripped away to make it palatable […]
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• Review: A Revolution on Canvas

  05-03-2024 16:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The documentary A Revolution on Canvas is framed as an effort to retrieve Nicky Nodjoumi’s paintings from the repressive government of Iran. It also, though, functions as a biography of Nodjoumi, and, crucially, of his ex-wife, Nahid Hagigat, whose own artistic career was put on hold to support her husband. The implicit sexism in the […]
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• Whales Are Dying and the Fossil Fuel Industry is Lying

  05-03-2024 15:30
  
  By Ben Jealous
  Whoever would have thought fossil fuel industry front groups would make whales and other marine species a cultural wedge issue? However, thanks to a deception campaign targeting wind energy that’s exactly where we find ourselves.
  The Marine Mammal Stranding Center in New Jersey rescues and rehabilitates live beached animals and performs necropsies on the remains of dead ones to pinpoint their causes of death. Sheila Dean, one of the group’s founders, describes how the
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: The comedian, the Christian, and shock value

  05-03-2024 15:00
  
  DAVID LUCAS
  During a comedy show, Black comic David Lucas made a joke about George Floyd while battling a Black heckler in front of a mostly White audience. After so many interruptions, Lucas informed the heckler that he was illustrating to the White audience why George Floyd had his neck kneeled on.
  The audience was shocked.
  Lucas told the audience not to “boo” the joke. He then assured the audience that he would never have kneeled on George Floyd’s neck and would have shot th
  
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• Mayor Brandon Johnson Endorses Rep. Danny K. Davis for Re-election

  05-03-2024 14:45
  
  On Monday (March 4), Mayor Brandon Johnson announced his endorsement of Congressman Danny K. Davis for re-election to the 7th Congressional District of Illinois. 
  Mayor Johnson praised Congressman Davis for his unwavering commitment to promoting economic equity, social justice, and environmental sustainability. He emphasized Congressman Davis’s history of achieving concrete benefits for the residents of Chicago and the wider 7th Congressional District.
  “In Congressman Danny K. D
  
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• GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Salutes With KKK Member In Resurfaced Photos

  05-03-2024 14:00
  
  Photo: Shamed Dogan
  A Republican candidate running for Missouri governor is under fire after a longtime GOP politician called him out for his past ties with the Ku Klux Klan. The Missouri GOP is condemning Darrell Leon McClanahan III after a resurfaced photo shows him doing a Nazi salute next to a hooded Klansman in front of a burning cross.
  Republican state Rep. Shamed Dogan, who’s Black, shared the disturbing images of Clanahan after Missouri GOP tweeted that 279 Republicans submitted bi
  
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• Overpromised and underdelivered

  05-03-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This year is shaping up to be a year of stadium sagas, both here in Chicago and across the country. August 18, the day before the 2024 Democratic National Convention, will mark 30 years since the United Center officially opened. The convention, like the United Center’s first-ever event, the 1994 World Wrestling Federation SummerSlam, is […]
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• AdultFriendFinder review: Is it real? Does it work in 2024? We paid for a membership and can tell you

  05-03-2024 07:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Interested in a no holds barred review of AdultFriendFinder? We tried it and can tell you the good and the bad, whether it's a scam, and if it really works. Read on!
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