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• Glass Beach take one giant leap for emo on Plastic Death

  15-03-2024 23:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In January, west-coast emo group Glass Beach dropped Plastic Death (Run for Cover), the follow-up to their 2019 debut, The First Glass Beach Album. That gap has felt even longer than five years, and not just because the pandemic made it hard to tell what day it was. It’s also seemed like a long wait […]
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• Rockford trio Frail Body release the year’s best new screamo album

  15-03-2024 23:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On their new second album, Artificial Bouquet (Deathwish Inc.), Rockford trio Frail Body play screamo with the intensity of a spacecraft streaking through a 5,000-degree atmospheric reentry. Sometimes it sounds like these guys aren’t just sheathed in flames but might actually be burning themselves up, and that makes Artificial Bouquet feel even more tense and […]
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• Honolulu guitarist Jessica Ackerley meets Chicago’s improvised music community for the first time

  15-03-2024 19:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Put an obstacle in front of Jessica Ackerley, and they’ll come up with a new creative strategy to surmount it. The Canadian musician attended college with the intent to become a straight-ahead jazz guitarist—an aspiration that’s reflected to this day in their nimble technique. But after encountering misogyny in class and on the job, they […]
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• Health play industrial music like the heyday of Wax Trax! never ended 

  15-03-2024 18:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Few bands these days sound as single-mindedly determined to manifest the club scene from the first Matrix movie as Health. On December’s Rat Wars (Loma Vista), the Los Angeles-based industrial-noise group hardwire their muscle-bound guitars and steely club percussion to jack up your adrenal system. These ceaselessly propulsive components of Health’s sound feel grimy and […]
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• Colin Stetson brings grief and grandeur to Bohemian National Cemetery Cathedral

  15-03-2024 18:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Breath is fundamental to life—in aerobic creatures, each respiratory cycle allows the continuation of existence for a few more seconds or minutes. Canadian American musician and composer Colin Stetson transcends this notion. When he plays saxophone (or any of a number of other reed and brass instruments), he builds entire worlds within a single exhalation. […]
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• Chilean MC and singer Ana Tijoux returns to the limelight with the rallying cry of Vida

  15-03-2024 18:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s been nearly a decade since we last heard from rebel-rouser Ana Tijoux. Her fifth album, January’s eclectic Vida, couldn’t have come at a better moment—her defiant music feels made for times like these. Protest songs are Tijoux’s medium, and the unyielding rapper and singer has spent more than two decades mastering the art. Born […]
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• The Chicago Defender Honorees the 2024 Women of Excellence Honorees

  15-03-2024 17:12
  
  This year’s Induction Ceremony Honors Exemplary Black Women in the Chicagoland Community at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk on March 22, 2024.
  Chicago, Illinois – Desirée Rogers, former White House Social Secretary to President Barack Obama and chief executive officer of Johnson Publishing Company, headlines an extraordinary list of Black women luminaries who will be honored at the 17th Annual Chicago Defender Women of Excellence Awards and Ceremony.
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• Remembering Val Gray Ward and Joan Gray

  15-03-2024 16:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s impossible to write the history of theater and dance in Chicago without raising up the names of Val Gray Ward and Joan Gray. The former founded Kuumba Theatre Workshop, one of the most influential Black-centered theater companies in the city, in 1968. The latter joined Muntu Dance Theatre in 1984 (the company was founded […]
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• Women’s History Month Special: Meet 18 Black Women Changemakers in Chicago

  15-03-2024 15:00
  
  Black women are no strangers to adversity. From conception to maturity, misconceptions have been placed on them. Despite the fallacies, they rise. They grow up and learn to unite with like-minded women, each forging their unique paths of brilliance while overcoming adversity, and rejecting any plans that do not serve them positively. 
  They continue their journey, serving others and recognizing their worth. Success isn’t solitary; it’s a collaborative opportunity to build togethe
  
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• Measles 2024: What to Know About the Outbreak

  15-03-2024 13:30
  
  The U.S. is reporting more cases than in past years. Experts say travel and low vaccination rates are reasons why.
  By Alexa Spencer
  The United States is experiencing its greatest measles outbreak in years. 
  As of late February, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 41 cases across 16 states: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York City, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington.
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• Deputies Fatally Shoot Black Autistic Teen Holding Gardening Tool

  15-03-2024 13:00
  
  Photo: Burris, Nisenbaum, Curry & Lacy Law
  A California teenager with autism was shot and killed by sheriff’s deputies while he was holding a gardening tool, per CNN.
  The shooting of 15-year-old Ryan Gainer unfolded on March 9 after deputies in Apple Valley responded to a 911 call from a family member who said the teen “was actively assaulting family members and damaging property at the residence,” according to a sheriff’s department.
  Attorney DeWitt M. Lacy said Gain
  
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• Chicago Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin Unveils $318.7 Million in Taxpayer Earnings for Fiscal 2023

  15-03-2024 13:00
  
  Earlier this week, City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin revealed that her office generated $318.7 million in returns for Chicago taxpayers during the 2023 fiscal year. Those earnings represent an 82% increase from the previous year and nearly triple the earnings recorded in 2021.
  “As City Treasurer, I am proud of how our team has produced these returns for Chicago’s taxpayers while managing the liquidity needs of the City of Chicago,” said Conyears-Ervin. “These earnings
  
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• Illinois made it easier for gun violence survivors to apply for compensation. Why aren’t more Chicagoans finding the program?

  15-03-2024 12:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In July 2005, 22-year-old Nicolas Hernandez went to a block party in Logan Square with his older brother. Around midnight, they saw a few men who had been kicked out earlier. They realized the strangers had guns and started running. Hernandez noticed a little girl crying and helped her find safety in a nearby home.  […]
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• This Week In Black History March 13-19, 2024

  15-03-2024 04:00
  
   
  MARCH 13
  1794—Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin—a device that made cotton production much more profitable by more efficiently separating the seed from the cot­ton. The invention had the effect of extending the life of slavery in the South. However, there re­mains a historical dispute as to whether Whitney actually invent­ed the cotton gin as most history books claim. There is some evi­dence that Whitney’s entire idea was based on a device devel­oped
  
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