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• A Streetcar Named Desire at Paramount fires on all cylinders

  27-03-2024 21:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire is an iconic play that lives up to its reputation.  Solidly written, packed with vivid characters and terrific dialogue, the play may run nearly three hours long, but it still crackles with life 77 years after it first premiered in 1947. It would be hard to imagine a production—no […]
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• Purpose adds to Steppenwolf’s collection of domestic-dysfunction classics

  27-03-2024 20:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Steppenwolf has long had a way with wildly dysfunctional family dramas. From Anton Chekhov’s Seagull to Sam Shepard’s True West to Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County, the off-Loop institution has shown time and again it can deliver the bloody red meat of multigenerational dramas peopled by characters who are brutalized and broken by the weight […]
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• Corporeal poetry

  27-03-2024 20:42 via chicagoreader.com
  I can’t remember the last time I left a theater a little teary and a lot inspired, with a carpe diem spring in my step. Remy Bumppo’s production of John Kolvenbach’s one-act rom-com, helmed by artistic director Marti Lyons, is dynamic and delicious, from its easy laughs to a style of linguistic interplay that you […]
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• The Brightest Thing in the World shines the light of love

  27-03-2024 20:11 via chicagoreader.com
  The early moments of Leah Nanako Winkler’s The Brightest Thing in the World, now in a heartfelt midwest premiere with About Face Theatre under Keira Fromm’s direction, reminded me a bit of Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche’s enchanting made-in-Chicago 1994 lesbian romance film, Go Fish. As in the film, the two women who become lovers […]
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• Public Notice: Power Construction

  27-03-2024 20:04
  
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• Pierogi Papi raids the sausage shop for the next Monday Night Foodball

  27-03-2024 19:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The sweet scent of kielbasa swojska drifting up from Kurowski Sausage Shop is like a bat signal to Max Glassman. “When the wind blows my way during their smoking times,” he says, “I can smell it perfectly on my second-floor balcony overlooking Saint Hyacinth.” That’s when he whips off his figurative horned rims, throws on […]
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• Hip Linkchain played blues guitar like he meant it

  27-03-2024 17:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Winter is technically over, but March in the midwest never agrees—as I write this, Chicago is still seeing occasional flurries and temperatures below freezing. So I’ll obey the spirit of the law, not its letter, and publish one last entry in the Secret History of Chicago Music’s Winter Blues series. Singer and guitarist Hip Linkchain […]
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• Chicago hip-hop comes together to help treasured veteran Gq tha Teacha

  27-03-2024 15:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On Sunday, March 31, Chicago hip-hop luminaries will gather at the Promontory to throw a benefit show for veteran scene promoter and former rapper Gq tha Teacha. As Gq told Illanoize Radio in January, he’s managing kidney and heart failure and undergoing dialysis.  Poet, radio personality, and Promontory box office manager Mario Smith says the […]
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• New Black Business Movement, ‘TESC.Love,’ Successfully Launches In Chicago Led By Robert Blackwell, Jr.

  27-03-2024 15:00
  
  On a blustery Chicago night, 15 Black men stepped out of the safe confines of their homes, and came together at the downtown offices of Quant16 at the special invitation of business leader Robert Blackwell, Jr.
  Chicago, the same city that for decades was lauded as the global Black business capital of the world, that evening fittingly hosted the genesis of TESC.Love, an acronym for The Entrepreneurial Saving Cities. Now officially launched, TESC.Love is a burgeoning movement of people of good wil
  
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• Artist Nicki Cherry surrenders control

  27-03-2024 14:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  After Nicki Cherry began to struggle with chronic back pain, she started exploring the meaning of restraint, dependence, and repression and how they’ve contributed to a fragmented body and a lack of control.  In her new exhibition at Slow Dance gallery, “I can be a woman for you,” casts of Cherry’s body are attached to […]
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• Catastrophic Bridge Collapse in Baltimore: Container Ship Triggers Disaster

  27-03-2024 13:45
  
  By Ebony JJ Curry, Senior Reporter, Michigan Chronicle
  Baltimore, a city already rich in history, faced an unprecedented disaster early Tuesday when a container ship, the Dali, collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
  The impact was so severe that it caused a significant portion of the bridge to break away and fall into the Patapsco River below. The incident, occurring just outside the city limits near Washington, D.C., has escalated into what authorities are calling a “developing mass
  
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• United Nations Chief Antonio Guterres Calls For Slavery Reparations

  27-03-2024 13:10
  
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  United Nations chief Antonio Guterres is calling for reparations over the transatlantic slave trade “to help overcome generations of exclusion and discrimination.”
  On Monday (March 25), Guterres made the call for reparations amid the U.N. International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery, per Reuters.
  Guterres said the transatlantic slave trade “laid the foundations for a violent discrimination system based on white supremacy.”
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for March 27, 2024

  27-03-2024 13:00
  
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• Livelinks Review: Is This The Best Chat Line To Call in 2023? We Tried It

  27-03-2024 08:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A lot of us look for love in the wrong places and find that we’ve wasted so much time on the wrong ones. But when you’re looking for a strong genuine connection, Livelinks is one of the best ways to get it. This phone chat line has been around for over twenty years and is […]
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