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• Minahasa reawakens for an extraordinary Monday Night Foodball

  02-04-2024 22:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  John Avila beat City Hall last week—but it took 13 hours. Avila, the chef behind the singular pandemic-born Indonesian restaurant Minahasa, was at the department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection, reapplying for his Shared Kitchen User license, which had lapsed in the year since he closed his stall at Revival Food Hall. Back then, […]
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• British dance-music legend LTJ Bukem brings cool, sexy vibes to Smart Bar

  02-04-2024 20:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  LTJ Bukem is the kind of talent that’s made Smart Bar an institution. If you’re looking for a drum ’n’ bass legend, he’s it. The British DJ brings a breezy, jazzy atmosphere to Detroit-style techno that feels dreamy and contemplative, and his emphasis on liquidity over density helps create a sound that’s both streetwise and […]
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• Providence band Dreamwell make screamo sound even bigger than it already does

  02-04-2024 20:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Providence five-piece Dreamwell describe themselves as “emo post skramz,” but I’m hard-pressed to hear anything but screamo on their October album, In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You (Prosthetic). Sure, the record opens with a sweeping, sentimental melody, clean vocals, and a layer of ornamental guitar that sounds like wind chimes tinkling in the […]
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• Houston hip-hop stalwart Scarface reimagines his Tiny Desk Concert as a full tour

  02-04-2024 20:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Street music can sound like soul or even gospel when it’s done right. Houston rapper Scarface, born Brad Jordan, has been serving up beautifully constructed noir rap since the late 80s. He’s since become your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper and a fixture on any list of the best lyricists of all time.  Face’s songs are […]
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• DIY folk-blues enigma Jandek keeps it mysterious with a show at Elastic Arts

  02-04-2024 19:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Who doesn’t love a good mystery? In the early 90s, when the dubious term “outsider artist” was still in fashion, Jandek personified it: this enigmatic folk-blues singer-songwriter sounded like he’d invented his own creative world in a total vacuum. So little was known about him that my friends and I would sit around and pontificate […]
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• Sunroom marks three years of its Monthly Flyer Club with a gallery show

  02-04-2024 18:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Five years ago, visual artist Clare Byrne and musician Jacob Stolz formed Sunroom as an umbrella for their creative collaborations. Sunroom has since released records by Pool Holograph and Central Heat Exchange (two of Stolz’s bands), sold shirts and hats, and published zines and even a crime novel (David McCoubrey’s Detective Detective). In May 2021, […]
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• Author Percival Everett Opens Up On Latest Novel at Chicago Event

  02-04-2024 15:30
  
  When was the last time you immersed yourself in a book, captivated by its narrative, that provoked deep thought, whether for personal growth or simple leisure? 
  On Thursday, March 28, at 7 p.m., Exile in Bookville and the Historic Studebaker Theater welcomed a crowd eager to engage as Percival Everett, alongside author Gabriel Bump, delved into his latest novel, “James.”
  A dynamic encounter unfolded as Everett met Bump, who was thrilled to engage with his literary idol while car
  
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• Black Girl Used As ‘Target Practice’ On Mostly White Tennis Team: Lawsuit

  02-04-2024 14:30
  
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  A South Carolina mother is suing her daughter’s school district on allegations of racial discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.
  According to the Atlanta Black Star, Crystal Dozier recently filed a lawsuit against Horry County School District and three white employees at Green C. Floyds High School on behalf of her 17-year-old daughter, who is Black.
  The lawsuit stems from Dozier’s daughter wanting to join her high school tennis team last year. Krysten Webste
  
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• 1,000 Families To Received Ham and Food Boxes For Easter Weekend

  02-04-2024 14:00
  
  1-800-TruckWreck fights food insecurity by giving away ingredients for bountiful meals over the holiday weekend.
  1-800-TruckWreck, powered by Witherite Law Group, provided families in the Chicago community with 1,000 hams and food boxes for Easter weekend. 
  The giveaway took place on Friday (March 29), from 3-5 p.m. at House of Hope, 752 East 114th Street, located in the South Side neighborhood of Pullman. 
  1-800-TruckWreck owner Amy Witherite was on-site handing out 1,000 hams and 1,0
  
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• Black Mother Sentenced For Illegal Voting Has Conviction Overturned

  02-04-2024 13:15
  
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  A Texas mother who was accused of voting illegally in the 2016 election had her conviction overturned on Thursday (March 28), CNN reports.
  Crystal Mason, a mother of three, was previously sentenced to five years in prison for filling out a provisional ballot in the 2016 election as a felon. At the time, Mason was on supervised release after being jailed for tax fraud.
  Mason appealed her sentence in 2019, saying she didn’t know that she was ineligible to vote as a felon.
  
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• Chicago indie band the Courts could give rock radio an orbital boost 

  02-04-2024 01:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago indie-rock band the Courts have been releasing music for less than two years—usually a single every few months—but their towering, high-energy psychedelic sound has won people over in a hurry. They might not have the biggest fan base in town, at least not yet, but they’ve attracted some illustrious supporters: when they headlined Sleeping […]
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• Montreal dance duo Pelada unite underground scenes with liberatory music

  02-04-2024 01:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If Chicago hardcore legends Los Crudos made acid house, they’d sound like Pelada. On their second album, September’s Ahora Más que Nunca (New Label), the Montreal-based duo pair ferociously political lyrics with elements of techno, industrial, reggaeton, and jazz, creating a sound that unifies the liberatory drives at the hearts of multiple underground party scenes. […]
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• Instrumental duo Zombi release the synth-driven Direct Inject

  02-04-2024 01:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Zombi bassist and keyboardist Steve Moore and drummer A.E. Paterra have carved out a specific niche for themselves. Inspired by hard rock, 70s space rock, and the synth-driven scores to decades of spooky movies, the Pittsburgh duo have created a series of albums that each serve as a gripping soundtrack to a film that only […]
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• Civitas Ensemble champions local composers on a program that features Grammy winner Jessie Montgomery

  02-04-2024 01:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last month, Pilsen-based composer and violinist Jessie Montgomery made history as the first Black composer awarded the Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition, winning for her work Rounds. The recognition feels like an appropriately gilded capstone to her fruitful tenure as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Mead composer-in-residence, a position she’s held since July 2021. This […]
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• Chinese folk flutist Lao Dan brings the noise

  02-04-2024 01:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Lao Dan’s Bandcamp page offers three descriptions of his music: “free improvisation, Chinese New Folk music, Modern pioneer music.” The first two are accurate, and though I don’t know what he means by the third, it rings truest. Dan picked up the alto saxophone and the bamboo flute in his youth, and he showed such […]
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• Chicago electro-pop queen Brittany Bindrim celebrates her solo debut

  02-04-2024 01:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Decades after the golden era of Wax Trax!, Chicago’s electro-goth-rock and darkwave scenes continue to thrive. Brittany Bindrim stands out among a rising crop of eclectic acts that includes Replicant, Panic Priest, Kill Scenes, I Ya Toyah, and Iron Years. Though she’s the front person of long-running electro-pop and industrial group I:Scintilla, where her crisp […]
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