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• North Dakota death-metal band Gorgatron ramp up to a new album

  15-04-2024 22:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  North Dakota death-metal unit Gorgatron have been building up steam since they released their debut album, Torturetorium, in 2010, but it wasn’t until they toured in support of 2020’s Pathogenic Automation that they scorched their imprint on the national underground scene. The five-piece specialize in deranged, outsize old-school death metal injected with bits of grind […]
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• Jazz-pop talent Laufey gives the classics a bewitching overhaul

  15-04-2024 22:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  No artist in recent memory has been able to cross the generational divide quite like 24-year-old jazz-pop phenom Laufey. Since she released her full-length debut, 2022’s Everything I Know About Love, the Icelandic-Chinese singer and multi-instrumentalist has commanded a surprisingly young TikTok audience with her orchestral jazz-pop fusion. The cellist and pianist writes and produces […]
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• Helado Negro invites you to surrender to his luminous avant-pop

  15-04-2024 22:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Singer, composer, and producer Roberto Carlos Lange, better known as Helado Negro, creates soundscapes that exist in a beautifully liminal space. His luminous avant-pop creations, which he sings in Spanish and English, overlap organic and electronic music while seamlessly shape-shifting between tropical ebullience and plaintive lament. On his ninth studio album, the February release Phasor, […]
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• Owen’s 11th album is more of what makes Mike Kinsella’s solo project endearing

  15-04-2024 22:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Twenty-three years have passed since Mike Kinsella issued his self-titled debut as Owen, a largely acoustic solo endeavor that made the twentysomething musician seem older than his years. Even in 2001, his whispered, unhurried vocals already suggested feelings that could make your stomach churn and your bones ache, whether from longing, regret, or fear. The […]
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• Mike brings his masterful left-of-center rap to Metro

  15-04-2024 22:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Mike is a slick talker who’s become an even slicker positive force on today’s hip-hop. The rapper occupies a corner with left-of-center MCs such as Earl Sweatshirt and Wiki, yet he’s snuggled into a space all his own. His music is low risk and high reward, and his projects are practically guaranteed to satisfy fans […]
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• Laraaji and Sam Prekop join forces for a night filled with ambient music and laughter

  15-04-2024 22:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Laraaji is ambient music’s prince of laughter. Since 1980, when he debuted with a sparkling collection of acoustic string compositions that became the third installment in Brian Eno’s famous ambient series, the multi-instrumentalist has distinguished himself with the optimism in his fantastical soundscapes. Laraaji is known as a pioneer of new age music, a genre […]
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• Laaraji and Sam Prekop join forces for a night filled with ambient music and laughter

  15-04-2024 22:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Laraaji is ambient music’s prince of laughter. Since 1980, when he debuted with a sparkling collection of acoustic string compositions that became the third installment in Brian Eno’s famous ambient series, the multi-instrumentalist has distinguished himself with the optimism in his fantastical soundscapes. Laraaji is known as a pioneer of new age music, a genre […]
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• Narcan para todos

  15-04-2024 20:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Read in English. A pesar de una caída drástica en el número total de opioides recetados en Illinois, el número de sobredosis accidentales -tanto fatales como no fatales- ha aumentado continu amente en la última década, según el programa de Monitoreo de Prescripciones en Illinois y los datos del Departamento de Salud Pública de Illinois […]
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• Mission: demolition?

  15-04-2024 17:14 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If you stand in front of the flatiron-style building at 1226-1234 W. Loyola—home to 30 apartments and a trio of businesses on the ground floor—you’re surrounded by vacant lots. Across the street from that building is a vast, unpaved expanse used for parking by Loyola University that’s chained off from the neighborhood and labeled with […]
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• ‘Felicific’ makes the old new again

  15-04-2024 15:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Felicific” refers to an action that will bring happiness or pleasure. Appropriately titled, this exhibition explores how Black environments elicit delightfulness through themes of nostalgia and futurity. Within this space, ordinary scenes depicted from familiar materials are assigned a new meaning. Artists Shonna Pryor and bARBER, current residents in the Chicago Artist Coalition’s HATCH program, […]
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• Nearly 1 in 4 Adults Dumped From Medicaid Are Now Uninsured

  15-04-2024 15:30
  
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  A new survey details how millions of Americans struggle to keep coverage in the government insurance program for low-income people.
  By Phil Galewitz
  This article was originally published on Word In Black.
  Nearly a quarter of adults disenrolled from Medicaid in the past year say they are now uninsured, according to a survey released Friday that details how tens of millions of Americans struggled to retain coverage in the government insur
  
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• Dawn Staley Sets a Trailblazing Legacy for Black Women Coaches

  15-04-2024 15:00
  
  For the third time in seven seasons, Dawn Staley, a 53-year-old Black woman from the Raymond Rosen Homes housing projects of North Philadelphia, has led her University of South Carolina Gamecocks to an NCAA national title. 
  The former WNBA star also guided the Gamecocks to an unprecedented 38-0 record, becoming the 10th team in NCAA women’s basketball history to go undefeated. 
  Lastly, Staley is not only the first Black head coach to help her team win three national titles but al
  
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• Get On a Path to Financial Success, Well-Being with the Chicago Treasurer’s Office “Money Smart Week”

  15-04-2024 14:30
  
  To help Chicagoans make better financial and lifestyle choices, the Chicago Treasurer’s Office will present two financial education webinars and a support service webinar for the formerly convicted April 16-18, during “Money Smart Week.” These webinars, which are free but require advance registration, are, according to City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin,” designed to help individuals better manage their personal finances, create financial stability, and build a bright
  
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• Bodycam Footage Shows Akron Police Shooting Black Teen Holding Fake Gun

  15-04-2024 14:00
  
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  A family is seeking justice after Akron, Ohio police shot a 15-year-old Black teenager who was holding a fake gun, drawing parallels to the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, per Newsone.
  The shooting unfolded on April 1 after a woman called 911 to report a teen, later identified as Tavion Koonce-Williams, pointing a gun at homes in the Goodyear Heights neighborhood.
  “He pulled it (the gun) out and acted like he was going to shoot their houses,” the woman told a
  
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• Anne Morrissy delves into the Taxi Wars of the early 20th century

  15-04-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the last decade of the 19th century, Chicago was growing much faster than its infrastructure could handle. Most streets were unpaved and became a muddy morass when it rained. The majority of vehicles were pulled by livestock that left mounds of waste in their wake. Asked by the Chicago Tribune in 1890 what the […]
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