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• Review: John Singer Sargent: Fashion and Swagger

  19-04-2024 21:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was the preeminent society portraitist of his day. A master at capturing the sheen and folds of the costumes he dressed his wealthy sitters in, the question of whether there’s any more to his pictures than dazzling surfaces isn’t easy to answer.  This exhibition onscreen was filmed primarily at the Museum […]
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• Review: The Sympathizer (Miniseries)

  19-04-2024 21:08 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Sympathizer begins with a commanding sequence of instructions issued to a prisoner by a military official: “Restart. Recollect. Reeducate. Revolution. And Rewrite.” These words are meant to coerce a confession from the protagonist, trapped in a relentless cycle of remembrance. But these five words linger as the nameless protagonist, portrayed by Hoa Xuande, returns […]
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• Review: Hanky Panky

  19-04-2024 21:08 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Hanky Panky is a delightfully unserious horror movie crammed with comedy. From the minds of Nick Roth and Lindsey Haun, the film follows a man and a talking napkin who are on a mission to save the world from an evil top hat. And as the promotional material proudly declares, four minutes of the 86-minute […]
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• Self Portrait as Blue Monday by Annie Lee

  19-04-2024 20:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By Charlotte Abotsi
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• Black Undercover Cop Gets $23M After He’s Beaten By Colleagues At Protest

  19-04-2024 20:29
  
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  A former St. Louis police officer was awarded over $23 million after he was beaten by his white colleagues while working undercover at a protest in 2017, The Guardian reports.
  Luther Hall was pinned to the ground by officers and beaten with a baton in 2017 while he was undercover at a protest following the acquittal of Jason Stockley, a white cop who fatally shot 24-year-old Black man Anthony Lamar Smith. Hall suffered permanent injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder fro
  
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• The Chicago Palestine Film Festival is here for eager audiences

  19-04-2024 20:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Behind a time stamp with the date “20 02 2001,” a line of blurred lights shudders. Overlaid, as if from a composite of two photos, a woman’s face appears. So does a camera. Voices are matched to these reflections against the glass. The glass door slides open, revealing the lights in the night.  “Suha, we […]
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• Amphibian friendship

  19-04-2024 17:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Children’s Theatre’s (CCT) first production, back in 2006, was the Tony Award-nominated A Year With Frog and Toad, created by brothers Robert (music) and Willie Reale (book and lyrics) from the much-loved books by Arnold Lobel about the amphibious friends and staged at the Goodman’s Owen Theatre. It’s back now in CCT’s home space […]
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• Suburban circus extravaganza

  19-04-2024 17:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  One of Chicagoland’s best-kept circus secrets is the Triton Troupers Circus, a motley cast of 80-plus circus performers who put on a traditional show every spring in Triton College‘s gymnasium to packed bleachers full of families and fans. For just $10 a ticket and $1 for concessions, you get two hours of jaw-dropping circus fun […]
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• Contaminated prison water, Howard Brown union contract, police misconduct

  19-04-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Groups demand EPA intervention over contaminated water in prisons Formerly incarcerated people, folks with loved ones in prison, advocates, and attorneys gathered in the Loop on Monday to deliver a petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) demanding the agency take immediate action to address contaminated drinking water in Illinois prisons.  Led by the […]
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• Overtime: The same Tiger…Just a different bite

  19-04-2024 15:00
  
  :10—Here’s a recap for you about Tiger “Eldrick” Woods, most likely the greatest golfer the world will ever know! Needless to say, a great number of you already know.  This is for the many of us who don’t have a clue about the golf world.
  :09—#1. Can we please put to rest this notion that Tiger Woods is not Black? And I don’t care who started it, including Tiger.  If your mother or father is Black, you’re Black!  Period, end of story
  
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• Harry Lennix Brings August Wilson’s Legacy to Life in ‘How I Learned What I Learned’

  19-04-2024 15:00
  
  To understand the gravity, privilege and importance of a play by August Wilson about August Wilson, imagine if Shakespeare had also written about Shakespeare. 
  That’s precisely what Chicago audiences will get when Wilson’s autobiographical, one-man show “How I Learned What I Learned” plays at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut St) from this Sunday, April 20 to May 5.
  That Shakespeare analogy is courtesy of the esteemed Chicag-bred actor Harr
  
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• ‘Unstuck’ is a genre-shattering evening of live work

  19-04-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Unstuck” is an evening of performance art and installation, a result of the dynamic collaboration between dancer-choreographer Michelle Kranicke (Zephyr Dances) and internationally touring performance artist and curator Joseph Ravens (DFBRL8R Gallery). This one-night-only tour de force occurs on Saturday, April 27, at West Town’s SITE/less venue. “Unstuck”Sat 4/27 7 PM, SITE/less, 1250 W. Augusta, […]
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