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• Settler’s Prayer to La Linda Nasca

  03-05-2024 19:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By Amina Kayani
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• Review: Wildcat

  03-05-2024 18:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Flannery O’Connor wrote some of the most honest stories about Americans and their many flaws that anyone has ever put to paper. A woman of the south, crippled by lupus as well as the region’s prejudices, O’Connor created characters as funny and cursed as she was, by all accounts.  Ethan Hawke and his daughter, Maya, […]
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• Review: Unfrosted

  03-05-2024 18:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Jerry Seinfeld’s directorial debut is not about nothing. It purports to chronicle the 1960s cereal wars between Battle Creek, Michigan–based rivals Kellogg’s and Post and the desperate scramble to be the first to create a toastable breakfast pastry. In historical fidelity, it is about as factual as Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, which more successfully […]
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• Review: The Fall Guy

  03-05-2024 18:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Watching the trailer, one would be forgiven for assuming that The Fall Guy is a vehicle for two of the most popular, attractive actors of our time—Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer) and Ryan Gosling (Barbie)—to score an easy win with an action-romance film coming off their stellar Barbenheimer successes. However, what makes this film great is not […]
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• Review: Chicken for Linda!

  03-05-2024 18:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Astounding, vivid, and lively, this animated film directed by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach follows a relatively simple story to deep effect. Linda (Mélinée Leclerc) is a little girl wrongfully accused of selling her mother’s ring. After the ring is found, her mother (Clotilde Hesme) asks what she can do to make up for the […]
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• Kim Foxx’s DNC preparations, Uptown SRO hotel, guaranteed income

  03-05-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Foxx prepares for DNC showdown Kim Foxx has a message for people planning to take to the streets when the Democratic National Convention comes to town in August: don’t. The outgoing Cook County state’s attorney told the pearl-clutching Chicago Tribune editorial board she’s scrapping her office’s policy of declining to prosecute peaceful protestors for the […]
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• Film logs, benshi, and Pedro Costa

  03-05-2024 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. For the past several years, my moviegoing log has been a Google Sheet; only somewhat more recently have I again taken to Letterboxd to log titles (having joined and then abandoned […]
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• CSU’s 371st Commencement Features AG Raoul as Keynote Speaker, Honors Montes and Rhymefest

  03-05-2024 14:30
  
  Chicago State University will host its 371st commencement ceremony on May 9 at the Emil & Patricia A. Jones Convocation Center.
  As a beacon of academic excellence and community empowerment, CSU continues to honor distinguished individuals who have made significant contributions in their respective fields. This year, CSU will host Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul as its keynote speaker and will award Peggy A. Montes and Che “Rhymefest” Smith with the Honorary Degrees of Docto
  
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• Caregivers Honored at Inaugural ‘Dear Me Care Circle’

  03-05-2024 14:00
  
  L-R Dear Me Care Circle founder Wynona Redmond with Leader of Heart Award recipient Bobbie Steele, former Cook County Board President (Photo courtesy of Wyn-Win Communications).
  The launch of a new group for caregivers was held on April 27 at the Hyatt Chicago Medical/University District. 
  A full room of caregivers and the family and friends who love them attended the Dear Me Care Circle Pre-Mother’s Day Brunch. 
  Themed “Love Bears All Things,” the event honored famil
  
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• Black TikToker Claims Restaurant Retaliated Against Her After Poor Review

  03-05-2024 13:30
  
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  A TikTok user claims a Pennslyvania restaurant owner is retaliating against her after she left a poor review, per the Atlanta Black Star.
  Melissa, known as @kissedbymel on TikTok, said she initially left a poor Google review about Gordo’s Tacos & Tequila on Jan. 12. When she complained about the lack of corn in her meal, Melissa said workers had an attitude with her on the phone and hung up on her multiple times.
  Following the incident, Melissa alleges the restaurant sh
  
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