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• Review: Mother of the Bride

  10-05-2024 19:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  While there’s nothing wrong with a good old-fashioned Hallmark-style rom-com, there are just so darn many these days that to make one truly worthwhile, it really has to be a cut above. And while Mother of the Bride seems to have a lot of what could make it a standout—a pretty solid cast full of […]
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• Review: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

  10-05-2024 19:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes begins generations after the franchise’s last installments directed by Matt Reeves, which followed the first speaking ape, Caesar. And just as this film’s central simian Noa (Owen Teague) must contend with Caesar’s legacy, director Wes Ball must escape the shadow of Reeves, who took easy popcorn fodder and […]
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• Review: Dark Matter (Season one)

  10-05-2024 19:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Based on Blake Crouch’s 2016 sci-fi thriller novel of the same name, Dark Matter stars Joel Edgerton as college physics professor Jason Dessen, who lives in Chicago with his wife, Daniela (Jennifer Connelly), and their 15-year-old son, Charlie (Oakes Fegley). One night, Jason is abducted by an alternate version of himself who transports him to […]
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• Campus protests, sexual abuse in youth prisons, May Day for Palestine

  10-05-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Campus crackdowns The violence that swept college campuses from Columbia University to UCLA made it home to Chicago as police brutally disbanded Palestine solidarity encampments at the School of the Art Institute (SAIC) and the University of Chicago (U. of C.). Within an hour of SAIC students announcing their May 4 occupation of the Michigan […]
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• The play that goes wrong

  10-05-2024 16:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  My only memory of a Thanksgiving play from my school days stretches back to first grade, when I was asked to play a young Pilgrim boy instead of a girl—because there were more girls than boys in my class and I had short hair. Those were, of course, far less enlightened times. But as Larissa […]
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• Sweet Success: Kilwins Owner Named Illinois Small Business Person of the Year

  10-05-2024 16:00
  
  I knew I wanted to do something with entrepreneurship, but I didn’t know what it would be. – Jacqueline “Jackie” Jackson
  Walking into Kilwins in Andersonville is like entering a wonderland of sweetness. As soon as you open the door, the air is filled with the delightful aroma of chocolate, caramel and vanilla, instantly awakening the senses and inducing pure excitement. Ice cream is also served in the cozy space, where every sweet craving is effortlessly satisfied.
  
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• A Barrie Cole festival lays the table for a thoughtful feast

  10-05-2024 15:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Editor’s Note: Since all the plays presented in Hamburgers & Disappointment are for two people, we thought it made some sense to have two critics writing about the festival. Capacity and Meaning Is Tricky As one half of Sweetback Productions’ festival of playwright Barrie Cole’s two-person one-acts, Capacity and Meaning Is Tricky offer audiences a […]
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• Pullman and Roseland Communities Celebrate Latest Milestone in their Revitalization

  10-05-2024 14:30
  
  At the groundbreaking for the new 8-acre Pullman Gateway commercial center and the first Chick-fil-A on the South Side at 112th and Corliss Avenue. Pictured left to right are: Adrienne Baker, IFF, Managing Lending Director; Jason Hill, Chick-fil-A, Midwest Regional Director; 9th Ward Alderman Anthony A. Beale; David Doig, CNI, President; Commissioner Ciere Boatright, Dept. of Planning and Development; Reverend Charlie Dates, Salem Baptist Church; Reverend James Meeks, Hope Center Foundation, Fou
  
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• The return of the American Writers Festival

  10-05-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In May 2022, the American Writers Museum presented the inaugural American Writers Festival, a free literary event featuring conversations with more than 70 authors from across the country. With five stages at the museum and the Chicago Cultural Center, the festival drew thousands of visitors. On May 19, the one-day event returns for a second […]
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• Black Airman Shot & Killed By Deputies Who Entered Wrong Apartment: Lawyer

  10-05-2024 14:00
  
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  A Black U.S. Air Force airman was shot and killed by Florida deputies who an attorney says burst into the wrong apartment, PEOPLE reports.
  According to civil rights attorney Ben Crump, Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, was on a Facetime call with a woman when he was fatally shot on Friday (May 3) by deputies at his off-base apartment in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
  The woman, who hasn’t been identified, said Fortson was alone in his apartment at the time of the shooting, acco
  
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