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• Review: Doctor Who (Season one/Series 14)

  17-05-2024 20:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  After 60-plus years as a strictly British institution, the BBC’s beloved long-running sci-fi series Doctor Who is finally taking the TARDIS across the pond. For the first time in the show’s history, instead of airing first in the UK and then internationally, Doctor Who will drop on Fridays on Disney+ in the United States (and […]
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• Review: Back to Black

  17-05-2024 20:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In its first five minutes, Back to Black all but looks directly at the audience and recites facts about Amy Winehouse (Marisa Abela) as if reading from a checklist: she’s a supremely talented singer with a flair for the dramatic and an old soul who can’t understand why other young people don’t like jazz. The […]
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• Review: IF

  17-05-2024 20:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There’s a fine line between the whimsical dream logic of Roald Dahl and irritating, incoherent nonsense. Director John Krasinski’s new kids film IF is nowhere near that line. Despite the best efforts of the extremely talented child actor Cailey Fleming, IF makes no sense, narratively, emotionally, or visually. The only fun to be had is […]
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• Review: In the Fade

  17-05-2024 20:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Fatih Akin’s 2017 In The Fade (Aus dem Nichts) starts out as a painful and necessary examination of the human costs of right-wing ideology and neo-Nazi violence. Reformed drug dealer, travel agent, and translator Nuri Şekerci (Numan Acar) and his son Rocco (Rafael Santana) are killed by a neo-Nazi nail bomb, leaving wife and mother […]
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• collected thesis statements

  17-05-2024 19:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By JK Anowe
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• CCPSA nominees advance, Mohawk Johnson takes plea deal, First Nations Garden vandalized

  17-05-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  CCPSA nominees (mostly) move forward The City Council’s Police and Fire Committee on May 14 gave the nod to six of the seven candidates nominated to serve on the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability (CCPSA). The nominees, selected by Mayor Brandon Johnson from a list of 15 people put forward by representatives from […]
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• Review: Thelma the Unicorn

  17-05-2024 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Kids love unicorns. It’s just a fact. They’re sparkly, cute, and always have some kind of magical rainbow vibes radiating off of them. But what about boring old brown farm ponies? Does anyone care nearly as much about them—even if they’re imbued with a superstar singing voice? That’s the question at hand in Thelma the […]
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• Review: The Big Cigar (Miniseries)

  17-05-2024 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What can be said about an icon? Apple TV+’s The Big Cigar sets itself an impossible task: telling a meaningful story about one of the most compelling and provocative political figures of the 20th century, Black Panther Party cofounder Huey Newton. In 1966, Newton cofounded the party with Bobby Seale and served as its first […]
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• Levi Holloway’s Turret is a 21st-century Endgame

  17-05-2024 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If you’ve been looking for the 21st century’s answer to Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, your wait is over. Levi Holloway’s Turret, now in a world premiere (also directed by the playwright) with A Red Orchid Theatre, taps into the same existential dread and odd father-son dynamics present in Beckett’s 1957 masterpiece.  But Holloway (who won raves […]
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• Collaborative Bridges Breaks Ground on West Side Wellness Center

  17-05-2024 16:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  With a promise and passion to transform behavioral health services on the West Side of Chicago, Collaborative Bridges hosted a groundbreaking ceremony where enthusiastic Chicagoans gathered at their facility at 4223 West Lake Street to partake in the celebration. 
  Collaborative Bridges Wellness Center in West Garfield Park is a partnership of West Side Chicago safety net hospitals and community mental health agencies designed to ensure that the care of people experiencing mental health and
  
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• For the labor of art made transparent

  17-05-2024 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Editor’s note: Coco Picard spoke with Tony Lewis, Devin T. Mays, and Ellen Rothenberg about their group exhibition “WORKS BY.” Edited text from the comic is transcribed here to ease readability. Tony Lewis, Bethany Collins, Devin T. Mays, and Ellen Rothenberg consider labor, effort, and value in the group show “WORKS BY” at the Neubauer Collegium […]
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• Chicago Native Serves At U.S. Navy Helicopter Squadron In Japan

  17-05-2024 15:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Chief Petty Officer Lauren Walter (Credit: Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Bryan Niegel).
  By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jerry Jimenez, Navy Office of Community Outreach
  NAVAL AIR FACILITY ATSUGI, JAPAN. — Chief Petty Officer Lauren Walter, a native of Chicago, Illinois, serves in the U.S. Navy as a member of a helicopter squadron forward deployed to Japan.
  Walter graduated from John Hope College Preparatory High School in 2008.
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• 17-Year-Old Black Teen Who Started College At 10 Earns Doctoral Degree

  17-05-2024 14:15 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  A Chicago teenager who took her first college course at age 10 recently earned a doctoral degree at 17.
  defended her dissertation at Arizona State University in December, becoming the youngest person to earn a doctoral degree in integrated behavioral health at the school. She participated in ASU’s commencement ceremony early this month, marking her latest achievement in higher education.
  “It’s a wonderful celebration, and we hope … that Dorothy Jean insp
  
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• Black Teen Earns Nearly $15M In Scholarships, Accepted Into 231 Schools

  17-05-2024 14:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  A high school senior in Georgia has been accepted into over 200 schools and awarded nearly $15 million in scholarships, per WJCL.
  18-year-old Madison Crowell, a senior at Liberty County High School in Hinesville, Georgia, said she applied to hundreds of schools and was admitted into 231 of them. Crowell also garnered $14.7 million in scholarships.
  “I wanted to apply to as many schools as I did … because I’m coming from a low-income area of Georgia and so I
  
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