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• Review: Park Life

  28-05-2024 19:08 via chicagoreader.com
  
  One banal afternoon in Chicago, two strangers—an austere consultant from New York and a mopey writer-substitute teacher from Los Angeles—start chitchatting on a park bench. Here, against a backdrop of parents corralling their chaotic children away from the playground, these two unnamed protagonists, played by Kathleen McElfresh and Matt Dellapina, respectively, toss awkward small talk […]
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• Los Angeles cumbia punks Tropa Magica make music for living the good life together

  28-05-2024 16:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Brothers David and Rene Pacheco make twisted cumbia as Tropa Magica. Born in East Los Angeles, the duo grew up immersed in the sounds of cumbia and ranchera, punctuated by chihuahua barks, baby wails, and family gossip. In a video for Firestone Walker’s 805 beer, Rene describes their philosophy as “conviviendo.” It’s music for living […]
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• Exiled electronic hip-hop duo Aigel make their Chicago debut

  28-05-2024 16:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Aigel are the dark electronic hip-hop duo of Tatarstan poet and vocalist Aigel Gaisina and Russian musician and producer Ilya Baramiya. The two came together in 2016 when Gaisina asked Bariyama to write music for poems she’d written after her boyfriend at the time was imprisoned on assault charges—he’d gotten into a fight with her […]
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• Ulric Shannon Shares Inspiring Journey And Brown v. Board’s Lasting Impact

  28-05-2024 16:00
  
  Chicago native Ulric Shannon understands the importance of a solid education. 
  Despite his parents not graduating from college, his father, who was from Alabama, and his mother, who was raised in the Chicago housing projects, instilled in their son the value of education. 
  Like many striving for more, their drive to raise an intellectually independent young man led him to pursue education as “a way out,” said Shannon.
  Shannon, who holds three master’s degrees&mda
  
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• Black Woman Crowned As Miss Universe Philippines For First Time Ever

  28-05-2024 14:30
  
  Photo: Miss Universe Philippines
  A Black woman has been crowned Miss Universe Philippines for the first time in history.
  On Wednesday (May 22), Filipino American Chelsea Manalo, 24, earned the title of Miss Universe Philippines at SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay, per CNN.
  Manalo, who has a Filipino mother and African American father, made history as the first Black woman to receive the Miss Universe Philippines crown. She represented Bulacan, a province North of Manila, and competed against 52 ot
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Bad Hair Days And Avoiding Appearances

  28-05-2024 14:00
  
  Vanessa Sefa, a Black teacher in the United Kingdom, shared a story on social media in 2021 to highlight the need for more Black teachers.
  A 12-year-old Black girl entered Sefa’s class. The student was in the rain. It caused her hair to tangle and shrink. With tears in her eyes, the kid told Sefa she wasn’t going to spend the entire day at school looking a mess and expressed her desire to go home.
  Going home was not an option, so the student asked Sefa to braid her hair.
  When the stu
  
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• Swappin’ Boots proves country has always been queer

  28-05-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago’s queer community is rich in bolo ties. And ten-gallon hats. And old-fashioned Western shirts with pearl-snap buttons, fringed leather jackets, and well-worn cowboy boots. Honestly, good luck finding any of these within a ten-mile radius of the city prior to June 1, when Swappin’ Boots, Queer Social Club’s hit two-step night, returns to Judson […]
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• Bryson Tiller Electrifies Chicago Fans Despite Forecast at Northerly Island

  28-05-2024 01:29
  
  Bryson Tiller embracing the love from Chicago fans as rain drips from the sky. He was performing his feature verse from Summer Walker’s “Play No Games” (Credit: Dominique Gillon)
  “The show must go on!”
  That’s what took place Friday (5/24) at the Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island as fans poured in to see R&B singer Bryson Tiller.
  The serenading vocalist is best known for his breakout hit, “Don’t” (2015), and has collaborated wit
  
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