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• Viral Man Who Drove During Hearing For Suspended License Claims Innocence

  04-06-2024 21:29
  
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  The man who went viral for driving during a virtual court hearing for his suspended license case says he should’ve never been charged, per ABC 7 News.
  Last month, a video of Corey Harris’ court virtual court hearing before Ann Arbor, Michigan judge Cedric Simpson went viral as the defendant appeared on Zoom from behind the wheel.
  “Mr. Harris, are you driving?” Simpson asked.
  “Actually, I’m pulling into my doctor’s office,” Harris responded
  
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• Romance and regret, Sondheim style

  04-06-2024 20:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The sexual round-robin that swirls through the heart of composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s lilting masterpiece A Little Night Music is set in motion by regrets over paths both taken and not. With a dazzling book by Hugh Wheeler (inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s 1955 film Smiles of a Summer Night), the musical’s ravishing, comedic whirl of affairs […]
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• Breaking the code

  04-06-2024 20:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Enigmatist run time is officially 95 minutes, but you’ll want to get there a solid half hour early so you can crack the codes in the “puzzle garden” that greets audiences on the sixth-floor lobby of Chicago Shakespeare Theater. There are four ciphers in the garden, and their solutions figure in the “meta” puzzle […]
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• Daniel Villarreal and Vivian McConnell finally drop an album as Valebol

  04-06-2024 20:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Singer-songwriter Vivian McConnell developed a curious problem with Valebol, the effervescent pop duo that she and percussionist Daniel Villarreal founded around seven years ago. Valebol has performed live sporadically since 2019, landing gigs in part on the strength of the members’ pedigrees: McConnell makes gentle indie rock as V.V. Lightbody, and Villarreal is not only one […]
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• Father, Scholar, Peacemaker: A CPS Student’s Astonishing Transformation

  04-06-2024 16:30
  
  More than any other group, the high school graduates of 2024 faced unforeseen challenges that no other students in recent memory have had to face.
  They had to contend with the specter of the pandemic, the unfathomable loss of friends and relatives, either from Covid or other causes, and George Floyd’s murder and the subsequent fallout. They had to adjust to virtual learning while facing the threat of learning loss. 
  Amid numerous and nefarious challenges, many of these 2024 high schoo
  
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• Wrightwood 659 highlights the late Greek American art luminary Chryssa

  04-06-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Taken as she was by New York’s in-your-face advertisements and breakneck pace during her first visit there in 1955, Chryssa wouldn’t be satisfied until she left her mark on the city. In the expansive career that followed her initial sojourn—the subject of a retrospective at Wrightwood 659—the mononymous artist made that mark by imbuing the […]
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Misusing MLK moral authority

  04-06-2024 14:00
  
   Over the last decade, numerous riots have erupted in response to fatal encounters between unarmed Black individuals and police officers. Martin Luther King Jr. famously stated, “A riot is the language of the unheard,” but the activists who condoned the violence used this phrase to cloak themselves in MLK’s moral authority in order to silence others who denounced the riots.
  MLK’s comment described how, when the oppressed felt systemically neglected by the authorities
  
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