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• Critics Choice Association celebrates LGBTQ+ film and TV artists

  05-06-2024 20:13 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When the Critics Choice Association (CCA) hosts its very first celebration of LGBTQ+ artists in movies and television on June 7, it will mark the culmination of a passion project years in the making for longtime pop culture/arts reporter and Chicagoan Jerry Nunn. A constellation of queer stars will be at the Fairmont Century Plaza […]
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• The Pearl Handle Band debut 40 years after breaking up

  05-06-2024 19:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’d never say the Windy City shouldn’t be famous for blues, soul, and house, because it definitely should. But after nearly 20 years of writing the Secret History of Chicago Music, I’m confident our town can produce top-shelf tunes in practically any genre—gospel, power metal, psychedelic soundscapes, you name it. Most folks don’t associate outlaw […]
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• ‘Her voice could cut through air’

  05-06-2024 18:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Dinah Washington was one of the premier vocal stylists in American popular music from the 1940s through the early ’60s. She came of age as the music industry was beginning to loosen its arbitrary assumptions about genre and audience (in 1949, Billboard started calling its “race records” chart its R&B chart), and her wide stylistic […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 18

  05-06-2024 18:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 18. June 6, 2024
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• Edifice complex

  05-06-2024 18:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the early 1970s, Imelda Marcos, the wife of Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was infatuated with constructing grandiose structures using funds borrowed from foreign governments, despite the country’s relatively poor economic state. The condition, if you will, became known as the edifice complex. Since then, it’s been used to describe a host of public officials—in […]
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• Transforming young lives through theater and journalism

  05-06-2024 18:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s no secret that in recent years, journalism has been in a state of crisis. According to Northwestern Medill’s State of Local News Project, in 2023 “there were more than 130 confirmed newspaper closings or mergers” and “since 2005, the U.S. has lost nearly 2,900 newspapers.” Disconcerting as that is, I feel a sense of […]
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• Stokely: The Unfinished Revolution gives a complicated activist his due

  05-06-2024 16:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Kwame Ture (formerly Stokely Carmichael) has seemingly existed in popular culture mostly as a footnote to other, better-known civil rights figures. In George C. Wolfe’s Rustin and Ava DuVernay’s Selma, Carmichael doesn’t appear at all, despite being one of the first Freedom Riders and the chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)—and the man […]
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• We didn’t start the fire

  05-06-2024 16:51 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. In 1948, the Eastman Kodak Company introduced a 35 mm triacetate safety base film to replace the highly flammable cellulose nitrate base that had dominated film production until then; Kodak ceased […]
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• Yellow Line at the Smoothie Joint

  05-06-2024 16:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Reader Bites celebrates dishes, drinks, and atmospheres from the Chicagoland food scene. Have you had a recent food or drink experience that you can’t stop thinking about? Share it with us at [email protected]. After three years of wishing for a smoothie spot in my beloved Wrigleyville, fate finally intervened. I discovered the Smoothie Joint and […]
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• Thai Festival Chicago returns to North Center this weekend

  05-06-2024 16:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For three years before the pandemic Dew Suriyawan, owner of Uptown’s great Immm Rice & Beyond, kicked off summer festival season with one of the best food-focused pavement parties of the year. Under various names, it featured contemporary and traditional music and dance performances soundtracking a leisurely crawl among booths staffed by some of the […]
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• Meet Farley “Jackmaster” Funk: 2024 Chicago Defender Men of Excellence Honoree

  05-06-2024 16:30
  
  Farley “Jackmaster” Funk is an influential pioneer in the history of house music in Chicago. He was a prominent DJ and producer during the 1980s. Born Farley Keith Williams, he adopted the stage name Farley “Jackmaster” Funk as he rose to fame.
  Farley gained recognition for his DJ skills and his productions, which often featured a raw and energetic style that became characteristic of the Chicago house sound. One of his most famous tracks is “Love Can’t Turn Ar
  
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• AFS-USA exchange programs allow Chicago area host families and high-school exchange students to “explore the world” together

  05-06-2024 16:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Even in an era where technology has made the world feel increasingly small, nothing can replace in-person connection when it comes to genuine intercultural exchange. AFS-USA fosters that sort of opportunity for thousands each year by matching high-school exchange students with host families around the globe. The story of AFS-USA starts in 1915, when American […]
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• Stevie Wonder’s Ghanaian citizenship reflects long-standing links between African Americans and the continent

  05-06-2024 15:45
  
  Stevie Wonder. Getty Imagesby Nemata Blyden, University of Virginia
  There’s a long history of African Americans settling in Ghana or keeping in close contact with the first African country to gain independence. This relationship has most recently been exemplified by musician Stevie Wonder taking up Ghanaian citizenship.
  Ghana, which gained independence in 1957, became a beacon for African Americans disenchanted with their country’s racial problems. Ghana’s first prime mini
  
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for June 5, 2024

  05-06-2024 14:00
  
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