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• Summer sensations

  25-06-2024 23:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The cicadas are dying off, but the summer performing arts season is still going full steam ahead. Here are some of the buzziest options to savor in the next couple of months. COMEDY/VARIETY (Kerry Reid) Delirium: The Pansy CrazeTo close out Pride month, Willy LaQueue (aka Chicago’s Demon Dandy) hosts an evening of “dancing disrobing […]
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• Jeehye Ham of Precocious Neophyte plays her last show as a Chicagoan

  25-06-2024 19:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Precocious Neophyte has become a vital part of Chicago’s growing shoegaze scene since singer-songwriter Jeehye Ham self-released Home in the Desert in 2022. The project began as a solo effort that Ham developed in her apartment, and she still records almost everything herself—but these days Precocious Neophyte also has a full live band with bassist […]
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• Review: Daddio

  25-06-2024 17:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What we have in Daddio is a failure to imagine—and what a failure. In a time when it’s finally trendy again to explore gender, identity, and the systems we take for granted, how exhausting for a movie to believe repeating the same cliches is a revelation. Any time a woman character claims she’s “not that […]
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• A Nichols for your thoughts

  25-06-2024 17:25 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 the past week, I’ve seen two films directed by Mike Nichols. The first was his 1996 comedy The Birdcage—written by his one-time improvisational comedy partner and a venerable auteur in […]
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• Cohasset Punch

  25-06-2024 17:05 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]. This vinous, raisiny, fruity and sweet, rum-based liqueur is the historic Good Twin to Malört’s menacing dive bar gremlin. In fact, it’s […]
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• Illinois DCFS to Recruit at Chicago Urban League Job Fair

  25-06-2024 14:30
  
  In an effort to expand its workforce, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services will participate in the Chicago Urban League’s citywide job fair on June 25. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the UIC Forum, located at 725 W. Roosevelt Road in Chicago.
  Illinois DCFS is seeking to fill various mission-driven roles, including child protection specialists, child welfare specialists, and day care licensing representatives. The agency is also looking to hire office
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Are reparations supposed to right historical wrongs?

  25-06-2024 14:00
  
  Since Rep. John Conyers introduced H.R. 40, a bill to investigate and redress the impact of slavery on Black Americans, in 1989, the term “reparations” has evolved to mean “reparations for slavery.”
  Nonetheless, the phrases were not interchangeable in legal circles. 
  The definition of “reparations” is “the replenishment of a previously inflicted loss by the criminal to the victim.” This is an old concept. From the start, the idea that “A
  
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• White Student Who Broke Black Girl’s Nose In Racist Attack Gets 18 Months

  25-06-2024 13:30
  
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  A white teenager has been sentenced to 18 months in juvenile custody in connection to a racist attack against a Black student at a Kansas high school, per KSHB.
  The sentencing comes after the November 2023 attack against Black student Brey’anna Brown at Shawnee Mission East High School in Kansas City.
  Cellphone footage showed a white teenager, identified as Nicholas Rosaly, hurling racial slurs at Brown before the two engaged in a physical altercation in the high school
  
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