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• DIY nights at the library

  26-06-2024 23:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Public Library’s (CPL) Little Village branch is offering free live music and crafts throughout the summer, with organizers and performers both aiming to engage with the community and expose attendees to a diverse array of local talent and artistic activities. The Little Village branch’s Craft and Concerts series, hosted over four weeks in July […]
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• Bad Johnny’s wood-fired Roman-style pizzas return to the next Monday Night Foodball

  26-06-2024 21:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Whenever John Pragalz makes a margherita pizza, a tiny, flour-dusted, apron-clad gremlin appears on his left shoulder and begins jabbering in the Neapolitan dialect: “Ci hai tradito!,” it spits into his ear, chopping its forearm up and down. “Che porco dio, questa pizza margherita e’schifosa! Che cazzo!” Pragalz isn’t fazed. With the casual disdain of […]
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• Chicago Record Report: June 2024

  26-06-2024 19:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Aatmaa, Cataclysm Chicago couple Ashwin and Shara Deepankar started this dark, moody alt-rock project early in the pandemic, because they hoped a creative outlet would make for a good coping mechanism. The pensive, exploratory rock on their debut album sounds intimate even when Shara’s powerful vocals sound like they could fill an arena. The Brides, […]
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• Talking comedy between sets with Adam Burke

  26-06-2024 19:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Adam Burke had an hour between Laugh Factory sets to talk to me. The 48-year-old Chicago comedy iconoclast and I exited the noisy theater and began walking down Broadway, on the lookout for a quiet bar for an interview. It was a chilly Friday night in late May, the first truly nice night of the […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 21

  26-06-2024 18:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 21. June 27, 2024
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• Corduroy, clown style

  26-06-2024 18:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In a 1967 letter to his editor Annis Duff, author Don Freeman made an assertion that feels like it makes sense, even if it technically makes no sense: “Buttons and bears do go together, somehow.” He was certainly onto something, and the sentient plush at the center of Amber Mak’s production of Barry Kornhauser’s book-to-stage […]
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• Slapstick rom-com, Asian American style

  26-06-2024 18:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Wai (Wai Yim) is the flamboyant, brash host of a YouTube show called Hornyscope; David (Hansel Tan) is his buttoned-up friend, who works as a teacher but wants to be an actor. Both men are frustrated by the limitations that being Asian and gay in America has put on their prospects. When David accidentally wanders […]
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• Mikahl Anthony’s debut album holds more than a decade of history

  26-06-2024 17:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  During the back half of hip-hop’s iconic blog era—roughly 2012 through 2016—the Chicago music community experienced what many refer to today as a renaissance. One of the city’s key sound architects at that time was the collective THEMpeople, whose members included Sean Deaux, theMIND, Renzell (aka Lboogie), Via Rosa (later of Drama), and Saint Louis […]
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• Michuu Restaurant serves exceedingly rare Ethiopian dishes

  26-06-2024 17:49 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Late last month, the Ethiopian entrepreneur and TikTok influencer Mensur Jemal arrived in town on business. With more than a million and a half followers, he’s well-known to expat Ethiopians, especially if they, like him, are among the Oromo, the largest of the country’s 80-some ethnic groups. In fact, when Jemal was walking downtown, he […]
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• Shadow bodies dancing under the sun

  26-06-2024 17:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  An ambitious project is unfolding at the South Asia Institute (SAI). As part of this year’s programming for Art Design Chicago, “What Is Seen and Unseen: Mapping South Asian American Art in Chicago” is a journey from the past into the future, unearthing the marks left by South Asian artists in Chicago. South Asian culture […]
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• Braeden Long, youth rock scene photographer

  26-06-2024 17:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In May, photographer Braeden Long published the first issue of A Document of a Chicago Music Community, a photo zine about the city’s vital youth-oriented indie-rock scene. Between February and April of this year, Long took film photos at the Hallogallo Raveup (a sporadic mod-inspired dance party at Fallen Log), Friko’s big headlining show at […]
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• Forging a path to forgiveness down Little Bear Ridge Road

  26-06-2024 16:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The characters at the center of Samuel D. Hunter’s plays aren’t rude, per se. They’re more what you might call post-courteous—people whose battles against the clock, their inadequacies, and/or their loathing, self-directed or otherwise, leave nothing left in the tank for feigned interest in small talk or social grace for the sake of it.   So […]
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• A half century of poetic possibilities 

  26-06-2024 16:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When the Chicago Poetry Center (CPC) first arrived on the scene in 1974, poets were expected to imitate the classics and follow convention; anything more experimental was quick to meet an editor’s trash bin. Fifty years later, the diverse landscape of American poetry is thanks in part to CPC’s tireless efforts to broaden our poetic […]
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• Stan and Sidney

  26-06-2024 16:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What do experimental cinema pioneer Stan Brakhage and five-time Oscar nominee (and Honorary Oscar winner) Sidney Lumet have in common? Both are filmmakers . . . and, well, that’s where the similarities end. One might even think of them as epitomizing opposite ends of the cinematic spectrum: Brakhage eschews all expectations of both form and […]
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• Moonwater Dance Project celebrates the collective power of women in movement

  26-06-2024 16:11 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Three dancers stand far upstage, lit by dim lights and with their backs to the audience. To their left, three dancers lay on their sides. As the upstage dancers slowly—joined step for step—turn to face front, the dancers on the floor sit up to reveal that their faces are covered by their jackets’ hoods. Center […]
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• Sundance finds new horizons in Chicago

  26-06-2024 16:10 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Sundance is searching for new horizons—and what’s better than the Chicago skyline?  Back in 1978, at the Utah/U.S. Film Festival in Salt Lake City, the low-budget comedy western The Whole Shootin’ Match mesmerized a certain Robert Redford. This movie affected the famed actor so much that he devoted himself to independent filmmaking by founding the […]
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• Chicago Teachers Put ‘Green Schools’ On The Bargaining Table

  26-06-2024 14:30
  
  If the Chicago Teachers Union gets its way, the city will have an entire fleet of electric buses, windows that actually open in its schools and a healthier environment for children in underserved neighborhoods.
  This article was originally published on Word In Black.
  By Willy Blackmore
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  The proposals to help “green” Chicago public schools would not only reduce the city’s carbon dioxide emissions but would also improve the air quality in neglected neighborhoods and
  
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• The Carr Report: Auto Pay vs. Online Bill Payment…Which is right for you?

  26-06-2024 14:00
  
   In today’s digital age, managing finances has become significantly easier with the advent of various electronic payment methods. Two of the most popular options are Auto Pay and Online Bill Payment. While both offer the convenience of handling bills without the need for physical checks or trips to the post office, they operate differently and come with their own set of advantages and considerations. This article will delve into the distinctions between Auto Pay and Online Bill Paymen
  
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for June 26, 2024

  26-06-2024 14:00
  
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• Black Woman Vanishes During Bahamas Yoga Retreat

  26-06-2024 13:45
  
  Photo: Find Taylor Casey
  Questions surround the disappearance of Taylor Casey, a Chicago woman who went missing during a yoga retreat in the Bahamas, per NBC Chicago.
  Casey, 41, was last seen on Paradise Island in Nassau on June 19. Casey’s family said she was attending the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat when she went missing.
  The Royal Bahamas Police Force issued a missing persons poster on June 21.
  “We are deeply concerned for Taylor’s safety and well-being,” Casey&rsquo
  
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