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• Roads to nowhere 

  17-07-2024 23:13 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A few weeks ago, I was driving on S. Ashland Avenue near Swap-O-Rama on Chicago’s southwest side. Ashland’s four lanes feel like a highway there. Back in 2017, the Chicago Tribune identified Ashland—particularly the stretch between 43rd and 87th—as the deadliest street for pedestrians. It’s not uncommon to see people trying to cross without a […]
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• The PRF BBQ sustains the heart of DIY

  17-07-2024 23:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On a sweltering summer day in 2010, I stepped off the Chicago Avenue bus in front of a nondescript building on the west side. My friend Jim Donaldson had invited me to a cookout because he’d be playing music there as Jimmy Two Hands, his solo banjo project. I didn’t know anything else about the […]
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• Easy and breezy

  17-07-2024 22:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2005, the online music publication Pitchfork (then known as Pitchfork Media) was called upon to program Intonation Music Festival, a two-day event at Union Park that featured performances from the Decemberists, Tortoise, Diplo, and Pelican, all for $15 per day. The next year, Pitchfork struck out on its own to create Pitchfork Music Festival, […]
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• Review: My Spy the Eternal City

  17-07-2024 19:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Peter Segal’s My Spy (2020) was a close-to-perfect, mindless, kid-friendly action-comedy. Dave Bautista as CIA superspy J.J. and Chloe Coleman as precocious preteen terror Sophie multiplied their goofy, cutesy charisma, and the surveillance-gone-wrong plot held together just enough to not distract from the main point, which was seeing Bautista fall on his butt while trying […]
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• Review: Longlegs

  17-07-2024 19:12 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Every serial killer movie wants to be Silence of the Lambs, but few stick the landing. To his credit, Oz Perkins—newly crowned horror It boy and eldest son of Psycho star Anthony Perkins—nearly pulls it off with his long-hyped fourth film, Longlegs. The framework is familiar: FBI rookie Lee Harker (scream queen Maika Monroe at […]
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• Help support individuals experiencing housing instability and homelessness with your purchase of a “$200,000! Bingo Tripler Instant Ticket” from the Illinois Lottery

  17-07-2024 19:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2019, the Illinois Lottery launched a new specialty Instant Ticket to help fight housing insecurity and homelessness throughout the state. In collaboration with the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), 100 percent of profits from ticket sales are designated for a program that distributes grants to nonprofit organizations throughout Illinois through their homeless prevention […]
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• Conservatives’ Anti-DEI Efforts Showcase America’s Anti-Black Agenda

  17-07-2024 19:00
  By Aya Waller-Bey, Contributing Columnist
  It’s been a year since the conservative-majority United States Supreme Court ruled against race-conscious admissions practices, shattering 50 years of affirmative action precedent in higher education. The decision ushered in a wave of conservative–backed, anti-DEI and anti-Black legislation, as well as lawsuits against several universities and organizations across the country.
  The Court’s decision represented a strategic backlash agains
  
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• She just has ‘It’

  17-07-2024 18:09 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. Cinema, for those who play, is ultimately a game of connections. Each film begets seemingly infinite others to explore and consider. It’s never-ending, really, so despite being unlikely ever to “win” […]
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• Roasted chicken and red pepper relish sandwich at Sfera Sicilian Street Food

  17-07-2024 17:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  One of my survival strategies includes going to the beach year-round, particularly in the winter months when the sky is the same color as the sidewalk and when everything else, including my complexion, is gray. It’s easier to love the beach (and yourself) when the sun is out and the water is warm, but the […]
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• In Memory: Jamie Green

  17-07-2024 17:52
  
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• It’s Bayan Ko for breakfast

  17-07-2024 17:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Eggs and coffee are the two most essential elements on a proper breakfast diner menu. Add to that potatoes, pork, and toast. What else do you need? I propose garlic rice. Specifically, sinangag, the aromatic, allium-imbued grains of a genuine Filipino breakfast. Jasmine garlic rice is the bewitching perfume in the air at Bayan Ko […]
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• Find film fests at ChicagoScreens.org

  17-07-2024 17:19 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Nearly 40 local film festivals have joined together to create ChicagoScreens, a new website envisioned as a one-stop destination for streamlined festival promotions and information. Also—wow, did you know that Chicagoland has nearly 40 different film festivals? “ChicagoScreens.org is the official website of a new alliance formed last year, the Chicago Alliance of Film Festivals […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 24

  17-07-2024 17:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 24. July 18, 2024
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• Avondale Electric built lifelong friendships playing psychedelic rock

  17-07-2024 16:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  At the Secret History of Chicago Music, I don’t discriminate—​underdog artists with large catalogs don’t matter more than teen garage bands who never released a thing. The quality of the music is paramount, and I love naive and untrained players as much as hardworking but unrecognized professionals. Equally important is a good story, whether it’s […]
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• Millennium Park Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Four-Day Festival

  17-07-2024 15:15
  
  Millennium Park during Blues Fest (Photo Credit: Patrick L. Pyszka, City of Chicago).
  One of Chicago’s most iconic green spaces is celebrating a significant milestone. Millennium Park—the “People’s Park”—will mark its 20th anniversary with a four-day celebration from July 18 to 21. 
  Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) recently announced the full slate of programming. All the events are free and f
  
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• Sports Figures Who Engage In Terrible Behavior Often Find Ways to Fall Up

  17-07-2024 15:00
  
  By Evan F. Moore
  When the smoke clears—and a sufficient amount of time has passed—after a sports figure is linked to a terrible act, who decides the measure of accountability? 
  Seems like the sports figure and their handlers make the call. 
  What if there’s no apology to speak of, and we’re back to our regularly scheduled program? 
  And, perhaps most importantly, how does a great apology land with the people who’ve been most affected by someone’s
  
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• Etched in stone

  17-07-2024 15:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the summer of 1941, the artist Elizabeth Catlett enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to study ceramics. While Catlett’s time in Chicago was brief, her time on the south side was eventful. The previous year she won first place in the Chicago American Negro Exposition, or the Black World’s Fair, […]
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• The Carr Report: ‘Get Up, Get Out, and Get Something!’

  17-07-2024 14:00
  
  The year was 1994. I was a college student, two years removed from high school. I was driven to change my circumstances. However, I lacked direction and guidance on how to do it.
  It was this same year that one of my favorite songs of all time was released. The song was “Git up, Git out” by OutKast, featuring Goodie Mob. This song resonated with me. It became my anthem. To this day, I continue to quote lyrics from this song. One of my favorite lyrics of this song happens to be the son
  
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• Mr. Sonny Knows for July 17, 2024

  17-07-2024 14:00
  
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• ‘I’m Not Your Field N—’: White Men Go On Racist Tirade Against Black Mayor

  17-07-2024 13:30
  
  Photo: Getty Images
  Two white men launched a racist attack against a Black mayor during a city council meeting in Lawrence, Kansas.
  The July 9 attack stemmed from a lawsuit filed by Michael Eravi, who alleged that his rights were violated when he was trespassed from a city-supported homeless camp in Lawrence, per Lawrence Journal-Word. Eravi requested Judge Julie Robinson to amend his lawsuit during the July 9 meeting.
  Robinson dismissed the suit with prejudice, prompting Eravi to berate Mayor B
  
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