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• Keep quiet and watch the damn movie

  23-07-2024 23:47 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. This will likely be the first and only time I write about a screening I didn’t attend. Last Thursday, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) screened at the Music Box Theatre as […]
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• Bun Dinger at the Kane County Cougars stadium

  23-07-2024 23:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’m a sucker for any sort of tubular meatstuffs presented in a style I’ve previously never encountered. I aspire to try a Baltimore delicacy that wraps a kosher frank in a slice of fried bologna, like a frat boy assembling a toga for a kegger; if I’m really ambitious, I may follow that up with […]
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• Bridgeport Records builds on its blowout opening weekend

  23-07-2024 19:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago’s newest independent vinyl shop, Bridgeport Records, opened its doors on July 12 at 3336 S. Halsted. The store is the brainchild of veteran deep-house DJ and producer Vick Lavender and former union leader Jerry Morrison, who’ve both spent decades in the house-music scene but connected for the first time only a few years ago. […]
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• Lambrini Girls won’t let warmongers or transphobes stand in the way of fun

  23-07-2024 19:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Lambrini girls just wanna have fun.” Until 2015, that was the slogan for Lambrini, a pear cider popular in the UK, but it also describes the energy that Brighton rockers Lambrini Girls bring to their variety of punk. Much as rosé is associated with certain kinds of frivolous, unrefined American women, Lambrini is associated with […]
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• Wicker Park Fest celebrates its 20th anniversary with a diverse, dance-ready bill

  23-07-2024 19:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Wicker Park Fest turns 20 this year, and it’s marking the occasion with one of the most compelling neighborhood festivals of the city’s outdoor music season. Headliners include Knoxville alt-rock darlings Superdrag, returning to Chicago for the first time since 2009, and hometown R&B and neosoul sensation Jamila Woods. The three-day street fest packs in […]
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• Japanese experimentalists Toshimaru Nakamura and Tetuzi Akiyama return to Chicago after nine years

  23-07-2024 18:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Toshimaru Nakamura and Tetuzi Akiyama probably wouldn’t say so themselves, but they can lay claim to having changed the sound of improvised music. Between 1998 and 2003 they ran two concert series, the Improvisation Meeting at Bar Aoyama and Meeting at Off Site, that established Tokyo as a center of an austere approach to spontaneous […]
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• Empowering Change: How RECESS24 is Set to Pave the Way for Black and Brown Innovators in Clean Energy

  23-07-2024 17:45
  
  Creating an Onramp for Black and Brown People to Participate in the Burgeoning Clean Energy Sector
  As the RECESS24: National Black and Brown Clean Energy Conference approaches, excitement is building for an event designed to create an onramp for Black and Brown individuals into the booming clean energy sector. Taking place from September 9-11, 2024, at Huntington Place in Detroit, this conference is more than just a gathering—it’s a movement aimed at fostering inclusivity and innovat
  
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• COLUMN: The Harris Effect

  23-07-2024 15:45
  
  By Dr. James S. Bridgeforth, Ph.D.
  As the Democratic Party stands at a pivotal juncture, the question of leadership looms large.
  With President Joe Biden’s announcement on Sunday that he will step down from the presidency, the path forward for Democrats hinges not just on continuity but on the promise of a transformative leader who can unite and inspire the nation.
  In this crucial moment, Vice President Kamala Harris emerges not just as a candidate but as a beacon of hope—a leader wh
  
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• Four Tops Last Surviving Singer Duke Fakir Dead at 88

  23-07-2024 14:23
  The founding and final surviving member of the Four Tops – Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir – has died aged 88.
  The legendary group’s lead tenor and longest-performing member passed away at his home in Detroit on Monday, July 22. The reported cause of death is heart failure
  He was a founding member of the internationally renowned Motown quartet from 1953 until his recent retirement from the group in July 2024. As first tenor, Duke helped define the Motown Sound with hits like &ld
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Reasons for running mates…Biden, Kaine and Harris

  23-07-2024 14:00
  
  After President Barack Obama’s two terms, the next Democratic nominee for president wasn’t Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden, but his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, whom Obama had defeated in the 2008 presidential primaries.
  According to 2008 public opinion surveys, the American people were so dissatisfied with the Republican Party, President George W. Bush’s alleged compassionate conservatism, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that the Republican presidential ca
  
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• Bodycam Footage Released in Fatal Shooting of Sonya Massey

  23-07-2024 14:00
  
  Sonya Massey’s last words were, “Okay, I’m sorry.” 
  But they weren’t enough to stop an Illinois sheriff’s deputy from firing his gun at her three times, delivering a fatal shot to her head. That’s what a body camera video, released on Monday, revealed of the deadly encounter at Massey’s home in Springfield, Illinois, on July 6. 
  It all began as a simple 911 call Massey, a Black woman, made to report a suspected prowler, but in minute
  
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• Kamala Harris Has Enough Delegate Support for Presidential Nomination

  23-07-2024 13:30
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris has gained enough Democratic delegate support to become the party’s nominee against Republican Donald Trump, according to an Associated Press survey conducted after President Joe Biden decided not to seek reelection.
  Endorsed by Biden shortly after his announcement, Harris swiftly secured backing from party donors, elected officials, and other leaders, amassing support from at least 2,214 delegates — significantly more than the 1,976 delegates required to
  
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