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• Rave Down caps a day of shoegaze and ambient with a rare Lovesliescrushing set

  30-07-2024 21:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Shoegaze veteran Scott Cortez was hanging out earlier this year with multi-instrumentalist Ryan Davis, who drums in Cortez’s noise-pop band Astrobrite, when Davis pitched him on a big Cobra Lounge show he was organizing with Cobra talent buyer Seth Riley. “He asked if Lovesliescrushing would play it,” Cortez says, “because he was talking about getting […]
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• ‘A surprise hidden in plain sight’

  30-07-2024 21:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There’s a cartoon that made the rounds on social media a few years ago laying out the dissonance for the modern comedy scene. In the first two frames, labeled “Comedians at the Club,” a guy at a mike says, “So my friend keeps getting diarrhea from Taco Bell and I’m like—what? Diarrhea? I usually just […]
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• Monday Night Foodball hits the terrible threes

  30-07-2024 20:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The law says that a traditional three-year anniversary gift is something made from leather, symbolizing durability and resilience, but also flexibility and versatility.   Problem is, you can’t eat a camel saddle, a set of designer luggage, or a bullwhip (or can you?). I think smoked masala cheesesteaks are more in order. Or perhaps oxtail deep-dish […]
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• Hobbit songs

  30-07-2024 19:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy is held so closely by so many people that it’s a tall order for anyone to adapt Middle-earth into another art form. Take Amazon’s original streaming series The Rings of Power, which debuts its second season in August. The writing isn’t flawless, but the show is often […]
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• Party with us at the Reader’s 3rd annual UnGala fundraiser!

  30-07-2024 18:02 via givebutter.com
  
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• Chicago Record Report: July 2024

  30-07-2024 16:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  AU Soul, Scarface Should’ve Been About Sosa AU Soul’s second major release of 2024 (following the FullGoldAlchemist EP) is a bold concept record that flips the script on an iconic film. The local rapper joins forces again with Tokyo hip-hop producer Gyiyg to imagine a version of Brian De Palma’s 1983 mobster classic Scarface that […]
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• COLUMN: The Heartbreak of Injustice, Remembering Sonya Massey

  30-07-2024 15:45
  
  By Dr. James S. Bridgeforth, M.Ed.
  On July 6, 2024, Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old mother known for her boundless love, was brutally taken from us.
  Her life was extinguished in an act of violence that defies understanding—shot in the face by an Illinois police officer. The details of her death are gruesome: a bullet entered her left eye and exited through her neck killing Ms. Massey.
  This was not just an act of violence; it was a stark reminder of an ongoing and unforgivable injustice of inno
  
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• Massive Turnout at Season 11 of Chicago Food Truck Festival

  30-07-2024 15:15
  
  Chicago Food Truck Festival, held on July 20-21 in the South Loop, showcased a variety of food trucks and vendors, attracting locals and visitors alike (Photo Credit: Facebook).
  By Ethan Davis
  Season 11 of the Chicago Food Truck Festival occurred on July 20 and 21 in the South Loop, right outside McCormick Place. The name for this season was the ‘Summer of Daisy.’
  The festival featured food trucks and food tent vendors from all over the city.
  Chicago classics like Harold’s and
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Swearing to tell the “post-truth”

  30-07-2024 14:00
  
  In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary’s international word of the year was “post-truth.” The term prioritizes what psychologists refer to as “emotional truths”—what one “feels” is true or “wishes” to be true—over reality as it is. The term is usually associated with the phrase “post-truth politics,” which lacks a clear definition but is constantly demonstrated nonetheless. 
  In 2018, a shooting spree occurred in Chicago o
  
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• I studied ShotSpotter in Chicago and Kansas City – here’s what people in Detroit and the more than 167 other cities and towns using this technology should know

  30-07-2024 13:00
  
  Cities and towns across the United States have invested in the gunshot detection technology ShotSpotter. Douglas Sacha/Getty Images, CC BYby Eric L. Piza, Northeastern University
  Like many large cities in the U.S., Detroit’s gun violence rate has fluctuated since the COVID-19 pandemic and the unrest after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. The city’s murder rate increased nearly 20% that year, meaning the city had the second-highest violent crime rate after Memphis, Tennessee, among
  
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