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• ‘We want to inform the everyday public of what we actually go through’

  13-08-2024 23:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2018, a group of men housed inside Dixon Correctional Center—more than 100 miles west of Chicago—realized the power storytelling and performance have over their lives, and the lives of others around them, by forming an arts-based program. After coordinating with one another and careful consideration from their warden, a space for men inside the […]
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• Circular notions

  13-08-2024 22:48 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. I found a perhaps insubstantial, yet resonant connection between two films I saw this weekend: Michael Snow’s three-hour experimental tour de force La Région centrale (1971) on 16 millimeter at Sweet […]
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• Mix series I-94 unites dance musicians from Chicago and Detroit for its first live event

  13-08-2024 22:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago DJ Hannah “Vitigrrl” Viti frequently visits Detroit to hear or play dance music, and a couple years ago she dreamed up a project to highlight the connections between house and techno from Chicago and Detroit. “My first time on the soil, I was really inspired and felt called to figure out my authentic place […]
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• Review: Sugarcane

  13-08-2024 21:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Sugarcane opening 8/16 at the Gene Siskel Film Center
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• Review: Starve Acre

  13-08-2024 21:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Starve Acre in limited release in theaters
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• Review: Close to You

  13-08-2024 21:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Close to You in limited release in theaters
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• Chicken tikka toastie at Swadesi Cafe

  13-08-2024 20:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’ve loved all of chef Sujan Sarkar’s restaurants, including Sifr, for which he collaborated with chef Sahil Sethi. So when I heard early this year that the talented duo were opening Chicago’s first Indian cafe, I was stoked. Anyone who knows me can attest to the fact that I have a wicked sweet tooth, so […]
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• Finding liberation in sound

  13-08-2024 19:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Poet, teacher, and community activist Marguerite L. Harrold takes readers on a trip to the city’s underground house music scene with her new book, Chicago House Music: Culture and Community. In the introduction, she states her intention to “explore the music and culture from its roots to the present day, and to highlight local community […]
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• Hisako’s House explores home, history, and injustice

  13-08-2024 18:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the compulsory removal of “all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast.” Two months and 12 days before, Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor, launching the United States into World War II. Over the next six months, the U.S. […]
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