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• Bruce Woods weaves style into his everyday fashion

  15-08-2024 21:38 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “I dress for myself. I choose clothing that has a certain kind of style that I think endures and is complementary to my way of life and my aesthetic,” said fiber artist Bruce Woods. (He said his age is none of our business.) Woods continued, “My style is something I would define as a classical […]
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• Making music to crack open prisons

  15-08-2024 19:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Glutton for Insurrection don’t have much in common with other goth synthwave projects. Their lyrics are aggressively political, with no hint of romanticism. In the group’s four-year lifespan, they’ve performed only about a dozen times, exclusively at generator gigs and political benefits. What started as a creative outlet during COVID lockdown has become an exercise […]
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• Uprising or riot? Depends who you ask.

  15-08-2024 19:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On a hot summer day in July 1919, a group of Black children floating on a raft drifted farther than they should have, into a part of Lake Michigan that abutted a predominantly white beach. The children, unaware of the invisible color line in the water, continued to play until, eventually, violence erupted.  Young, white […]
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• Bardic balancing act

  15-08-2024 17:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A New York circus is coming to Chicago this weekend by way of medieval England—which is just how circuses tend to roll. The New York Circus Project in particular really gets how circuses roll. On the one hand, they stay close to the original spirit of circus by offering free street shows and cabaret performances […]
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• Smoke gets in your eyes when Dhuaan BBQ returns for the third anniversary of Monday Night Foodball

  15-08-2024 16:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There’s something in the smoke that clouds the ability to see straight and think clearly. It starts stampedes. It flips vegetarians. I’ve seen these wonders with my own eyes each time Sheal Patel comes around, beckoning with come-hither eyes and masala-scented barbecue. It’s happening again this August 19 when Patel’s Dhuaan BBQ returns—for the fifth […]
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• Chicago is a protest town

  15-08-2024 16:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As the city prepares to host next week’s Democratic National Convention (DNC)—which social justice organizers have long been preparing actions around—art organizations are doing their part to contemplate the intersection of politics and protest. Gertie, a local cultural convener, will host Next Stop: Chicago, a public art series that aims to highlight infrastructure inequity along […]
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