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• Protected: Request a Reader or report a problem

  26-08-2024 23:28 via chicagoreader.com
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• Femmes to the front

  26-08-2024 21:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Any working stand-up comic will tell you that comedy is a hustler’s game. Like so many forms of art and performance, becoming successful requires endless nights onstage at open mikes to perfect the craft. This standard grind is an entirely different beast for women.   “A lot of these open mikes happen at dingy, scary bars […]
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• The DNC closes with Kamala Harris accepting the presidential nomination

  26-08-2024 19:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The final day of the Democratic National Convention culminated with Kamala Harris’s speech to accept the presidential nomination. But her prime-time address was only part of the story. The Harris campaign refused to allow a Palestinian American speaker at the convention, despite the efforts of the uncommitted delegation. And on the streets, the coalition to […]
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• Double consciousness

  26-08-2024 17:14 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has a long history of educating artists of Puerto Rican origin, many of whom moved to study fine arts. “Persistence/Persistencia” at the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance (PRAA) charts the evolution of this connection from the 1920s to our contemporary moment.  During the early-to-mid twentieth century, the […]
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