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• 1968 DNC delegate serves again in 2024

  29-08-2024 22:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  While this year’s Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago is momentous for many attendees, it holds special significance for four-time New York delegate Lewis Goldstein. At 81 years old, the Bronxite and former NYC public school teacher believes he is the only delegate at this year’s convention who also served in the position at the […]
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• Underground dance collective Mages Guild throws a big Empty Bottle bash

  29-08-2024 21:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Bless the collective of DJs and producers brought together by Mages Guild, a local label that started releasing outre dance music in April 2023. Founding DJ and producer Care loves breakcore, and that wacky, aggressive cousin of drum ’n’ bass has connected her to like-minded artists who prefer their dance music slightly off-center. There’s no […]
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• The Lox celebrate 30 years of timeless hard-core street rap 

  29-08-2024 21:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Lox are sacred to rap culture. In a genre where getting older isn’t celebrated or even necessarily tolerated, the east-coast hip-hop trio of Jason “Jadakiss” Phillips, David “Styles P” Styles, and Sean “Sheek Louch” Jacobs are akin to a mature, top-shelf, small-batch bourbon. Formed by high school friends in 1994, the Lox create highly […]
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• The first Evanston Folk Festival embraces conversation and diversity in folk music

  29-08-2024 21:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  With three stages of live music, a conversation tent, and lakefront views, the inaugural Evanston Folk Festival aspires to be more than a conventional music fest. Jake Samuels, organizer of the festival and director of music at beloved Evanston venue SPACE, tells me that the two-day event is the manifestation of a long-held dream of […]
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• Shaboozey’s country soul transcends boundaries

  29-08-2024 21:53 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Like other great synthesizers of country and soul—Ray Charles, Clarence Carter, Swamp Dogg, Veronica June, Beyoncé—Shaboozey understands that the two traditions have often been separated more by corporate marketing niche than by aesthetic or theme. The singer-songwriter’s latest album, May’s Where I’ve Been Isn’t Where I’m Going (American Dogwood Empire), eases into midtempo story-songs about […]
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• Paal Nilssen-Love and Ken Vandermark enlarge their improvising duo with high-powered guests

  29-08-2024 21:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago-based reeds player Ken Vandermark and Oslo-based drummer Paal Nilssen-Love have worked as a discrete unit since 2002. Twenty-two years is a lot of doing anything, so it’s fair to consider time itself an element in the duo’s combustible chemistry. While both musicians work comfortably with all manner of prepared materials, in this configuration they […]
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• Nineties Chicago alt-rockers Fig Dish resurface sounding as good as ever

  29-08-2024 21:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For those who mourned the demise of Fig Dish, the band’s memory has been a blessing. But many don’t remember the Chicago alt-rock outfit at all. This month could change all that: Twenty-seven years after Fig Dish abruptly disappeared, guitarist-vocalists Rick Ness and Blake Smith, bassist-vocalist Mike Willison, and drummer Andy Hamilton have brought the […]
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• Ira Glass are Chicago’s best new posthardcore band

  29-08-2024 21:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In April, the Logan Square Arts Festival announced its music lineup on Instagram by sharing a typically irreverent gig poster by Ryan Duggan. If you scroll through the comments, you’ll notice a couple people who saw the name “Ira Glass” asking if the fest had booked the host of This American Life. I wonder how […]
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• Composer William Basinski brings his emotional ambient music to Plantasia

  29-08-2024 21:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Few pieces of ambient music slap as hard as William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops, a series of four albums released in 2002 and 2003. Is it appropriate to call such an elegant audio rendering of ephemerality a “slapper”? Why not? Though the music is gentle and sad, the strength of its emotional punch is undeniable. […]
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• Pro-Palestine protests make it inside the DNC

  29-08-2024 20:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On Wednesday, August 21, Congressperson Jamie Raskin of Maryland was giving a speech at the DNC Environmental and Climate Crisis Council at McCormick Place when a woman wearing brightly colored pants and a pink shirt stood up in front of the stage, unfurled a red flag reading “Free Palestine” and started loudly chanting the same […]
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• Uncommitted movement pushes Democrats on Palestine

  29-08-2024 18:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The United Center during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) was a grand party, with sparkly cowboy hats, blue “For the People” signs littering the floor, and tens of thousands of energized souls crammed into the crowded arena.  But not every attendee shared in the excitement. Wearing keffiyehs and red-and-white “CEASEFIRE DELEGATE” pins, 30 delegates from […]
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• Autonomous Archiving

  29-08-2024 17:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Silence is standard etiquette for most film screenings, but for the Autonomous Archiving event hosted on August 30th, conversation during movie watching is encouraged.  This Friday, a collaboration between Chicago Filmmakers and the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago (FAHSC) will screen sections of six films by Nicholas Viernes, which paint a multifaceted picture of […]
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• 1, 2, 3

  29-08-2024 17:05 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. One, two, three: one film by Shinji Sōmai, two by Larisa Shepitko, and three by Marleen Gorris. Some others, as well, but these are otherwise the standouts of a rewarding moviegoing […]
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• This Arthur Jafa show is right on time

  29-08-2024 16:33 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Arthur Jafa’s overdue solo exhibition comes at the right time, when a good portion of the population seems to need some crash courses on history and media literacy. Jafa is not offering either, but he is presenting a timeless perspective that, if too cruel to take in, is nonetheless intense enough to provoke. A black-and-white […]
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• The Kenwood Academy band keeps jazz young

  29-08-2024 00:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Over my too many years of attending the Chicago Jazz Festival, I’ve been most excited by two types of sets. The fest sometimes gives us a rare (hopefully not last) chance to see a legendary elder of America’s greatest art form—Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughan, Muhal Richard Abrams—and whenever I’m able to catch one, it makes […]
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