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• Dolin’ Out has your emotional support gumbo at the next Monday Night Foodball

  07-11-2024 22:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On Wednesday, like many, I was a useless, immobile, deflated bag of dread and torpor, unable to think about anything but the four-year shitstorm darkening the horizon. On Thursday, I started moving again, the bag swelling with a mounting fury at roughly 73 million fellow Americans, but also with a warm gooey slab of bread […]
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• Ex-Chicagoan says Chicagoans don’t understand violence or corruption

  07-11-2024 21:14 via chicagoreader.com
  
  On October 20, the Chicago Tribune published an opinion piece by David Mamet entitled “This is why Chicago was once the marvel of our nation.” Despite the city’s incredible accomplishments in the arts, the sciences, and commerce, Mamet declares our “current marvel is not innovation and prosperity, but murder and crime.” Chicago, from Mamet’s perspective, […]
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• Psykho killer

  07-11-2024 20:37 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. It was a good week for some rewatches, one of which was timely with Halloween. On Tuesday, Tobe Hooper’s vastly underrated The Mangler (1995) screened at the Alamo Drafthouse as part […]
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• Black dreams are greater than hoops

  07-11-2024 19:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  If there’s a sport worth obsessing over, it’s basketball. What a beautiful game: shoes squeaking across shiny hardwood floors, the swish of the net when a perfect shot whips through, a contest that requires teamwork but celebrates individual style.  When I was a grammar school hooper, my dad gave me the 1995 book Hoop Dreams: […]
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• ‘The sense memory of domestic spaces’

  07-11-2024 18:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  ROOMS, through 11/23,dropshift dance at Gunder House
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• Lior’s Cafe is a safe space for Haitian food on the south side

  07-11-2024 18:13 via chicagoreader.com
  
  From under his feathered scarlet bicorn, Jean-Jacques Dessalines looks northward with defiance from Lior’s Cafe. The general, who kicked the French out of what they called Saint-Domingue in 1804, was joined on the restaurant’s exterior wall by other historic Haitians—including Chicagoan Number One, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable—when muralist Rahmaan Statik painted it for Lior’s […]
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• Home truths

  07-11-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Finding an apartment in Chicago is a difficult, stressful, time-consuming process—especially for low-income families and individuals. But, sometimes, keeping an apartment can be just as cumbersome. The recent foreclosure of the Leland, a single-room occupancy (SRO) apartment building with almost 140 units in Uptown, has left residents and other community members scrambling to protect one […]
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• Chicago Police Department embarks on million-dollar workforce study

  07-11-2024 12:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This story was copublished by Inside Chicago Government and the Chicago Reader. The City of Chicago announced last week—via a meeting of its Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability—that it’s about to launch a thorough study of police staffing, resulting in department-wide recommendations that will be shared publicly. Details of the workforce allocation study, […]
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