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• Curiosity, the Kat, and Lubitsch

  12-12-2024 20:38 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. Curiosity is a key factor of being a cinephile—maybe the most important one. In an effort to appreciate and to understand cinema (try as we might), the mind must be open […]
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• Dee Robinson is putting Good Trouble in a bottle

  12-12-2024 20:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Dee Robinson grew up with the words of civil rights icon John Lewis firmly imprinted in her long-term memory, though she didn’t know it at the time. She first heard them from her mother. “My sister Pearl, the oldest—if my mom told her to go right, she went left,” Robinson says. “Ten years later—surprise—twins were […]
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• Get down with Morgan Street Snacks, returning to the next Monday Night Foodball

  12-12-2024 19:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A climate-related mishap eighty-sixed the black truffle bourbon chocolate chunk cookies. “I’ve been making that cookie a good while now,” says Ryan Cofrancesco. “It was constantly changing. I definitely gained a lot of pounds creating that cookie.” You know Cofrancesco. He’s the mastermind behind the Morgan Street Snacks pop-up, prepping for a three-month takeover at […]
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• Dana Meyerson, Biz 3 partner and publicist

  12-12-2024 19:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Publicist Dana Meyerson didn’t grow up fantasizing about a career in music. Her single mom, a Chicago public schoolteacher, wanted her to be a doctor. “I’m Jewish, and I think Jewish mothers like to say, ‘Be a doctor!’” Meyerson says, laughing. By her junior year of college, she knew medicine wasn’t going to work out, […]
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