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• Twilight Kitchen drop-kicks the next Monday Night Foodball

  23-01-2025 21:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Christopher Sullivan moved to Chicago for experimental theater: “At one point the two wrestlers give center stage to a small band of roaming clowns. ‘What is more avant-garde?’ asks one of the wrestlers. ‘A giraffe or an elephant?’ His companion replies thoughtfully, ‘A giraffe is more avant-garde, but an elephant is more surreal.’ The clowns […]
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• ‘You can rage on stage, you can pour your heart out, you can walk in someone else’s shoes’

  23-01-2025 21:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Can art deliver more than just catharsis for its performers and audience members? Could a play spur meaningful change toward state policy? Two nonprofits, Mud Theatre Project and Restore Justice, teamed up—and sold out Steppenwolf Theatre on Thursday, January 16—to ask those questions by marrying a stage performance with advocacy for a clearly defined cause […]
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• Yama & the Karma Dusters embodied the hippie counterculture

  23-01-2025 20:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago gets short shrift in tales of the counterculture of the late 60s and early 70s, but our city nurtured its own underground scene full of political activists, hippie communes, mind-expanding newspapers, revolutionary causes, and hallucinogenic music. Some local bands, operating in the mold of the MC5 in Detroit, were more entrenched than others in […]
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• Fix your hearts or die

  23-01-2025 19:32 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. Last week was bad. At this point in 2025, there are any number of reasons why that might have been the case, but specifically in relation to a column about moviegoing, […]
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• Don your beaver suit: Hundreds of Beavers is back

  23-01-2025 19:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Hundreds of Beavers screening Fri 1/31 at 11:15 PM at the Music Box Theatre and in wide release on VOD
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• Seafood udon ramen at Shinya Ramen House

  23-01-2025 18:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  How good is the seafood udon ramen at Shinya Ramen House? Allow me to dig out my cinephile credentials and count the ways. Whenever I get the urge to rewatch one of my favorite movies, Juzo Itami’s Tampopo (1985), Shinya is where I carry out from.  To watch Tampopo—and view its exquisite ode to food, […]
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• SolarFive is a legend underneath our noses

  23-01-2025 18:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  From 2010 till 2017, Chicago hip-hop had a golden era. Rapper and producer SolarFive contributed prolifically to it, though it wasn’t how he got by. “I was still trappin’, like, hard,” he says. ”I didn’t have no real way to make money.” Born Quenton Cole on Chicago’s south side, the married 36-year-old father of three […]
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• Palestine in America drops a food issue

  23-01-2025 18:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  One writer, filing from the northern Gaza Strip, describes her family grinding animal feed to make bread. Another, based in Jordan, recounts how her grandmother’s kitchen was “a battleground for cultural and political survival.” A third, in Ramallah, interviews steely-eyed food vlogger–turned–relief worker Hamada Shaqoura on the challenges of feeding delicious and healthy food to […]
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• Illinois House Speaker on Budget Challenges, Trump’s Impact, and His Historic Leadership

  23-01-2025 16:00
  
  Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch discusses balancing a $3.2 billion budget deficit, the implications of Trump’s presidency for Illinois, and his journey as the first Black speaker in state history (Photos Courtesy of Democrats for the Illinois House).
  When Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch delivered his inaugural address for the 104th General Assembly, he cited a passage from the Bible that could very well speak to what’s at stake for Il
  
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• South Side Community Art Center Unveils $15M Expansion to Honor Legacy and Empower Black Artists

  23-01-2025 14:30
  
  The South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC), the country’s oldest, independently run, and continuously operating Black arts institution, recently announced its planned rehabilitation and expansion. An official Community Design Unveiling will be held on Feb. 22 at 1 p.m. at Apostolic Faith Church, 3823 S Indiana Ave. SSCAC invites those interested in learning more about the project to attend. SSCAC’s mission is developing and showcasing Black artists at every stage of their careers.
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• Exploring identity through art

  23-01-2025 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  For her accessories brand Fiera, 26-year-old Jazmin Delgado draws inspiration from her family—mixing and mashing her designs based on her relatives who first got her into art. The south-side native began as an earth and environmental sciences major at the University of Illinois Chicago before making the switch to art. Fierafiera-460211.square.siteinstagram.com/fiera_fiera_fiera Taking a Latin American […]
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• Chicago Joins the Shine Hope Company’s Network of Hopeful Cities, Providing New Resources to Support Behavioral Health

  23-01-2025 13:30
  
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  The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) has partnered with The Shine Hope Company (TSHC) to join its Hopeful Cities initiative. The program is designed to boost mental health resources and teach Chicago residents how to cultivate hope through an evidence-based framework grounded in science, which shows that hope is measurable, teachable, and can be developed to support mental wellness. Programming is available at no cost to all Chicago residents via The Shi
  
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• This Week In Black History January 22-28

  23-01-2025 05:00
  
  JANUARY 22 
  1822—“From slavery to wealth” is the phrase that best describes the story of Barney L. Ford, who was born into slav­ery on this day in 1822 in Stafford Court, Va.—the product of a Black woman and a plantation owner. He was raised on a plantation in South Carolina but with the aid of the “Underground Railroad” he escaped and headed west through Chicago (where he met his wife) to the gold fields of California where he was denied the right to
  
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• This Week In Black History Jan. 22-Jan. 29

  23-01-2025 05:00
  
  JANUARY 22 
  1822—“From slavery to wealth” is the phrase that best describes the story of Barney L. Ford, who was born into slav­ery on this day in 1822 in Stafford Court, Va.—the product of a Black woman and a plantation owner. He was raised on a plantation in South Carolina but with the aid of the “Underground Railroad” he escaped and headed west through Chicago (where he met his wife) to the gold fields of California where he was denied the right to
  
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