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• Get it hot, wet, or sweet when a Beef with Berger plays Monday Night Foodball

  20-02-2025 23:16 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Tony Mata was about a year in as general manager of Frank and Mary’s Tavern in the summer of 2022. With great power comes great responsibility, and as the steward of the 50-year-old, blue-collar dive bar, it was his sworn duty to usher it out of the darkest depths of the pandemic and preserve its […]
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• Some Chicago gunshot victims don’t trust ambulances

  20-02-2025 22:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This story was originally published by the Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. In early November, Michael Smith was shot in the thigh after an argument with a close friend in front of his grandmother’s home in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood. Smith’s cousin called 911, but 15 minutes […]
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• Eighties rockers Ruffian burned bright but faded away

  20-02-2025 21:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Secret History of Chicago Music covers lots of bands who should’ve made it, but few failures are as baffling as the story of Ruffian. The hardworking band seemed to have what it took: scorching hard-rock chops, a robust local following, and high-profile connections. In the early 80s, after toughing it out through years of […]
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• This Week In Black History Feb 19-25, 2025

  20-02-2025 21:00
  
  FEBRUARY 19
   
  1919—The “first” Pan African Congress is held bringing together prominent Blacks from throughout the world to chart a program for Black unity and betterment. African American scholar and activist W.E.B. DuBois was the chief organizer. The gathering was held in Paris, France, and drew 57 distinguished delegates including 16 from the United States, 14 from Africa and others from the Caribbean, South America and Europe. (The 1919 Congress is considered by many t
  
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• From Chicago, to Chicago—it’s Filmspotting Fest

  20-02-2025 18:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Fifty years ago, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, the respective film critics for the Tribune and the Sun-Times, began appearing monthly on Chicago’s PBS station WTTW in a show best known as Sneak Previews to talk about their agreements and disagreements about upcoming films. A few years later, the show was switched to biweekly and […]
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• Black cats

  20-02-2025 17:23 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. “Is Flow (2024) a kids movie?” I typed into Google. Even after reading through several articles, I’m still not sure. Some say yes, others say no, largely citing the lack of […]
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• Links Taproom comes back from the dead

  20-02-2025 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Michael Quinlan and the late Michael “Bubs” Quinlan have a couple things in common besides their first and last names. The latter, a well-coifed south-side Irish gangster, is identified in a 1932 press photo as a “beer runner” arrested for attempted murder. The former Quinlan is no mobster, but is a living, breathing beer runner […]
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• Looking at Betrayal through a different lens

  20-02-2025 15:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Betrayal, through 3/30 at Goodman Theatre
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• Dying to Wear the Badge: Black Police Recruits at Risk

  20-02-2025 14:00
  
  This combination of images shows, top row, from left, Christopher David Murray, Cody Olafson, Cornelius Anderson, Timothy Guyer, Edgar Ordonez, Kevin Reaux, Thomas Coulter, second row, Marcus Zeigler, Mulwa Sumbi, Patrick Dupree, Ronald Donat, William “Tex” Bailey, Wisbens Antoine, Spencer Englett, bottom row, Asson Hacker, Donald Fredenburg Jr., Enrique Delgado-Garcia, Michelle Strube, Marquis Kennedy, Vincent Parks and Andrew Sockwell. (Frisco Police Department, U.S. Customs and Bo
  
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• ‘Hot Flashes And Cool Conversations: The Menopause Chronicles’ Tour Kicks Off In Chicago, Feb. 23

  20-02-2025 13:30
  
  Tanya Bennett, founder of the Hot Flashes and Cool Conversations Foundation (Photo Provided).
  The Hot Flashes and Cool Conversations Foundation, PUSH 365 Event Group LLC, and The S.K.O.O.P., Inc., proudly present “Hot Flashes and Cool Conversations: The Menopause Chronicles,” Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Visions Odeum, 11901 S. Loomis St, Chicago.  
  The event serves as a kick-off to a multi-city tour that will serve as a comprehensive resource for wo
  
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• What We Can Learn From Octavia Butler in Times of Chaos

  20-02-2025 11:27
  Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due are leaning into Butler’s Afrofuturistic vision to save hearts “in the midst of stress.”
  By Aaron Foley 
  In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ravage Los Angeles in 2025? They showed up. That political chaos she wrote about in “Parable of the Sower”? Currently trending. 
  Indeed, “Sower,” Butler’s 1993 tale of a
  
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• From bedroom studio to bonkers show

  20-02-2025 01:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Isaiah “Kit” Carson is one of the DIY musicians who helped make fifth-wave emo a subcultural phenomenon in the late 2010s. He’s the founding drummer in a mathy, whimsical Tennessee band called Guitar Fight From Fooly Cooly, which formed in 2018, and he’s made offstage contributions too. In early 2020, he launched the microlabel Sun […]
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