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• Some new and recent summer reading from local chefs, cooks, and restaurateurs

  11-06-2025 23:30 via chicagoreader.com
  Fireproof: Memoir of a Chef, Curtis Duffy with Jeremy Wagner, Dead Sky Publishing, July 1 Cheffoirs always seem to follow a formula of triumph over adversity. See Grant Achatz’s Life, on the Line and Rick Tramonto’s Scars of a Chef. This is a recipe likely born in Anthony Bourdain’s seminal Kitchen Confidential. But I’ve read […]
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• Artificial intelligence

  11-06-2025 21:59 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. Color continues to be a theme in my moviegoing, starting this week with a Chicago Film Society presentation of Maurice Tourneur’s 1915 silent film Alias Jimmy Valentine on Sunday at the […]
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• Another Wheeldon ballet filled with wonders

  11-06-2025 19:53 via chicagoreader.com
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, through 6/22, Joffrey Ballet at Lyric Opera House
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• Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre connects Black stories of the past and present

  11-06-2025 19:30 via chicagoreader.com
  Stages of Survival is an occasional series focusing on Chicago theater companies, highlighting their histories and how they’re surviving—and even thriving—in a landscape that’s become decidedly more challenging since the 2020 COVID-19 shutdown. Founded in Evanston in 1979 as Foster Community Theatre, Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre (FJT) has been a home for plays from the African and […]
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• Arts and culture communities keep our neighborhoods safe and thriving

  11-06-2025 19:02 via chicagoreader.com
  The persnickety part of my brain would like to remind you that it’s not technically summer this year in the northern hemisphere until Friday, June 20. I’m being stubborn about it because the rest of my body is mourning colder weather. I know I’m in the minority for loving Chicago’s winters, but I expect some […]
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• Best in shows

  11-06-2025 18:57 via chicagoreader.com
  Summer isn’t just for street fairs and beaches (or protests and marches, which might be more urgent this season). There are still plenty of great options in comedy, dance, and theater waiting for you when you’re ready to shift gears (and some still let you get outside). Here are ten picks to store along with […]
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• a pair (two odes)

  11-06-2025 18:50 via chicagoreader.com
  By E’mon Lauren
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• Royal follies

  11-06-2025 18:15 via chicagoreader.com
  Diana, through 7/6, Theo at Howard Street Theater, Evanston
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• Chicago Reader Volume 54, Number 36

  11-06-2025 18:15 via chicagoreader.com
  Chicago Reader Volume 54, No. 36. June 12, 2025. Summer Theater & Arts.
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• Passages Charter School shutters pre-k program

  11-06-2025 18:14 via chicagoreader.com
  Two weeks before Chicago Public Schools (CPS) classes finished for the summer, more than 20 preschool staff at Passages Charter School in Edgewater learned that when they said goodbye to their students, it would be for the final time. Five days later, on May 28, the school made the news public. In a town hall, […]
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• Blackademics in turmoil

  11-06-2025 18:02 via chicagoreader.com
  Black Bone, through 6/29 at Definition Theatre
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• Breezing through

  11-06-2025 17:51 via chicagoreader.com
  Footholds Vol. 6, through 6/21, Impostors Theatre Co. at the Den
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• Malik Nevels Reflects on Legacy, Leadership and Purpose as Men of Excellence Honoree

  11-06-2025 17:08
  For this Chicago Defender Men of Excellence award recipient, the honor is more than a career achievement. It’s an acknowledgment of the individuals, locations and principles who shaped him.
  “Being named a Chicago Defender Men of Excellence honoree is a profound honor. It’s a recognition not only of personal achievement but of the collective work of mentors, colleagues, and communities that have shaped and supported me along the way.,” said Malik S. Nevels, chief operating
  
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• Chicago fights ICE kidnappings

  11-06-2025 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  Chicago fights ICE kidnappings Protesters, community members, and elected officials confronted federal immigration agents in the South Loop on Wednesday, June 4, to oppose the detention of at least ten immigrants.  Demonstrators and press convened on 2245 S. Michigan, the site of an Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP) facility for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). […]
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• What can a museum be?

  11-06-2025 15:16 via chicagoreader.com
  For artist and arts administrator Gabriel Chalfin-Piney-González, the desire for an anti-Zionist Jewish space didn’t start in October 2023. At 13, the Hudson Valley native was kicked out of their first Hebrew school for inquiring about Israeli treatment of Palestinians. In late 2022, they felt a strong yearning for cultural connection and wondered: Where can […]
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• The Carr Report: Lottery vs. Legacy…Play less, stack more!

  11-06-2025 14:30
  By now, you’ve probably heard the hype: “Powerball is up to $1.5 billion!” Folks are lined up at gas stations, hop­ing today’s their lucky day. Scratch-offs fly off the shelves like hotcakes. But let’s keep it 100—the odds are stacked higher than your cousin’s unpaid traf­fic tickets.
  Let me break this down real plain: chasing lottery dreams is the financial equivalent of playing in traffic. You might survive—but is that really your strateg
  
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• Grace Capeless on ‘Kimberly Akimbo,’ Touring Life and Theater Dreams

  11-06-2025 01:19
  
  Actor Grace Capeless (Photo courtesy of Broadway in Chicago)
  How often does an actor get to grow up in a place that becomes the setting of a production they’re involved in?
  That’s the case for Grace Capeless, who hails from Bergen County, New Jersey.
  Capeless, the daughter of two parents who met doing musical theater, landed her first role at age eight after seeing a Broadway production of Godspell. She begged her parents to let her audition during an open call and got the part.
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