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• Mina Loy has finally arrived 

  18-04-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Who was Mina Loy? You might know her as a poet and essayist, whose work, although difficult and seemingly without parentage, was admired by contemporaries such as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Gertrude Stein. If you are a student of Dadaism you will have seen her name alongside those of her rowdy friends Marcel […]
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• Edging push their punk to the point of no return

  01-05-2024 21:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Edging tend a joyful garden of chaos amid the decaying concrete of Chicago. On social media, the five-piece band describe themselves as “landscaper punks” because their three founding members connected through landscaping jobs. They also know something about how to prep soil to grow raucous rock ’n’ roll. Their music is a ravenous jungle of […]
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• Middleton of the road

  01-05-2024 21:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Self-indulgent. A blunt word, yet little else feels appropriate for a show that ran three hours and eight minutes—from late start to the end of curtain call—when it is said to be two hours and forty-five minutes. An adaptation of Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women (by Kevin V. Smith and Daiva Bhandari and directed by […]
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• Bo Durham is Mindy Segal’s right-hand man

  01-05-2024 19:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  We’re not trying to say that alongside every great woman is a fabulous gay bestie, but Bo Durham has certainly been just that for his mentor, James Beard Award–winning pastry chef Mindy Segal. Over the past decade, the pair have been together at restaurant Hot Chocolate, Hot Chocolate Bakery at Revival Food Hall, and now […]
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• A new genocide exhibit opens at the Holocaust Museum

  01-05-2024 19:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This week, as demonstrations charging Israel with genocide in Gaza ramped up on college campuses across the country, the staff of the Illinois Holocaust Museum was preparing for the May 1 opening of a new permanent exhibit they’d been planning for four years. Housed in the museum’s towerlike Hall of Reflection, it would be a […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 15

  01-05-2024 18:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 15. May 2, 2024
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• Anaiet Soul, pianist, performer, and lifelong student

  01-05-2024 17:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Anaiet Soul (she/they)—born Teiana Davis—is a 24-year-old multi-instrumentalist and performer whose main instrument is piano. Primarily jazz-trained, Soul has taken part in Ravinia Jazz Mentor, After School Matters, and Harold Washington College’s jazz programs. Through such opportunities, they’ve rubbed elbows with many people they still regularly gig with today, including Chris Sanchez, Jeremy Joél Warren, […]
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• Evan Mills sets his sights for LA

  01-05-2024 17:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Every year, comedy hopefuls swarm into Chicago, hoping to find a place in classes at Second City that might lead to performing at Second City e.t.c. or the mainstage—the legendary launching pad to Saturday Night Live and stardom in other television and film projects. That possibility is embodied by the photos of past Second City […]
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• Supervisor Calvin Jordan Lauds Impressive Outlook For The Fiscally Sound Southland Township

  01-05-2024 15:30 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Calvin Jordan, Rich Township Supervisor, was recently joined by the Rich Township Board of Trustees, residents, state officials, local mayors, and other local officials as the Clerk of the Township presented the official fiscal and operational report. 
  “Twenty twenty-three represented our township’s most prosperous and thriving operations and administrative year. We achieved all our goals and targets all while maintaining our fiscal integrity. I am more than confident that
  
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• Ralph Yarl’s Family Suing White Homeowner, HOA Following Shooting

  01-05-2024 14:15 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  The family of Ralph Yarl, the Black teenager who was shot in the head after he accidentally went to the wrong house in Kansas City, is suing the homeowner who opened fire and his homeowners association.
  On Monday (April 29), Yarl’s family filed a lawsuit in the circuit court of Clay County, Missouri, alleging “careless and negligent conduct” against shooter Andrew Lester and the Highland Acres Homes Association, Inc, per CNN.
  “At all times relevant, Pl
  
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for May 1, 2024

  01-05-2024 14:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
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• An inside look at Chicago’s 80s art scene

  01-05-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In the 1980’s the Chicago art world was at the height of its authority. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago was mounting the first solo museum exhibition of work by Jeff Koons, hosting performances by pioneering sound artist Laurie Anderson, and bringing groundbreaking exhibitions like “The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985” to the city. […]
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• Out with the old, in with the new

  01-05-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A month after the years-in-the-making Bring Chicago Home referendum failed to pass during March’s near-record low primary turnout, the City Council voted to approve a $1.25 billion bond issue to fund new and expanded housing and economic development efforts. The bond issue would use the bump in the city’s share of property tax revenue from […]
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• The whole world is watching again

  30-04-2024 23:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The adage that history repeats itself may seem banal at this point, yet it remains undeniably true, unfolding before our eyes as our nation and the world descend further into turmoil. Another repetition may play out this summer, when Chicago will host the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in a political landscape eerily similar to that […]
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• The madness and mayhem of Midsummer Night’s Dream

  30-04-2024 23:20 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The rose gold interior of the Lyric Opera House is dappled with green light, as if filtered through leaves on a forest floor. Birdsong penetrates the space, sweet and ineffable in a place typically infused with the artifice of orchestral sound. Beneath a twinkling canopy of lights is a twin bed, upon which reclines a […]
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• Cadinho Bakery previews its new cafe at the next Monday Night Foodball

  30-04-2024 22:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Abbot of Priscos was an accomplished gastronome, often enlisted to organize baroque feasts for the Portuguese royal family. But from his tiny parish in northwestern Portugal, Padre Manuel Joaquim Machado Rebelo kept most of his recipes to himself. His name might have faded into obscurity if he hadn’t given up just one: the Pudim […]
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• Lessons from August Wilson

  30-04-2024 21:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In an embarrassment of riches, two impeccable renditions of August Wilson’s plays share space in the Chicago theater community this spring: How I Learned What I Learned, produced by Congo Square Theatre, in association with Broadway in Chicago and staged at the Broadway Playhouse, and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Goodman Theatre (the […]
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• Screamo blowout ZBR Fest Midwest packs Subterranean with 28 bands

  30-04-2024 20:45 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In June 2022, Beat Kitchen hosted the debut ZBR Fest Midwest, a two-day screamo marathon organized by Zegema Beach Records. Festival founder Dave Norman launched the label in 2013, building on the rapport he’d established with screamo bands through his blog, Open Mind/Saturated Brain. In 2017, he threw the first ZBR Fest in Toronto. Two […]
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• Chicago Record Report: April 2024

  30-04-2024 19:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The Almighty  Saxophonist Isaiah Collier is still in his mid-20s, and he’s already made a lasting mark on Chicago’s storied jazz scene. The Almighty is his first record with the Chosen Few (drummer Michael Shekwoaga Ode, pianist Julian Davis Reid, and bassist Jeremiah Hunt) since 2021’s knockout Cosmic Transitions, […]
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• Emergency Group will turn you into a “jam band guy”

  30-04-2024 17:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Emergency Group swim in the heady tides of prog rock, psych rock, and free jazz. These Brooklyn improvisers harness kaleidoscopic reverb and distortion with a creative generosity befitting one of Miles Davis’s electric groups, creating a contemporary sound that reminds us the label “jam band” wasn’t always cause to shudder. Their hallmarks include taut tickles […]
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• Cindy Lee’s haunted songs recall pop’s past to enliven its present

  30-04-2024 17:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I have to resist the temptation to romanticize the spellbinding indie pop that Patrick Flegel has created via the drag persona Cindy Lee. Even the way they’ve released this music feels special. In late March, Flegel’s Realistik Studios label dropped the two-hour Cindy Lee album Diamond Jubilee and made it downloadable for free (with a […]
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• Satan-worshipping doomsters Bongripper celebrate the nihilistic new Empty

  30-04-2024 17:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As the story goes, Chicago instrumental doom-metal quartet Bongripper began with the desire to write a track longer than Sleep’s “Dopesmoker,” the single 74-minute song on their iconic 1998 album of the same name. Bongripper joked that Sleep had failed to completely fill up a CD and decided it’d be funny to top one off. […]
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• Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for a Procurement Planning Consultant

  30-04-2024 16:17 via chicagodefender.com
  
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• Keli Stewart’s Front Porch Arts Center: Uplifting West Side Culture, Creativity

  30-04-2024 16:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Keli Stewart’s Front Porch Arts Center is on a mission to spotlight Black culture and the arts on the West Side (Credit: Front Porch Arts Center).
  On a beautiful day in Chicago, the weather motions everyone outdoors to do their favorite activities, whether dining at a restaurant, attending a lively concert or simply spending quality time with family at home.
  The city offers various options for those seeking cultural enrichment, from theater performances to captivating spoken word events, d
  
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• MMA Fighter Who Witnessed George Floyd’s Murder Gets $150,000 Settlement

  30-04-2024 14:30 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  Donald Williams, the man who witnessed George Floyd‘s murder and tried stopping the deadly arrest, will get a $150,000 payout from the City of Minneapolis for mental health issues he suffered from the encounter. According to the Star Tribune, officials unanimously approved the settlement on Thursday (April 25) after Williams sued the city last spring.
  Williams, a mixed martial arts fighter, testified former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin used a &
  
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• WATCH: White Cops Tase Black Man, Break His Leg For Driving Off With Pen

  30-04-2024 14:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  A Black man plans on seeking legal action after he claims two Georgia cops followed him home, tased him, and broke his leg over a ballpoint pen. According to WSB-TV, a Greenville police officer pulled over 30-year-old Corriyon Bray for speeding in December 2023.
  Body camera footage shows the officer handing a pen to Bray to sign a ticket. When the officer demanded the driver return his pen, Bray held it outside his window and drove away.
  “That motherf**
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Cornel West and “lies that hide”

  30-04-2024 14:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  CORNEL WEST AND MELINA ABDULLAH (CornelWest.com Photo)
  Independent presidential candidate Cornel West chose fellow academic Melina Abdullah as his running mate. Abdullah teaches pan-African studies at California State University, Los Angeles, and serves on the board of directors for Black Lives Matter Grassroots.
  West and Abdullah’s progressive politics distinguish them from the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, but what sets them apart from the Democratic incumbents? West went
  
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• The Raven Room shuts down despite strong community support

  30-04-2024 11:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When my favorite bartender at the Raven Room told me that the bar and event space is shutting down at the end of April, I nearly burst into tears.  For more than a year, I had been visiting the establishment every Wednesday night for its weekly Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) events. I’d made close friends […]
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• Candace Parker Retires, Having Forged a Legacy of Unrivaled Success

  29-04-2024 16:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  After 16 WNBA seasons, three WNBA championships, two MVP Awards, two Olympic gold medals and two NCAA national championships, Candace Parker, one of the greatest and most influential basketball players on the planet, is retiring.
  Parker announced her departure on Sunday after forging a career as a versatile, highly skilled, and ballyhooed athlete who fulfilled their immense potential. 
  She made her announcement via an Instagram post.
  “I’m retiring. I promised I’d never che
  
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• Joe Turner’s Come And Gone: A Cultural Gem Plays At The Goodman

  29-04-2024 15:30 via chicagodefender.com
  
  A scene from August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come And Gone” (Credit Liz Lauren).
  The stage is set for an unforgettable journey of self-discovery and resilience as Chuck Smith’s powerful revival of August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” opens at the Goodman Theatre and extends its run through May 19.This timeless masterpiece, brought to life by an all-Chicago cast, promises an evening of profound storytelling and soul-stirring performances
  
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