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• Nuclear Project Continues to Pose Environmental, Financial Strain for Plant Vogtle Community

  20-06-2017 15:10 via chicagodefender.com
  
  After a contentious negotiation period, protracted by delays and key contractor bankruptcies, Georgia Power Co. has entered agreements with the chief contractor at the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion and its parent company to take over management of the project to build two nuclear reactors at the site.
  A service agreement calling for Georgia Power and affiliate company Southern Nuclear to take over the work is subject to the approval of the board of directors at Westinghouse Electric Co., which
  
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• Illinois Politicians React to Donald Trump’s Conviction

  31-05-2024 06:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Illinois politicians reacted to news that a New York jury found former President Donald Trump guilty on all counts in connection to a hush money payment made to conceal his 2006 affair with Stormy Daniels. 
  “Justice has been served. After facing a jury of his peers, Donald Trump is exposed as the liar and fraud that he is. Trump evaded the law to deceive voters and today, the law caught up with him,” said Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker in a statement. 
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• Donald Trump Found Guilty: Becomes First President In American History To Be Convicted Of A Felony

  30-05-2024 23:19 via chicagodefender.com
  Former President Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records prior to the 2016 election. Trump is now the first president in American history to be convicted of a felony. 
  Trump was involved in an illegal conspiracy to undermine the 2016 election in connection with concealing hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.
  After being convicted, Trump maintained his innocence and untruthfully claimed that President Joe Biden was the reason he was found guilty. 
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• VONtv Premieres CBS 2 Chicago Dorothy Tucker’s Special Report

  30-05-2024 20:12 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Dorothy Tucker’s program, “Investigating Injustice: The Shocking Truth About Black Women And Crime In Chicago” airs this evening on VONtv, WVON’s OTT Digital Streaming network. 
  VONtv, WVON’s OTT Digital Streaming network will premier award-winning journalist Dorothy Tucker of CBS 2 Chicago’s special investigative report on the enormous impact of crime on Black Women in Chicago. 
  The two-part program, Investigating Injustice, will air Thursday May 30
  
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  30-05-2024 20:01 via chicagoreader.com
  
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• It’s an all-Indigenous cookout when Ketapanen Kitchen three-peats at the next Monday Night Foodball

  30-05-2024 17:37 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Jessica Walks First nailed it on Top Chef: Wisconsin a few weeks ago. The chef behind Chicago’s all-Indigenous Ketapanen Kitchen wasn’t competing. Rather, she was sitting at the judge’s table during episode nine’s Elimination Challenge—along with Kristen, Tom, Gail, and Minneapolis chef Sean Sherman—when Adalina executive chef Soo Ahn presented “roasted butternut squash, huitlacoche puree, […]
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• How Chicago forgot about its blues history

  30-05-2024 17:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When it comes to the blues, sometimes it’s the same old story, same old song.  Imagine for a moment that you’ve just arrived in Chicago, and you go looking for its blues history. You figure it’ll be easy to find evidence of it—it’s one of the most famous things about the city. You’d be wrong.  […]
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• Q&A: Marvin Sapp Talks Live Recording Event in Chicagoland This Friday

  30-05-2024 16:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  The 11-time Grammy-nominated gospel legend returns to record his 16th album at Valley Kingdom Ministries.
  This Friday, one of the world’s most revered Gospel recording artists is about to have a homecoming back in the Chicagoland area where family, friends, history, music, love and support reside. 
  Marvin Sapp, the ardent and soulful 11-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, is recording his 16th album this Friday evening at Valley Kingdom Ministries in Oak Forest.
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• Young Girl Berates Cops Who ‘Falsely Accused’ Mom Of Theft In Viral TikTok

  30-05-2024 14:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  A young child is going viral after she stood up for her mother who she said was falsely accused by police of stealing sunglasses.
  In a now-viral TikTok video, the mother-daughter duo appeared to be standing outside of a store as the child yelled at New York Police Department officers for allegedly making false theft accusations.
  “Leave my mother alone,” the young girl shouted.
  In the video, the theft suspect was described as a Black female with long braids and a
  
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• ‘If the culture doesn’t change, it’s going to remain the same’

  30-05-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In early March, Governor J.B. Pritzker announced a $900 million plan to demolish and rebuild the crumbling Stateville and Logan Correctional Centers over the next five years. The plan sits on the back of a report by CGL Companies, a firm contracted by the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) to assess the conditions of the […]
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• This Week In Black History May 29 – June 4, 2024

  30-05-2024 05:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  ANGELA DAVIS raises her fist in a Black Power salute after being introduced by Rev. Ralph Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, in Dallas, Texas, Aug. 17, 1972. (AP Photo/Charles Bennett)
  MAY 291854—Escaped slave and aboli­tionist Sojourner Truth delivers her famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech at the Ohio Women’s Rights Conven­tion in Akron. Truth, born Isabella Baumfree, had been physically and sexually abused by various slave o
  
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• Emil Ferris communes with Uptown’s ghosts

  30-05-2024 00:52 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There is a ghostliness shrouding Uptown. Even in daylight, its presence lurks and lingers, like at Graceland Cemetery, home to the sculpture Eternal Silence, whose hooded figure is said to foretell death to anyone brave enough to gaze into its shadowy eyes. That cemetery, and St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery just a mile north, both abut […]
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• Stage Door, but make it porn

  29-05-2024 22:40 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Right after the curtain call at First Floor Theater’s world premiere of Pro-Am, a colleague sitting behind me leaned over and asked, “Have you ever seen Stage Door?” Despite the fact that Brynne Frauenhoffer’s play (developed originally with Chicago’s now-defunct Sideshow Theatre) takes place in the contemporary Miami porn industry and the 1937 film (adapted […]
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• Dr. Yvonne Welbon is a crucial storyteller

  29-05-2024 22:35 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Dr. Yvonne Welbon is a jill-of-all-trades. Her work has been screened by PBS, the Berlin Film Festival, BET, Bravo, and the Sundance Film Festival, to name a few. She’s directed nine films and produced 15. Her documentary Living With Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 won ten awards, one of which was the GLAAD Media […]
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• Red Summer family drama

  29-05-2024 22:23 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Joshua Allen’s third installment in his Chicago-set “Grand Boulevard Trilogy” (after The Last Pair of Earlies, which alternated between 1921 and 1938, and October Storm, set in 1960) takes place during the “Red Summer” riots of 1919. Though we hear the sounds of unrest and violence outside, the real conflict unfolds inside the south-side house […]
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• The Danish Play never warms up

  29-05-2024 22:07 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Based on the life experiences of Sonny Mills’s great-aunt, Agnete Ottosen, in Denmark before, during, and after the Nazi occupation, The Danish Play tries to pack way too much into its nearly two-and-a-half hours of stage time. You could write an interesting play about any one period in Ottosen’s complex life—her experiences in the Danish […]
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• Food apartheid: the erasure of Black health in Englewood

  29-05-2024 22:02 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Media have long and relentlessly crafted a certain narrative about Englewood: “3 shot, 1 fatally, outside Englewood store“; “1 killed, 2 hurt in shooting outside Englewood store“; “Man dies after being shot 20 times in Englewood.” But in the heart of the neighborhood, near the intersection of 63rd and Morgan, a different story is growing: […]
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• The Singularity Play tackles AI

  29-05-2024 21:57 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Everything about Jay Stull’s The Singularity Play, now in a world premiere at Jackalope Theatre (directed by Georgette Verdin) should feel timely and tense. It’s about the effects of AI on art, relationships, and life, after all—what could be more ripped-from-the-headlines than that? But something about Stull’s story left me cold, and I think it […]
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• Kitcha fitfit (chechebsa) at Mella Cafe

  29-05-2024 21:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Reader Bites celebrates dishes, drinks, and atmospheres from the Chicagoland food scene. Have you had a recent food or drink experience that you can’t stop thinking about? Share it with us at [email protected]. Most people unfamiliar with Ethiopian cuisine probably first approach it for dinner, as I did: sour, spongy injera on a round platter […]
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• Theatrical apocalypse

  29-05-2024 21:34 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. A new week, another death knell for theatrical exhibition. David Leitch’s The Fall Guy, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt (ironically, costars in two of last year’s biggest commercial hits), opened […]
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• Review: The Strangers: Chapter 1

  29-05-2024 20:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s been nothing short of a stellar year for horror so far. Whether you’re into nunsploitation, 90s throwbacks, or genre-bending horror comedies, films like Lisa Frankenstein, The First Omen, Immaculate, and Abigail have put 2024 on the map. We’re lucky, then, that the year has already delivered so many strong genre entries, because The Strangers: […]
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• Review: The Dead Don’t Hurt

  29-05-2024 20:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Viggo Mortensen is onto something special with his sophomore directorial feature. A somber romance wearing the clothes of an old-school western, The Dead Don’t Hurt is a lyrical and quiet epic that tests and proves Mortensen’s abilities as a filmmaker (a redemption arc from his debut, Falling). It’s a smoldering fable that is not designed […]
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• Review: Stopmotion

  29-05-2024 20:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Robert Morgan’s gleefully grotesque Stopmotion is a celebration of creativity bloodily disguised as a warning about creative obsession. Ella Blake (the wonderful Aisling Franciosi) is the daughter of a famous stop-motion animator (Stella Gonet) and desperately wants to live up to—and break away from—her domineering mother. But when mom is hospitalized and Ella starts to […]
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• Review: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

  29-05-2024 20:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  When Australian filmmaker George Miller reinvigorated his Mad Max series with Mad Max: Fury Road in 2015, it felt like lightning in a bottle, despite having been struck from the already existing, petrol-fueled storm cloud that were his earlier three entries from the late 70s to mid 80s. Compared to other contemporary big-budget movies of […]
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• Guest Editorial: Ed Dwight’s flight at last!

  29-05-2024 20:09 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Former NASA astronaut Ed Dwight poses for a portrait to promote the National Geographic documentary film “The Space Race” during the Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, at The Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) Credit: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
   
  On the Detroit riverfront, there’s a statue of people frozen in time: they are in flight from slavery, waiting to cross the river to Canada.
   
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• Chicago Record Report: May 2024

  29-05-2024 19:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Deep Tunnel Project, Deep Tunnel Project Formed in 2021, Deep Tunnel Project are a four-piece composed of veteran local rockers from Tar, Silkworm, Bottomless Pit, the Bomb, Dead Ending, and too many others to name. They describe their self-titled debut album as “a Chicago record,” but its wiry, understated sound, thick riffs, and straightforward lyrics […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 17

  29-05-2024 18:28 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 17. May 30, 2024
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• Ghostlight, the movie

  29-05-2024 17:50 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The trailer for Ghostlight, the new film from the Chicago team of Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson, includes a scene in which a horrified adolescent discovers her father in passionate embrace with a woman who is not his wife.   “Asshole,” she screams at him, wielding her phone like a weapon, “Say hi to Mom, cheater!” […]
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• Garters upends the norms of fantasy fiction

  29-05-2024 17:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Though set within the realm of fantasy, Otherworld Theatre’s upcoming Garters: A Queer Immersive Romantasy Play is a play centering friendship, says lead performer Kira Nutter.  “I think it boils down to two long-lost friends trying to figure out who they are, either to each other, or to the Court, or to themselves,” they explain. […]
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• Emily Rach Beisel, improviser and Pleiades Series founder

  29-05-2024 16:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Emily Rach Beisel became enamored with improvisation as a student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and then moved to Chicago to attend graduate school at Northwestern and explore the city’s vast music community.  The woodwind specialist maintains a busy schedule, working in a variety of settings, including as an educator, theater musician, curator, composer, […]
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