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• Protected: Advertise in our Nonprofit Issue

  28-10-2021 19:58 via chicagoreader.com
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• ‘Reading saved me’

  17-04-2024 23:18 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “I suppose it is easy to dismiss a young woman for forming and shaping her identity under the influence of books, of reading—and yet. That was what I had and it was everything.” Suzanne Scanlon is the poet laureate of young, artistically inclined women who feel too much and search for meaning in books. Decades […]
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• The Reader’s Guide to Record Store Day 2024

  17-04-2024 22:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  This Record Store Day, which arrives on Saturday, April 20, Republic Records is doing its best to make sure you can buy a newly pressed record by Vermont singer-songwriter Noah Kahan. Republic (part of Universal Music Group) has pressed 15,000 copies of Kahan’s second album, 2021’s I Was / I Am, which is not the LP […]
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• March on the DNC plans Chicago’s ‘largest mobilization for Palestine’

  17-04-2024 20:27 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “From the river to see, Palestine will be free!” “The people united will never be defeated!” “Fight back!” Boisterous chants fill the basement of Teamster City on April 13, where hundreds of people from more than a dozen states have assembled to plan a massive mobilization when Chicago takes the national stage later this summer. […]
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• Ano Bank$ is a cornerstone for his people

  17-04-2024 19:58 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The barbershop has long been a cornerstone institution for Black and Brown communities. It serves folks looking for fresh cuts, of course, but it’s ultimately a place where people gather and exchange information. This information can be as trivial as sports banter or as profound as the wisdom born of experience that older barbers give […]
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• Demented bordello

  17-04-2024 19:17 via chicagoreader.com
  
  My first visit to Trap Door Theatre did not disappoint, from the hidden alley entrance to the immediate sense of time travel and disorientation upon entry. For the last show of its 30th anniversary season, the company is bringing back Nana by Olwen Wymark, first staged in 2002. Resident choreographer Miguel Long codirects with managing […]
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• Time travel, Babes With Blades style

  17-04-2024 18:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  What is better than a time travel play? Not much. A rare species in itself, it can only be improved upon by something equally awesome—like centering women, impeccable stage combat, and a rock-solid plot that accounts for the bootstrap paradox. This is exactly what the Babes With Blades world premiere of The S Paradox pulled […]
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• Mazurkas of memory

  17-04-2024 18:42 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Hershey Felder first played Frédéric Chopin at the now-closed Royal George Theatre in 2005—one of several solo shows about great composers that Felder has created over the years (he’s also played George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, and Beethoven, among others). Now Writers Theatre has brought Felder’s Monsieur Chopin (directed by Joel Zwick) back in […]
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• Children will listen

  17-04-2024 18:25 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s tempting to start a review of Beyond the Garden Gate with a comment like, “The fairy tales I grew up with were never like this.” But let’s face it: The fairy tales we grew up with at least started out as something like this. Impostors Theatre Company’s expert, if occasionally disturbing, new production (written […]
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• Hat trick

  17-04-2024 17:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Forgetting a hookup’s name? Bad. Forgetting your spouse’s name? So bad it requires Old Testament intervention.   Hetchman (Scott Danielson) is on a mission to find his lost partner (Daria Harper) and favorite accessory in Lauren Yee’s 100-minute, one-act, modern fable dramedy. After a young woman (Taylor B. Hill) moves to a new home in the […]
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• Spies like us

  17-04-2024 17:31 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Written and directed by Grant Batdorff, this satire of spy thrillers for Two Chairs Theatre at the Annoyance begins with a bang: a wry, spot-on parody of those bombastic title sequences popular in the 60s in shows like Mission: Impossible and mocked in the 90s in the Austin Powers movies. Sadly, nothing in the subsequent […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 14

  17-04-2024 17:05 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 14. April 18, 2024
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• Black Maternity Health Week: Resources & Organizations To Check Out

  17-04-2024 16:30 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Photo: PeopleImages / iStock / Getty Images
  It’s been one year since President Joe Biden officially proclaimed April 11 through April 17 as Black Maternal Health Week. The seven-day observance shines a light on Black mothers who struggle with pregnancy or maternity-related complications due to various obstacles and dangers. The Centers for Disease Control says Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. Healthcare access and quality, under
  
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• Artists Against Apartheid organizers balance joy and Palestinian resistance

  17-04-2024 16:04 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A cross between an art market, block party, and political rally, Artists Against Apartheid brings together Palestinian and Arab artists from around Chicago to recharge, build community, and raise funds for those in occupied Palestine.  Artists Against ApartheidSun 4/21 2-8 PM, Alhambra Palace Chicago, 1240 W. Randolph, $5-10 suggested donationinstagram.com/falasteen.favorites “This is a time for […]
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• Auditorium Theatre Unveils Alvin Ailey Dance Theater’s Highly Anticipated Return, April 17-21

  17-04-2024 14:30 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Members of the Company in Alvin Ailey’s For ‘Bird’ – With Love. Photo by Dario Calmese
  World renowned ambassadors of Dance and Culture, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to its Chicago home – the landmark Auditorium Theatre at 50 E. Ida B. Wells Drive – for its 55th engagement here, with six dynamic performances, April 17-21, 2024. 
  Celebrating its 65th Anniversary season in 2023-24, the company will perform three distinct programs certain to
  
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• The Carr Report: Choosing your life mate…The most important decision you’ll ever make!

  17-04-2024 14:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Investing in yourself is the best in­vestment you’ll ever make. When you focus on becoming the best version of yourself, you’ll strive to continual­ly learn more, earn more, save more, exercise more, eat healthier, and do things that you love and enjoy.
  When you’re seeking a romantic companion, you want to find a person who will enhance the quality of your life. Someone who will encourage you to be the best version of yourself as you do the same for them. No one en­
  
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• MR. SONNY KNOWS for Apr 17

  17-04-2024 14:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
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• Rainbow Push CEO Rev. Haynes III Resigns After 3 Months On The Job

  17-04-2024 13:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Three months after being formally appointed as CEO of Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH, Pastor Frederick Haynes III has resigned. 
  Haynes, 63, confirmed to The Associated Press that he submitted his resignation letter, citing personal reflection and a need to step down amid ongoing challenges. He expressed gratitude to Rev. Jackson for the opportunity but did not delve into specifics about his decision.
  “After a time of prayer and consultation, I felt it was best to step down a
  
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• Media Burn hosts a historic symposium

  16-04-2024 21:26 via chicagoreader.com
  In an age in which distinctions between broadcast and streaming or video and digital are increasingly meaningless, it can be easy to forget just how revolutionary the technology of video was when it was introduced.   Prior to the availability of cameras like the Sony Portapak in the late 1960s, capturing moving images was the […]
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• Nurse T Honors National Nurses Week with Second Annual Future Nurses Program on May 4 in Detroit for Kids 5-15

  16-04-2024 21:06 via chicagodefender.com
  Teberah “Nurse T” Alexander also announces the launch of the Future Nurses Scholarship for minority students
  Teberah Alexander, RN, BSN, also known as “Nurse T,” announced today that the second annual Nurses Program for children 5-14 years of age is open for registration. The event will take place on Saturday May 4 from 1-5 pm at Renaissance High School (6566 W. Outer Dr. Detroit, MI 48235) as part of National Nurses Week.
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• Motel Breakfast celebrate a diverse but cohesive post-lockdown album

  16-04-2024 20:54 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Motel Breakfast front man Jimmy Drenovsky founded the indie-rock five-piece in 2017, while at Marquette University in Milwaukee. He’d met most of his bandmates—guitarist Mick O’Donnell, keyboardist Conor Brennan, and drummer Jesse Nasadowski—growing up in Chicago’s south suburbs. When the band got together, though, O’Donnell and bassist Drue deVente were at the University of Wisconsin […]
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• Review: The First Omen

  16-04-2024 20:22 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The 1976 classic The Omen is a terrified reactionary fever dream in which the rebellious, untrustworthy youth bring about the apocalypse through an assault on the hierarchical verities of church and state. Director Arkasha Stevenson’s prequel/sequel The First Omen neatly and wittily inverts the moral valence. In her film, it is the church itself, fearful […]
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• Fad2Fresh has become an Andersonville staple

  16-04-2024 20:14 via chicagoreader.com
  Doors open to toy cars, an old arcade machine, racks of vintage 70s sweaters, and the crooning voice of Zapp founder Roger Troutman. In the corner of the small vintage shop sits Alexandria Jones’s most prized possession: a 1990s poster of Michael Jordan and Spike Lee. Lee is caught suspended in midair, attempting (read: failing) […]
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• White liberal guilt meets inconvenient truths in The Thanksgiving Play

  16-04-2024 17:21 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Growing up mixed Indigenous (Cherokee on my dad’s side), I always had an understanding of U.S. history that my peers didn’t. While my family celebrated Thanksgiving every year, my dad made a point of teaching me about what the pilgrims actually did to people like me hundreds of years ago. However, I didn’t really understand […]
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• Chicago Sky Draft Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso, Creating Fan Buzz

  16-04-2024 16:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  A “Most Outstanding Player” and the Bayou Barbie are coming to “Skytown.” 
  In Monday night’s WNBA Draft, the Chicago Sky selected former University of South Carolina star Kamilla Cardoso and the equally electrifying Angel Reese from Louisiana State University, with the No. 3 and No. 7 picks, respectively. 
  “I’m super excited to compete. Work hard, and let’s win,” said Reese in a video clip that appeared on X.  .@Reese10Ang
  
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• White Man Charged With Murder After Black Teen’s Leg Found In Park

  16-04-2024 14:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Photo: Milwaukee Police Department, GoFundMe
  A white man was arrested after authorities found the remains of a missing Black college student in a Milwaukee park. On Friday (April 5), Maxwell Anderson, 33, was charged with homicide, mutilation of a corpse, and arson in the murder of 19-year-old Sade Robinson, according to CNN.
  A criminal complaint obtained by reporters said Robinson told her co-workers she planned a first date with Anderson at a local seafood restaurant where he used to work. Sh
  
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• J. Pharoah Doss: Tennessee repeals local police reform: was the repeal Republican paternalism?

  16-04-2024 14:00 via chicagodefender.com
  
  Members of Memphis’ SCORPION unit were behind the brutal beating of a suspect. City of Memphis via AP
  George Lakoff’s book, Moral Politics: How Liberals and Con­servatives Think, makes a dis­tinction between left and right through parenting approaches. He modeled the left after a nurturing parent and the right after a strict parent. A nurturing parent over­protects to prevent undesirable outcomes, while a strict parent prepares for them but acknowl­edges their in
  
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• Civil Rights Groups Want Baltimore Bridge Renamed Due To Slavery Ties

  16-04-2024 13:30 via chicagodefender.com
  
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  Civil rights groups are urging political leaders to rename Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge following its collapse last month.
  According to NBC News, the caucus of African American Leaders, whose members include various civil rights groups like the NAACP and National Coalition of 100 Black Women, voted last week to petition the Maryland state government to reconsider the name of the Baltimore bridge.
  Francis Scott Key, the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner,&
  
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• North Dakota death-metal band Gorgatron ramp up to a new album

  15-04-2024 22:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  North Dakota death-metal unit Gorgatron have been building up steam since they released their debut album, Torturetorium, in 2010, but it wasn’t until they toured in support of 2020’s Pathogenic Automation that they scorched their imprint on the national underground scene. The five-piece specialize in deranged, outsize old-school death metal injected with bits of grind […]
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• Jazz-pop talent Laufey gives the classics a bewitching overhaul

  15-04-2024 22:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  No artist in recent memory has been able to cross the generational divide quite like 24-year-old jazz-pop phenom Laufey. Since she released her full-length debut, 2022’s Everything I Know About Love, the Icelandic-Chinese singer and multi-instrumentalist has commanded a surprisingly young TikTok audience with her orchestral jazz-pop fusion. The cellist and pianist writes and produces […]
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