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• Welcome to Fatherhood Inc.: Celebrating, Enriching and Empowering Fathers

  16-06-2024 15:15
  
  Welcome to Fatherhood Inc., or WTF for short, is a non-profit organization founded by Sir Royce Briales and Raheem Young. Its aim is to empower dads of all ages to demonstrate their superpowers to the world.
  The idea sprang from conversations about the challenges and anxieties Briales and Young faced as they awaited the arrival of their first children. In response, they established WTF as a platform for new and experienced fathers to share their parenting journeys.
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• Diana Solis and Patric McCoy document LGBTQ+ joy

  27-09-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  There is something extraordinary about physical photo albums for me. There’s a warm feeling of belonging that accompanies each page turned, as new perspectives are gained of stories I’m only vaguely familiar with. Photo albums enliven personal histories when words can’t convey the depth of the moment. I was reminded of this sensation while visiting […]
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• Worlds collide with Chacko’s Tacos at the next Monday Night Foodball

  27-09-2024 00:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2015, James Kanookadan showed up at a downtown hotel ballroom with a bunch of Tupperware containers and mason jars and threw together a Kerala fried chicken sandwich with mango pickle mayo in four minutes. It got him past the first round of auditions for MasterChef. In 2024, he showed up on the patio of […]
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• Review: The Wild Robot

  26-09-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The Wild Robot in wide release in theaters
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• Review: Patrice: The Movie

  26-09-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Patrice: The Movie in limited release in theaters and streaming on Hulu
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• Review: Never Let Go

  26-09-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Never Let Go in wide release in theaters
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• Review: Child Star

  26-09-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Child Star streaming on Hulu
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• Review: A Different Man

  26-09-2024 20:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  A Different Man in limited release in theaters, followed by wide release
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• AI meets Afrofuturism

  26-09-2024 17:56 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’m not totally used to artists openly exploring the deeply humorous, even unserious nature of their work. But in “Revisionist History,” artist Tyanna J. Buie encourages viewers to chuckle with her at an AI interpretation of her family legacy, had it not been sidetracked by the centuries-long, diasporic impact of colonialism. Beginning with a set […]
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• Light Switch is a warm look at queerness and neurodiversity

  26-09-2024 17:24 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Autism onstage arguably really came into its own with Simon Stephens’s 2012 stage version of Mark Haddon’s novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. In 2017, Mickey Rowe, who played autistic Christopher in a coproduction of the play with Indiana Repertory Theatre and Syracuse Stage, became the first actor with autism to […]
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• A tale of two brothers

  26-09-2024 16:59 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “I don’t gotta spend my whole life hustling,” Lincoln says. “There’s more to Link than that.” Before he spent his days impersonating Abraham Lincoln at his assassination in an arcade, Lincoln was a three-card monte street hustler. He was a damn good one at that—and his little brother Booth constantly implores Lincoln to teach him […]
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• What would Fat Jesus do?

  26-09-2024 16:46 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Von Harris wanted to cook his Great-Grandma Shortstop’s greens for his high school classmates and teachers. It was one of a series of lunches that served as evaluations for an advanced cooking class called Chef and Restaurant Cooking. For his prep list, the 15-year-old Hinsdale South sophomore requested collard, mustard, and turnip greens, along with […]
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• They keep their victims ready

  26-09-2024 16:43 via chicagoreader.com
  
  In 2022, Omer Abbas Salem scored a hit with his dramedy about a Syrian American family, Mosque4Mosque, produced by About Face Theatre. Salem’s latest, Happy Days Are Here (Again), now being presented by Steep Theatre at Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theater, is far removed from the warm and witty feeling that permeated his earlier work. But given […]
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• An array of Ariels

  26-09-2024 15:55 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Open the program for Idle Muse Theatre Company’s production of The Tempest and you might assume there’s a typo at first glance. Six actors are credited as Ariel, an ethereal spirit who serves Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan who raises his daughter and practices sorcery on a remote island.  The TempestThrough 10/20: Thu–Sat 8 […]
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• A mighty Wind

  26-09-2024 00:47 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Let us take a moment to celebrate the welcome return of Harry Lennix to our local stages this year. After playing a Jesse Jackson–like figure in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Purpose at Steppenwolf and August Wilson in the late playwright’s theatrical memoir, How I Learned What I Learned, produced by Congo Square Theatre Company at the Broadway […]
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• A light repast

  26-09-2024 00:26 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Is it odd to see Michael Frayn’s 1982 theatrical farce, Noises Off, onstage at Steppenwolf? Yes. Could Anna D. Shapiro’s cast do a little more to flesh out the material? Probably yes. Will you have a delightful time anyway? Also probably yes (unless you hate farce, which is a perfectly acceptable stance).  If we’re going […]
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• Sunshine and blow jobs

  25-09-2024 22:42 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. More than just movies, I love the moving image. This takes many forms, including the amorphous “installation,” a channel with limitless possibilities of expression. This past weekend, I was on a […]
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• Smoked brisket taco at Antique Taco in Bridgeport

  25-09-2024 22:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  I’ve lived in Chicago for almost 25 years, and while it’s difficult to find a taco I’d flatly call bad, the bar is set high for a truly standout, superior version of the portable classic. At Antique Taco in Bridgeport, the smoked brisket taco is a must-order. Brisket isn’t usually something I seek out. Elsewhere, […]
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• WateRR comes to rap as a teacher

  25-09-2024 18:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  As the story goes, hip-hop was born on August 11, 1973, at a back-to-school dance party hosted by DJ Kool Herc. In the more than 50 years since, hip-hop has evolved into a world-changing cultural movement and a massive moneymaker, but from early on it’s consisted of five key elements: MCing, DJing, graffiti, breaking, and […]
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• Prayer Candles

  25-09-2024 17:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  By Casey Cereceda
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• Tasha returns from her brand-new hometown to celebrate her third album

  25-09-2024 17:48 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last Friday, Chicago singer-songwriter (and occasional Reader contributor) Tasha Viets-VanLear released her third full-length album, All This and So Much More. Her gentle indie-rock sensibilities have evolved to accommodate wide-screen expression, but she’s kept her tenderhearted intimacy intact. September has been an eventful month for Viets-VanLear—about a week before All This and So Much More […]
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• Chicago Reader Volume 53, Number 34

  25-09-2024 17:30 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Chicago Reader Volume 53, No. 34. September 26, 2024
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• Mona’s kids

  25-09-2024 16:34 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Nasir knows just how to make his brother laugh. The 15-year-old has that special sixth sense of the comedic pressure points all siblings have for each other. When Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) attacked his family’s home during a raid on the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Nasir kept his brother calm, and […]
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• Support Illinoisans grappling with Alzheimer’s disease with your purchase of a $200,000! Bingo Tripler Instant Ticket from the Illinois Lottery

  25-09-2024 16:15 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive medical disorder that impacts every community. In 2020, the Illinois Lottery launched a new specialty Instant Lottery ticket called The End of Alzheimer’s Begins With Me, designating 100 percent of its profits to the Alzheimer’s Association, Illinois Chapter. To date, the Illinois Lottery has raised more than $4.4 million to […]
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• Tali Halpern dreams big

  25-09-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The first time I met Tali Halpern, they lowered their gaze to mine and said in a voice so deadpan they seemed anesthetized to failure: “I have big dreams for my art.” It was a studio visit at SAIC in January of 2023, as Halpern was settling into their second semester of grad school in […]
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• Calling from the Ted Williams Tunnel

  24-09-2024 22:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Re: “Riverbeast alert,” written by Leor Galil and published in the August 22 issue (volume 53, number 29)  I take exception to [Galil’s] comments about me, the gentleman who opens the film with some comments about the ferocious Riverbeast and how it can be very frightening. Mr. Galil mentions that I have a Boston accent, […]
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• El Brote and Desvenar explore supporting players and cultural archetypes

  24-09-2024 19:03 via chicagoreader.com
  
  You’ve seen them playing the soldier bringing an urgent message to the king or sent by the king to deliver a message (any of Shakespeare’s plays); running down a rickety mountain made of cardboard, paper-mache, and wire screaming in Castilian Spanish “Automobile!” (George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman); or as an elderly Italian couple on […]
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• Unsettling works by Alberto Ortega Trejo

  24-09-2024 17:51 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Mexican architect and artist Alberto Ortega Trejo’s exhibition at Prairie is a result of the artist’s ongoing investigations into Otomí people—an Indigenous group native to what is now known as the Mezquital Valley north of Mexico City and of which he is a descendant. Here, he focuses on their cosmology and the fraught relation to […]
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• Chicago school board elections: what to expect

  23-09-2024 23:44 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Since 1872, when Illinois created the Chicago Board of Education, all of Chicago’s school board members have been appointed by the mayor. But that will change on November 5, when Chicagoans will have their first-ever opportunity to vote for ten members of a new, 21-member school board, with the remaining 11 members still appointed by […]
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• Me encuentras aqui/You will find me here 

  23-09-2024 17:39 via chicagoreader.com
  
  It’s a hot summer Chicago afternoon when I stop outside of Tala gallery. There are white plastic chairs situated in front of the building. Growing up, my family and I had a similar setup in our front yard as a place of relaxation. Instead of buying actual patio furniture, we would instead have an assortment […]
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