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City Life, Public Service Announcement Feb 26, 2021
Celebrating Black achievements

Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Public Service Announcement, Jim O'Rourke, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Hereaclitus, COVID-19, Experimental Sound Studio, Ken Vandermark, Black History Month, DuSable Museum, Que4 Radio, Angel Bat Dawid, Sam Trump, Brandon Breaux, Smithsonian, Ella Jenkins, Printed Matter, Almighty and Insane Books, Candor Arts, Half Letter Press, Mariame Kaba, Soberscove

Arts & Culture, Architecture Sep 18, 2019
South-side champion

Writer-photographer Lee Bey’s new book Southern Exposure showcases architectural masterworks on the typically neglected south and west sides.
- By Lee Ann Norman
- Tags: Architecture, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Lee Bey, Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side, Northwestern University Press, DuSable Museum, School of the Art Institute, Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Chicago Vocational HIgh School, Pride Cleaners, architecture, Chicago architecture, Woodlawn, Englewood, Roseland, south-side Chicago, west-side Chicago, disinvestment, West Pullman, Modernism Week, Palm Springs

Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 8, 2018
Recommended
The Time Is Now! celebrates the black artists of the south side who used their work as a vehicle for social change

The Smart Museum exhibit and companion book provide a valuable historical record of Chicago art between 1960 and 1980.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Art Review, The Time Is Now, Smart Museum, Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960-1980, Rebecca Zorach, Darryl Cowherd, Murry DePillars, Nathan Wright, Hyde Park Arts Center, Barbara Jones-Hogu, the Alley, South Side Community Art Center, Margaret Burroughs, DuSable Museum, Alison Gass, Michael Christiano, south side, south side art, AfriCOBRA, African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists, OBAC, Organization of Black African Culture, mural movement, civil rights era, black power, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Aug 24, 2018
People of Culture will be taking over the DuSable Museum this weekend

A celebration of African culture will be happening at the DuSable Museum.
- By Tyra Nicole Triche
- Tags: Do This, Race, News, Arts, People of Culture, Efe Iyare, DuSable Museum, Africa, African culture, Culture Power, Rahel Mwitula Williams, Elhadji Gueye, Jehu Graham

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Sep 12, 2017
Expo is a little smaller than last year but bigger than ever

The annual art fair is deliberately overlapping with the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Expo Chicago, Expo Chicago 2017, Christian Viveros-Faune, Artnet News, Blake Gopnik, Tony Karman, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Cultural Center, stARTup, Palais de Tokyo, DuSable Museum, Roundhouse DuSable, Next Art Chicago, Artropolis

Arts & Culture, Summer Guide May 17, 2017
Chicago’s south and west sides offer a wealth of art galleries and museums

Feast your eyes at these spaces outside the downtown area.
- By Danielle A. Scruggs
- Tags: Summer Guide, AMFM Gallery, Blanc Gallery, Gallery Guichard, Stony Island Arts Bank, Arts and Public Life Center, Bronzeville, Washington Park, Pilsen, the Loop, DuSable Museum, Petty Biennial, Hyde Park, Beverly, Morgan Park, summer guide 2017

Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2017
Bill T. Jones, Chicago Restaurant Week, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Young Playwrights Festival, Forward Motion Activist Fundraiser, and more things to do this weekend.
- By Isabel Ochoa Gold
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Bill Ayers, David Omotoso Stovall, Seminary Co-Op, Donut Fest, Chop Shop, Zlumber Party, Quimby's, Revival, Barron Trump, Shannon Noll, Young Playwrights Festival, Chinese Lunar New Year, Art Institute, Chicago Restaurant Week, Just Ethos, Chicago Psych Fest, Hideout, Bill T. Jones, Dusable Museum

Blogs, Bleader Mar 8, 2016
Bill Clinton hits town to support Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and other Chicago news

Also, snow on the ground in Logan Square for a movie shoot and Rahm's new inner circle.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, winter weather, spring weather, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Illinois primary, Evanston, Logan Square, filming in Chicago, Amazon, David Spielfogel, Garry McCarthy, Rahm Emanuel, Fran Spielman, Chicago Bears, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Lovie Smith, Washington Park, Daniel Burnham, DuSable Museum

Arts & Culture, Art Review Apr 29, 2014
At the Hull-House Museum, artwork made while doing time

Through the Prison + Neighborhood Art Project, Stateville Correctional Center inmates find creative ways to serve out their sentences.
- By Jake Malooley
- Tags: Art Review, Unfinished Business: The Right to Play, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Damon Locks, Stateville Correctional Center, Crest Hill, the Eternals, Pac-Man, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Heather Radke, Prison + Neighborhood Art Project, Stateville, Danville Correctional Center, Sarah Ross, Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, DuSable Museum, Pell Grants, Illinois Humanities Council, Propeller Fund, Northeastern Illinois University, Patrick Betley, Joseph Dole

Music, Music Sidebar Sep 26, 2013
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival paints a portrait of the Chicago scene

Thirty-two acts at 11 venues, including Dee Alexander, Anat Cohen, Ken Vandermark, and Gerald Clayton
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Sidebar, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Kate Dumbleton, Gerald Clayton, Anat Cohen, Douglas Lora, Willie Pickens, Jeff Parker Trio, Ken Vandermark, Music of the Midwest School, Tomeka Reid, Dee Alexander, Sun Ra, DownBeat magazine, Peter Margasak, Eternals, Damon Locks, Frank Rosaly's Green and Gold, Logan Center, International House, DuSable Museum, Univ. of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, DuSable Museum of African American History, International House, University of Chicago

Blogs, Bleader Sep 20, 2013
My full interview with longtime Chicago film programmer Floyd Webb

The creator of Blacklight Cinema, a Chicago film festival that ran from 1982 to 1995, reminisces about the history of black underground filmmaking and his own "adventures in cinema."
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Art House, Film, History, Floyd Webb, Top of the Heap, Fall Arts Preview, Blacklight Cinema, Playboy Theater, Sandburg Theater, Faces of Women, Desire Ecare, Return of Blacklight Cinema, Community Film Workshop of Chicago, Truck Turner, black cinema, National Film Theatre, South Shore High School, Black Filmmakers Collective, Warrington Hudlin, Black Expo, blaxploitation, The Murder of Fred Hampton, Fred Hampton, Englewood, Hugh Robinson, Midnight Cowboy, Richard Peña, School of the Art Institute, South Shore Film Festival, Omar Kaihatsu, Fine Arts Theater, World Playhouse, DuSable Museum, Facets Multimedia, Soft Sheen Products, Ed Gardner, St. Clair Bourne, Harold Washington, Fred Fine, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago City Arts Council, Gordon Parks, Christopher St. John, Berlin Film Festival, Ganja and Hess, Bill Gunn, Fanfare Studios, Cannes Film Festival, Kristoff St. John, Chicago Filmmakers

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 12, 2013
Art by and about black men

"Maleness to Manhood" continues a year of rich south-side art programming.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Fall Arts, Fall Arts 2013, Maleness to Manhood, Heather Robinson, South Side Community Arts Center, Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, Raymond Thomas, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Sherman Beck, Dayo Laoye, Wall of Respect, Logan Center, DuSable Museum, Margaret Burroughs Gallery, South Side Community Art Center

Blogs, Bleader Jul 27, 2013
Reader's Agenda Sat 7/27: AfriCOBRA's impact, General Zod in Simpatico, and Ken Camden

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, July 27
- By Tosten Burks
- Tags: Do This, Arts, AfriCOBRA, Art and Impact, DuSable Museum, Simpatico, A Red Orchid Theatre, Ken Camden, Constellation

Music, Music Feature Mar 6, 2013
Video
Here comes Mae Ya Carter Ryan

The 11-year-old Bronzeville native has a voice that sounds decades older than she is. People are starting to listen.
- By Anne Ford
- Tags: Music Feature, Ina Carter, Bronzeville, Mae Ya Carter Ryan, Mae Ya Ta'Nell Carter Ryan, voice, singing, WGN, CBS 2 Chicago, WCIU, Chicago Music Awards, Illinois Presidential Inaugural Celebration, Adele, Chicago Has Talent, Wade's World Foundation, Dwyane Wade, Michelle Williams, Destiny's Child, talent, vocal maturity, Whitney Houston, DuSable Museum, Chicago Theatre, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, Jade Maze, American Idol, music industry, intuitive musicality, Judy Garland, Bruce Thompson, Isaac Hayes, 24-Carat Black, Ralph Jones, Mahalia Jackson, music schools, Harvey, Illinois, Merit School of Music, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 24, 2012
Torkwase Dyson: Slip 'n Slide as art project

A brief look at artist Torkwase Dyson
- By Elly Fishman
- Tags: Arts, Visual Art, Torkwase Dyson, Theaster Gates, Dorchester Projects, South Shore Cultural Center, DuSable Museum, Chicago Botanic Garden, William Pope.L

Blogs, Bleader May 20, 2011
Porgy and Bess: The Backstory

Court Theatre's Porgy and Bess has a companion exhibit at the DuSable Museum
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Performing Arts, Arts, Books, Court Theatre, Porgy and Bess, DuSable Museum, Charles Newell, Travis Jackson, Jomo Cheatham

Blogs, Bleader Jan 6, 2011
Video
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, My Dog Tulip, J.R. Ackerley, Secret Sunshine, Lee Chang-dong, Country Strong, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Damien Chazelle, The Klezmatics On Holy Ground, The Legend of Pale Male, My Uncle, Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle, Season of the Witch, Nicolas Cage, Martin Scorsese, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Buster Keaton College, Dennis Scott, Music Box, Tod Browning Freaks, Mae West, She Done Him Wrong, Doc Films, Douglas Sirk, The Tarnished Angels, D.W. Griffith, Way Down East, Black Gold, DuSable Museum, Flow For Love of Water, Chicago Filmmakers, Radical Disciple, Michael Pfleger, Unitarian Church of Evanston, Bob Hercules, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 29, 2010
Video
African Women and Science Fiction

Wanuri Kahiu's post-apocalyptic short "Pumzi" screens and YA novelist Nnedi Okorafor reads and speaks in the African Woman and Science Fiction program Sunday at the DuSable Museum of African American History.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Film, Free Shit, Swag, Books, Wanuri Kahiu, From a Whisper, Nairobi, Kenya, Dusable Museum, African American History, African Jubilee Film Festival, African Women, Science Fiction, Sundance, short film, Public Square, Civic Cinema, portoluz, UIC, Chicago State University, YA, Nnedi Okorafor, Zahrah the Windseeker, Kudzani Moswela, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2010
Video
From a Whisper

Wanuri Kahiu's 2008 drama "From a Whisper," about life ten years later for those left behind by the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya, screens today at 2 p.m. at the DuSable Museum of African American History.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Wanuri Kahiu, From a Whisper, Nairobi, Kenya, U.S. Embassy, bombing, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1998, August 7, Dusable Museum, African American History, African Jubilee Film Festival, Video

Music, Music Sidebar Sep 24, 2009
Hyde Park Jazz Festival

Spotlighting the south-side jazz scene with free jazz performances at 13 venues all day Saturday
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Music Sidebar, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Cassandra Wilson, International House, Hyde Park Art Center, Dee Alexander, Von Freeman, Dusable Museum, Ernest Dawkins, Willie Pickens, Experimental Station, 8 Bold Souls, Midway Plaisance Park, Little Black Pearl Workshop, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, DuSable Museum of African American History, Oriental Institute Museum, Smart Museum of Art, International House, University of Chicago, Little Black Pearl

Blogs, Bleader Apr 9, 2009
4/19 -- Screening of The Refugee All Stars

Screening of "The Refugee All Stars" at the Dusable Museum, followed by a discussion.
- By Nicholas Teddy
- Tags: Free Shit, Swag, DuSable Museum, The Refugee All Stars, Sierra Leone, Guinea, SankofaSpirit, Zach Niles, Banker White, West Africa

Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2008
9/14 -- Screening of "The Lion Mountains"

The Lion Mountains, a documentary about Jamaican-English filmmaker Louis Buckley's journey to Sierra Leone, screens at the DuSable Museum Sunday.
- By Katie Buitrago
- Tags: Free Shit, Swag, DuSable Museum, Louis Buckley, Movies With a Mission, The Lion Mountains

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