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Music, Music Feature Mar 29, 2019
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C.H.E.W. take a bite out of hardcore

The Chicago four-piece twist and tear at their favorite genre to give it a strange new shape.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, C.H.E.W., Chew, hardcore, Iron Lung, Feeding Frenzy, Orlando, Margaritaville, La Casa Maldita, Russell Harrison, Ben Rudolph, Doris Jeane, Jonathan Giralt, Jono, Jensen Ward, Pile, Drunken Sailor, Great Deceivers, Knife Hits, Rudimentary Peni, Dead Kennedys, Ralph Rivera, the Bug, Not Normal Tapes, Strange New Universe, Penetrode, Neck Chop Records, Patience, Positive Affirmations, Belly Up, Rick Maguire, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 15, 2018
Assault weapons used to be illegal. What happened?

Why did the U.S. government remove its ban on assault rifles?
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Archive Dive, News, This Will Kill You, Parkland high school shooting, Nikolas Cruz, Orlando, mass shooting, assault weapons ban, Congress, gun violence, Mike Bost, Rodney L. Davis, Randy Hultgren, Adam Kinzinger, Darrin LaHood, Peter Roskam, John Shimkus, Dick Durbin, Mark Kirk, Image

Blogs, Bleader Oct 20, 2017
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How The Florida Project works wonders with cinematic time

Sean Baker's indie drama is an impressive feat of sympathetic filmmaking.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Poverty, Sean Baker, The Florida Project, Willem Dafoe, The Spirit of the Beehive, Victor Erice, poverty, Orlando, Video

Music, Music Feature Jul 27, 2016
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Can Vic Mensa radicalize Lollapalooza?

The Chicago rapper publicly supports Black Lives Matter and LGBT rights, among other progressive causes—which makes him an interesting fit for a festival that tries to please everyone.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Vic Mensa, Save Money, Kids These Days, There’s Alot Going On, Lollapalooza, Pepsi Stage, Grant Park, Perry Farrell, Innanetape, Respect My Vote!, Hip Hop Caucus, Black Lives Matter, Black Youth Project 100, Malik Yusef, Free Love, 16 Shots, Laquan McDonald, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Justice for Flint, One Campaign, Rock the Vote, HeadCount, Syd Rocks, Working Bikes, CeaseFire, Center on Halsted, Cure Violence, Aja Monet, Blood Orange, Bike 4 Life, Chicago Cares, Straight Up, Whispers, Nico Segal, Towkio, Queen, Pride, Traphouse Rock, Pulse, Orlando, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 2016
Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa on Orlando: ‘It really hit close to home’

Chicago’s first openly gay alderman reflects on the mass shooting’s impact on queer and Latinx communities.
- By Marc Daalder
- Tags: News, LGBT, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, Orlando, LGBTQ, Chicago Police Department, Eddie Johnson, mass shooting, terrorism, hate crime, gun violence, Islamophobia, homophobia

Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 2016
‘Pride, noise, and grief’ predicted at 20th annual Dyke March

Billed as a grassroots celebration of queer resilience, this year’s event in Humboldt Park pays homage to the events in Orlando.
- By Alice Merrill
- Tags: News, LGBTQ+, Orlando, Dyke March, Dyke March Collective, Pride Week, LGBTQ, Latinx

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Jun 23, 2016
Is calling a coworker by his puppy name sexual?

Dan enlists an expert on the subject. Plus: inadvertent outing, despair after Orlando
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, puppy play, Orlando, Pulse, Human Rights Campaign, HB2, marriage equality

Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2016
Orlando shooting renews debate on blood donations from gay and bisexual men

Men who’ve had sex with men in the past year are still prohibited from giving blood. Researchers and politicians in Illinois say that needs to change.
- By Dawn Reiss
- Tags: News, LGBT, Criminal Justice, Orlando, mass shooting, LGBTQ, blood donations, HIV, AIDS, Mike Quigley, Ramon Gardenhire, Renslow Sherer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Howard Brown Health Center, Northwestern University’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, Brian Mustanski, Third Coast Center for AIDS Research

Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2016
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Queer hardcore group G.L.O.S.S. release Trans Day of Revenge just when we need it most

G.L.O.S.S. confront violence against queer and trans people, and one of the best songs from their new seven-inch is even more necessary after the mass shooting in Orlando.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Trans Day of Revenge, We Live, G.L.O.S.S., 12 O'Clock Track, Girls Living Outside Society's Shit, Pulse, Sadie Switchblade, Orlando, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2016
After Orlando, flying the PFLAG at half-mast

Dear parents: We need you to fight with us.
- By KT Hawbaker
- Tags: News, LGBT, LGBTQ, Orlando, Eddie Justice, Pulse Nightclub, Pride, PFLAG

Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2016
FBI warned CPD about possible plot to kill cops during Laquan McDonald controversy, and other Chicago news

Also, a man killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting lived in Chicago until March.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago Police Department, FBI, Laquan McDonald, Homan Square, Eddie Johnson, Independent Police Review Authority, Fraternal Order of Police, gun violence, Orlando, McDonald's, fashion

Blogs, Bleader Jun 14, 2016
Whether it’s in Orlando or Chicago, queer and trans people of color are more likely to face violence

We can’t ignore the disproportionate impact of violence on black and Latinx LGBTQ people.
- By Derrick Clifton
- Tags: News, Politics, LGBT, Criminal Justice, Orlando, Pulse Nightclub, LGBT, black, Latinx, gun violence, hate crime, mass shooting

Blogs, Bleader Jun 14, 2016
These Illinois elected officials tried to ban assault rifles like the one used by Omar Mateen

The U.S. had an assault weapons ban: What happened?
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: News, Politics, This Will Kill You, Orlando, mass shooting, assault weapons ban, Congress, gun violence, Mike Bost, Rodney L. Davis, Randy Hultgren, Adam Kinzinger, Darrin LaHood, Peter Roskam, John Shimkus, Dick Durbin, Mark Kirk

Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2016
‘We'll always be here for you’: Top cop vows to protect Chicago’s LGBTQ community in wake of Orlando shooting

LGBTQ groups, city officials, and ordinary Chicagoans also expressed grief and outrage over the worst mass shooting in American history.
- By Marc Daalder
- Tags: News, LGBT, Orlando, LGBTQ, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Police Department, Eddie Johnson, mass shooting, terrorism, hate crime, gun violence, homophobia, Islamophobia

Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2016
Hundreds gather in Boystown to remember the victims of the Orlando mass shooting and other Chicago news

Also, Pat Quinn makes a surprising return to politics with mayoral term limits petition.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Orlando, gun violence, LGBT rights, Boystown, Pride Parade, Rahm Emanuel, Pat Quinn, elections, Chicago Police Department, Urooj Khan, lottery, unsolved mysteries

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Mar 24, 2011
Unafraid of Virginia Woolf

Sarah Ruhl adapts Orlando.
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Orlando, Court Theatre, Virginia Woolf, Sarah Ruhl, Jessica Thebus, Amy Carle, Erica Elam, Linda Roethke

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The Chicago four-piece twist and tear at their favorite genre to give it a strange new shape.

Why did the U.S. government remove its ban on assault rifles?

Sean Baker's indie drama is an impressive feat of sympathetic filmmaking.

The Chicago rapper publicly supports Black Lives Matter and LGBT rights, among other progressive causes—which makes him an interesting fit for a festival that tries to please everyone.

Chicago’s first openly gay alderman reflects on the mass shooting’s impact on queer and Latinx communities.

Billed as a grassroots celebration of queer resilience, this year’s event in Humboldt Park pays homage to the events in Orlando.

Dan enlists an expert on the subject. Plus: inadvertent outing, despair after Orlando

Men who’ve had sex with men in the past year are still prohibited from giving blood. Researchers and politicians in Illinois say that needs to change.

G.L.O.S.S. confront violence against queer and trans people, and one of the best songs from their new seven-inch is even more necessary after the mass shooting in Orlando.

Dear parents: We need you to fight with us.

Also, a man killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting lived in Chicago until March.

We can’t ignore the disproportionate impact of violence on black and Latinx LGBTQ people.

The U.S. had an assault weapons ban: What happened?

LGBTQ groups, city officials, and ordinary Chicagoans also expressed grief and outrage over the worst mass shooting in American history.

Also, Pat Quinn makes a surprising return to politics with mayoral term limits petition.

Sarah Ruhl adapts Orlando.

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