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- Music, Gig Poster of the Week Feb 17, 2021
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Bathe in the cosmic sunshine on the gig poster of the week
This week's featured gig poster was designed by South African artist Simon Berndt in collaboration with Rob Fitzpatrick of Levitation.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 15, 2018
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Ephraim Bugumba sings his refugee’s tale as Storyteller
His long, hard journey from the Congo to DeKalb began when he was three, but he uses music to keep a connection to home alive.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 6, 2018
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Mies Julie depicts a postapartheid South Africa still mired in its legacy of colonialism and racism
But playwright Yaël Farber’s ambition far outstrips what appears onstage.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 19, 2018
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Chairwoman Preckwinkle's Machine takeover a far cry from days of Fast Eddie
To beat the Machine, you gotta be the Machine and other lessons for Toni Preckwinkle and the next generation of Democratic Party leaders.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 29, 2017
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South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo fans the spark of resistance into the flame of liberated jazz
The last survivor of legendary 60s group the Blue Notes introduces his current band to Chicago.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Mar 22, 2017
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Falling, and eight more stage shows to see now
Bertolt Brecht's satire set in 1930s gangland Chicago and the local premiere of an off-Broadway hit are among this week's best bets.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 8, 2016
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A classic document of early South African jazz finally gets a wide reissue
British label Jazzman has reissued a dynamic 1963 big-band album led by pianist Chris McGregor and featuring players from influential group the Blue Notes.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 28, 2015
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News flash: Someone said something nice about Carly Fiorina
A former Hewlett Packard employee says her former CEO was "inspiring."
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 23, 2014
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How press photographers got Pulitzer-winning pictures
Great pictures photographers got by doing what photographers do
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 9, 2014
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"Vacancy," Lilli Carré, and the rest of your weekend in visual arts
Your guide to visual arts in the city this weekend
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 6, 2013
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How Chicago should honor Mandela
Apartheid wasn't just a South African thing.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 20, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: "Shichangani," a pioneering slice of South African shangaan disco
A track from the 1994 breakthrough album by South Africa's Penny Penny
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Jun 3, 2013
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A killer stalks The Shining Girls through time
Chicago throughout the 20th century is the setting for Lauren Beukes's creepy new novel.
- Music, Music Sidebar May 23, 2013
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HoZac digs deep for the 2013 Blackout
This year's lovingly curated lineup features power-pop progenitor Dwight Twilley, weirdo sci-fi postpunks Chrome, and lots more.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 21, 2013
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What difference does it make why Oscar Pistorius shot her?
Deep thinking about Oscar Pistorius and South Africa
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 6, 2013
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Oscar-nominated live-action shorts: The "30-Second Auteur" takes to the high seas in Asad
Oscar-nominated live-action shorts: Asad
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 17, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Thu 1/17: Sweet Home Chicago: The History of America's Candy Capital, Cadre, and Willy Mason
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, January 17, 2013
- News & Politics, Chicagoans Nov 28, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Angie Donenberg, co-owner, Lice Detectives
"When I arrived, his hair was shining and moving. There were bugs falling off his hair onto the floor."
- Film, Movie Sidebar Jun 13, 2012
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The not-so-dark continent
The African Diaspora International Film Festival screens 6/15-6/21 at Facets
- Film, Movie Sidebar May 16, 2012
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A world of hurt
Human Rights Watch Film Festival presents six new documentaries at Gene Siskel Film Center
- Music, Music Column Feb 9, 2012
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Q&A with Ninja of Die Antwoord
"We kind of noticed why everyone likes us. It was like, Oh shit, I have a gun and I didn’t know that I had a gun."
- Film, Movie Sidebar Sep 1, 2011
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Women on the verge of a social breakdown
Life, Above All looks closely at the sexism and superstition that runs through poor South African Life
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 22, 2011
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The Malans of South Africa
In the Malan family history, Rian Malan found the roots of South Africa's madness
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 8, 2010
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Cuba: An African Odyssey
"Cuba: An African Odyssey," screening Monday 2/8 at Biblioteca Popular, follows Cuba's role in African liberation campaigns from the 60s through the 80s.
