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Music, The Listener Jul 13, 2020
HHY & the Macumbas soundtrack the bonfire at the end of the world

This Portuguese collective’s new live album captures their entrancing flood of percussion, brass, and “skull cave echo.”
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: The Listener, HHY & the Macumbas, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Camouflage Vector, Camouflage Vector: Edits From Live Actions 2017-2019, Nyege Nyege Tapes, Kampala, Uganda, Porto, Portugal, Tenerife, Nihiloxica, Oxidation Machine, Shark: The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, Barcelos, Adrian Sherwood, skull cave echo

News & Politics, Feature May 27, 2020
Video
'Please stay at home'

From a studio inside his closet, one refugee is using YouTube to broadcast information about coronavirus.
- By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven
- Tags: Feature, Immigration, refugee, coronavirus, COVID-19, YouTube, heartland alliance, cdc, uganda, Video

Music, Concert Preview Dec 21, 2019
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Kinobe juxtaposes East and West Africa in delicate, polished grooves
- By Catalina Maria Johnson
- Tags: Concert Preview, Kinobe, Herbert Kinobe, Uganda, Pan-African, Kampala, Lake Victoria, Washington D.C., Bugandan, lyre, Toumani Diabaté, Afropop, Afrofolk, Denis Sewanyana, Hothouse, May Chapel, Recommended

Music, In Rotation Oct 15, 2019
Video
Curator Adia Sykes on a voice that takes you back to the golden age of soul

Plus: ESS codirector Olivia Junell on a sound she could listen to forever, Reader music editor Philip Montoro on a fusion of apocalyptic synths and ancient rhythms, and more
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: In Rotation, Malignant Altar, Retribution of Jealous Gods, Houston, Nihiloxica, Nyege Nyege Tapes, Kampala, Uganda, Bugandan, Nilotika Cultural Ensemble, Realms of Exquisite Morbidity, Kokoko!, Crammed Discs, Biiri, Gamelan Çudamani, Music Festival Chicago, David Chavez, Carlos Tortolero, DCASE, Olivia Junell, Experimental Sound Studio, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Sara Ludy, Deeptimesurfacetime, South Shore, the Quarry, Dee Alexander, Universal Alley Jazz Jams, Urban Aspirations, Fat Tony, Hoody Party, Smart Ass Black Boy, Adia Sykes, Kendrick Lamar, Alright, To Pimp a Butterfly, PJ Morton, Gumbo Unplugged, Yebba, BJ the Chicago Kid, Lecrae, Osvaldo Fresedo, Dizzy Gillespie, flamenco, Vida Mía, Video

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 25, 2019
Cardboard Piano looks for hope and healing in Uganda

Hansol Jung's drama takes on religious hypocrisy, the lives of child soldiers, and the connections between the personal and political.
- By Catey Sullivan
- Tags: Theater Review, Cardboard Piano, TimeLine Theatre, Hansol Jung, Uganda, homophobia, Kearstyn Keller, Adia Alli, Mechelle Moe, Freedom Martin, Kai A. Ealy, Jared Bellot, child soldier

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 12, 2017
Choir Boy, Foxfinder, and 12 more stage shows to see now

A play by Moonlight author Tarell Alvin McCraney and a paranoiac drama by British playwright Dawn Hall are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Blue/Orange, Runcible Theatre Company, Joe Penhall, National Theatre of Great Britian, Owen Hickle Edwards, Stephen Fedo, Nathaniel Andrew, Idi Amin Dada, Uganda, National Health Service, Andrew Root, Royal George Theatre Center, Raven Theatre, Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Brother/Sister Plays, Moonlight, Choir Boy, Michael Menendian, Christopher W. Jones, Breon Arzell, Frederick Harris, The Crucible, Steppenwolf for Young Adults, Arthur Miller, Arnel Sancianco, Jonathan Berry, Wallace Shawn, Evening at the Talk House, A Red Orchid Theatre, HB Ward, Shade Murray, Foxfinder, Dawn King, Interrobang Theatre, Alexandra Fisher, David Anthony Marshall, Jack Olin, Margaret Knapp, The Invisible Hand, Ayad Akhtar, Steep Theatre, Joel Reitsma, Audrey Francis, Lady Faust, Sharai Bohannon, Sophie Duntley, Christopher Marlowe, Faust, Torey Byrne, The Making of an American Folk Hero, Martin Zimmerman, Kelly Howe, The Other Theatre Company, The Man-Beast, First Folio Theatre, Joseph Zettelmaier, Hayley Rice, Elizabeth Laidlaw, Aaron Christensen, Lyric Opera, Rigoletto, Verdi, Victor Hugo, Ryan Opera Center, Quinn Kelsey, Mathew Polenzani, Michael Yeargen, Marco Armiliato, Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw, Marylynne Anderson-Cooper, Poetic Forum Collective, Christabel Donkor, de Chirico, UniverSoul Circus, Cedric Walker, Bone Breakers, Reutan Collective, Wasteland Hero, Kyle Encinas, Nicky Jasper, Kate Lass, Bobby Hoffman, Kim Fukawa, Witi, an Interactive Show, Matthew Hoelter, iO

Blogs, Bleader Dec 27, 2016
Report: President Barack Obama is planning to say farewell at McCormick Place, and other Chicago news

Also, who knew that being the city's "harbor boss" was such a challenging gig?
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Barack Obama, McCormick Place, Chicago, gun violence, gang violence, Chicago Police Department, Anthony Guglielmi, Harold Washington, Lake Michigan, David Steiner, Uganda, Africa, gyms, David Barton gyms, fitness

Blogs, Bleader Feb 24, 2011
Video
Living for 32

Kevin Breslin's short documentary "Living for 32," about Colin Goddard, antigun activist and Virginia Tech shooting survivor, screens Friday 2/25 in the Peace on Earth Film Festival, which runs through Sunday 2/27 at the Chicago Cultural Center.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Swag, Virginia Tech, massacre, gun control, Kevin Breslin, Sundance, Colin Goddard, Peace on Earth Film Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater, Curt Fissel, Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean, Uganda, fair trade, coffee, interfaith, Iman Zawahry, Muslim, Jewish, UnderCover, Bob Hercules, Radical Disciple, Michael Pfleger, St. Sabina, Keith Walker, Bertram Verhaag, Scientists Under Attack, Genetic Engineering, GMO, Out of Cordoba, Averroes and Maimonides in Their Time and Ours, Jacob Bender, Todd Drezner, Autism, Loving Lampposts, Rowan Waltz, World War II, Russia, Alyona Semenova, Alexandra Smirnov, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 19, 2007
AIDS and culture

A rising-star economist thinks culture doesn't matter.
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: University Of Chicago, Economics, AIDS, Esquire, Uganda, Emily Oster, Helen Epstein

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Jun 13, 2002
ABC Africa
- By Jonathan Rosenbaum
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Abbas Kiarostami, Uganda, AIDS, Documentary

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HHY & the Macumbas soundtrack the bonfire at the end of the world

This Portuguese collective’s new live album captures their entrancing flood of percussion, brass, and “skull cave echo.”

Video
'Please stay at home'

From a studio inside his closet, one refugee is using YouTube to broadcast information about coronavirus.

Recommended
Kinobe juxtaposes East and West Africa in delicate, polished grooves

Video
Curator Adia Sykes on a voice that takes you back to the golden age of soul

Plus: ESS codirector Olivia Junell on a sound she could listen to forever, Reader music editor Philip Montoro on a fusion of apocalyptic synths and ancient rhythms, and more

Cardboard Piano looks for hope and healing in Uganda

Hansol Jung's drama takes on religious hypocrisy, the lives of child soldiers, and the connections between the personal and political.

Choir Boy, Foxfinder, and 12 more stage shows to see now

A play by Moonlight author Tarell Alvin McCraney and a paranoiac drama by British playwright Dawn Hall are among this week's best bets.

Report: President Barack Obama is planning to say farewell at McCormick Place, and other Chicago news

Also, who knew that being the city's "harbor boss" was such a challenging gig?

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Living for 32

Kevin Breslin's short documentary "Living for 32," about Colin Goddard, antigun activist and Virginia Tech shooting survivor, screens Friday 2/25 in the Peace on Earth Film Festival, which runs through Sunday 2/27 at the Chicago Cultural Center.

AIDS and culture

A rising-star economist thinks culture doesn't matter.

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This Portuguese collective’s new live album captures their entrancing flood of percussion, brass, and “skull cave echo.”

From a studio inside his closet, one refugee is using YouTube to broadcast information about coronavirus.

Plus: ESS codirector Olivia Junell on a sound she could listen to forever, Reader music editor Philip Montoro on a fusion of apocalyptic synths and ancient rhythms, and more

Hansol Jung's drama takes on religious hypocrisy, the lives of child soldiers, and the connections between the personal and political.

A play by Moonlight author Tarell Alvin McCraney and a paranoiac drama by British playwright Dawn Hall are among this week's best bets.

Also, who knew that being the city's "harbor boss" was such a challenging gig?

Kevin Breslin's short documentary "Living for 32," about Colin Goddard, antigun activist and Virginia Tech shooting survivor, screens Friday 2/25 in the Peace on Earth Film Festival, which runs through Sunday 2/27 at the Chicago Cultural Center.

A rising-star economist thinks culture doesn't matter.

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