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- RIP Omar Sharif
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
• That South Carolina’s Confederate flag is coming down? —Drew Hunt
• That Donald Trump accounted for almost half of all social media traffic on the 2016 race this week and now leads the Republican field in the polls? —Mick Dumke
• That Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has at least one redeeming quality: lifelong support of civil rights? —Kate Schmidt
• That Omar Sharif died? —Drew Hunt
• Rolling Stone‘s account of a weekend with Bernie Sanders? —Evin Billington
• That Goose Island brewed a Chance the Rapper beer for the Pitchfork Music Festival? —Brianna Wellen
• About prison slang? —Aimee Levitt
• About the photographer who put different drugs under the microscope and photographed them? —Tanner Howard
• That Time Out Chicago is bringing back its print edition? —Brianna Wellen