James Allen is serving three life sentences for murder. No one ever said he killed anyone.
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Little-known Chicago blues-rock wizard Zach Prather has found his crowd in Europe
Thanks in part to a long partnership with the late Cash McCall, Prather has played with the likes of Willie Dixon, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, and Etta James.
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Remembering Agnès Varda with a festival of her short films
“You think of Agnès Varda as this woman going places that not a lot of filmmakers were going at that time.”
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The many lives of Alderman Danny Solis
Solis swapped his loyalty to Daley and Rahm for sex, Viagra, and the council’s zoning chair.
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Let us now praise Elvis Presley and his movies
It’s the King’s birthday, so Viva Las Vegas, baby!
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Once a street gang, then a political collective, the Young Lords celebrate 50 years with a symposium at DePaul
“We’re not from Humboldt Park or Lincoln Park, we’re Puerto Ricans.”
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Rapper Vic Mensa: Chicago’s newest Black Panther?
At this past weekend’s “anti-bait-truck” shoe giveaway, the 25-year-old rapper declared himself a revolutionary.
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Highlights and lowlights from the eighth annual Chicago Fringe Festival
Jeff Fort and Fred Hampton: A Revolutionary Love Story is among the standouts at this northwest-side showcase for “the untried and the weird.”
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A Q&A with filmmaker Jamal Joseph on Chapter & Verse and the prison industrial complex
Joseph’s first feature is a personal and multifaceted look at America’s broken prison system.
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A federal indictment of a Chicago cop adds a new pressure point for police reform
The U.S. attorney’s suit against Officer Marco Proano is just one of a host of legal challenges facing CPD.
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After gay marriage, whither exquisite anguish and romantic tragedy?
Is the price of progress a loss of artistic inspiration?
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The Butler: The anti-Gump
In Lee Daniels’s The Butler, painful social realities collide with delirious fantasy.
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Tim’m West and the masculine mystique
Tim’m West has shown that there’s more than one way to be a black gay man.
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Now playing: the Sundown in K-Town documentary series
Previewing the free documentary screening series in Lawndale
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Bad cop, bad cop
My Kind of Town and The Whole World Is Watching, look at ugly chapters in Chicago history