- Music, In Rotation, Mar 8, 2013
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In Rotation: John Corbett of Corbett vs. Dempsey on vintage dead-stock vinyl from Kenya
Plus: The Reader's Peter Margasak on a Peter Brötzmann birthday box set, filmmaker Brian Ashby on Health & Beauty's hot streak, and more
- 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, Oct 19, 2012
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2016: Obama's America: an exegesis
I watched Dinesh D'Souza's crappy movie so you don't have to
- Music, In Rotation, Aug 25, 2011
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In Rotation: Prog-rock guru Charles Snider on Conrad Schnitzler and District 97
Plus: Reader music editor Philip Montoro on Abana Ba Nasery, and Ga’an drummer Seth Sher on Absu, Razor, and Alphonse Mouzon
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 29, 2010
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African Women and Science Fiction
Wanuri Kahiu's post-apocalyptic short "Pumzi" screens and YA novelist Nnedi Okorafor reads and speaks in the African Woman and Science Fiction program Sunday at the DuSable Museum of African American History.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 18, 2010
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From a Whisper
Wanuri Kahiu's 2008 drama "From a Whisper," about life ten years later for those left behind by the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya, screens today at 2 p.m. at the DuSable Museum of African American History.
- Music, Music Feature, Apr 15, 2010
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Blame Obama!
A tribute to the president brought together Chicago's Occidental Brothers Dance Band International and their new front man: African superstar Samba Mapangala.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 26, 2010
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"Milking the Rhino" Director David E. Simpson
David E. Simpson, director of the documentary "Milking the Rhino" about community-based conservation in Africa, speaks Tuesday 1/26 at Chicago Filmmakers.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 17, 2009
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Making waves
Local filmmaker Bob Hercules presents portraits of two great community organizers and a controversial Holocaust survivor in three documentaries screening this week in the first Chicago Independent Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 15, 2009
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A line of African-inspired clothing that helps actual Africans
Suno, a new line of modern separates made from Kenyan textiles by fair-trade workers in Kenya, debuts locally at Ikram.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 1, 2008
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Africans sing for Obama
Two new songs by African musicians show their support for Barack Obama.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 29, 2008
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Reconciliation in Kenya?
A song in praise of Kenyan opposition leader Raila "Agwambo" Odinga, written before the recent election violence, finally sees release as the prospect of peace begins to brighten.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 10, 2008
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Chicago Afrobeat Project for Kenya
In response to the crisis in Kenya, the Chicago Afrobeat Project turns Friday's House of Blues show into a benefit.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 9, 2008
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Kenyan disaster
The U.S. members of Extra Golden solicit aid for their suffering Kenyan bandmates.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 20, 2007
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Tree planting as a subversive activity
Wangari Maathai: "There are always people who want to force other people to work for them for nothing. Our job is to fight it."
- Blogs, Bleader, May 10, 2007
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Devolution
Militant ignorance on the march.
