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Is a Puerto Rican native running for Chicago alderman the next Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

Is a Puerto Rican native running for Chicago alderman the next Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez is a working-class Latina with Puerto Rican roots running as a democratic socialist. Sound familiar?

By Ryan Smith

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Movies

Blindspotting and Sorry to Bother You expose the class tensions often obscured by race

Two of the year’s best movies come rocketing out of Oakland, California.

By J.R. Jones
Food & Drink

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Flight Club Darts Chicago is a flight of fancy

Raw oysters, rosé cotton candy, hookah-smoking sloths, and darts—what more could you and your Anglophile friends ask for?

By Aimee Levitt
Arts & Culture

Linda explores every misery known to womankind

The succession of suffered indignities feels like piling on rather than a genuine tragic progression.

By Justin Hayford

In the silent classic The Lighthouse Keepers, styles and emotions come crashing in like waves

By Ben Sachs | 06.00 AM
Eclipse Theatre’s year of Inge continues with a poignant Bus Stop.

By Dmitry Samarov | 06.00 AM
LGBTQ young people reimagine their autobiographies as Scary Stories to Save Your Life

By Albert Williams | 06.00 AM
Carnaval 2018 immerses visitors in Chicago’s Latinx theater community

By Katie Powers | 06.00 AM
Shrew’d! attempts to make Taming of the Shrew palatable to a modern audience

By Jack Helbig | 06.00 AM

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Transportation

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Cycle of injustice continues as blacks still ticketed at far higher rates for biking violations.

By John Greenfield | 07.17.18
Politics

Penalty for poisoning Lake Michigan ‘unjustifiably low,’ surfers say as they seek to restart lawsuit vs. U.S. Steel

Surfrider Chicago says the penalty against the northwest Indiana steelmaker should be $5.3 million, not the proposed $600,000.

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