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Parlour Tapes shares the music of the future on a format from the past

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Parlour Tapes shares the music of the future on a format from the past

The Chicago label recently released four experimental solo cassettes from its four founders.

By Salem Collo-Julin

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The city’s first food equity council works to feed everyone

The group is reexamining food distribution through a racial equity lens while fighting for long-term systemic change.

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