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- Music, Gig Poster of the Week Jan 20, 2021
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HotHouse meets Havana on the gig poster of the week
The venerable local arts presenter celebrates 34 years by streaming a fabulous lineup of jazz masters from Cuba and Chicago.
- Music, Concert Preview Feb 28, 2020
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Roberto Fonseca blends the sounds of past and present into dynamic Afro-Cuban jazz
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 23, 2019
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Asylum City
The harrowing stories of six asylum seekers who now call Chicago home
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Apr 26, 2019
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Mima’s is where Cubs go for Cuban
Lincolnwood’s erstwhile Taste of Cuba has relaunched in Irving Park.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 25, 2018
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In Dolores Prida's semiautobiographical play Casa Propia, a Cuban immigrant family deals with home ownership
Director Sándor Menéndez creates an adult fairy tale, complete with songs.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 4, 2017
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Moonlight, Major Lazer, and midwestern Devo heads: music stories making the rounds on the Web
The Reader's weekly look at music stories we didn't publish ourselves
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2016
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Murders, shootings, and robberies are on the rise downtown and other Chicago news
Also, don't expect to fly directly from Chicago to Havana any time soon.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 31, 2015
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Hey, Mayor Rahm, reopen the mental health clinics!
Looking to blame someone or something for the failures of his reign, Mayor Rahm discovers "mental health crises" four years after he closed mental health clinics in low-income, high-crime neighborhoods.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 30, 2015
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George Klauba's new exhibit recalls love in the time of revolution
A series of paintings look back on a brief affair in Cold War-era Cuba.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 6, 2015
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Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes salutes his old group Irakere
His young, current band Afro-Cuban Messengers celebrates the music he first made four decades ago.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 22, 2015
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Chicago theater director Lisa Portes on dealing with actor freak-outs
Director Lisa Portes spearheaded the Carnaval of New Latina/o Work at DePaul happening July 23-25.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 18, 2013
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White Sox closing deal with Jose Abreu, their next superstar—or next big bust
Will the Cuban slugger with no big-league experience be worth $68 million?
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 29, 2012
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The American-Cuban project Ninety Miles sans Cuba
Ninety Miles play Symphony Center Friday without the Cuban half of their American-Cuban collaboration
- Blogs, Bleader May 22, 2012
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Things you should read: David Grann's "The Yankee Comandante"
Spending an hour or two with David Grann's "The Yankee Comandante"
- Arts & Culture, Dance Critic's Choice Apr 18, 2012
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The touch of a hand, the feel of the noose
"Vanishing Points" offers four works from Hedwig Dances
- Film, Movie Sidebar Apr 11, 2012
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Stories about storeys: Architecture & Design Film Festival
The third annual festival at the Music Box
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 10, 2012
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There he goes again
Ozzie Guillen goes into full damage control for inadvertently praising Fidel Castro in Miami
- Arts & Culture, Dance Critic's Choice Mar 21, 2012
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Latin sugar
Luna Negra founder Eduardo Vilaro returns with Ballet Hispanico
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 25, 2011
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Afinidades
Jorge Perrugoria and Vladimir Cruz's psychosexual drama Afinidades screens Tuesday 6/28 at Instituto Cervantes.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 20, 2011
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Fallen Gods
Ernesto Daranas's drama "Fallen Gods" sets a Havana turf war against the legend of pimp Alberto Yarini Ponce de Leon, who murder led to France's ouster from Cuba. It screens Tuesday 2/22 in the Latino Cultural Center's Reel Film Club series.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 10, 2010
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Traces of the Trade
Katrina Browne uncovers the roots and the psychic consequences of her ancestors' enormous slave trading empire in the documentary "Traces of the Trade: A Story of the Deep North," in four free screenings in Chicago and the west suburbs starting Thursday.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 9, 2010
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Celia the Queen
"Celia the Queen," a 2008 documentary about salsa superstar Celia Cruz, screens tonight as part of Latino Fashion Week.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 8, 2010
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Cuba: An African Odyssey
"Cuba: An African Odyssey," screening Monday 2/8 at Biblioteca Popular, follows Cuba's role in African liberation campaigns from the 60s through the 80s.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 19, 2010
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Cuban Doctors in Haiti — Are They There? Can American Media See Them?
The doctors Cuba sent to Haiti are getting little notice in American media.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 6, 2009
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Occasional Pieces at the Nightingale
British filmmaker Stephen Connolly investigates spaces and their meanings in "Occasional Pieces," a selection of his short works screening Saturday 11/7 at the Nightingale.
