UniverSoul Circus returns to Washington Park next week
WEBAug 30, 2024 · UniverSoul Circus, the only Black-owned and operated circus in the country, is returning to Washington Park next Friday after a year hiatus. Last year, the traveling circus opted not to stop in Chicago for the first time in 26 years due to its “overwhelming popularity” elsewhere in the county, a spokesperson said at the time.Now in its 30th year, this year’s show will bring back its ...
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WEB6 days ago · Brazilian jiu-jitsu evangelist brings the martial art to Woodlawn. When Solomon Dixon, a former pastor and martial arts dedicatee, started the first Brazilian jiu-jitsu club on the South Side last November, he wasn’t sure how it would fare. Having quit his six-figure job at a charter school network a year before, Dixon, who has three young ...
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WEBUpdated Sep 16, 2024. 0. When Daniel Kumapayi, a Nigerian-American Hyde Parker and a music teacher, began playing the double bass for his middle school orchestra in Grand Rapids around 2010, he wasn’t sure he’d amount to much as a musician. A bundle of energy, Kumapayi struggled to sit still and pay attention in his….
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WEB6 days ago · Updated Sep 26, 2024. 2. Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce members, Ald. Desmon Yancy (5th) and La Boulangerie owners cut the ribbon during the French bakery's grand opening at 1550 E. 55th St. on Thursday, September 19, 2024. Owners say the cafe is not quite open for business yet, however, pending city inspections. +2.
Friend Health opens $43 million headquarters and medical clinic in ...
WEBDuring the facility’s July 8 ribbon-cutting, Friend Health CEO Verneda Bachus said the $43 million clinic will provide comprehensive primary care: family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, pediatrics and a pharmacy. Mammograms and ultrasounds will start being offered, as will a same-day-need clinic.
Rep. Jonathan Jackson talks legislative moves, migrant aid and …
WEBOct 26, 2023 · He said he also plans to introduce legislation to honor cyclist Marshall “Major” Taylor with a Congressional Gold Medal. Taylor, who spent the last years of his life in Bronzeville, was the first Black cyclist to win a world championship in 1899, and spent most of his career traveling the world and breaking records.
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WEBGoodman Theatre has a long and fruitful history with August Wilson. Between 1986 and 2007, the theater produced all 10 plays in the playwright's American Century Cycle chronicling the African American experience in the 20th century decade by decade. It was the first company in the country to….
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WEBFeb 2, 2024 · University of Chicago professor Fazel Ahad Ahadi talks the lasting relevance of "Antigone" during a Thursday afternoon lecture, Feb. 1, 2024. Max Blaisdell. Fazel Ahad Ahadi hardly knew how to act when he first set foot on stage in 2003 as a skinny, bright-eyed 17-year-old. He was shocked that Julia Afifi, …
‘2 Pianos 4 Hands’ equals impressive artistry
WEBJul 29, 2024 · These are two heartbreaking scenarios in Richard Greenblatt and Ted Dykstra's “2 Pianos 4 Hands,” but instead of giving up hope, the two Canadian “piano nerds” turned their experiences into an autobiographical comedy with music — lots of music. After workshops and a couple of expansions, the show premiered in 1996 at the Tarragon ...