Windy City Times 2019-01-23 |
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| | SCOTUS ruling could impact 15,000+ trans adults now in military
The Supreme Court announced today that it would temporarily allow the Trump administration's ban on transgender people serving in the military to go into effect while legal challenges are decided in federal courts. According to research ... | |
| | Trump's trans military ban to be enforced while challenges proceed, groups respond
From press releases
SCOTUS Allows Challenges to Trump's Transgender Military Ban to Continue in Lower Courts WASHINGTON The Supreme Court today denied the Trump administration's request that it hear legal challenges to Trump's ... | |
| | Supreme Court allows trans military ban to go into effect
On Jan. 22, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump's transgender military ban to go into effectprompting swift critiques from pro-LGBT activists and organizations. By a vote of five to four, the justices did not ... | |
| | Gaga, 'The Favourite' receive Oscar nods
For those who have been following awards season (the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Critics Choice Awards and more), the 91st Academy Award nominations, announced Jan. 22, did not surprise themfor the most ... | |
| | Brian Bond Named New Executive Director of PFLAG National
WASHINGTON, D.C.Today, PFLAG Nationalthe nation's first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their families, and alliesannounced that Brian Bond will ... | |
| | Bennett to be new state Human Rights director
Longtime activist and former Lambda Legal Midwest Regional Director James Bennett was named by Gov. J.B. Pritzker as the state's new Department of Human Rights Director. A statement from Pritzker noted that, during his 12-year tenure ... |
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| | NATIONAL Kansas guv, PFLAG leadership, activist dies, gay chorus
GLAAD hailed Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly for issuing an executive order that adds "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" as a protected class under state law, reinstating an executive order once issued by former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius ... | |
| | WORLD Iraqi death site, gay bar apologizes, Ghana attacks
Authorities in Mosul began demolishing a onetime icon of modern Iraqi architecture used by the Islamic State group to throw men accused of being gay to their deaths, France24.com reported. Workers and bulldozers could be seen ... | |
| | Letter to the editor, Miscarriages of justice
Dear Editor: The lenient sentencing of Jason Van Dyke for his murder of LaQuan McDonald calls to mind the White Nights from May 1979, when Dan White was convicted of voluntary manslaughter instead of first-degree murder ... | |
| | Biden Foundation releases "As You Are" animated educational acceptance video
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WASHINGTON, D.C. As part of its family and community acceptance campaign, As You Are, and in partnership with the Institute for Innovation and Implementation at the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Social Work, the ... | |
| | Mayoral candidates discuss LGBT issues
Homelessness, anti-transgender violence and aging resources were among the topics discussed as candidates vying in the crowded 2019 mayoral election weighed in on LGBT-related issues at a Jan. 19 forum at Second Presbyterian Church in the ... | |
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'Great Believers' author talks early AIDS crisis at Howard Brown event
AIDS affected many, including a budding young author home sick from school who was watching a Donahue episode featuring Larry Kramer. "I was 7 years old at the time the book starts," Rebecca Makkai said of ... | |
| | Windy City Rollers tryouts Jan. 27
Windy City Rollers roller-derby tryouts are being held the morning of Sunday, Jan. 27, at a private location. Skaters do not have to own their own equipment for tryouts; the Windy City Rollers rents skates and ... | |
| | Emanuel, Johnson deploy 98 officers
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Police Department (CPD) Superintendent Eddie Johnson announced the Department's second round of deployments for 2019, with 98 new police officers assigned to neighborhoods across Chicago ... | |
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February SNAP benefits will be issued early to customers on Jan. 20
The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) announced that February Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits will be issued to Illinois customers on or before January 20th. This is about a week and half earlier than ... | |
| | Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver dies
Poet Mary Oliverwho wrote of nature and won a Pulitzer Prizedied at her home in Hobe Sound, Florida, from lymphoma, according to Deadline.com. She was 83. Oliver authored more than 15 poetry and essay collections, focused ... | |
| | LGBTQAI Elders in Senior Residences: Education and Outreach
A prize-winning documentary film on the social and residential challenges facing our community's "silent generation" (over 60), powerfully clarifies the late-life decisions confronting both couples and singles. It will be ... |
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| | NUNN ON ONE TV Valentina, 'Rent' and rave
The drag world is seeing an angel get his wings this January, with Valentina playing Angel Dumott Schunard in Rent: Live, the upcoming television production of the rock musical loosely based on the opera La boheme. ... |
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| | Artemis Singers March 3 Sheroes concert to celebrate women heroes
CHICAGOArtemis Singers, Chicago's lesbian feminist chorus, will present "Sheroes," a concert of songs and stories of strong women at 4 p.m., Sunday, March 3, at the Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N. Knox Ave., Chicago, in ... | |
| | SHOWBIZ Show renewals, Lee Daniels, Lady Gaga, 'Avengers'
Just a week into the show's second season, NBC has renewed top-rated alternative series Ellen's Game of Games, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, for a third season, Deadline.com noted. Ellen's Game of Games returned to the NBC ... | |
| | THEATER REVIEW Big Science
By: Jiana Estes & Audrey Polinski and the Hot Kitchen Collective. At: The Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St. Tickets: Steppenwolf.org/tickets; $15-$20. Runs through: Feb. 7 By the time the performers reach the second dance break ... | |
| | THEATER REVIEW Cardboard Piano
Playwright: Hansol Jung At: TimeLine Theatre, 615 W. Wellington Ave. Tickets: $40-54; TimelineTheatre.com . Runs through: March 17 A childhood parable inspires the title of Hansol Jung's Cardboard Piano. What's broken can be fixed, the tale ... | |
| | THEATER REVIEW Between Riverside and Crazy
At Redtwist Theatre, 1044 W. Bryn Mawr. Tickets: 773-728-7529 or Redtwist.org; $35-40. Runs through: Feb. 10 Between Riverside and Crazy, directed by Rinska Carrasco-Prestinary and produced by Redtwist Theatre, delivers ... | |
| | THEATER REVIEW Evil Dead The Musical
Authors: George Reinblatt/book & lyrics; Reinblatt, Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond & Melissa Morris/music At: Black Button Eyes Productions at Pride Films & Plays, 4139 N. Broadway. Tickets: BlackButtonEyes.com or evildeadchicago.brownpapertickets.com ... | |
| | THEATER REVIEW I Know My Own Heart
Playwright: Emma Donoghue At: Pride Films & Plays, 4147 N. Broadway. Tickets: 866-811-4111; pridefilmsandplays.com; $25-$30. Runs through: Feb. 10 The life of wealthy English property owner, industrialist, inveterate traveler, mountain ... | |
| | THEATER REVIEW What We're Up Against
Playwright: Theresa Rebeck At: Compass Theatre at the Raven Arts Complex, 6157 N. Clark St. Tickets: CompassTheatre.org; $35. Runs through: Feb. 9 It doesn't take us long to separate the bad 'uns from the good 'uns ... | |
| | THEATER REVIEW Dada Woof Papa Hot
Playwright: Peter Parnell At: About Face Theatre at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. Tickets: AboutFaceTheatre.com; 773-975-8150; $20-$38. Runs through: Feb. 16 This play should be required viewing for anybody ... | |
| | Critics' Picks
St. Nicholas, Goodman Theatre, through Jan. 27. This London import, starring Brendan Coyle flaunting his memorization chops, takes its time to ensure that we understand every last nuance of Conor McPherson's gloomy booze-soaked parable of midlife ... | |
| | SPOTLIGHT
It's difficult to see where the puppets end and the people begin in Plexis Polaire's Chambre noire. The trippy mesh of puppetry, music and live action is part of Chicago's International Puppet Festival, which includes dozens ... | |
| | Gaga, 'The Favourite' receive Oscar nods
For those who have been following awards season (the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Critics Choice Awards and more), the 91st Academy Award nominations, announced Jan. 22, did not surprise themfor the most ... | |
| | Firebrand Theatre Announces Casting for Chicago Premiere of QUEEN OF THE MIST
CHICAGO (January 18, 2019) — Firebrand Theatre is pleased to announce full casting for its Chicago premiere of QUEEN OF THE MIST featuring book, music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa (The Wild Party, Marie Christine), ... | |
| | About Face Theatre Plans Wonka Ball, Disco Inferno April 12
CHICAGO (January 21, 2019) — Be a queen of the dance floor this spring at About Face Theatre's annual gala and Chicago's hottest party: WONKA BALL: Disco Inferno on Friday, April 12, 2019 at 8 pm ... | |
| | Casting announced for POSEIDON! An Upside Down Musical
CHICAGO (January 18, 2019) Hell in a Handbag Productions is pleased to announce casting for its revival of the musical that started it all:POSEIDON! An Upside Down Musical, a musical parody and loving homage to ... |
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| | DINING '90s event, ramen giveaway, Chinese New Year, Super Bowl specials
Replay Lincoln Park, 2833 N. Sheffield Ave., is hosting "Party Like It's 1996," in collaboration with The Chill Foundation and Burton Snowboards, on Friday, Jan. 25, 6:30-11:30 p.m. Nineties teen heartthrob Aaron Carter is slated to ... | |
| | Local artist delves into the abstract to develop fashion brand
Jeanette Billips is an artist, a sneakerhead and a lover of Chicago. She's 32-years-old and recently launched a fashion brand, Von Sole, that takes her love for art and Chicago to the next level. Billups told ... |
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