José Rico and Pilar Audair-Reed of Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Greater Chicago. These principles of solidarity operate with the necessary awareness that the freedoms of Black and Brown Chicagoans are bound together, even as racial injustice affects each community in unique ways; we cannot achieve equity while we are being killed by police or criminalized and separated from our families. This calls for a principle of solidarity to value and provide health care for our most vulnerable residents....

When you have an important question you need answered, psychic advice can clarify the best choice to make. But online psychics can be expensive—how do you choose the best one without paying a lot of money? Luckily, there are free psychic readings you can access online to help you make a good choice. Whether you just have a quick question you need input on or want to experiment to find the best online psychic for you, here’s how to access a free psychic reading....

Sure, you could spend the week fretting about the World Series, but there are plenty of distractions from Cubs mania. Here’s some of what we recommend: 10/27-10/30: Lyric Opera joins forcers with the Second City for Longer! Louder! Wagner! The Second City Wagner Companion at the Civic Opera House (20 N. Wacker), a comedic and operatic look at the creation and staging of Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle, starting from its beginnings in 1848....

“I hope this strike don’t last too long, CPS,” a young mother announces to the bus she’s just flagged down as she shepherds her two school-age sons on board. “Every day they’re not in school they gotta come to work with me.” To fill the gap, organizations and institutions across the city are offering camps, classes, and workshops, though a word of caution: most cost money, and some of them are just for this week....

Lillie Mae Rische has spent the bulk of her 25 years playing music. She began singing with her father and siblings in the Forrest Carter Family Band at age three, and added fiddle four years later. The group played around Branson, Missouri, and toured RV parks in Texas for donations, and after her parents split up, she and her siblings formed Jypsi, a middle-of-the-road country band that made a failed album for Arista in 2008....

The torpor-inducing temperatures seem to be cooling down, so it’s a good time to get out and about. Here are some mid-August events worth looking into. Fri-Sun 8/13-8/15 (and through 8/29): High school can be fraught, as so many teen dramedies have taught us. School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play, Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy set in a girls’ boarding school in Ghana in 1986, explores cliques, colonialism, and colorism. It’s running at the Goodman in a stellar production under Lili-Anne Brown’s direction....

Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Ben Krane, go-go dancer. And then the second question is usually “Is it real?” They think there’s a sock or a prosthetic or who knows what. And then the third question is “Are you gay or straight?” When I say I’m straight, people go, “Oh, and you work in a place like this?...

Superdawg Drive-In Portillo’s Finalists: The Wiener’s Circle, Gene & Jude’s, Redhot Ranch, Hot”G”Dog

Uptown Animal Hospital Blum Animal Hospital Finalists: Boulevard Veterinary, Family Pet Animal Hospital

As this cold, wet June wore on and no schedule had been posted for Theater on the Lake’s annual storefront-theater festival, which was supposed to commence June 23, concern grew among longtime fans that it might not be happening. TOTL managing director Angelique Grandone says that the switch from low-cost to no cost was done to make the plays more accessible. It also brings the festival in line with most everything else operating under the umbrella of the Park District’s Night Out in the Parks program....

Over the last decade, there has been an influx in films and novels about teen romance and terminal illnesses, especially cancer. From Josh Boone’s The Fault in Our Stars to Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl to Stella Meghie’s Everything Everything, this “boy meets girl with a terminal illness” phenomenon has evolved into something of a genre all to itself, exploring—with different degrees of success and sympathy—falling in love when you are young and dying....

When Andre Williams died of cancer on Sunday, March 17, at age 82, he was well-known in Chicago as an R&B veteran who’d stayed busy and beloved in his later years. From his childhood onward, he’d spent much of his life here, but for a long stretch of the 1970s and ’80s he was somewhere between “whatever happened to” and “missing in action.” Drug addiction had all but ended his career, and for a while in the early 90s he survived by panhandling on the downtown Randolph Street bridge....

Meat Wave meatwavechicago.bandcamp.com Runner-Up: Oozing Wound

Lost Lake Three Dots and a Dash Finalist: Hala Kahiki Lounge

ARTIST: Goons SHOW: White Mystery, the Lemons, Fishtails, and Yolks DJs play a New Year’s Eve show at the Hideout on Thu 12/31. MORE INFO: Goons

The most immediately striking aspect of Antonio Sanchez’s music is its lush, cinematic feel, which the drummer also demonstrates in the percussion-only music he composed for the 2014 film Birdman. A native of Mexico City, Sanchez began playing drums at age five, and after performing professionally in rock, jazz, and Latin bands in his teens, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1994 to study at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. Since then, he’s put out a slew of records by his own projects and with the Pat Metheny Group, which he joined in 2002....

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The Chicago comedy scene is filled with stories of men who abuse their power and use it to harass and assault their female colleagues and students. Brian Posen, the founder and creative director of Stage 773 and a former teacher at Columbia College and Second City, has figured in some of these stories and, more recently, a social media campaign instigated by a former assistant who cataloged his offensive comments and behavior under the hashtag #boycottstage773....