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Jay Villalobos’s Spectacular Optical Corporation film festival features experimental, microbudget digital shorts.

MP4 cinema is proletarian filmmaking at its scrappiest ↗

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Still, the film adaptation of Stephen King’s powerful first novel is not quite revelatory.

The Long Walk is a forceful call to fight fascism ↗

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Chicago's Ukrainian diaspora has donated millions to reconstruct bombed communities in Ukraine since the Russian invasion.

More than three years after Russia’s full-scale Ukraine invasion, aid workers ask: ‘Is rebuilding enough?’ ↗

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Plus: Chicago fails to notify residents of contaminated drinking water and Alderperson Walter Burnett is stepping down.

CPD, CTA expand surveillance ↗

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A tiny Devon Avenue storefront is focused on the South Indian state’s meaty Malabar region. But more is coming.

Mintza abides by the food of northern Kerala ↗

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Rabbitology is the nom de plume of Nat Timmerman, a University of Michigan student who has spent the past two years meticulously crafting a lush, evocative world of eerie occult-horror folk.

Rabbitology tells haunted tales with lush horror folk ↗

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Cocojoey plays a homecoming show to support the wild new Stars, Roy Kinsey inaugurates the Rapbrary’s physical home, and more.

Will this be the night Cocojoey finally plays a keyboard solo while crowd-surfing? ↗

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Tyler Anthony Smith's high-concept Queen for a Day with Hell in a Handbag is a darkly goofy comedy about fame and isolation.

Halston, Liza, and Liz ↗

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