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Sunday December 8th the world was hit with a massive surprise. The government of Syria had fallen.  Syria’s dictator for life, Bashar al-Assad, had fled to Moscow.  In a mere eleven days, rebels had swept through the cities of Aleppo and Hama and had taken Syria’s capital, Damascus. Syria had been in the hands of dictators from
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Chicago’s own Two Whatevers, the genre-defying duo blending folk-funk-pop-punk-shoegaze-no-new-wave-rock, is thrilled to announce the resounding success of their debut single, “2 Whenevers.” Since its release, “2 Whenevers” has garnered over 200,000 streams, been Shazamed more than 10,000 times, and continues to build a solid presence on radio waves nationwide. Two Whatevers, comprised of Alison Brown (Thing 1) and Eben Hewitt (Thing 2),
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Young Revolutionary War veteran Barnabas Locke makes winter camp in an isolated canyon in the Colorado wilderness, finding pictographs and petroglyphs made by the Ancient Ones. His elderly Arapaho mentor appears like a dream at his fire, issuing a warning but leaving behind a very real huge black dog. Barnabas uses all his frontier skills
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In spring 1782, young Revolutionary War veteran Barnabas Locke and his Abenaki friend, the visionary Squando, reunite to cross the Mississippi and travel deep into the Great Plains. At the riverbank, they find their hired keelboat commandeered by the imperious young Spanish Isabella and her brother Ramon, who are fleeing the river pirate Joe Fontaine
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Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election.  In a landslide.   How did he do it?  And what will it mean to the country?   First, how did President-elect Trump pull off this triumph? He used three levers.  Lever number one is publicity. Trump began to seek publicity 50 years ago. His mentor, the mastermind of the
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The headlines say that as of October 30th’s polls, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are running neck and neck.  But is that true? In FiveThirtyEight’s Recent Polling Average Update, which pulls together roughly a hundred national and state polls, Harris leads Trump, even though her edge is a slender 1.8%. In the Cook Political Report average of
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Singer/songwriter Gina Zollman will be performing her new show “ORI gina LS” as part of the Sunday Cabaret Series at the Arthur Newman Theatre at the Joslyn Center on Sunday, November 24th, 2024. Showtime is 3 PM and doors open at 2:30. Special guest co-writer/songwriter Kevin Fisher (Sara Evans, Rascal Flatts, Little Big Town, Home
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Jayla can’t catch her breath. The unexpected news of an unwanted pregnancy has come at the worst possible time, especially as rumors swirl of her reproductive rights soon being taken away. Straddling employment at both pro-life and pro-choice centers, Jayla is forced to conceal her pregnancy, slowly drowning in rising deceptions and life-or-death decisions as
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