We have rain coming into tonight. There will be a front that lenders over for a few days. Get the umbrella ready. You will need it through the rest of the week. Sunshine today. Temperatures are cooler. It will keep us dry through the day into the evening and into tonight we will see showers. 32 in waukegan. 42 at the lakefront. Warmer but remember this temperature will moderate and as to get close to the lake will find cooler readings. Satellite composite, the cloud cover cut the area in half. The sunrise is at 633. That rain will stay down to the south. Its basically going to linger through thursday and into early friday. Rain moving into the area into tonight. The range of linder through friday changing over to light snow. I know that people are shaking their heads i have lost the masses. We have a 60 percent chance of rain by 9 00 p. M. Showers are likely could bring much of the day thursday. High of 45 scattered showers friday. 50 there. The things are looking good. Its easy if you
The Fiasco of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Armond White
Ma Rainey s Black Bottom
Viola Davis looks frightening in the film version of August Wilson’s 1984 play
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Her monstrous eye shadow, shark-jawed false teeth (recalling Richard Kiel chomping at James Bond in
The Spy Who Loved Me), baggy bodysuit, and obviously dubbed singing prove that no one involved with this film feels any emotional connection with its historical subject.
Ma Rainey (born Gertrude Pridgett in Columbus, Ga., in 1886) was known as “the Mother of the blues” for originating blues art and humor. It was her century-old achievement that inspired Wilson’s ambition to write a series of ten plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century, affirming black American vernacular. Now, in a film directed by George C. Wolfe and produced by Denzel Washington, Rainey’s bawdy honesty, and Wilson’s grand concept, have been hijacked to serve the bitter agenda of t
Attorney Antonio Moore discusses the new voice chat-based social media app, Clubhouse.
Moore digs into the discussion being had on topics such as the racial wealth gap, and Black patriarchy on the application.
During the video he looks at several studies and articles that review wealth, incarceration, and intimate partner violence to give context.
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Turning excess road asphalt into pedestrian space can be done fairly cheaply and quickly with paint and posts, as the Chicago Department of Transportation recently showed at a couple dozen downtown intersections. It’s an easy way to create sidewalk bump-outs to shorten pedestrian crossing distances, and widen the turning radii of intersections to discourage drivers from whipping around them at dangerous speeds. Pedestrian islands can also be created this way.
A new bump-out on the north leg of Washington/Wells. Photo: CDOT
Granted, the beige paint doesn’t have a lot of visual pizzaz. But Complete Streets interventions don’t have to be boring. There have already been few installations in Chicago that turned car space into people space that include interesting, artistic, or even political street paintings. For example, here are some colorful bumpouts CDOT recently installed in the Austin community as part of the Vision Zero West Side program