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  • Niloufer Ichaporia King lives in a house with three kitchens. She is known for her ritual celebrations of Parsi New Year on the first day of spring, when she creates an elaborate ceremonial meal based on the auspicious foods and traditions of her vanishing culture.
  • WCBU's On Deck has everything you need to know to start your day for Wednesday, September 16, 2020. Our top story is about how Zion Coffee Bar is working…
  • On this week's episode of Out and About, host Jenn Gordon is joined by Rebekah Dentino and LaCora Holesome to talk about Corn Stock Theatre’s production of When We Were Young and Unafraid, a play written by Sarah Treem. In the early 1970s, before Roe v. Wade, before the Violence Against Women Act, Agnes has turned her quiet bed and breakfast into one of the few spots where victims of domestic violence can seek refuge. As the drums of a feminist revolution grow louder outside of Agnes’s tiny world, Agnes is forced to confront her own presumptions about the women she’s spent her life trying to help. Show dates are March 18, 19, 25, and 26 at 7:30pm and March 20 and 27 at 2:30pm at Corn Stock Theatre Center in Upper Bradley Park. For tickets and more information visit Corn Stock Theatre.
  • On this week’s episode of Out and About, Sharon Samuels Reed joins Jenn Gordon to talk about "Juneteenth: An American Celebration."The annual concert is being presented by the Heritage Ensemble and will be featuring works by Glenn Edward Burleigh. The performance takes place on June 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the ICC Performing Arts Center. For tickets and information visit the Heritage Ensemble's website.
  • Five employees of Pop-Up Chicken Shop lost their jobs on the Fourth of July after telling owner Aaron Francis they wouldn't work without the time-and-a-half listed in the company's employee handbook.
  • Illinois workers get an added bonus once they retire: They don't have to pay taxes on pension or Social Security checks. It's one possible change the...
  • A Twitter spokesperson said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene violated the company policy it recently used to remove thousands of QAnon-related accounts. Her account was suspended for 12 hours.
  • People in wheelchairs surrounded and barricaded two city buses over the course of two days, demanding wheelchair lifts and chanting, "We will ride."
  • Alyssa Gaines, an 18-year-old from Indianapolis, has been named the 6th National Youth Poet Laureate.
  • Eighty years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order that sent thousands of Japanese Americans to internment camps. Actor George Takei was among them.
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