🗳️ Preparing for the primary

Plus: Leor's music coverage is back! [View this email in your browser]( [READER Logo]( Daily Reader | March 13, 2024 I’m getting resettled at work after a long vacation, and I find it a little challenging to get reacquainted with my daily routine after avoiding such a thing for weeks. I also find it hard to catch up on what I’ve missed while I was gone, a sensation that wasn’t helped by the pile of political campaign mailers clogging my mailbox. I’ve made a habit of early voting the past handful of elections, so my vacation has left me with a very limited window to visit a polling place before the March 19 primary. I have a pretty good handle on the big races, but I’m a little foggy about the judges who will appear on the ballot. Fortunately, my wife picked up a paper copy of Injustice Watch’s crucial [judicial primary election guide]( which can also be found in the recent Reader issue. I suspect I’ll spend the next few days combing through that guide with my phone’s notes app open . . . once I’m all caught up on my Reader work, that is. ◈ [“BC065: A History of Deep House Page,”]( by Michaelangelo Matos (Beat Connection) ◈ [“Behind F1’s Velvet Curtain,”]( by Kate Wagner (Escape) ◈ [“This Glass, This Drink, This Countertop, Our Bodies,”]( by A. S. Hamrah (n + 1) ◈ Rahaan, [For Club Play Only Pt. 2]( ◈ Gentle Heat, [Trick]( ◈ cero, [Poly Life Multi SoulÂ]( ◈ Bolis Pupul, [Letter to Yu]( [Rapper Jay Wood invites you to his room with his first art installation]( Plus: The Empty Bottle hosts a benefit for Palestine with a powerfully diverse lineup, and indie rockers Sick Day celebrate a big new EP at Beat Kitchen. by [Tyra Nicole Triche]( and [Leor Galil]( | [Read more]( → [two men sitting at a table with drinks]( [As We Speak confronts the courtroom weaponization of rap lyrics]( Chicago rappers Qari and Rich Robbins led a fruitful discussion at a local screening of this new streaming documentary. by [Alejandro Hernandez]( | [Read more]( → [R&B singer Kodie Shane shows off her versatile voice on ‘Pull the Car Around’]( by [Cristalle Bowen]( | [Read more]( → [Alynda Segarra of Hurray for the Riff Raff dons an outlaw cowboy hat on The Past Is Still Alive]( by [Noah Berlatsky]( | [Read more]( → [Horse Lords ride into Chicago for the first time since the pandemic]( by [Bill Meyer]( | [Read more]( → The Sit Down with Shawnee Dez On episode 4 of The Sit Down, Trina Reynolds-Taylor and Sarah Conway discuss their two-year investigation into how the Chicago Police Department handles missing persons cases and the disproportionate impact on Black women and girls. With new episodes dropping twice a month, host Shawnee Dez has engaging conversations with the individuals who embody community, and help make this such a dynamic place to call home. [LISTEN TO EPISODE FOUR OF THE SIT DOWN!]( Get the latest issue of the Chicago Reader Thursday, March 7, 2024 [READ ONLINE: VOL. 53, NO. 11]( [VIEW/DOWNLOAD ISSUE (PDF)]( [Become a member of the Chicago Reader.]( [Facebook icon]( [Instagram icon]( [Twitter icon]( [Website icon]( [YouTube icon]( [LinkedIn icon]( [Logo] You received this email because you signed up for newsletters from the Chicago Reader. Want fewer emails from us? [Click here to choose what you want us to send you](. Or, [unsubscribe from all Reader emails](. We’ll miss you! [Sign up for emails from the Chicago Reader]( | [Forward this e-mail to a friend]( © 2024 Chicago Reader. All rights reserved. Chicago Reader, 2930 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 102, Chicago, IL 60616