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‘Everything’s Trash’ review: Phoebe Robinson plays a Brooklyn podcaster who’s messy as hell but never tragic

Smart, young, single and messy. It’s a genre that spans everything from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” to “Fleabag” to “Bridget Jones’s Diary” to “Chewing Gum” to “Broad City” to “Insecure” to the criminally underseen “Sort Of” and “We Are Lady Parts,” both of which were renewed for a second season earlier…

Chicago Tribune · Jul 14, 2022

Commentary: Failing to act on climate change is robbing future generations of choices

Things could have been so different. In June 1992, the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro created the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, launching the formal international mission to bring global warming emissions under control and reduce humanity’s negative impacts on our…

Chicago Tribune · Jul 14, 2022

‘You don’t look your age!’ It’s time to squash ageism

Here’s the thing about ageism. It’s not always malicious, but it hurts. Is there anyone who would say that we don’t want everyone, no matter what their age, to participate fully and to the best of their ability in American society?

Chicago Tribune · Jul 14, 2022

Scammers targeting Highland Park mass shooting victims, attorney general says

Scammers are targeting the Highland Park mass shooting’s victims, Illinois’s attorney general warned.

Chicago Tribune · Jul 13, 2022

Gov. Pritzker’s planned speech in Florida adds to speculation, criticism he’s eyeing White House

CHICAGO — Gov. J.B. Pritzker began the week with a White House visit for an event marking the passage of bipartisan gun legislation and will end it Saturday with a speech at a fundraiser for Florida Democrats, further fueling speculation — and criticism — that he’s eyeing a presidential bid…

Chicago Tribune · Jul 13, 2022

This solar installer is turning Ford F-150 Lightning EV into a backup home generator that can be powered by the sun

Ford began deliveries of its F-150 Lightning last month, and the electric version of the truck features a new option with a lot more utility than all-weather floor mats.

Chicago Tribune · Jul 13, 2022

R. Kelly back in Chicago’s federal jail ahead of trial next month

CHICAGO — After being held for more than a year in Brooklyn, Chicago-born R&B star R. Kelly was back at the federal jail in the Loop on Wednesday in advance of his second criminal trial set for next month.

Chicago Tribune · Jul 13, 2022

Inmate exits Stateville Correctional Center a month after chance encounter with Cook County state’s attorney

CHICAGO — It was an astonishing coincidence: a Stateville inmate encountering the Cook County state’s attorney, just a day after prosecutors discussed whether his decades-old murder case should be thrown out.

Chicago Tribune · Jul 13, 2022

How Elton John plans to make ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ fit this fashion moment — the new musical opens soon in Chicago

NEW YORK — Pushing 76 years old, not that he looks remotely like it, Elton John is finally coming off the road.

Chicago Tribune · Jul 13, 2022

‘The Doomsday Clock at 75′ explores how the Chicago-born cultural icon keeps tick, tick, ticking away

CHICAGO — The Doomsday Clock was born in 1947 in Chicago, a Cold War baby delivered as the illustration for the first cover of a new magazine, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It was set at 7 minutes to midnight, an indication of how close a team of revered…

Chicago Tribune · Jul 13, 2022