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Turning the page: Tales of what draws people to Chicago helps me connect with the city Original

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By Kwame Opam Verified
| Chicago Sun-Times Verified
When I asked Selene Gill if she felt a sense of home at AlleyCat Comics, the comic book shop she co-owns with her husband on the Far North Side, she told me she’d made something more. “To me, this place is a home base. It’s not just a home,” she told me.
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When you come to Chicago, the news will teach you what you need to know Original

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By Kwame Opam Verified
| Chicago Sun-Times Verified
When the heavy oak door to our two-flat slammed shut behind me that October evening, I knew it’d be some time before I returned to New York City. Our family — my wife, our 1-year-old son, one stressed-out tabby and I — had only moved to the North Side six weeks earlier. The trip back east was for saying goodbye to friends and colleagues. But more than that, it was a farewell to the only city I could credibly say I knew. Credibly, for having been born and raised there. Never completely.
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Podcasts About Marvel’s ‘X-Men’ Resonate With L.G.B.T.Q. Fans

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| The New York Times Verified
In the world of podcasts about “X-Men,” flitting from allegories for inequity to “The Real Housewives”isalmost effortless. In the eighth episode of “Cerebro,” a popular podcast that looks at the mutant superhero franchise through a gay lens, Connor Goldsmith, who is the host as well as a literary agent, and his guest, the author Anthony Oliveira, delve deep into the character known as Iceman.
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