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Roots & Streams shows the faces of various musical artists in a circle on the screen. Tap on an artist whose sound you enjoy — say, Chaka Khan — and the display will show the musicians who influenced her (Billie Holiday, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder and Etta James), her peers (Donna Summer, Maze, the Ohio Players and Patti LaBelle) and her followers (Janet Jackson, Erykah Badu, Mary J. Blige and Beyoncé). Now you have the names of almost a dozen additional singers whose music may have a similar sound that you’ll enjoy.
Andrea Ng, 30, and Mark Higgins, 45, kiss as Capt. Len Besinger, right, prepares his boat for departure from Belmont Harbor on May 22, 2021. Higgins, Ng and Michael Waitkus, center, chartered Besinger’s boat using the GetMyBoat app. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)
Andrea Ng, 30, and Mark Higgins, 45, kiss as Capt. Len Besinger, right, prepares his boat for departure from Belmont Harbor on May 22, 2021. Higgins, Ng and Michael Waitkus, center, chartered Besinger’s boat using the GetMyBoat app. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)
This summer, as Illinois opens up without COVID-19 restrictions, more people are using the GetMyBoat app — which connects customers directly with charter captains for quality time on the water in a wide range of watercraft. Leonard Besinger, with his boat the Bellanzi, has been a charter captain in the city since 2016 and has been with GetMyBoat app since 2017. He is rated “Best of” for Chicago from 2017-2020.
You don’t mention what led you to therapy, but — in my view — if your therapist isn’t able to work with you successfully on some of these core issues, you should consider changing therapists. You might see some success with a form of “exposure therapy,” where you deliberately leave things undone, and gradually learn to cope with your reaction when life gets messy.
At the start of the 2019-2020 school year, 295 CPS school buildings, out of 642 total, were accessible to students and staff with mobility disabilities, according to an August 2020 report by Access Living, a disability rights advocacy group. The majority of accessible schools are high schools, Access Living found, and a significant number of CPS schools, mostly charter and option schools, are not rated for accessibility.
She and her family decorated the house, cooked a feast and gave out gifts. A few months later, she and her parents, who are scientists, watched news coming out of Wuhan, China, anticipating the novel virus would impact whether they could see one another ahead of expected lockdowns.
It’s not just a yearbook. It’s not just one school. It’s a pattern of behavior, perpetrated by overzealous, shaming adults, onto children. It’s girls sent home for wearing leggings. Or given school-issued T-shirts to cover their shoulders. It’s girls being told, over and over, that their bodies are distracting and shameful.
Steven Rogers talks with fellow Williams College alumni during a Zoom event about his new book “A Letter to My White Friends & Colleagues: What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black Community” at his home on May 6, 2021 in Evanston. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
Dear Upset: You don’t mention what business this gift card was for, or how you define “sex shop,” but yes — any gift card for any business even loosely affiliated with a sex shop (including a gift card for lingerie) would be completely inappropriate and outrageous as any kind of professional bonus. It is also curious that your city was choosing to support this type of business when so many others were hurting this winter, due to the pandemic.