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Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Afternoon Briefing: Illinois lawmakers pass Prisoner Review Board reforms
Good afternoon, Chicago. Illinois lawmakers advanced a bill that would emphasize domestic violence awareness training for members of the state's Prisoner Review Board, which came under criticism after releasing a man from state custody who then allegedly attacked a former girlfriend and fatally stabbed her young son. The bill's passage came 14 months after authorities say Crosetti Brand broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment on Chicago's North Side and attacked her before fatally stabbing her son, 11-year-old Jayden Perkins, when the boy tried to come to her rescue. The 39-year-old Brand is on trial for the attack and Jayden's family has filed a lawsuit against the review board alleging negligence in the case. Here's what else is happening today. And remember, for the latest breaking news in Chicago, visit and sign up to get our alerts on all your devices. Subscribe to more newsletters | Asking Eric | Horoscopes | Puzzles & Games | Today in History Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV called for humanitarian aid to be allowed into war-torn Gaza, decrying the violence and suffering in the Middle East during his first general audience as pope today in St. Peter's Square. Read more here. More top news stories: Judge acquits suburban men of aggravated battery, robbery in Mount Greenwood bar brawl AmeriCorps cuts leave Chicago programs serving kids facing diminished summer Country Club Hills District 160 Board spent $25K on conferences last year; parents raise concerns over school conditions Burton Odelson, the village attorney, told Elite Street that Dolton's recently sworn-in mayor, Jason House, made the decision to proceed with the acquisition with the consent of the Dolton Village Board. Read more here. More top business stories: Target sales drop in 1st quarter and retailer warns they will slip for all of 2025 Environmental advocates worry about Cleveland-Cliffs delayed maintenance Jameson Taillon (3-3) scattered one run and four hits over seven innings. The right-hander walked three and struck out two to snap a two-start losing streak. Read more here. More top sports stories: NFL teams can keep using the tush push after owners vote down proposed ban Man is charged with providing alcohol to 20-year-old Pittsburgh fan who fell from PNC Park outfield wall Some artworks bring the suppressed queerness of their makers or their subjects to the fore. 'The Man in Black' is a 1913 portrait of Art Institute benefactor Robert Henry Allerton by Glyn Philpot, an acclaimed British painter whose work appears throughout 'The First Homosexuals.' Read more here. More top Eat. Watch. Do. stories: 'Couples Therapy' review: The best unscripted show about working through conflict — while the cameras watch — returns for a new season Review: Tom Cruise holds the key to 'Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning' With President Donald Trump's multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package at risk of stalling, House Speaker Mike Johnson and conservative Republican holdouts headed to the White House for the last-ditch talks to salvage the 'big, beautiful bill.' Read more here. More top stories from around the world: Iran insists it will never stop enriching uranium as US says it must if a new deal is to be reached Rapper Kid Cudi to testify at Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial this week
Chicago Tribune
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Chicago Tribune
Afternoon Briefing: Illinois lawmakers pass Prisoner Review Board reforms
Good afternoon, Chicago. Illinois lawmakers advanced a bill that would emphasize domestic violence awareness training for members of the state's Prisoner Review Board, which came under criticism after releasing a man from state custody who then allegedly attacked a former girlfriend and fatally stabbed her young son. The bill's passage came 14 months after authorities say Crosetti Brand broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment on Chicago's North Side and attacked her before fatally stabbing her son, 11-year-old Jayden Perkins, when the boy tried to come to her rescue. The 39-year-old Brand is on trial for the attack and Jayden's family has filed a lawsuit against the review board alleging negligence in the case. Here's what else is happening today. And remember, for the latest breaking news in Chicago, visit and sign up to get our alerts on all your devices. Subscribe to more newsletters | Asking Eric | Horoscopes | Puzzles & Games | Today in History Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV called for humanitarian aid to be allowed into war-torn Gaza, decrying the violence and suffering in the Middle East during his first general audience as pope today in St. Peter's Square. Read more here. More top news stories: Burton Odelson, the village attorney, told Elite Street that Dolton's recently sworn-in mayor, Jason House, made the decision to proceed with the acquisition with the consent of the Dolton Village Board. Read more here. More top business stories: Jameson Taillon (3-3) scattered one run and four hits over seven innings. The right-hander walked three and struck out two to snap a two-start losing streak. Read more here. More top sports stories: Some artworks bring the suppressed queerness of their makers or their subjects to the fore. 'The Man in Black' is a 1913 portrait of Art Institute benefactor Robert Henry Allerton by Glyn Philpot, an acclaimed British painter whose work appears throughout 'The First Homosexuals.' Read more here. More top Eat. Watch. Do. stories: With President Donald Trump's multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package at risk of stalling, House Speaker Mike Johnson and conservative Republican holdouts headed to the White House for the last-ditch talks to salvage the 'big, beautiful bill.' Read more here. More top stories from around the world:
Chicago Tribune
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
The sweeping art survey ‘First Homosexuals' returns to Chicago, and a changed world
In 2022, art historian Jonathan Katz and a team of curators unveiled an ambitious exhibit: a survey of more than 100 artworks created by, or referencing, individuals experiencing same-sex attraction. That exhibition, 'The First Homosexuals,' took over one floor of Wrightwood 659, a Tadao Ando-designed exhibit space in Lincoln Park funded and operated by philanthropist Fred Eychaner's Alphawood Foundation. But Katz always dreamed bigger. 'It was COVID that put the kibosh on those plans,' he said of the exhibit's first iteration. 'Most museums had, at that time, loan moratoriums.' Now, 'The First Homosexuals' is back at the scale Katz intended. More than 350 artworks have taken over Wrightwood 659, this time over all three of its levels. Visitors to the 2022 iteration will recognize works by Gerda Wegener, married to transgender artist Lili Elbe, and Konstantin Somov, a gay Russian artist. Others are new to this expansion, like doodles by author Federico García Lorca, a sculpture by actress Sarah Bernhardt, and the only full-length portrait of Oscar Wilde painted in his lifetime. 'The reception in 2022 was just incredible,' said Chirag Badlani, executive director of the Alphawood Foundation. 'Essentially, the day we closed, we said, 'Let's start planning.'' Some artworks bring the suppressed queerness of their makers or their subjects to the fore. 'The Man in Black' is a 1913 portrait of Art Institute benefactor Robert Henry Allerton by Glyn Philpot, an acclaimed British painter whose work appears throughout 'The First Homosexuals.' Allerton and Philpot were once lovers; the Allerton likeness, with rosy cheeks and arched brows, is a stark contrast to the other Hemingwayish depictions of Allerton circulating at the time, including a full-page Tribune spread hailing him as the 'richest bachelor in Chicago.' Featured sculptors and lifelong partners Frances Loring and Florence Wyle met in Chicago, where both studied at the School of the Art Institute with Lorado Taft. But 'The First Homosexuals' doesn't lionize its subjects, either. This time, the exhibit makes no bones about the Nazi sympathies of artists like Marsden Hartley and Elisàr von Kupffer, both of whom painted voluptuous, ambiguously gendered young men. It also unflinchingly includes works that betray the artist's own prejudices, like a pair of disparaging Western artworks depicting two-spirit — or gender variant — Native Americans. 'We go back all the way to the first invasion of the United States and Latin America by the Spanish, when European attitudes about sexuality rewrote Indigenous attitudes,' Katz said. But, as with the 2022 iteration, Katz and his team kept most of this exhibition focused on the span between 1869, the year the word 'homosexual' was coined, to 1939, during the rise of fascism in Europe. As the exhibit argues more comprehensively than before, by becoming a discrete identity, homosexuality became the basis for community — finding a common language for difference — but it was also further pathologized. Visitors exit through an archway superimposed with the famous photograph from 1933 of Nazi book burnings in Berlin. 'The book-burning image that everybody knows is the burning of Hirschfeld Institute — it's that library that's being burned,' Katz told journalists during a recent walkthrough of the exhibit. 'We wanted them to leave through this exit in order to make clear the dangers we face.' Those dangers — the ascendancy of anti-gay governments worldwide — interfered with this exhibition far more than in its 2022 iteration. Visitors will notice two gray-scale reproductions on display in lieu of the original artworks. The sheets represent works by Slovak and Hungarian painter Ladislav Mednyánszky and Colombian artist Hena Rodríguez, both of which were withdrawn from the exhibition. The loans of Mednyánszky's paintings were canceled by the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava at the last minute; 65 museum staff, suspecting state intervention due to 'The First Homosexuals' theme, resigned in protest. Meanwhile, the two Rodríguez charcoals were withdrawn by its collector, fearing for the works' safety in the U.S. after the election of Donald Trump. 'It is an index of our moment that Colombians felt their artwork would not be safe in the United States under Trump,' Katz said. Even showing 'The First Homosexuals' at Wrightwood 659 requires the kind of precautions typically associated with a much larger institution. Upon arrival, visitors must present an ID for entry. Gallery attendants double as security guards. Though Badlani says there are certainly discussions about touring a smaller version of the exhibition, Katz suspects 'The First Homosexuals' now faces a higher glass ceiling in the U.S., particularly among museums large enough and prestigious enough to take it on. 'The director of one of the most important museums in the world said to me, 'This is exactly the show that I would like to have. And it's for that reason that I cannot show it,'' Katz said.
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Is Zinc Additive Really Needed For Older Engines?
"The past," said English novelist L.P. Hartley in his 1953 novel The Go-Between, "is a foreign country; they do things differently there." As far as book openings go, it's pretty solid. Right up there with, "The sky over the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel" or "The Man in Black fled across the desert, and The Gunslinger followed" in the pantheon of all-timer opening sentences. It's also a pretty fair assessment of early to mid-20th century automotive technologies. From Babbitt bearings and drum brakes to carburetors and leaded gasoline, the old ways often seem strange and foreign to today's car nerds. One very important automotive technology that's changed dramatically over the years — although you might not think about it as "technology" the same as you would braking or suspension or engine management systems — is motor oil. In the past, motor oil had, as Derek Bieri likes to say, "All the vitamins and minerals old engines need." Over the years, however, engines and emissions standards changed and motor oils changed with them. Nowadays, motor oils — both synthetic and organic, as it were — are optimized for use in brand new engines stuffed with bleeding edge technologies and tolerances measured in Plancks. What about older engines, though? What about our beloved Buick Nailheads and Chevy Small Blocks and Chrysler 440s? Do modern oils have enough of those good old vitamins and minerals to run safely in the engines that powered our fathers' Oldsmobiles? Read more: What's The Stereotypical Old Person's New Car? Honestly? Yeah, for the most part. Modern oils, especially synthetics, are way better at keeping your engine safe and running at peak performance than the dinosaur squeezins your granddad used. The one area where today's engine oils might be considered lacking is when it comes to the amount of zinc in the oil, and even then, it's kind of an edge case that really only matters if you have a flat tappet cam. See, back in the day, most engines had flat tappets to operate their valves and soft, cast-iron camshafts to go with them. Despite the fact that both flat tappets and roller tappets (and their attendant camshafts) had been around forever, the latter was the go-to for mass produced vehicles. That's because flat tappet cams were cheaper, easier to produce, and tended to last the life of the car — remember, cars didn't last as long in the old days. Only high-po one-offs and race cars had fancy pants roller cams. In the '80s, though, as technology advanced, economy standards tightened, and horsepower demands increased, roller tappet cams became more common. If you have an older vehicle with an engine that has a flat tappet cam in it, you should be using a zinc additive. How old, you ask? Well, if you're rocking a V6 or V8 made before the mid-1980s, you're probably going to want to throw some zinc additive into your crankcase every oil change. In the pre-roller tappet cam days, motor oils had more zinc in them. Zinc is slippery, and forms a very thin, sacrificial barrier between soft internal engine parts. The soft, cast iron camshafts used with flat tappets needed this sacrificial layer of zinc to prevent excess wear. With the rise of both roller tappets and catalytic converters, however, zinc became less of a thing in oils because roller tappet cams are made of harder materials and zinc has a bad habit of clogging up cats if it gets into the engine's combustion chambers. That's kind of a TL;DR explanation of the technical aspects of it, but you get the idea. You can pick up Zinc additives just about anywhere auto parts are sold, and it's not that expensive. If you're not doing your own oil changes (why aren't you doing your own oil changes?), your mechanic should definitely be able to get some zinc additive for you. Look at it like insurance — would you prefer to spend your money on a $15 bottle of zinc additive every few thousand miles, or an expensive, time-consuming, and possibly engine-out top end rebuild after you flatspot your cam doing burnouts? Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox... Read the original article on Jalopnik.
