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Ivannah-Mercedes is a member of one of the black horsemanship communities that thrive, often unseen and unsung, in cities across the US. She also makes her acting debut alongside Idris Elba in a new film about black riders in Philadelphia that looks set to give their way of life fresh recognition and respect. Concrete Cowboy, which premiered last year at the Toronto film festival and is now available on Netflix, is a gritty drama about a father-son relationship set around the Fletcher Street St...

Streaming: Concrete Cowboy and the best neo-westerns Guy Lodge “The only home I’ve ever known is on the back of a horse.” It’s the kind of line, a bit cool and a bit corny all at once, that you might expect to hear from a grizzled John Wayne type in a vintage B-western, perhaps while staring up at a vast, starry sky in the Texas desert. In Concrete Cowboy, however, it’s said by a bearded, squinting Idris Elba, with nary a tumbleweed in sight. We’re in the hard-up st...

From Tulla to New York to Baghdad Share OVER the course of a 45 minutes conversation on a Friday afternoon, Ray Leyden stresses that he feels lucky, feels blessed, that the United States has been good to him, that he thrived in its military, that business and life on the far side of the Atlantic are going very well. He describes himself as a ‘glass half full’ type of person and that outlook has stood to Ray since he emigrated to New York as a teenager, where he built a career and life. As...

Historic Rochester Hotel in Durango sells for nearly $3 million Durango, Colorado Currently Tue Co-owner Diane Wildfang says she’s headed to retirement Thursday, April 1, 2021 4:54 PM Updated 4 days 17 hours ago Historic Rochester Hotel in Durango sells for nearly $3 million The historic Rochester Hotel has sold for nearly $3 million to a business group led by Silverton Mayor Shane Fuhrman, according to county records. Durango Herald file ...

Full price Full price Ilya Naishuller (Hardcore Henry) directs this script by Derek Kolstad (John Wick) about seemingly mild-mannered family man Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk), whose life is in a comfortable rut. Then one night two house invaders rob his familys home, imperiling his wife Becca (Connie Nielsen); son, Blake (Gage Munroe); and young daughter, Abby (Paisley Cadorath). Despite having the drop on one of the burglars, he lets them escape, bringing him shame. He was willing to let it go,...

Good morning, Chicago. Here are some of the top stories you need to know to start your day.

As Cook County marked 10,000 confirmed deaths from coronavirus-related causes Wednesday, never before have the doctors, investigators and technicians at the medical examiner’s office had to handle so many dead in one year.

April 1, 2021 Share Historians estimate that 1 in 4 American cowboys were Black but you would be hard pressed to find a movie genre whiter than the Western. “Concrete Cowboy,” an urban Western about African American riders in Philadelphia starring Idris Elba, is about an often unseen — and persisting — Black cowboy culture. “Concrete Cowboy” is a father-son drama set around Fletcher Street Stables, one of the oldest and last-remaining of Philadelphia’s hardscrabble inner-c...

Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin star in Netflix's Concrete Cowboy, which tells the story of a family struggling against gentrification, history, and the system. We talked to the two about the history of Black cowboys and their on-screen equine counterparts.

They have dealt with more than 700 dead during the 1995 Chicago heat wave, the 273 people killed in the 1979 crash of Flight 191 and the remains of the 33 young men slain by John Wayne Gacy. But as Cook County marked 10,000 confirmed deaths from coronavirus-related causes Wednesday, never before have the doctors, investigators and technicians at the medical examiner’s office had to handle so many dead in one year. That number suggests a jarring number of residents will have lost at least o...