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Here's the 2014 North Coast Music Festival lineup
North Coast Music Festival launched in 2010 with a lineup mixing jam, rap, and dance, which Miles Raymer accurately described it as "a hippie hip-hop rave." The musical scope of the Labor Day weekend...
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River North's last non-Italian restaurant to reconcept as Italian restaurant
Roxy's American Grill, a staple of the River North restaurant scene since 2012, will close this Saturday and reconcept in the next few weeks as L'Assurdità, an Italian restaurant. Owners Gus...
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12 O'Clock Track: Obliterations cut the brakes on "Sick Feeling"
Obliterations is a band of dudes in other bands—a couple of them of the stoner/metal variety, including Black Mountain and Saviours. And those dudes possess a collective affinity for an 80s west-coast...
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Did you read about Bruce Rauner, Chapo Guzman, and Cliven Bundy?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That Bruce Rauner, who clouted his daughter into Payton Prep, says Pat Quinn is corrupt and engages in cronyism?...
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Battle Hot Chicken: The Roost vs. Leghorn
Lately, amid the ongoing fried chicken wars, a special caliber of ordnance has been deployed by some of the newer combatants. I'm talking about Nashville hot chicken, a nuclear option if it's prepared...
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CIMMFest ascendant, and the rest of this week's screenings
Here it comes, walking down the street: tonight at 6 PM the sixth Chicago International Movies & Music Festival opens at the Logan with a live set by the Tommy Boyce/Bobby Hart cover band the Candy...
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New trio Closed Mouths release their debut tape tonight
One of my favorite releases last year was Smile More by local melodic punk four-piece Wide Angles. Like many great bands, though, they broke up shortly after its release, and the four members went...
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A Sound of Music for its fans, old and new
I'd like to say this Mariaesque flub-up wasn't my fault, but it was. Last Sunday, due to circumstances I should have controlled, I arrived 20 minutes late for Lyric Opera's production of The Sound of...
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Has Darren Aronofsky's Noah opened the floodgates for a midrashic cinema?
"What in the world is Noah doing outside the ark while it's raining?" asked one reader, Daniel Cristancho, in his comment on my recent essay about Darren Aronofsky's Noah. "The bible clearly tells us...
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Murders, and the political responses to them, have become all too familiar
Chicago has made national headlines this week for the latest sad and mind-boggling murder of a child. Police say that 14-year-old Endia Martin was shot and killed Monday on her porch in the Back of the...
View ArticleReader's Agenda Fri 5/2: Wine Riot, the Walk, and Mobb Deep
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All Night Long, End of Watch, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch...
Each Friday, we recommend seven Old Movies to Watch Now, all of which come recommended by one of our critics and can currently be screened online. Read the review, watch the movie, feel...
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Does Chicago have an important new use for newspaper bags?
The City Council's decision to ban plastic bags from Chicago supermarkets troubles dog owners who are asking, aren't we environmentalists too? Sans these bags, cleaning up after our pets will become a...
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Did you read about San Francisco, Donald Trump, and Lupita Nyong'o?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About the good news and bad news in this morning's jobs report? —Steve Bogira• About the satanic monument that's...
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Cocktail Challenge: Tahini
Challenged to make a drink with tahini, Charlie Schott of Parson's whips up something "foofy." by Julia Thiel OO.ready(function() { window.player =...
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12 O'Clock Track: Devastatingly heavy shoegaze from Jesu
After last month's amazing Godflesh show, I've been diving headfirst into revisiting the rest of Justin Broadrick's catalog. One of my favorites has always been the first Jesu LP, released on Hydrahead...
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German free-jazz great Peter Brötzmann opens up
Chicagoan John Corbett, gallerist, music critic, and occasional Reader contributor, has been working on a biography on the German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann for several years now, and I eagerly await...
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The free Chinese-opera series continues this weekend at the Film Studies Center
In a season of impressive retrospectives (of films by Alfred Hitchcock, Ernst Lubitsch, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Alain Resnais), the most eye-opening may be the series of Chinese opera films currently...
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Japanese and Taiwanese whiskies, Pappy Van Winkle bourbon, and more from...
Calling WhiskyFest overwhelming is almost an understatement. There are 80-plus booths, most of them offering four or more whiskies, which adds up to more alcohol than you could drink in a week, much...
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Two Beat books: On the Road and Minor Characters
I received one of my most important lessons about feminism when I was about 16 and attempted to read On the Road. I think I got as far as Montana, where Sal and Dean hitch a ride in the back of a...
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