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Trouble in Mind's Doug Tuttle brings his solo project to the Burlington this...
Local label Trouble in Mind, run by Bill and Lisa Roe, has been releasing records at an incredible rate since its inception in 2009. Starting out mostly focusing on garage rock, the label has gone on...
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Secret Sisters and Jessica Lea Mayfield: Americana and American't
One of the most off-putting elements of what's usually dubbed Americana music is the self-awareness of many artists plying their trade to one particular sound or another that ceased to have any...
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Revisiting The Brink's Job, William Friedkin's neglected 1978 heist comedy
Sorcerer, currently touring the United States in a new digital restoration, is undoubtedly one of the year's great rediscoveries, yet the reevaluation of William Friedkin's filmography is far from...
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Key Ingredient: Erick Williams attempts to showcase a starch
Challenged to create a dish with kudzu starch, Erick Williams of MK uses it five ways. by Julia Thiel OO.ready(function() { window.player =...
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Blanket coverage of nothing—the NFL draft
I believe I speak not only for myself when I declare that Thursday night at 7 PM can't come too soon. At that time—prime time on ESPN—the NFL draft will finally begin and the sports pages of America...
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Carbonated margaritas and other Cinco de Mayo experiments
Full disclosure: carbonated margaritas are basically the extent of the experiments in this post. There's one slight variation on the classic margarita, but if you're waiting for a big reveal at the...
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Take your meatings at Tête Charcuterie . . . but save room for salad
Tête Charcuterie is a lot more than just a temple to our culture's insatiable flesh lust. by Mike Sula I tried to eat way more meat than is good for the body at Tête Charcuterie, but for days...
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Belles, dumbbells, and the rest of this week's screenings
In this week's print edition, to inaugurate my reign as the most reliable movie critic in America, I misidentified Misan Sagay, the screenwriter of Belle, as a man. My apologies to Ms. Sagay; that's...
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Eric Stiegman's quest to make Illinois grain part of the beer-brewing boom
On Monday I wrote about Jared Rouben's Moody Tongue Brewing Company, and Rouben's concept of "culinary brewing," making beers using the kind of farmers market ingredients we associate with...
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Did you read about vaporizers, Rafael Nadal, and Celine Dion?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About the ongoing court battle over the city of Chicago's widely varying response times to 911 calls? —Mick Dumke•...
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12 O'Clock Track: "Sister Sophia" is Floor's triumphant recorded return
Floor, a doomy Florida metal band that called it a day in 2004 (a move that allowed singer Steve Brooks to go on and form Torche) underwent a full-blown reunion last year, and their first new album in...
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El Dorado, Sadie Thompson, 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 accomplished.…[...
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Watching the White Sox-Cubs game with Governor Quinn
It was a beautiful evening for baseball, finally, so the governor and I decided to take in the White Sox-Cubs game at U.S. Cellular. Unfortunately for Pat Quinn and me, who are both Sox fans, the...
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Fat-toned trombonist Reut Regev among the highlights of the Israeli Jazz &...
The second Israeli Jazz & World Music Festival kicked off on Tuesday, but some of the best shows take place in the coming week. In this week's paper I wrote a preview of Sunday's concert by the...
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Lincoln Square's Grand Tour: Pretzel vs. pretzel prawn
Life as we know it didn't exist before the invention of pad thai. Can you imagine where we would be if there was no pizza?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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David Brooks: Kidnapped schoolgirls aside, Africa's doing great!
A newspaper column we have read a thousand times and will read a thousand more (providing newspaper columns continue to be written) is the one that sprays Windex on a matter we supposed was clear...
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Why can't Mayor Rahm be more like Karen Lewis?
For Tuesday's big show—Karen Lewis live at the Hideout—they gave me the hand-held mike and told me to sit in the middle of the table. Between my cohost, Mick Dumke, and Ms. Lewis, two rock stars of...
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Contemporary artist Isa Genzken, meet filmmaker Alexander Payne!
In the Isa Genzken retrospective that opened last weekend at the Museum of Contemporary Art, there's a series of four stereo advertisements that Genzken enlarged and presented as found-art objects in...
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What the hell is this place? 1623 W. Estes
Rogers Park's leopard-print house has been the talk of the neighborhood for more than a decade. by Web Behrens Neighbors started talking about Rogers Park's leopard-print residence soon after co-owner...
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