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Reader's Agenda Sat 5/10: Zombies, a gear swap, and Seahaven
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Street View 189: On trend and in tune
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.A Mother's Day special! Check out this stylish duo in their weekend wear.…[ Read more ][...
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Edie Fake's Memory Palaces dazzles
Comics artist Edie Fake reimagines spots from Chicago LGBTQ history in a new book. by Noah Berlatsky Edie Fake is a one-person comics locus. He works at Quimby's, the city's alt comics hub, and he's...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 5/11: Brunch with mom, Chicago Critics Film Festival, and...
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Pier Paolo Pasolini
This week, the Gene Siskel Film Center's 12-film retrospective of Pier Paolo Pasolini concludes with a screening of his notorious final film, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom. Similar to David Lynch and...
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Artist on Artist: Handsome Dick Manitoba of the Dictators NYC talks to Little...
Handsome Dick Manitoba of the Dictators NYC talks to Little Richie Speck of Tutu & the Pirates. by Luca Cimarusti They're not as famous as the Ramones or the Stooges, but the Dictators were just...
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Two artists revive the ghosts of the civil rights movement through the power...
In a new MCA installation, Leslie Hewitt and Bradford Young re-create the quieter moments of history. by Aimee Levitt If you're too young to have lived through the civil rights movement, it's likely...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 5/12: Columbia Yacht Club, City Winery's dinner party,...
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Did you read about Boko Haram, Fred Eychaner, and Kenny G?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That Boko Haram have released a video in which they offer to exchange abducted Nigerian schoolgirls for the...
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12 O'Clock Track: The gloomy, unkempt postpunk of Institute's "Bureaucrat"
There's not much to glean from a web-difficult band name like Institute—especially when that band only appears to have a nondescript six-song demo floating around on Bandcamp. I do know, however, that...
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Sampling Spanish wines with Kevin Zraly of Windows on the World Wine School
Winemakers come to town to put on a show all the time—to talk up their wares and get restaurateurs and wine writers to taste them. They're always interesting—even if the wine isn't that interesting,...
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Bungalow dreaming in Belmont Gardens
Musician Mazurka Wojciechowska manifested her dream home in Belmont Gardens. by Andrea Bauer When musician Mazurka Wojciechowska got into two car accidents in a single week in 2003, she knew something...
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Best shows to see: Truckfighters, Wye Oak, Young Widows
The weekend of nice weather we just had feels like an occasion worth celebrating, and there's no better way to continue to toast the end of a brutal winter than with live music. Fortunately you've got...
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Off Color's DinoSmores stout: Not quite extinct
Inexplicably, I haven't written about Off Color since founders John Laffler and Dave Bleitner got it up and running as a production brewery last summer—I reviewed the Mischief pop-up bar in March 2013,...
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How a movie might be memorable because of a single detail
You never know what you're going to retain from a movie. It could be the story, a theme, or one of the characters.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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What to do with ramps: Albanian peta
A few years back friend of the Food Chain Jim Samata was strolling through his western-suburban neighborhood when he caught a powerful whiff of raw onion in the air. He followed his nose to a vacant...
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'Dirty Water' turns fetid: The Standells return
Few bands are more synonymous with the sound of garage rock than the Standells, whose hit "Dirty Water" about the Charles River is not only a Boston rock anthem ("I love that dirty water / Boston...
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Vivian Maier, the lawsuit
A Vivian Maier exhibit leads to a lawsuit against the owners of the Wicker Park gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey. by Deanna Isaacs In 2007, when the contents of Vivian Maier's storage lockers were sold off...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 5/13: Bob Eisen, The Kill Team, and Wye Oak
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Street View 190: SAIC's the Walk 2014 celebrates 80 years of fashion (part two)
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.The School of the Art Institute's yearly fashion extravaganza the sidewalk becomes an...
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