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Oozing Wound and Black Pus ready a split LP
It's no secret that I love local trash-thrash three-piece Oozing Wound, so any news on an upcoming release of theirs is always going to be something that gets me excited. This time around the band is...
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The first Scored Silent Film Festival hits West Town on Saturday
This Saturday at 8:30 PM local animation outfit BAWSY Animation will present the Scored Silent Film Festival at 755 N. Ashland. It's not really a festival so much as a single event, but it sounds...
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On the case for reparations—and the National Review's response
What's so interesting about "The Case for Reparations," the cover story by Ta-Nehisi Coates in the June Atlantic, is how easily that case is made. Coates points out that everything awful (short of...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 5/30: Do-Division Street Fest, Festival Del Taco, and...
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Krzysztof Zanussi, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and the rest of this week's...
Through July 3 the Gene Siskel Film Center hosts the touring series "Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema"—including, this week, Krzysztof Zanussi's Camouflage (1977) and The...
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Obama College Prep site in doubt
Obama College Prep may not end up in Stanton Park, the site the city originally designated for its 11th selective enrollment high school, but it's still slated for the Near North Side. Alderman Walter...
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Everybody knows the parking meter deal stinks—but is it legal?
Five years after it was put into place, Chicago's parking meter privatization deal is widely seen as one of the great taxpayer rip-offs in the city's history. The open question is whether it's legal.…[...
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Klute, Talk Radio, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week
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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Vivian Maier gets another portrait—in dance form
Bird Lady gives us another portrait of Vivian Maier, this one in dance form. by Jena Cutie When dancer-choreographers Liz Burritt, Kristina Fluty, and Rebecca Salzer waded into the vast pool of Vivian...
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Did you read about Daisy Cutter, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Billy Jack?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• This look at how the Associated Press has decided to style religious terms? —Tony Adler• About how the former...
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12 O'Clock Track: 'Bite Me' is brilliant slacker rock from Toronto's...
Marvelous Mark, who played in the Toronto glammy pop band Marvelous Darlings (alongside Ben Cook of Fucked Up, Young Governor, and Yacht Club) has recently released his own solo effort, a two-song tape...
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This week's Chicagoan: Roger Billhardt, nude model
This week's Chicagoan: Roger Billhardt, nude model: "I don't go home with any women who paint me, and I don't accept any phone numbers." by Anne Ford A first-person account from off the beaten track,...
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Is Stuart Dybek one of the greatest-ever Chicago writers?
I don't know how to begin to describe Paper Lantern, Stuart Dybek's new collection of stories. The subtitle describes the collection as "love stories," which I guess is as good a description as any.…[...
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The miniseries Labyrinth will leave you longing for that Bowie movie
Did you read that the CW was airing a Labyrinth miniseries, and then assume that it was a TV adaptation of the 1986 Jim Henson film of the same name? You know, the David Bowie-fueled vehicle that...
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Brendan Sodikoff's new Italian spot enters a crowded field
Cocello, Brendan Sodikoff's new Italian spot, enters a crowded field. by Mike Sula Imagine a looming dystopian future in which Italian restaurants have replaced all the city's faux Irish bars, and the...
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Chris Speed extends the lineage of the saxophone trio
Next Wednesday Bad Plus drummer Dave King brings his superb quintet the Dave King Trucking Company to town for a show at Constellation. The lineup includes the mercurial New York reedist Chris Speed, a...
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Street View 195: Triple A
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Khalfani picked basic but strong pieces, creating a minimal look that's totally worthy of...
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The year's best summer movie played here five months ago
As spring turns to summer, I find myself thinking a lot about Breakfast With Curtis, the Rhode Island-shot indie that screened at the Siskel Center back in January. Set over a sweet, lazy three-month...
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Chicago Opera Theater's two-opera/one-film weekend
This weekend, for the first time since its move from the Athenaeum to the Harris Theater a decade ago, Chicago Opera Theater is opening a subscription-season show in a different venue. The double bill...
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Zoom in: Hyde Park
Before Roe v. Wade, the Jane collective ran an underground abortion service out of a pair of Hyde Park apartments. by Osita Nwanevu Before Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, Chicago women in need of...
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