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Did you read about flying saucers, nipples, and Mike Myers?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That NASA is developing a flying saucer to help put humans on Mars? —Mick Dumke• That people who do not fit into...
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12 O'Clock Track: Volcanic dream pop from A Sunny Day in Glasgow
I've been a fan of Philadelphia dream-pop outfit A Sunny Day in Glasgow since their 2007 debut Scribble Mural Comic Journal (Notenuf). That album seemed to refract early My Bloody Valentine and Sarah...
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Can the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts separate signal from noise?
At this point it's clear that the Internet has become at least as important to a pop song's success as old-school terrestrial radio. When Billboard began including digital streams in its formula for...
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Negotiating with the Taliban for a POW's release? It's complicated
We can safely say Brock for Broglio 50 years ago this month was a bad trade, and we could say that even before the '64 season ended with Lou Brock and the Cardinals winning the World Series while the...
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Links to PDFs of Reader crossword puzzles and previous weeks' solutions by Ben Tausig Recent Crosswords Game Changers (PDF) - 06.05.2014…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Street View 197: The man of many faces
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Carl Bonafede is a walking Instagram moment, but that's not why I wanted to shoot him....
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Sam Shepard and John Carpenter cast long shadows over Cold in July
The new thriller Cold in July harks back to John Carpenter and Sam Shepard. by Ben Sachs Jim Mickle's violent black comedy Cold in July begins with a suburban family man (Michael C. Hall) confronting...
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Gossip Wolf: Surachai's scary semimodular synth
Surachai's scary semimodular synth, the Empty Bottle's silly staff podcast, and more by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil Local one-man black-metal act Surachai has been on this wolf's radar for a hot...
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Dance gets cerebral in 'Laws of Motion'
In "Laws of Motion," the Seldoms and Ayako Kato explore science through dance. by Jena Cutie Dance has an implicit physics dancers grok mostly through kinetic ingenuity; the irresistible joy of dance...
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Haymaker puts a recursive spin on an adolescent adventure tale
NeoFuturist Trevor Dawkins revives Haymaker, a screenplay he wrote at age 13. by Tony Adler The Neo-Futurists are nothing if not self-reflexive. Creators of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, a...
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The Goodman's wan Ask Aunt Susan could really use some help
The Goodman's wan Ask Aunt Susan, Seth Bockley's take on Miss Lonelyhearts, has none of the book's boldness or bite. by Zac Thompson Not long ago, TV was said to be rotting our brains, shrinking our...
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Gig poster of the week: A couple of flowery Conor Oberst posters
ARTIST: Charles CrislerSHOW: Conor Oberst and Dawes at Metro on Thu 5/29 and Fri 5/30MORE INFO:27designco.com[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Did you read about Google Street View, Van Gogh's ear, and Oderus Ungerus?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That the Chicago Sun-Times has withdrawn and apologized for an op-ed piece in which pundit Kevin D. Williamson...
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12 O'Clock Track: 'Hot Sauce,' an infectiously funky organ jam from Big John...
Although jazz musicians like Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, and Jimmy McGriff are some of the best-known practitioners of the Hammond B-3 organ, my entree into the funky world of organ jazz was through Big...
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1964: The year the Cubs added a fearsome bat
Writing yesterday for the Bleader, I had reason to look back 50 years to a couple of events that seemed like good ideas at the time. There was the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which saw Congress man up and...
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In Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise does the time warp again (and again and again)
Tom Cruise relives the same day over and over in the sci-fi blockbuster Edge of Tomorrow. by J.R. Jones Last Thursday, Tom Cruise made a surprise appearance at Showplace ICON theaters for a preview...
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Gear up for another summer of dancing with We Invented the Bop 2
On Monday WGCI on-air personality DJ MoonDawg released the sequel to January's We Invented the Bop, and with the temperatures finally sitting well above the 50-degree mark the timing is perfect for...
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Looking for real activist art? Try this opera
We've had a coincidental festival of activist art this spring, including the CSO's "Truth to Power" concert series and the Block Museum's "The Left Front" exhibit of radical art from 1929 to 1940. But...
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