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Celebrate five years of local hardcore label Not Normal Tapes this weekend
Back in March Gossip Wolf reported on the five-year anniversary festival for local hardcore label Not Normal Tapes, and the celebration finally begins this weekend! The blowout starts tomorrow...
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It's National Doughnut Day! Let's celebrate!
Today, the first Friday in June, would probably be one of our most celebrated national holidays if anybody knew about it: it's National Doughnut Day. Remember that.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
View ArticleWhere the Next ticketing system is going, uh, next
After reading Nick Kokonas's fascinating 6,000-word manifesto-slash-case study for the ticketing system he devised for Next and Alinea, the reason you'd want to do something, anything, to do shake up...
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Reedist Aram Shelton recalibrates his crews
Next week former Chicagoan Aram Shelton makes one of his regular return visits, but this time he's employing local players to bring to life projects he developed in the Bay Area, where he moved in...
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The Age of the Earth, Glauber Rocha's rarely screened final film, is coming...
Starting in two weeks Facets Multimedia will host a weeklong series of films about Brazil's indigenous population. The lineup contains some impressive-sounding documentaries (including the 1983 short...
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Chicago writes a gun law because the courts say it has to
Some say the editorial page is a newspaper's Department of Futile Gestures, as the opinions expressed therein turn a nifty phrase or two a lot more often than they turn public opinion. There's even a...
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Show us your . . . Punch Trunk
Will Duncan's party in a box dispenses drinks and music. by Jake Malooley It was out of necessity and a certain degree of showmanship that Will Duncan created the party in a box he calls the Punch...
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Reader's Agenda Sat 6/7: Printers Row Lit Fest, a scavenger hunt, and Mother...
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Street View 198: The yin and yang of style
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Who says spring is all color and flowers and frills? Jay, Moji, and Marzieh (left to...
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A graphic novel grapples with Andre the Giant
Box Brown's Andre the Giant: Life and Legend is, like pro wrestling, a mix of both truth and histrionics. by Dominic Umile You can hardly blame Philadelphia comics creator Brian "Box" Brown for his...
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A minister lives close to god in a towering church steeple
From his residence in the Chicago Temple steeple, Reverend Philip Blackwell gets breathtaking skyline views. by Jake Malooley Inside the Gothic steeple of the Chicago Temple, which boasts the world's...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 6/8: Sunday Afternoon Clothing Swap, "Pictures for an...
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Stanley Donen
This weekend, the Music Box kicks off its latest weekend matinee program, which focuses on musicals. The lineup features some gold standards (Meet Me in St. Louis, 42nd Street) as well as a few...
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The secret weapon at New Asia? Freshly slaughtered chickens
New Asia, a Vietnamese restaurant on the far-west side of Lincoln Square, has a secret weapon: freshly slaughtered chickens. by Mike Sula A little more than two months ago I suggested in a blog post...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 6/9: Snubfest, Eddie Izzard, and Kelis
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Best shows to see: Kelis, Verma, Eagulls
Rock legend Elvis Costello's show this week might be sold out, but in typical Chicago summer fashion, there's still so much going on you'll probably have trouble keeping track. On Monday, local rock...
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A modest suggestion for paying tribute to Mayor Jane Byrne
It's come to my attention that there's a movement in town to pay tribute to former mayor Jane Byrne with some sort of monument or honorary street name. Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed has been...
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Did you read about Rafael Nadal, Bill Watterson, and Harold's Chicken?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That for the first time a computer has passed the Turing test? —Brianna Wellen• That an Indiana high school...
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12 O'Clock Track: The sparse synth sound of Total Control's "Flesh War"
Anyone within earshot of my person over the past week has heard me not shut up about the release of Total Control's Typical System, which is both phenomenal and dropping here in the States on June 24...
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Nick Vatterott plays it different
The former Chicagoan is never shy about experimenting with stand-up—or simply throwing the crowd for a loop. by Kevin Warwick Comedian Nick Vatterott doesn't think outside the box so much as set the...
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