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Reader's Agenda Wed 6/11: Juvenile, the Dunk Contest of the Century of the...
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Gig poster of the week: Soul Summit's dance lessons
ARTIST: Scott WilliamsSHOW: Soul Summit at Double Door on Sat 6/21MORE INFO:scottwilliamsdesign.com[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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The Onion and A.V. Club give a comedy fest a go
Once you get over being amused at the tongue-in-cheek, that's-so-Onion name, the First Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival is pretty straightforward. It's four shows of comedy in three days (June 12-14)...
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Amaro is an Italian digestif, sweet and bitter at the same time, made by macerating regional herbs and botanicals into a neutral spirit. It's become a popular ingredient as a bittering flavor in...
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Did you read about Eric Cantor, Entertainment Weekly, and Vienna Beef's Hot...
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That Eric Cantor's stunning loss yesterday to a Tea Party candidate will make House Republicans even more...
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12 O'Clock Track: 'Keep on Shining,' a different kind of indie soul from...
Michigan-born, Atlanta-based singer and songwriter Curtis Harding, 35, has been bouncing around under the radar of the music biz for a number of years, working as a backup singer for CeeLo Green (and...
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Our guide to the Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival
Eight new features make their Chicago premieres at the African Diaspora Film Festival. by Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs Created by the independent distributor ArtMattan Productions, the African...
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Inkwell
Links to PDFs of Reader crossword puzzles and previous weeks' solutions by Ben Tausig Recent Crosswords Mole People (PDF) - 06.12.2014…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Open Mike Eagle and Kit expand Chicago hip-hop, inside and out
Open Mike Eagle lives in LA, but he grew up on Chicago's south side—and this city is never far from his heart. Its problems aren't far from his head either, and they pop up early on his brand-new album...
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Peace out to the Reader
Nearly a decade ago, I ran into former Reader editor Kiki Yablon at a cookout thrown by former Reader contributor Liz Armstrong that I'd gone to in part because I couldn't afford to feed myself that...
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Principal LaRaviere for mayor?
The case against the reelection of Rahm Emanuel next spring is more than one issue long, but the one that's stirred up all the passion is education. The hostility of educators who oppose him seems...
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There's an important lesson in From Billions to None, a new documentary about...
2014 is the year of the passenger pigeon. Not that any passenger pigeons are around to appreciate this fact: the last one, Martha, died in the Cincinnati Zoo exactly a century ago, on September 1,...
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The shadow forces of Dr. Strangelove
One of the supreme pleasures of the new 35-millimeter restoration of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (which screens for two more nights at the Music Box) is that it...
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Breaking news: Chicago doesn't like Mayor Rahm!
I'd like to take a moment to show a little love for Maggie Haberman, a senior political reporter for Politico, who's apparently the first national pundit to make the startling discovery that Chicagoans...
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Take my virginity, please!
Dan on giving up your virginity to your high school crush, selling weathered boxer briefs online, and coming to accept that your girlfriend has no interest in fucking you. by Dan Savage Q I am...
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The fight to preserve a model public housing project
Lathrop Homes has long been one of CHA's most diverse and successful properties. But today it's a shell of its former self. by Maya Dukmasova"It was beautiful to live there. There were trees all over...
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Booker Little
Brilliant Chicago-schooled trumpeter Booker Little recorded dozens of albums—including several with Max Roach and Eric Dolphy—before his death at 23. by Plastic Crimewave[ Subscribe to the comments on...
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Reader's Agenda Thu 6/12: Brian 'Box' Brown, Fiestas Puertorriqueñas, Thomas...
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Best shows to see: Magik Markers, Rabble Rabble, Richard Thompson Electric...
One of the best performances I caught last summer was Wrekmeister Harmonies at Bohemian National Cemetery—if you want to know why I suggest checking out our Soundcheck video of the show. I'm told the...
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