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City announces lineup for Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz
Earlier this week the city formally announced the lineup for Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz, another of its free summer concert series at the Pritzker Pavilion. (Full disclosure: I served as a...
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Mayor Rahm and Donald Trump: Who's the bigger schmuck?
With the escalating showdown between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Donald Trump breaking into national news, Chicagoans have been forced to answer the day's toughest question:Which of the two is the bigger...
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Width and without, part six: What's the opposite of wide-screen?
Now in its fourth week at the Music Box Theatre, Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida not only takes place in early-60s Poland, but it looks like it was made then too. The jazz musician who hitches a ride with the...
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Chicago-style democracy endures under Mayor Emanuel
"Rahm Emanuel is no friend of democracy," historian Rick Perlstein wrote in Rolling Stone in 2012. The mayor was "obsessed with finding ways to expand his executive power" and worked "underhandedly and...
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Andre Davis, released from prison after a wrongful conviction, is charged...
Two years ago, Andre Davis was released from prison after DNA evidence pointed to another man in the 1980 rape and murder of three-year-old Brianna Stickel. Of the 100-plus inmates wrongfully convicted...
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Hitch-Cocktails makes for a good (tanked) evening
Hitch-Cocktails features mostly drunk improvisers creating a Hitchcock-style thriller, or something. by Brianna Wellen The Annoyance Theatre's new location features more theaters, a kitchen, a larger...
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Reader's Agenda Sat 6/14: "The Art of Dr. Seuss," World Naked Bike Ride, and...
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Street View 199: A piece of CAKE
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Comic artist Krystal DiFronzo achieves maximum impact with minimum effort by wearing a...
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Congressman Quigley: Despite Cantor's loss, Republicans need to grow some sack!
Mike Quigley doesn't think it was anything he said. The north-side congressman had a nice long talk with Eric Cantor on Tuesday—the first time he'd spoken at length with the House majority leader.…[...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 6/15: Chicago Blues Festival, Sketchbook 14: 2049, and a...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 6/16: 2014 World Cup, the Richard Thompson Electric Trio,...
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Best shows to see: Richard Thompson, Juan Wauters
It's the time of year when there are nonstop shows to see, and the beginning of this week is a perfect example of that. The week starts off with garage-rock party-animal King Khan and his band the...
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Lyric makes a big announcement, CSO makes a bigger one
It was a coincidence that word came out last Thursday about the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's $32 million gift bonanza—$15 million of it earmarked for education and outreach—while Lyric Opera was...
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Did you read about Casey Kasem, the World Cup, and the San Antonio Spurs?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About the big tax break Mike Madigan's law firm won for Mesirow Financial Services, which manages millions in...
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12 O'Clock Track: Will Johnson at his very finest in Centro-matic's 'Rat...
Singer-songwriter Will Johnson rules for a number of reasons. One is that he's a massive baseball fan—not only will he sing a national anthem, but he also picked up baseball painting a few years...
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In memoriam Phil Ashbach, Moody Tongue debuts brews, Alinea's modern Chinese,...
Things happening in the world of food: • Phil Ashbach, who owned one of the city's best no-BS hot dog and burger stands, the former Phil's Last Stand (renamed Fatso's Last Stand a few weeks ago), died...
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In Rotation: Exit Ghost guitarist Michael Golas on Amen Dunes' embrace of...
Current musical obsessions of Exit Ghost guitarist Michael Golas and artist Elena Ailes by Peter Margasak Peter Margasak, Reader staff writer Bettye Swann, The Complete Atlantic Recordings Louisiana...
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Making art out of the data of everyday life
For followers of a growing self-discovery movement, the quantities in our lives can say a lot about its quality—and be transformed into art. by Aimee Levitt If, as Socrates said, the unexamined life...
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The infrequent (but undeniable) rewards of watching movies outdoors
It's been a few summers since I've attended an outdoor film screening. Though I appreciate in theory the city's Movies in the Parks program, I don't especially enjoy patronizing it.…[ Read more ][...
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If there's value in recapping Game of Thrones, why not a game of football?
Praise to Tribune reporter and critic Mark Caro for his alert examination of a phenomenon so old it's new (no end of those in our recycling-mad culture, is there?): the long-form recapitulation. "In...
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