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Reader's Agenda Wed 6/18: Night Moves, Juan Wauters, and the Thai Festival
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Gig poster of the week: An all-day country billboard
ARTIST: Ryan DugganSHOW: A Day in the Country at Hideout on Sun 6/22MORE INFO:ryanduggan.com[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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World Cup soccer isn't the only occasion for flopping
Soccer sources who used to keep their mouths shut have finally flipped on the floppers. Previous World Cups brought an assortment of winks and nods, but this time it's being openly conceded that taking...
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Did you read about the Washington Redskins, Chicago Blackhawks, and soccer?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:•Lawrence Wright's primer on the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham? —Steve Bogira• About the California city that's...
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12 O'Clock Track: Ab-Soul gets his helping of soul from Chicago on 'These Days'
Top Dawg Entertainment rapper Ab-Soul is from California, like the rest of the members of Black Hippy (Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, and Jay Rock). But Ab-Soul's collaborated with enough Chicagoans over...
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Hurt Everybody's hip-hop alchemy works on more than just iPhone ringtones
Local rapper Jams Dean, aka Blake Gardner, is how I got sucked into the orbit of Chicago hip-hop outfit Hurt Everybody. Gardner piqued my interest back in May with a tweet: "hurt everybody is so genius...
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Black Flag literally played a concert for children
Yesterday evening the latest incarnation of iconic hardcore outfit Black Flag performed "stripped down" versions of its tunes for children at Reggie's Rock Club. The idea of seeing a band that once...
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Polyamory prep
Dan on educating yourself about polyamory, fucking your partner while fantasizing about someone else, and reconsidering the #NotAllMen hashtag. by Dan Savage Q I'm a boring person by your column's...
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Reader's Agenda Thu 6/19: Burlesque Fest, Carrie: The Musical, and Alex Wiley
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Best shows to see: Evian Christ, Shellshag, NRBQ, Swans
Local garage outfit the Orwells celebrate the release of their major-label debut Disgraceland tonight at Schubas—it's a free show, but you had to win tickets to get in. If you wanted to go but wound up...
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Mayor Rahm's roots are in Daley-era patronage politics
For a few seconds the other day, I thought I'd been transported by a magical time-travel machine to the early 2000s, when Mayor Daley ruled the land. What prompted my journey to the past was the...
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Westward the Women: A neglected classic about sexual politics on the frontier
Since writing about Heroes for Sale last month, I've been revisiting—and in some cases, discovering—various films by director William A. Wellman, an eccentric (and, by his own admission, inconsistent)...
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In news reporting, skepticism checks out
Columnist Jonah Goldberg lambastes the media in Wednesday’s Tribune for credulously swallowing the White House line that the IRS’s "alleged targeting of political groups hostile to the president" isn’t...
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Did you read about George Will, Timothy Geithner, and Dov Charney?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About the views on education shared by Paul Vallas—Pat Quinn's running mate—and Bruce Rauner? —Steve Bogira• That...
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12 O'Clock Track: The video premiere of Netherfriends' melancholic psych...
Netherfriends main man Shawn Rosenblatt is ambitious—he wrote and recorded a song in every state for a project called 50 Songs 50 States, which he released in full last year via an interactive online...
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Check out Pinebender and Hum get all Let It Be at the PRFBBQ
The PRFBBQ, a huge underground music festival that was born years ago on the Electrical Audio message board, takes over the Lincoln Square pizzeria Borelli's this weekend, with over 40 bands playing...
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Artists celebrate Ghostbusters' 30th birthday
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Ghostbusters, a film that inspired a generation of filmmakers and comedians and, as evidenced by a show coming through Rotofugi this weekend,...
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This coming week early cinema abounds in Chicago
Domitor, an international organization for scholars of early cinema, has chosen Chicago for the site of its latest biennial conference. Beginning Saturday and running through Wednesday, the conference...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 6/20: Jonathan Richman, Bike to Work Rally, and Zombie Prom
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Vera Drake, Rock 'n' Roll High School, and other Reader-recommended movies to...
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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