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Chicago's entire school desegregation strategy needs a turnaround
When the City Council holds hearings on Chicago's selective enrollment high schools this summer, I hope aldermen consider the larger questions about racial and economic segregation as well as the...
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Links to PDFs of Reader crossword puzzles and previous weeks' solutions by Ben Tausig Recent Crosswords Bugs in the Program (PDF) - 06.26.2014…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Four big, dreamy heads by Jaume Plensa take up residence in Millennium Park
We've got a lot of big heads in Chicago, but this must be the biggest. (Wait, is Donald Trump in town?)It's Awilda, Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa's 39-foot noggin, officially installed last week in...
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An early look at the finally-about-to-open Lagunitas tap room
More than two years after I first heard a rumor about its opening date—which at that point was supposed to be fall 2012—the Lagunitas Brewing tap room in North Lawndale is finally in business. Last...
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Revisiting Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: I was there for love!
Revisiting Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at the Music Box this weekend (as part of the ongoing series of classic musicals) rekindled an internal debate that I'll likely never resolve: Who's the greatest...
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BBC America's Almost Royal is barely entertaining
BBC America first gained popularity by offering Americans a glimpse into the magical world of British television. Shows like Doctor Who and Top Gear found new life on this side of the pond, and their...
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Second City E.T.C.'s latest sketch show gives us the apes of laughs
Dark and dystopic it ain't, but there are plenty of isolated marvels in Second City E.T.C.'s Apes of Wrath. by Justin Hayford The six spritely, mercurial, wholly engaging performers behind Second City...
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Steppenwolf's This Is Our Youth meets The Mummy
In Steppenwolf's This Is Our Youth, Kenneth Lonergan's ugly-sweet play has affinities with an old black-and-white movie. by Tony Adler Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth starts with 21-year-old...
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Two new documentaries ponder the market value of knowledge
Ivory Tower and The Internet's Own Boy ponder the market value of knowledge. by J.R. Jones Knowledge is power, the saying goes, though if you look at how the world actually works, ignorant rich people...
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Death and the Maiden DOA at Victory Gardens
Victory Gardens'Death and the Maiden is DOA. by Tony Adler Well, that was unexpected. I had reason to be happy when I heard that Victory Gardens Theater would be doing Death and the Maiden, grim as it...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 6/24: Ghostbusters, La Santa Cecilia, and The Dance of Death
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Why colleges and universities truly need football
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One Sip: House-made horchata at El Habanero
Given the ubiquity of horchata, the cooling, milky, rice-based agua fresca that has no peer when it comes to extinguishing capsaicin-ignited fires, you'd think that you'd see more variation from the...
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Did you read about Gary Oldman, Amazon, and Felix Dennis?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That the crazed Teddy Roosevelt captured on camera during the U.S. World Cup game against Portugal is a Chicagoan?...
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12 O'Clock Track: Boz Scaggs's summertime soft-rock disco
The Reader's Soundboard calendar aims to pick some of the best shows in a given week, but the ball was really dropped this week when my colleagues neglected to include Boz Scaggs's appearance tomorrow...
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The Art Institute wants you to 'unthink' Magritte
For the past few weeks ads across Chicago have given passersby a bold command: Unthink. With its "u" upside down and its "n" mirror inverted, "unthink" is a fittingly enigmatic tagline for the Art...
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Stephanie Izard of Girl & the Goat, Little Goat 809 W. Randolph 312-492-6262 girlandthegoat.com…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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For Nico's sommelier, rosé goes great with kicking butt
PR people pitch what they have to work with, but this one sounded more like the pitch for a movie starring the Rock than an interview piece: Nico Osteria sommelier Bret Heiar, a former professional...
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Ameya Pawar (47th Ward ) friendsofameyapawar.com Runner-Up…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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