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Best shows to see: Lydia Lunch Retrovirus, Meatmen, Chatham County Line, All...
Outkast will be in Chicago in a little more than a month, but if you don't have a ticket to Lollapalooza you won't get to see them here; however, if you've got a way of getting up to Milwaukee this...
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Did you read about John Boehner, Marlon Brando, and Honey Boo Boo?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That in Mosul, Iraq, one of the oldest Christian communities is disappearing? —Lucy Wang• That John Boehner says...
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12 O'Clock Track: You Blew It! take on Weezer's 'Surf Wax America'
When Weezer debuted in 1994 with Weezer, aka The Blue Album, the band had more in common with Kiss than any then-contemporary emo bands. Yet in the intervening years Weezer's become an emo reference...
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch conspicuously dumps George Will
If you're a print media groupie with a long memory, you might remember that George Will won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 as a columnist for the Washington Post. If you can't get enough of the Sunday...
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The Blind Shake headline Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival—and a basement—on Sunday
This year's Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, an open-air art gallery of sorts that takes over the stretch of Milwaukee Avenue from Kedzie to Kimball Avenues, has an awesome live-music lineup, and one of...
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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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Jersey Boys isn't Clint Eastwood's first film about professional singers. . .
As Drew Hunt noted the other day, Jersey Boys isn't the first time Clint Eastwood has directed a film about musicians. His Charlie Parker biopic Bird (1988) cemented his reputation as a serious...
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Pink drinks with a kick: Gin and Campari cocktails
I've been reading a lot about Campari drinks lately, which is a little odd since I don't really enjoy the flavor of Campari. But I recently tried it in a ginger liqueur cocktail and enjoyed it, plus I...
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Preckwinkle says that she's not going to say whether she's running for mayor
Toni Preckwinkle is going to keep answering the question by not answering the question. Like the rest of the city, reporters wanted to know Thursday whether the Cook County board president is thinking...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 6/27: Chicago Gospel Music Festival, Reader B Side Pride...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Chances, and other Reader-recommended movies...
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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The BOC stops here, and the rest of this week's screenings
This week brings our annual Best of Chicago issue, including ten film-related critics' picks by me, Ben Sachs, and Drew Hunt; and our readers' poll, in which Music Box always seems to win Best Art...
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Donald Trump, watch and learn from George Lucas
What we have here is a case study in not thinking big enough. Donald Trump is lambasted for pasting his name on the side of his building in letters that can be seen by pedestrians along a roughly...
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12 O'Clock Track: 'Beat the Sky' is even more summer indie pop by Connections
I've covered Connections—the Columbus, Ohio, lo-fi five-piece—a bunch of times in the past and will likely never stop because I love them so damn much. The band's third LP, Into Sixes, is on its way in...
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Key Ingredient: Michael Lachowicz contemplates calves' brains
Challenged to create a dish with calves' brains, Michael Lachowicz of Restaurant Michael goes superclassic. by Julia Thiel OO.ready(function() { window.player =...
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Automatic Recordings revs up Sunday at Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival
If you end up hanging out at the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival's north stage Sunday afternoon chances are you'll see a burly man passing out copies of a red cassette housed in a black-and-white paper...
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Did you read about poverty, Lindsay Lohan, and the Bulls?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That 80 percent of people identifying as conservative believe that the poor "have it easy"? —Mick Dumke• About...
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Cook out with the man behind The Meat Hook Meat Book
"I learned a lot about cutting meat, but I also learned a lot about what kind of meat shop I wanted to open," Rob Levitt says to a group of meat-eaters huddling inside Honey Butter Fried Chicken after...
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Karen vs. Rahm—the choice is yours, Chicago
I was driving home down Western Avenue, listening to the NBA draft, when the call came in from my man, Mick Dumke. "Did you hear the news?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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