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Uncovering reedist Jimmy Giuffre's lost decade
The odds are slim that a better historical jazz release will surface this year than The Jimmy Giuffre 3 & 4 New York Concerts (Elemental Music), a mind-bending double CD collecting two previously...
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The politics behind Chicago’s garbage bins
The City Council took up an ordinance Wednesday that few aldermen know much about, except that it's likely to raise the cost of living in Chicago for apartment and condo dwellers. Those who know more...
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Charlotte Salomon's Life? Or Theater?: Painting for her life, literally
Charlotte Salomon spent most of 1941 locked in a room in La Belle Aurore, a hotel in Saint Jean Cap Ferrat in the south of France, painting. She was trying to distract herself from the suicidal...
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Darth Vader at the Hideout! Or at least a couple of aldermen
In honor of the latest bright idea to pop out of Mayor Rahm's brain, Mick and I will be wearing our favorite Star Wars costumes for Tuesday's show at the Hideout. In case you haven't heard, Mayor...
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9021NO: Mystery Girls reunites Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth
Now that we're pretty sure we're getting a summer, it would be a shame to waste any of these precious, sun-filled hours watching TV, right? That is, aside from making sure to DVR the final season of...
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Right and wrong: Sodikoff's High Five Ramen and the Melmans' Ramen-San
Brendan Sodikoff's High Five Ramen and the Melmans' Ramen-San face off over noodle soup. by Mike Sula Two of the city's most resourceful hospitality empires recently opened restaurants in response to...
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Reader's Agenda Sat 6/28: Chinese Dragon Boat Race, Printers Ball, and the...
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Street View 201: Style paradox at CHGO DSGN
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Christine was shot at the opening of CHGO DSGN, an homage to local image makers currently...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 6/29: Pride Parade, Street League Skateboarding, and the...
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Polish cinema
For the past couple of months, Polish cinema has been all over Chicago. The Gene Siskel Film Center is about to wrap up "Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema," a program featuring...
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Best shows to see: My Brightest Diamond, Amp vs. Amp, Human Feel
Oh man, New Order is in town this week—I saw them at last year's Lollapalooza, and it was legitimately mind-blowing. Too bad for us, that show is sold out.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on...
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How chef Michael Lachowicz created a stripped-down steak house in a...
If there's anything more ridiculous than a group of food nerds in a strip club ignoring everything else around them while taking pictures of their steaks, I can't think of it. But not long ago I...
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Did you read about Facebook, pot legalization, and Brian Eno?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That Facebook really is fucking with you? —Aimee Levitt• About the legal and logistical problems slowing pot...
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12 O'Clock Track: 'The New World,' classic evergreen prophecy from X
More in the New World was the last great album by the LA postpunk band X and also its penultimate effort with original guitarist Billy Zoom. The 1983 album is getting reissued for the second time...
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Show us your . . . Swing Set Drum Kit
Artist Dave Ford's kinetic sculpture brings the beat. by Brianna Wellen When Chicago artist Dave Ford was commissioned to build a kinetic children's sculpture six years ago, he turned to his daughter...
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Comics artist Matt Freedman sketches his survival
Comics artist Matt Freedman sketches his cancer survival in Relatively Indolent but Relentless. by Aimee Levitt Just before the artist Matt Freedman left New York for Boston in the fall of 2012 to...
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This week's Chicagoan: Nancy Salgado, fast-food worker
Nancy Salgado, fast-food worker: "I'm still making $8.25 an hour, with 12 years of experience." by Anne Ford A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. "I started working...
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A local guy created a smartphone game that wants you to look up, not down
Smartphones have become an incredibly diverse platform for game designers, but most don't go beyond the screen. The result?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Beermiscuous does craft beer coffee-shop style
When I first started getting press releases for Lake View "beer cafe"Beermiscuous, which formally opened on Saturday, I didn't feel too sanguine about it. I mean, that name!…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to...
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Can the Cubs still lose 100 this season?
When the Cubs won five straight early in June, we began to lose confidence in them. We've been tracking the team's campaign to honor Wrigley Field's 100th birthday with a 100-loss season, and the...
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