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Reader's Agenda Sun 7/20: Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks, Rock 'n' Roll...
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Three itineraries for Sunday's edition of the Pitchfork Music Festival
Since you're well rested and ready to head to Union Park with plenty of time to spare, you can plan your last day at Pitchfork on your own, right? You don't need to consult these hour-by-hour...
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The hits kept coming on day two of the Pitchfork Music Festival
Philip Montoro: In Saturday morning's recap, I declared that "The festival's first day belongs to the women," based on the Reader team's enthusiasm for Neneh Cherry and Sharon Van Etten. For me the...
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Street View 207: Pitchfork Saturday style
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Stop the presses! Crocs are happening!…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this...
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In Rotation: Alex Fryer of Dumpster Tapes on the best Donnas songs to play...
Current musical obsessions of Dumpster Tapes cofounder Alex Fryer, Justin Vittori of Rainbow Gun Show, and the Reader's Leor Galil by Leor Galil Leor Galil, Reader staff writer Mrs. Carol Edwards,...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 7/21: "Architecture to Scale," Pizza Time, and Getting to...
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The Newberry Book Fair turns 30
Newberry Book Fair celebrates three decades of selling rare lit. by Jake Malooley Dan Crawford has helped organize every Newberry Library Book Fair since the event began in 1985. Thirty fairs later,...
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A fond farewell to the last day of the Pitchfork Music Festival
Philip Montoro: I learned something interesting at Pitchfork on Sunday. The poor sod dressed as Twinkie the Kid could barely see in that costume.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Best shows to see: Jolie Holland, Pizza Time
If for some reason you love live music so much that you need to see more after the three-day Pitchfork festival, you're in luck, because there's still more to take in. Tonight at Reggie's, crusty old...
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Did you read about Kanye West, Vladimir Putin, and low-stakes testing?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About the benefits of low-stakes testing? —Steve Bogira• That (at least according to a Pew Research study)...
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12 O'Clock Track: 'Mulatu,' a typically beguiling art-pop ditty from Dva
Northern Spy Records launched in 2010, and it's hard-to-think of too many other labels that have developed such a diverse, genre-spanning catalog so quickly and effectively. I don't like everything the...
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No people will be punchlines in "Racist Jokes 101" (OK, maybe white people)
The Homeroom series invites a pair of comics and a famed hashtagger to comment on race and racism. by Molly Adams"So often it seems to me that jokes we hear about race are designed to make white...
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Our photo recap of the Pitchfork Music Festival 2014
Photos of Beck, Deafheaven, Kendrick Lamar, crowd surfing, dancing, and more from Pitchfork Music Festival 2014 This year's Pitchfork Music Festival had an endearing combination of clear skies,...
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Street View 208: Pitchfork Sunday style
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Trends are fun. They capture some of our collective consciousness, a mood everyone is...
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Follow Perfect Pussy as they shop in Pitchfork's Book Fort
Here's the premise: we gave six acts playing Pitchfork some scratch to spend on a record or a book, then browsed the fair with them to see what they ended up with. In our first installment, Reader...
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The Chinese police have nothing on Lao Pi BBQ
I'd like to thank whoever subscribed me to News China, a glossy magazine whose title pretty much says it all. There's lots to read in the August issue, including a report on extremist violence in the...
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Más makes Mexican with more and more and more . . .
At Más, a new Mexican spot in West Loop, more isn't better. by Mike Sula The sign outside Más, a new West Loop Mexican restaurant, makes the place look a bit like a Swedish health clinic. "Más," of...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 7/22: Tuesdays on the Terrace, lawn bowling, and Queer...
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Who will pick Fifth Star Awards winners?
Chicago's flag will still have four stars.The city announced yesterday that it will recognize "exemplary Chicago artists and arts institutions" with the Fifth Star Awards, a new honor that'll be...
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Why children are coming north from Honduras
My daughter Laura lived just off the street a few doors from the private school where she taught for a year in Honduras. Whenever we Skyped, I braced for the sight of a violent stranger with a gun...
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