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Reader's Agenda Sat 7/27: AfriCOBRA's impact, General Zod in Simpatico, and...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:The three-part series examining AfriCOBRA opens its final chapter this weekend at the DuSable Museum with "Art and Impact," an exhibit...
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Jeanne Nolan's walk down the garden path
Jeanne Nolan's new memoir, From the Ground Up, details the education of an organic gardener. by Aimee Levitt Jeanne Nolan's new book, From the Ground Up, is a rare and improbable thing: a gripping...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 7/28: Wicker Park Fest, Pierogi Fest, Taste of Lincoln...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:Wicker Park Fest comes to a close today with a great lineup that includes Ted Leo and Secret Colours, both Soundboard-endorsed.…[ Read more...
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Brian de Palma
Brian de Palma's Scarface, a remake of the 1932 Howard Hawks gangster classic, screens at the Logan on Mon 7/29, 11 PM. As Dave Kehr notes in his review, this is de Palma's most serious film, which...
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In Rotation: Engineer Jason Ward on Grimes's "Oblivion" video
Current musical delights of Tic Tac Totally founder Matt Clark and Chicago Mastering Service's Jason Ward by Kevin Warwick Kevin Warwick, Reader associate editor Protomartyr, "Ypsilanti" What's not to...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 7/29: Rivers Casino, Blue Hawaii, and Wet Hot American...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:To some people, Rivers Casino is where dreams go to die.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Best shows to see: Trinidad James, Smith Westerns, Wreck & Reference
In light of the Carlos Danger saga, we at Soundboard have something to get off our chest. Those Snapchats you've been getting from "Johnny Cantina"?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this...
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In his house at Goose Island Clybourn dead Cthulhu waits dreaming
Maybe you missed both of Goose Island's 25th-anniversary parties in May. Maybe you haven't seen their excellent 25th-anniversary ESB, which was distributed so thoroughly that I was able to pick up a...
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Check out Psalm One's touching "Macaroni and Cheese" video
Tonight local rapper Psalm One (aka Cristalle Bowen) opens for Doomtree MC Dessa at Millennium Park's Pritzker Pavilion to close out this year's Downtown Sound series. Psalm says it's one of her...
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Did you read about the Baseball Hall of Fame, Rahm Emanuel, and NSA...
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:•Life and Death in Assisted Living, part one of a ProPublica/Frontline report on an exploding industry? —Steve...
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12 O'Clock Track: Harry Belafonte's song from the end of Beetlejuice
Today is my 30th birthday, and my initial inclination was to put on something ponderous and indulgent; one of my favorite introspective songwriters like Van Morrison or Leonard Cohen or something like...
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Obama picks blogger Nate Silver to chair Federal Reserve
President Obama this morning named blogger and statistician Nate Silver to lead the Federal Reserve after Ben Bernanke's term expires in January. Introducing Silver to reporters in the White House...
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Is who reports a big story more important than the story itself? Some say yes.
Last Friday morning I was on the road, but by early afternoon we’d arrived where we were going and I fired up the laptop. An e-mail jumped out at me: Torey Malatia apparently was out as general manager...
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One thing I like about watching movies at Chicago Filmmakers in Andersonville is that they try to keep the screening room as dark as possible. There are no emergency lights, a thick black curtain...
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Parlour Car stand-up at Bar DeVille is worth leaving the couch for
Parlour Car stand-up at Bar DeVille is worth leaving the couch for. by Molly Adams I know this is not the most groundbreaking observation, but for a culturally engaged human living in an urban area,...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 7/30: Dance in the Parks, Trinidad James, and Cal Schenkel
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:It's nice to hear about something going on in a Chicago park that doesn't involve guns or weed (or both).…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
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Bill Granger's November Man is finally coming to the movies
"Jesus Christ!" said Bill Granger. "It's hard enough making a living in this racket without some guy stealing the dimes off your eyelids."Bill Granger wrote books.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
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Did you read about Citizens United, cocaine, and Sweden's most notorious...
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About the campaign finance case headed to the Supreme Court that may take Citizens United a step further? —Steve...
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12 O'Clock Track: Wayne Wonder and the Diwali riddim
The other night I had dinner at a new restaurant where literally every single review of it that I can find online uses the word "hipster" at least twice. Befitting its reputation for hipness, the...
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Zoom in: Niles
The Leaning Tower of Niles was built as a grand homage to the original in Pisa—and to store water for swimming pools. by Aimee Levitt There is just one replica in the entire world of the great icon of...
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