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An interview with Czech filmmaker Jan Hrebejk (part two)
Read part one of this interview.Ben Sachs: You often develop your characters through their sexual relationships. They speak openly about their sex lives, and when you show them having sex, there isn't...
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Principal Principle tells it like it is about teaching in Chicago
I was still mourning the great Bel Kaufman when I happened to see Stage Left Theatre's production of Principal Principle, Joe Zarrow's play about teaching in Chicago. Kaufman—who died last week—wrote...
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Queer punks stood up to all sorts of phobias and isms at Fed Up Fest
Last weekend, at the corner of 32nd and Morgan in Bridgeport, a crowd of pierced punks with brightly colored hair and dark clothes could be seen smoking cigarettes, talking, and eating outside of...
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RE|Dance charts a journey that never gets off the ground
RE|Dance's The Long and Forgotten Winter charts a journey that never gets off the ground. by Jena Cutie RE|Dance's 75-minute epic starts out auspiciously. A single dancer appears in front of a...
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Gabriel Iglesias: A comic on the couch
Gabriel Iglesias's concert doc The Fluffy Movie is part stand-up, part psychotherapy. by Ben Sachs Gabriel Iglesias is hardly the first stand-up comic to talk openly in his act about traumatic...
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Do I take the advice of a 'seduction blogger'?
Dan Savage countermands a pickup artist, offers advice on varying your sex life, and gives a pass to a young guy boning his best friend on the sly. by Dan Savage Q I am wondering when the best time is...
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Reader's Agenda Thu 7/31: Fiesta del Sol, Comedians Against Violence, and...
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Best shows to see: Charles Gayle, Jeannie Holliday, Insect Ark, Barbara Eugenia
Thousands upon thousands of people will descend upon Grant Park this weekend for Lollapalooza, and if you aren't one of them there's a good chance you'll want to avoid that. If you are going to the...
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City announces lineup for 2014 World Music Festival: Chicago
Today the city announced the full lineup for this year's World Music Festival, which runs September 11-21 at 20 venues around town; all events are free. This year's programming, like last year's,...
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Marijuana legalization needs to be a gateway to broader drug reform
"It is long past time to repeal this version of Prohibition," the New York Times said Sunday, in an editorial calling for an end to the federal ban on marijuana. It will be even longer past time before...
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Did you read about a downtown shooting, cryogenic preservation, and Harry...
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About the shooting at the Bank of America building in the Loop this morning? —Tal Rosenberg• About the many...
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12 O'Clock Track: Ultrademon, Zombelle, and the GTW will 'Drive U Crazy'
The minute Rihanna jacked some aquamarine imagery from seapunk for her performance on Saturday Night Live in the fall of 2012 it was pretty clear that the electronic URL microscene wouldn't be the same...
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How ham fat satisfies: More from Paul Fehribach on southern cooking
So right as yesterday's segment of my interview with chef Paul Fehribach of Big Jones about his upcoming southern food cookbooks was being editorized for enpublishment, Twitter went kerflooey over a...
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What Arnaud Despleschin's U.S. debut tells us about the treatment of mental...
Last week, while recovering from a minor bike accident (which I described the other day), I remembered how enjoyable it can be to overcome an injury or a treatable illness like a cold and flu. The...
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'Picturing Logan Square' showcases turn-of-the-(last)-century images
Anyone who's lived in Logan Square for more than a handful of years will talk your ear off about how much the neighborhood's changed. A new exhibition of historic photos puts those anecdotes to...
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There's nothing in the air at Piko Riko
Each morning, at around nine or ten, the atmosphere on the blocks surrounding the intersection of Montrose and Troy in Albany Park is saturated with the narcotic aroma of roasting chicken. If you...
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Rick Perlstein crosses The Invisible Bridge between Nixon and Reagan
In a new book, Chicago historian and Nation writer Rick Perlstein continues to chart America's rightward shift. by Mick Dumke For months evidence had trickled out suggesting ties between the White...
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Local rapper Blake doesn't like your boyfriend, but you might like his new video
Local rapper Blake Gardner spent years releasing music as Jams Dean, but recently he decided to dump the name and just go by Blake—just Blake. Yesterday he dropped his first video since changing his...
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Cantaloupe cocktails: To foam or not to foam?
Last week I bought a cantaloupe and promptly forgot about it until several days later, when the ripeness that had made me choose it in the first place was threatening to approach rotten. Fortunately I...
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Cocktail Challenge: Cheez-Its
Challenged to make a cocktail with Cheez-Its, Matty Colston combines them with kimchi. by Julia Thiel OO.ready(function() { window.player =...
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