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Best shows to see: Maps & Atlases, Tori Amos, Billy Martin's Wicked Knee
Chicago's floating around in a post-Lolla haze right now, but if you still want to take in some more live music after this weekend's massive festival, you've got some great options during the first...
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Did you read about NFL cheerleaders, Ira Glass, and Ghostbusters?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• Michael Specter on the threat of viruses, seen and unseen? —Steve Bogira• John Lanchester on the language of the...
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12 O'Clock Track: 'The Offbeat,' austere new single from Wildbirds & Peacedrums
Swedish couple Mariam Wallentin and Andreas Werliin have to rate as one of music's most dynamic forces, both together and on their own. Wallentin, a singer, released a fantastic solo album last year...
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Learning to live with computer-generated imagery
One of the best things about my job is that it regularly forces me to confront my aesthetic prejudices and the limitations of my cultural literacy. Just a few weeks ago, for instance, someone commented...
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Empirical Brewery hits the market hard with its IBU Overload IPA
When I hung out with the Aquanaut guys in Bowmanville to write last week's column, we got to talking about the Half Acre facility going in across Damen, and they mentioned another new...
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Tonight at the Charleston: Mikel Patrick Avery's music for half-size piano
Mikel Patrick Avery is one of Chicago's more talented and curious jazz percussionists, a musician who frequently departs from his mainstream foundations to participate in all kinds of unusual...
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UPDATE: Evanston Public Library puts Palestinian-American author's appearance...
UPDATE: Late this afternoon, Evanston Library director Karen Danczak Lyons reported that she'd just spoken with Ali Abunimah by phone and that "we're back on track." The program has been rescheduled...
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American Football graced the stage at Beat Kitchen on Saturday
Less than two hours after OutKast wrapped up their headlining set at Lollapalooza on Saturday another beloved reunited band took the stage at Beat Kitchen—influential 90s-emo outfit American Football....
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The Hundred-Year House moves backward in time to uncover the source of a...
Rebecca Makkai's latest novel forms a satisfying conspiracy between reader and writer. by Aimee Levitt Rebecca Makkai's new novel, The Hundred-Year House, is a mystery that takes an unusual form: the...
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Lollapalooza's rainy and radiant final day, starring Chance the Rapper
Philip Montoro: I'll be honest, I didn't go to Lollapalooza on Sunday. I spent pretty much the whole day in my living room, working on a Beer and Metal post.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on...
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The Reader's photo recap of Lollapalooza 2014
This year's edition of Lollapalooza was possibly the most controversial since the festival took up an annual weekend-long residence in Grant Park in the summer of 2005. As reported here on the Bleader...
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Artist on Artist: Chaka Khan talks to Jake Austen of the Goblins
Chaka Khan talks to Jake Austen of the Goblins and Chic-a-Go-Go. by Jake Austen One of the most versatile, dynamic vocalists in American history, Chaka Khan returns to her native Chicago this week...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 8/5: 'Lost and Found,' Tori Amos, and First Tuesdays with...
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Cutting CEO pay: It's an act of compassion
An important new business principle is making itself felt: the more you pay your CEO, the more incompetent a job he'll do. I suppose powerful forces would like to stamp out this notion before it takes...
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The Awesomes on Hulu proves the superhero universe is expanding
Some folks have hit their saturation point for all things comics-related, but not me. Some folks think we've plumbed the depths of all things superhero-related, but I don't think that. And while I...
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Did you read about Ebola, Rand Paul, and the Scrabble dictionary?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• This succinct graphic explaining the Ebola virus?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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12 O'Clock Track(s): The crumbling, spacious beauty of Tobias Jesso Jr.
I'm usually skeptical of nascent artists hyped by major music publications, but I quickly succumbed to the demos of Vancouver singer-songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr. "True Love," a spectral, bewitching,...
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This Thursday in repertory screenings: Street gangs, bows and arrows, and...
We've been remiss in failing to report on the summer screenings presented by the Silent Film Society of Chicago at the Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge. The venerable programming organization has already...
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How the city cut funds for mental health patients—and spied on them instead
While closing clinics, the city found money for spying on protesters. by Ben Joravsky Two years after Mayor Rahm Emanuel closed the mental health clinics, he's finally allowing his City Council allies...
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Gaming and art collide at VGA Gallery
VGA Gallery furthers the case for the artistic merit of video games. by Jake Malooley When Jonathan Kinkley was growing up in the 80s, his parents refused to buy him a Nintendo. So it was via dad's...
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