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Has Tribune Publishing left the morons behind?
The Tribune Company, fresh out of bankruptcy, has just spun off its eight daily newspapers into a corporation all their own: Tribune Publishing. This is a major event in the lifetime of the Chicago...
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A bigger, better Medium Cool returns
The concept of an art book fair has become a phenomenon in the contemporary art world. Last year's New York Art Book Fair, organized by Printed Matter and held at MoMA PS1, drew more than 27,000...
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Did you read about New Yorkers, the Marijuana Business Academy, and Kevin Love?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About what stories the Chicago media is missing in its "scoreboard" approach to covering violence?…[ Read more ][...
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12 O'Clock Track: The Pentaject Corporation's creepy 'Blackmail Stretch'
Combing through the latest e-mail blast from Permanent Records I came across a listing for Blackmail Stretch, an EP from a defunct local postpunk outfit called the Pentaject Corporation. The group made...
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Piccolo Theatre founder John Szostek has resigned
Evanston's Piccolo Theatre announced Wednesday that its founder and longtime head, John Szostek, "has resigned from the organization effective immediately." Szostek was artistic director of Piccolo...
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Travel to Shapers' Pierce Islands at the Burlington tonight
Four years ago local experimental-rock outfit Shapers self-released their debut full-length, Little, Big, and tonight they're headlining the Burlington to celebrate the release of their follow-up,...
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Make-Overs head back to South Africa after a send-off at the Hideout
South Africa's Make-Overs, a gnarly and noisy two-piece, arrived in Chicago to play Do-Division Festival at the very end of May, and after over two months of touring around the country, they play one...
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The ongoing Chilean new wave yields Flying Fish
The Summer of Flying Fish, which begins a weeklong run tomorrow at Facets Multimedia, isn't the best new Chilean film to play here this year. (Sebastian Lelilo's Gloria remains the front-runner for...
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Key Ingredient: Takashi Yagihashi puts a Japanese spin on an Italian delicacy
Challenged to create a dish with bottarga, Yagihashi serves the cured fish roe over noodles. by Julia Thiel OO.ready(function() { window.player =...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 8/8: Blowout Sale and Block Party, Ginza Festival, and...
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North by Northwest, Dead Man, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch...
Each Friday, we recommend seven Old Movies to Watch Now, all of which come recommended by one of our critics and can currently be screened online. Read the review, watch the movie, feel accomplished.…[...
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Show us your Ibsen, and the rest of this week's screenings
Jonathan Demme hasn't made a dramatic feature since his acclaimed Rachel Getting Married (2008), though his latest film, A Master Builder, has so many competing levels of authorship—it was adapted by...
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Reporters talk schools and journalism in the Age of Rahm
This week's First Tuesdays show at the Hideout (sensational, as always) should be required viewing for any man or woman foolish enough—I mean passionate enough—to want to pursue in a career in...
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Did you read about Logan Square, Lay's, and grinning-monkey selfies?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About computer chips that are thinking ever more like the human brain? —Mick Dumke• About how talking to strangers...
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12 O'Clock Track: 'Naki Kyoku' is a groovy stoner-rock gem from Boris's...
I really love genre-bending Japanese metal trio Boris, and am overjoyed to be going to see them for the first time in years on Sunday night. Leading up to the show, I've been jumping back head-first...
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Happy tenth to the city's best restaurant . . . in the suburbs
It's arguable which restaurant has been the city's most influential over the past 25 years—Trotter's, Alinea, Frontera, Blackbird—but there's no doubt what restaurant has been most important for the...
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One Bite: Craft Pizza's murderously spicy white pizza
Naming a pizza, however obliquely, after one of the first American serial killers (that we know of) seems like a weak Kumasesque grab for attention. (Remember Kuma's?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
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Less than meets the eye at Logan Square's Masada
Food takes a backseat to the spectacle at Masada, Logan Square's Middle Eastern boite. by Mike Sula Just before the 960 Jewish inhabitants of the lofty fortress of Masada committed mass suicide in the...
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Trumpeter Dave Douglas finds joy in the Sacred Harp tradition
When trumpeter Dave Douglas debuted his latest quintet a couple of years ago with the wonderful album Be Still (Greenleaf), a big part of its repertoire was composed of hymns and folk songs his mother...
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Chicago Reframed features a different kind of shooting
The new website Chicago Reframed has several superficial similarities to the widely beloved and widely imitated Humans of New York. Both sites feature photos of ordinary people out on city streets,...
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