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Reader's Agenda Sat 8/3: Geronimo!, Bon Festival, and art that skews perception
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:Geronimo!'s recent six-song tape Buzz Yr Girlfriend Vol.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Lollapalooza 2013 day one recap: Photos and a video recap from a rainy day
The forecast for the first day of Lollapalooza 2013 called for spurts of showers, but after a short downpour in the early afternoon things cleared up as Sweden's Ghost B.C. approached the stage around...
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John Lewis's long march
With the help of illustrator Nate Powell, a civil rights legends's memoirs become a striking graphic novel. by Dominic Umile When the severely beaten body of 14-year-old Emmett Till was pulled from...
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Show Us Your . . . Arm-wrestling costume
Member of the Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers Bess Boswell's outfit is a Walmart-bought children's bee costume. by Summer Concepcion Never underestimate the effectiveness of a good tagline. As a...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 8/4: Edgefest, day three of Lollapalooza, and Festival...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:This Must be the Band, 16 Candles, Mar Caribe, and more perform at Edgefest, a street festival in Edgewater that takes place at Broadway and...
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Weekly Top Five: Woody Allen
Blue Jasmine, the latest work by Woody Allen, hit theaters this week, and Ben Sachs has a typically insightful review in the paper and online. As I'm writing this, I've yet to see the movie, but I...
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Lollapalooza 2013 day two: Photos and a video recap
The biggest story of Lollapalooza's second day involved a band that didn't even show up—Death Grips. I wasn't terribly surprised given the noise-rap group's reputation; they are, after all, the same...
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What do the Playboy bunny, Lite Brite, and Dove soap have in common?
What do the Playboy bunny, Lite Brite, and Dove soap have in common? by Aimee Levitt In 1937, László Moholy-Nagy arrived in Chicago to establish the New Bauhaus, an American version of the German art...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 8/5: Great Moments in Vinyl, Satoki Nagata, and the...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:Two Bruce Springsteen albums, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle and Born to Run, are surveyed as part of Great Moments in...
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Hey, parents and teachers and principals: Here's where the money is!
For the last week or so, Mayor Emanuel's aides have been holding private briefing sessions with aldermen regarding the upcoming spectacle known as passage of the city's budget. As far as many parents,...
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Questions the Sunday Tribune might not have realized it was raising
Headline: Chicago's Jazz Age Gangsterswere covered like celebritiesExcerpts from Ron Grossman's Chicago Flashback story:"For the Tribune, it was an era of journalistic civil war between its Editorial...
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Did you read about the test-tube burger, parasites, and South Dakota?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About the novelist who died just before her first published book hit the best-seller list? —Aimee Levitt•This...
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12 O'Clock Track: Slut River definitely dislikes you on "I Called the Cops"
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Best shows to see: Rooms Trio, Joe Morris, the Humminbird
Right now, you're either recovering from a weekend of avoiding high schoolers at Lolla or a weekend of avoiding high schoolers by not going to Lolla. In either case, the best cure is a refreshing dose...
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Lollapalooza 2013 in review: Cell-phone bulges and great expectations
Attending Lollapalooza requires some planning; with an estimated 100,000 attendees descending upon Grant Park each day, merely maneuvering through the masses with friends presents a challenge. Some...
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Should we be giddy about our cities when so many are suffering in them?
Kids used to dream of being president, Thomas Friedman observed a week ago in the New York Times. But because of congressional gridlock, that job now is just plain frustrating.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe...
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Metropolitan brews a ruthlessly fresh summer lager: Zwickel Flywheel
I've been a fan of Metropolitan Brewing for almost five years. When I was first getting into craft beer (and still intimidated by the terra incognita of traditional German styles), "lager" to me meant...
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On reflection, Private Fears in Public Places is a great title for a movie
Revisiting Alain Resnais's You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet at the Music Box last week reminded me of seeing the director's Private Fears in Public Places at that theater six summers ago. At the time, I was...
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A garlicky pesto even a vampire could love
At last month's Green City Market Chef's BBQ, Friend of the Food Chain and allium enthusiast Alan Lake and I were sitting around talking garlic scapes, the subject being unavoidable as abundant piles...
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The confessions of Richard Gibbons, recovering Catholic
In "Confession," artist and architect Richard Gibbons gives voice to a lifelong struggle with Catholicism. by Deanna Isaacs Richard Gibbons is a Chicago architect and figurative painter obsessed with...
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