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Reader's Agenda Sun 8/17: Air & Water Show, Great American Lobster Fest, and...
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Japanese horror cinema
Yesterday, the University of Chicago's Doc Films screened the Japanese cult item House, an "incredibly odd Japanese horror feature [that's] like a Hello Kitty backpack stuffed with bloody human...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 8/18: Barback Games, Broadway in Chicago, and the Clean
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Best shows to see: The Clean, Dama/Libra
There's a whole bunch of stuff happening this evening. On top of the Clean and Dama/Libra shows detailed below, Dutch neopsych singer Jacco Gardner will be playing at the Empty Bottle with openers Bare...
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Detail—do you remember when newspapers thought it was important?
As the Tribune and Sun-Times think about ways to improve their product, they might want to consider discontinuing some lines of news altogether. We the readers have a right to know, but that doesn’t...
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Did you read about racism, Rick Perry, and Rafael Nadal?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About race and power in Ferguson?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Moscow's Volga transport Russian folk tradition into the future
In next week's paper I have a preview for the super Ukrainian group Dakhabrakha, who made their local debut at last year's World Music Festival: Chicago, and return to the city for some performances at...
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The artist behind You Are Beautiful wants you to Go For It
Matthew Hoffman's latest affirmational artwork, Go For It, takes over Pullman's historic Market Hall. by Jake Malooley Matthew Hoffman is a big believer in the power of positive thinking. His...
View ArticleBenefits for Zanella girls, and other food-related events in the last days of...
Several months back I wrote about the tragedy that befell the family of chef Dean Zanella, long of 312 Chicago and Rhapsody—his wife Mary died suddenly, just days after giving birth to their twin...
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Mega sketch-comedy troupe Harvard Sailing Team takes the helm, shoves off
The nine-person sketch-comedy troupe Harvard Sailing Team grew its name on YouTube but remains at its best onstage. by Brianna Wellen The Harvard Sailing Team hit it big on YouTube when YouTube was...
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The debut of Uncommon Ground's Greenstar, the first organic brewery in Illinois
In 2011 the Green Restaurant Association named Uncommon Ground's twolocations the first and second greenest restaurants in the country—and in this case "green" means solar panels and wind power, not...
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I spent the summer of 2000 in the dive bar of multiplexes
As far as movies went, the summer of 2000 was a season of disappointment. The big-studio flops included, but were not limited to: Battlefield Earth, Roland Emmerich's The Patriot, the Wesley Snipes...
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The gumbo's got personality at Anita's Gumbo in Avalon Park
As a rule, the language of restaurant press releases rarely rises above a Yelp-like standard of persuasiveness (which is also why many of the food blogs that depend on them are so difficult to read)....
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DJ Mustard's lean, mean ratchet party 10 Summers and 14 more record reviews
Ten Reader writers review 15 new records, including Pallbearer's stately, mournful doom, Willis Earl Beal's raw, mystical antipop, and Jack Ruby's staggeringly savage no wave. by Reader staff Murder...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 8/19: Summer Music Film Festival, "Phantoms in the Dirt,"...
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Hanging out at the used-car lot that was Rod Stewart and Santana on Saturday...
There are two reasons I went to see Rod Stewart at Allstate Arena on Saturday. The first is that between 1967 and 1973 Stewart's output rivaled any major pop artist of the last 50 years, including: two...
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Did you read about arrest records, Don Pardo, and Rob Ford?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That having an arrest record can mess up your life—even if the charges were dropped?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to...
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Catching up with the catchy lo-fi of defunct Australian band the Moles
I was recently made hip to the Moles, an Australian outfit who existed in two forms: as a band in the late 80s and early 90s, and as the brief moniker of singer-songwriter Richard Davies (who also...
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One of the best cheeses in America came from Wisconsin, until new regulation...
Four years ago this fall I was on a cheese junket, a tour of Wisconsin cheesemakers arranged by the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board (being so perishable, milk's only shot at wider markets comes in...
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Never mind the radio edits, here's a new EP from local rapper Kembe X
I suppose I could spend the entire day dissecting the video for Taylor Swift's brand new single, "Shake It Off," but in lieu of getting frustrated over calculated cultural carpetbagging I prefer to...
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