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Weekly Top Five: The best of Kim Ki-duk
Moebius, the newest film from controversial South Korean director Kim Ki-duk, is currently screening at Facets Cinematheque, and J.R. Jones has a capsule review in this week's paper. In his review,...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 8/25: Dinosaur 13, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,...
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Reporters, flacks, and America's future
Here's troubling news for those of you who like being troubled. That's not everyone, certainly, but I write a lot about media, and media types require daily vexation.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
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Best shows to see: PS I Love You, Third Coast Percussion, T-Pain
This week's installment of the Empty Bottle's free Monday series features Joshua Abrams's Natural Information Society and Spires That in the Sunset Rise, which starts tonight at 9 PM. If that's not...
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Did you read about Michael Brown, Dave Chappelle, and Chevy Chase?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That Michael Brown's funeral is today?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Guitarist Grant Green's ultrafunky take on 'Sookie, Sookie'
At the beginning of the summer I featured "Hot Sauce," one of my all-time favorite soul-jazz jams by organist Big John Patton, as a 12 O'Clock Track. One of the things that makes that performance so...
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Will It Waffle? Daniel Shumski's Waffleizer book hits bookstores today
Pull up your chairs, kiddies, and let me tell you of a time long ago when you could make your name by starting a food blog. Daniel Shumski, who was also for part of this time a digital editor at the...
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Will Redmoon's Great Chicago Fire Festival survive its own plan?
Redmoon Theater's Great Chicago Fire Festival throws the original plan overboard but remains a symbolic communal exorcism. by Deanna Isaacs Last week Redmoon Theater rolled up the big metal door of...
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Winning isn't the only thing, but it's why they keep score, even in Little...
For when the One Great Scorer comesTo mark against your name,He writes—not that you won or lost—But how you played the Game. —Grantland RiceLet's consider this famous text.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to...
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Ten recent movies that I wish had been directed by Lee Daniels
It's been roughly a year since Lee Daniels last snuck into the mainstream with The Butler, his overstuffed pageant of modern African-American history. I was surprised by how few mainstream critics...
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A great cast makes BoJack Horseman a great show about animal-human hybrids
I would say that I "accidentally" watched the entire first season of BoJack Horseman on Netflix this weekend, but each time I allowed the next episode to continue playing, it was no accident. It was,...
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Going fishing at Brown Bag Seafood Company
For all the proliferation of ostensible fish shacks in recent times (across the spectrum, from G.T. Fish and Oyster to Fish Bar to Parson's) there really hasn't been anything to address the very...
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The Reader's guide to the 36th annual Chicago Jazz Festival
The lineup at the 36th annual Chicago Jazz Festival includes Dave Holland’s Prism, the Sun Ra Arkestra, and much more. by Peter Margasak, John Corbett and Bill Meyer Last year the Chicago Jazz...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 8/26: Third Coast Percussion, A Summer's Tale, and the...
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Please kill the MTV Video Music Awards
In 2008 I was assigned by a prominent music magazine to cover the MTV Video Music Awards for its blog. That might sound like torture to some people, but I eagerly accepted.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to...
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Cryogenic preservation may be possible, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea
Change is like the stranger in the movies who arrives in town and is a little too smooth and a little too friendly to children. We know he's up to no good.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on...
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What's old is Who again on BBC One
It's been three days since "Deep Breath," the season eight (counting from the reboot in 2005) premiere of Doctor Who, and the response seems to be a collective sigh—of relief. The show has had twelve...
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Did you read about AIPAC, Nas, and Ariana Grande?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That there's a kidnapper on the loose?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Listen to 'Conference of the Birds,' go see Dave Holland's Prism on Saturday
I'm consistently impressed with the work Peter Margasak, John Corbett, and Bill Meyer do every year they cover the Chicago Jazz Festival. So many acts play, and yet every year the three writers pack...
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This week at U. of C.: A classic romance and a historic prison riot
The fall quarter might not start for another month, but movie culture is in full swing at the University of Chicago this week. Tomorrow Doc Films begins the final week of its summer calendar with Frank...
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