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Revisiting the early days of Chicago's social-dance music with Isham Jones
Some of the music I write about in this space each Friday pushes well beyond what the average person might consider jazz, and there are times when I wouldn't even try to make the argument myself. But...
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Aldermania goes to the 7th Ward!
No sooner had my post on the aldermanic cheat sheet hit the street—metaphorically speaking, of course—than I got complaints from readers wanting more. That's right!…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is the new One Book, One Chicago
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon is the new One Book, One Chicago for 2014-15, Brian Bannon, the Chicago Public Library commissioner, announced at the Harold Washington...
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iO's Carl and the Passions keep good old-fashioned long-form alive in the new...
Improv team Carl and the Passions keep good old-fashioned long-form alive in iO's new HQ. by Brianna Wellen Though it's only been a few weeks since the grand opening of iO's new location, the...
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In employing pianists, Mariano's picks up where Nordstrom left off
Mariano's pianist James Callen jazzes up the grocery shopping experience. by Kerry Cardoza In the wake of the Dominick's shutdown, the Mariano's grocery empire expansion of 2014 has been a boon not...
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Reader's Agenda Sat 9/13: Festival de la Villita, Hyde Park BBQ Block Party,...
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Street View 215: Flower power
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Here's an idea for the dudes going to Riot Fest this weekend: why not pick some flowers to...
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Riot Fest started out chilly, rainy, and muddy, but it had its highlights
Several faithful Reader staffers, deterred to varying degrees by chilly wind, persistent rain, and unavoidable mud, send fragmentary dispatches from day one of Riot Fest.Molly Raskin: I've been excited...
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A grassy oasis beneath the Red Line tracks in Boystown
How a Boystown resident turned rented CTA property into a festive garden. by Andrea Bauer A Red Line train rumbles overhead every few minutes, casting flickers of shadow and light onto the garden...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 9/14: Bacon Takedown, Chicago Bloody Mary Competition,...
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Akira Kurosawa
This week, this Music Box hosts a special screening of Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, the Japanese director's excellent Macbeth adaptation, to coincide with Chicago Opera Theater's own forthcoming...
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Riot Fest day two: Sunshine, bees, the Descendents, Dashboard Confessional,...
The Reader crew reports from Riot Fest's much less disgusting second day.Leor Galil:Friday's clusterfuck loosened me up for Riot Fest's second day. No matter how well I planned my day, I knew I...
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In Rotation: Erin Elders of Wedding Dress on Chicago's answer to a young...
Current musical obsessions of Wedding Dress guitarist Erin Elders and Adam Mohundro from Tinkerbelles by Luca Cimarusti Luca Cimarusti, Reader music listings coordinator Screeching Weasel I've spent...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 9/15: Expo Art Week, Women’s Words, and Skygreen Leopards
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Buried a week ago by hometown sportswriters, the Bears rise from the dead
Last week's season-opening overtime loss to the Buffalo Bills put some Chicago sportswriters in full panic mode, no one more than Steve Rosenbloom of the Tribune. Rosenbloom declared that "the Bears'...
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Best shows to see: Skygreen Leopards, EMA, Meshell Ndegeocello
With the end of Riot Fest, the summer music-festival season comes to a close. But you'd be crazy to think that live music around town would just stop.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this...
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Did you read about lithium, Minecraft, and Urban Outfitters?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About the assault weapon myth?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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'Another Train,' another expression of measured optimism from Mary Gauthier
The music of Nashville singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier is a source of hard truths, lessons learned through a difficult life of addiction and heartbreak. The tunes on Trouble and Love, her first studio...
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Worlds collide with the Hot Doug's-Butcher & Larder sausage collaboration
In its final days the lines at Hot Doug's don't need a reason to get any longer, but they likely will starting tomorrow when Doug Sohn releases a three-years-in-the-making collaboration with Rob Levitt...
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On Riot Fest's final day, pretty much everybody had an opinion about Weezer
Leor Galil: Thirty minutes into the Cure's set, people began to peel off and move east en masse—it was kind of like the way birds fly south for the winter, but instead of seeking warmer weather, these...
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