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Slow down your afternoon with Valerie June's 'Tennessee Time'
Singer and multi-instrumentalist Valerie June hails from Tennessee and isn't afraid to sing about it. June's fourth album, last year's Pushin' Against a Stone, is steeped in her Memphis roots, which...
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Tonight: COT's heated, in-your-face Macbeth
Sometimes, when a work is seldom produced, there are reasons. In the case of Ernest Bloch's Macbeth, finished in 1909 and currently getting its local premiere at Chicago Opera Theater, there was the...
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What can you do when your neighbor's herbicide burns down your organic crops?
Growing Home's downstate training farm is finding out how little you can do when your neighbor's herbicide burns down your organic crops. by Mike Sula At first, when Stephanie Douglass saw the orange...
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Street View 216: Riot Fest 2014 style
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.At times it was tough: there was mud everywhere and I couldn't find my friends. I mean,...
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Running against Rahm means running for the mayoral runoff
Now that Alderman Bob Fioretti has announced he's running for mayor, it's a good time to remind you—once again—that we have a runoff system for electing mayors in Chicago. That is, mayoral candidates...
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Our guide to the Chicago Romanian Cultural Marathon
Facets Cinematheque hosts three days of Romanian films and performance. by J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs The Romanian New Wave—encompassing such minimalist, socially rigorous dramas as The Death of Mr....
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Chicago's crash course in Filipino art cinema continues this weekend with...
Yesterday I noted the upcoming screenings of Brillante Mendoza's Thy Womb, rare opportunities (in Chicago, anyway) to catch up with one of the most controversial Filipino directors working today....
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Gossip Wolf: Who's in Elia Einhorn's Fashion Brigade?
A new project from Scotland Yard Gospel Choir's Elia Einhorn, new bands with folks from Bloodiest and Fake Limbs, and more by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil Scotland Yard Gospel Choir singer Elia Einhorn...
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Poly bisexual ISO monogamy
Dan Savage advises a monogamously inclined unicorn, a gay guy with a shady past, and a reader attracted to twentysomethings with cochlear implants. by Dan Savage QI'm the bisexual everyone loves to...
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Reader's Agenda Thu 9/18: Expo Chicago, Witch Mountain, and BalletX
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Best shows to see: James Murphy, Beak, Danilo Perez Quartet, Aahh! Fest
Riot Fest is all done, but World Music Festival is going strong; I suggest digging into our guide to the 11-day blowout to see which of the remaining shows might strike your fancy. There's plenty of...
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Mfk's Scott Worsham: 'Simple things are the hardest to do'
Big restaurant openings have to have PR that starts working from a mile away. That's fine, but it would be a much duller scene to cover if things didn't also pop up out of the blue, unannounced, and...
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Surveying Chicago hip-hop's growing digital catalog a week after U2's...
The backlash around U2's 13th album continues in the week since Apple slipped Songs of Innocence into roughly 500 million iTunes' users libraries free of charge. New Yorker pop critic Sasha Frere-Jones...
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If Rush Limbaugh wants to blather—let him blather
I don't like e-mail asking me to sign a petition any more than I like a telemarketer calling at dinnertime. A digital petition doesn't signify much of anything because big numbers are so easy to come...
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Awesome Tapes From Africa at Smart Bar Friday
World Music Festival: Chicago wraps up this weekend, with loads of terrific shows happening all over the city. Oddly, one of the most exciting international music events occurring this weekend isn't a...
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Did you read about the Waltons, Meow the Jewels, and Michael Chabon?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• Michael Eric Dyson on corporal punishment in black families and its connections with slavery?…[ Read more ][...
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Listen to Pinback's glorious '3x0' ahead of tomorrow's show at Bottom Lounge
The deluge of bands playing a classic album in its entirety reached its saturation point at last weekend's Riot Fest when ten bands did that very thing. It's easy to dismiss these kinds of performances...
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Constellation and Nightingale Cinema to copresent a new monthly series on...
On Monday at 7 PM Constellation, the northwest-side arts venue, will host a screening of Suitcase of Love and Shame (2013), a documentary feature compiled from 60 hours of reel-to-reel tape that...
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The good, the bad, and the really bad—a roundup of three newish barbecue spots
Which do you want first—the good news or the bad news? I wouldn't be the self-flagellating grump I am if I didn't seek out whatever new barbecue joints have popped up from month to month.…[ Read more...
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The Lemonheads play two shows in the suburbs this weekend
This weekend, 90s alternative rock pioneers the Lemonheads are playing two shows in the suburbs, Fri 9/19 at Wire in Berwyn and on Sat 9/20 they headline Oaktoberfest in downtown Oak Park. Formed in...
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