This year's Hyde Park Jazz Festival salutes veteran documentarian Dick Fontaine
For the past few years the Hyde Park Jazz Festival has featured a sidebar of free film screenings. The tradition continues this Saturday with three half-hour documentaries from the late 1960s by...
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Gentlemen Bootleggers: How the town of Templeton, Iowa, united around whiskey
Templeton Rye has a fascinating history—one that the company plays up heavily in its marketing, where it touts its "Prohibition era recipe." The Templeton whiskey that's for sale today, however, is not...
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Hey Mayor Emanuel: White people smoke reefer too
To follow the logic of Mayor Emanuel's latest proposal for reforming marijuana laws, you'd think that only black people smoke pot, and poor black people at that. So let me be the one to tell you what...
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Why did Animal Kingdom have to die?
The fate of Avondale show house Animal Kingdom says a lot about the DIY music community's struggle to coexist with the rest of Chicago. by Leor Galil On July 13 a shabby, 114-year-old house in...
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Slutting it up for beginners
Dan Savage advises a pan-curious newbie, a monogamish man whose open marriage now seems threatening, and more by Dan Savage QI'm a 28-year-old pan-curious married guy from the midwest about to move to...
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Reader's Agenda Thu 9/25: King Crimson, Jennifer Reeder, and The Coward
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Best shows to see: Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler, Raveonettes, King Crimson,...
With the cold weather setting in most music events are heading back indoors. Although the majority of the big outdoor music festivals are over the Owl's hosting a weeklong minifest that wraps up on...
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How Iliana Regan cooks up foraged frogs
Yesterday I wrote about going with Iliana Regan to forage frogs—the precise name is frog giggin'—on a golf course in Indiana, near where she grew up. It was three days before I got an e-mail saying...
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Did you read about the Navajo Nation, group sex parties, and Bill Simmons?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About the federal government's $554 million settlement with the Navajo Nation?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
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Field Medic transports you to the Bay Area on 'A Pikture of U'
I ride the el routinely enough that I've long become accustomed to all its idiosyncrasies and foibles, to the point where some days I can easily block it all out. After some time even those pesky,...
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The pre-Batman world of Fox's Gotham isn't so black and white
Are we so averse to the thought of seeing Ben Affleck's lantern jaw under the iconic cowl that we've retconned Batman right out of the story? OK, that's not exactly what's happening on Fox's Gotham, a...
View ArticleThe raw bar at the Ravenswood Mariano's is shucking some great bivalves
I'm in danger of becoming a champion of mega grocery chain Mariano's, if only for the quality of the prepared food stalls in the new Ravenswood store. I've already professed my strong like for the...
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A reunited Liturgy comes to Land & Sea Department
Brooklyn's Liturgy was the most controversial band around when their second LP Aesthethica came out in 2011. The band's epic and dramatic combination of screamo and black metal—propelled by the...
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Dan'l Boone takes the stage for the first time
I've only listened to the eponymous debut of Dan'l Boone, which was released by Drag City on Tuesday, a few times this week, and I feel pretty certain it will take many additional spins to fully let...
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Firm tied to Bruce Rauner profits from 'court-sanctioned extortion'
During stops in black and Latino neighborhoods in Chicago this week, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner promised to fight crime in low-income neighborhoods by creating jobs, funding a...
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Cocktail Challenge: Fireball
Challenged to create a cocktail with Fireball whiskey, Stephen Andrews of Billy Sunday makes a ball of fire. by Julia Thiel OO.ready(function() { window.player =...
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Hungry for more artful quasi-camp? Check out Lightning Strikes Twice!
"It's possible to look at this film and see nothing but camp, but give it an ounce of respect and you'll discover a remarkable aesthetic object—an exercise in mise-en-scene of an awesome, glacial...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 9/26: 13th Floor Haunted House, Banned Books Week, and...
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The Blue Angel, Brazil, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online...
Each Friday, we recommend seven Old Movies to Watch Now, all of which come recommended by one of our critics and can currently be screened online. Read the review, watch the movie, feel accomplished.…[...
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Does it matter where Templeton Rye whiskey is made?
Templeton Rye has been in the news a lot lately. Bryce T. Bauer's book Gentlemen Bootleggers: The True Story of Templeton Rye, Prohibition, and a Small Town in Cahoots was released in July, the same...
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