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The best of the 2014 Chicago Independent Spirits Expo
The Chicago Independent Spirits Expo is one of my favorite events of the year; the offerings from the hundred-odd distilleries that participate always include new spirits from distilleries I already...
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Big changes are afoot at Steppenwolf
Martha Lavey will be stepping down after nearly 20 years as artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre Company and will be succeeded by ensemble member (and Tony-winning director) Anna D. Shapiro in the...
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HoZac Books unleash their first release tonight
In 2006, local label HoZac Records was launched by Todd Novak and Brett Cross, focusing on limited runs of garage-rock singles. Eight years later HoZac's production has grown exponentially, moving on...
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Head to Doc Films this fall for Yiddish-language films made between 1937 and...
On Sunday at 7 PM Doc Films kicks off the season's most esoteric retrospective, a ten-film series of Yiddish-language films made between 1937 and 1940. Wittily titled "Schmaltzywood," the series...
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Finding Nemo, Airplane!, 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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The real story behind Dog Day Afternoon, Nicolas Cage, and the rest of this...
Dog Day Afternoon was based on true events, but the you can get the real story in The Dog, Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren's documentary about John Wojtowicz, whose infamous bank heist inspired the...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 10/3: 'Green Porno,' West Town Art Walk, and Hercules &...
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A tribute to Hot Doug (with video)
By now there's been enough written about Hot Doug's (which closes today for good) that people who got in line at 2 AM could have still been reading tributes to it by the time they got to the front of...
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Key Ingredient: Aaron Mooney marinates fish in shio koji
Challenged to create a dish with shio koji, a mold-inoculated rice paste, Webster's Wine Bar chef Aaron Mooney uses it as a marinade. by Julia Thiel OO.ready(function() { window.player =...
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Did you read about David Letterman, Bob's Burgers, and the Blommer Chocolate...
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That the Ebola epidemic is stoppable?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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'Hell Bent for Leather' will always be tough as nails
Judas Priest are in town tonight, playing the Venue at the Horseshoe Casino, and what better way to celebrate their arrival than by listening to Judas Priest? Listening to them all weekend long...
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The jibarito goes to the south side at Maracas
Sometime in the last year, a restaurant of fairly historic importance closed its doors and—at least as far as the food media were concerned—nobody noticed. Borinquen,* in Humboldt Park, was the alleged...
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It's not simple Spanish at West Loop's Salero
This new Randolph Row spot is an answer to Spanish minimalism. by Mike Sula Newer Spanish restaurants in Chicago—and I'm talking about Vera (which is almost three years old) and the upstart Mfk—have...
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Street View 222: Spectacular spectacles and the Chicago Imagists
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.There's a place much better than fashion week for seeing cool outfits: art events. Usually...
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Rauner, Rahm, & Quinn—at the Hideout!
In keeping with the stipulations of the Illinois Open Meetings Act, we're posting the agenda for next week's First Tuesdays show at the Hideout. Did I tell you the show was Tuesday?The night begins...
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Reader's Agenda Sat 10/4: ShredFest, Great Chicago Fire Festival, and Logan...
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A fussbudget marks up the Tribune for words we could do without
If I take the time to find a pen and circle things in the morning paper, I can take a few minutes more and explain why I bothered. "Sheepishly, Ahmed said he knew little about Khan's politics," said...
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Sunday: A memorial for Peter Hales
I was sitting in front of a Peter Hales photograph earlier this week when I came upon the Chicago Tribune obituary page and learned that he’d been killed when hit by a car while riding his bicycle. It...
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In Rotation: Soundrotation's Duane Powell is smitten with Otis Brown III's...
Duane Powell of Soundrotation.blogspot.com on Otis Brown III's The Thought of You, and more by Leor Galil Leor Galil, Reader staff writer ILoveMakonnen featuring Drake, "Tuesday" I've been listening...
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This week's Chicagoan: Clinton Shepherd, Navy Pier park operations manager
Navy Pier's Clinton Shepherd talks about life after setting the world record for longest Ferris-wheel ride. by Anne Ford A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. "I'm...
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