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The inmates take over the asylum, and the rest of this week's screenings
In this week's issue, Ben Sachs reviews the old-school gothic thriller Stonehearst Asylum, with Ben Kingsley and Michael Caine; adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor...
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Stand-up Mike Lebovitz preps for the recording of his debut comedy album this...
The first time I saw Mike Lebovitz was in 2012 when he hosted a Just for Laughs event (remember those?!) christened the Chicago Underground Comedy Presents: Secret Big-Time Local Comedy Showcase.…[...
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More than a dozen concertgoers were hospitalized at Skrillex's Navy Pier show...
Last Saturday, October 18, dubstep auteur Skrillex (aka Sonny Moore) took the stage at Navy Pier for a crowd of thousands; now a spokesman for the pier has confirmed that 16 attendees were transported...
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Did you read about the CPD, Ebola, and Taylor Swift?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About how little the Chicago Police Department does to keep cops from shooting civilians?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe...
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Only a month after Guided by Voices' demise, Robert Pollard returns with...
Guided by Voices officially called it quits one month ago, so naturally the group's always-busy and ultraprolific front man Robert Pollard has a new record with a new band on the way. That didn't take...
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Take a listen to 'Plutocrat (The Ballad of Bruce Rauner)'
If, by chance, the voters of Illinois, in their infinite wisdom, elect Bruce Rauner as our next governor, Matt Farmer's gonna be in a heap of trouble!I mean, Rauner blew his stack when former Sun-Times...
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A talk with outgoing Steppenwolf artistic director Martha Lavey (part one)
Martha Lavey is an unsentimental romantic. A Kansan by birth, she speaks with prairie earnestness about the practical uses of certain large concepts such as love, citizenship, and leading by...
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The stunt coordinators are the real stars of John Wick, the new Keanu Reeves...
John Wick, the Keanu Reeves vehicle opening today, probably has more in common with Carlos Saura's dance films than with any other actioner currently at the multiplexes. The film is deliberately...
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A crucial document of LA's jazz avant-garde gets reissued by local imprint...
Last year the excellent local jazz reissue label International Phonograph reissued the 1969 album Flight for Four by the John Carter & Bobby Bradford Quartet, a crucial document of the LA...
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A look inside SAIC's Fashion Resource Center
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Well, I guess I found my dream home. Just give me a Tempur-Pedic mattress and I could...
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Photos of Method Man and Redman's Concord Music Hall bash
The latest incarnation of the Smoker's Club tour, a growing hip-hop concert series cofounded by Cinematic Music Group president Jonny Shipes, stopped in at Concord Music Hall last night. Local...
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Halloween 2014: More than four dozen spooky celebrations
Halloween 2014: Everything from masquerade balls and haunted houses to a costumed ukulele cabaret and a dinner with snakes[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Mark Fishman steps down from the I AM Logan Square board
Last summer, just as the annual Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival was getting underway, an installation by artist Amie Sell was removed from the fest on orders from the property owner who'd donated the...
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Halloween lite (part one): Not so scaredy cat
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.So you know when it's around Halloween time and you're feeling all witchy, but you still...
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Bob Odenkirk's literary debut is a load of sharp satire
Bob Odenkirk’s literary debut, A Load of Hooey, expertly lampoons pretension. by Tal Rosenberg Bob Odenkirk's CV is an aspiring comedian's fantasy: writing for SNL in its late-80s heyday, the...
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Storefront living in a former model airplane factory in Irving Park
Storefront living in Irving Park: Rosalie Schultz has lived in a former model airplane factory since 1952. by Andrea Bauer Rosalie Schultz was just two years old when she began helping out with her...
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The five best horror films shot and set in Chicago
Chicago has spent the last couple weeks preparing for Halloween, and there have been no shortage of horror movies on the city's repertory schedule, but aside from one or two exceptions, locally shot...
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Patti Smith discusses art, remembrance, and detective shows
Before Patti Smith comes to town, she talks with the Reader about art, remembrance, and detective shows. by Aimee Levitt There's something extremely unnerving about picking up the phone and hearing...
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'Forbidden Art' reminded concentration camp prisoners they were human
"Forbidden Art" at the Polish Museum of America features work created in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Ravensbrück. by Aimee Levitt You've probably never heard of any of the artists whose work appears in...
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Joe Ricketts's PAC is 'ending spending' by spending a lot
The other day I got e-mail from a southern PR firm touting a $1.3 million ad buy by the Ending Spending Action Fund, a conservative PAC founded four years ago by Joe Ricketts, bankroller of the local...
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