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What do Michel Gondry and 'Weird Al' Yankovic have in common?
Like most people, I'm a fan of "Weird Al" Yankovic's recent music video for "Handy," his spoof of Iggy Azalea's pop hit "Fancy." The video contains as many good sight gags and one-liners as any...
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Everyone else is wrong, and the rest of this week's screenings
Damien Chazelle's Whiplash is one of the best-reviewed movies of 2014—whoops! Also in this week's issue, Ben Sachs reviews Nightcrawler, starring a skinny Jake Gyllenhaal as an LA sociopath who finds...
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A guide to navigating the 'musicians' section of Craigslist
There is no online courtship ritual for musicians. It's 2014: Tinder and OKCupid are probably valued at more money than I'll see in my entire life, but there aren't any GPS apps for musicians just...
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Disappears side project Tüth produces electronic music from a strange,...
Disappears bassist Damon Carruesco has been hard at work on a new experimental project he's calling Tüth. A marked departure from the noisy Krautrock grooves of Disappears, Tüth entertains elements of...
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Did you read about Tylenol poisonings, secondhand graves, and Madison Bumgarner?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• An exchange between David Graeber and Thomas Piketty about "the deep shit we're all in and what we might do about...
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New music from Fugazi that is actually really old
Fugazi called it a day over a decade a ago, and with no reunion in sight they've at least been nice enough to share some unheard material with the world. The legendary D.C. foursome, who in their...
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Soft Leather's early Halloween Party took freaky to a whole new level
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Organized by Johnny Love, Zain Curtis (Teen Witch Fan Club) and David Beltran (Starfoxx),...
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The last Metal & Candlelit Yoga session of the year is tomorrow night
Earlier this year experimental musician and yoga instructor Andre Foisy (Locrian, Kwaidan) debuted Metal & Candlelit Yoga nights, an ingenious musical event that combines his two passions. The...
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Alstory Simon's release from prison is the latest twist in a complicated...
The page-one story in both the Tribune and Sun-Times Friday was the freeing of Alstory Simon, after State's Attorney Anita Alvarez decided to dismiss his conviction. We can now ponder the complexities...
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The bizarre world of local pop-rock wiz and Olive Garden fan Paul Cherry
Local label-slash-collective FeelTrip is gearing up to release a handful of albums leading up to the end of the year, and today it offered up the debut single from Chicago pop-rock wiz Paul Cherry,...
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Local filmmaker Stephen Cone talks Warhol, teaching, and making three movies...
It's been a busy year for Chicago-based actor and filmmaker Stephen Cone. In June his most recent feature Black Box received a weeklong run at the Gene Siskel Film Center, his featurette This Afternoon...
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Spend election night with Mick and Ben at the Hideout!
I'd like to take this opportunity to quash a vicious rumor regarding my partner in crime—Mr. Mick Dumke—and our upcoming election-night extravaganza at the Hideout. Despite everything you may have...
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Meet Jamie Gangi, singing nanny: 'In a way, I'm still performing; it's just...
A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford."I started singing in operas when I was nine. It was a regimented thing—very serious training.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
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Ranking Roberto Rossellini's five realist films
The Italian neorealist classic Open City is currently screening at the Gene Siskel Film Center in a new 4K DCP digital restoration, said to be a marked improvement on the previously distributed 35mm...
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John Malkovich poses in Sandro Miller's re-creations of iconic photographs
See John Malkovich in Sandro Miller's re-creations of iconic photographs. by Aimee Levitt The story behind Sandro Miller's new photo exhibit, "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich," which opens this...
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The choice: Rauner, Quinn, or a 24-hour drunk?
In 1986, Lyndon LaRouche candidates no one had heard of won the Democratic nominations for lieutenant governor and secretary of state of Illinois. "I will never run on a ticket with candidates who...
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Did you read about indie film distribution, the Hungry Brain, and Uber?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That the long-term effects of climate change are basically irreversible?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments...
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Noisy hardcore from Shaved Women on 'I Don't Belong Here'
Tomorrow (Tue 11/4) Shaved Women, an intense noise-rock/hardcore hybrid from Saint Louis, comes to town, playing at Logan Square DIY space Club Rectum. The band, who've been tearing it up for years,...
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What should government do? Rauner—less; Quinn—more
"Bigger government means more corruption," Bruce Rauner says. Like most of the catchphrases of the Republican candidate for Illinois governor, the important thing is that it polls well.…[ Read more ][...
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I went to the movies and saw my grandmother get stabbed to death
There was no way I could have missed last night's screening of Kol Nidre, which played as part of Doc Films' free series of Yiddish-language American films from the late 1930s. The movie features an...
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