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Young designers brought eye-popping looks to Chicago fashion week
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Last month a bunch of young designers descended on Style Bias: Street Style, a fashion...
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William Shatner wrestles with his soul at 4 AM, and this priest has it on...
"Mike doesn't get drunk and go to the Acme Hotel to pick up 17-year-old girls!"That's not the sort of thing you'd expect to hear on a TV show produced by a Catholic priest, nor would you expect Mike's...
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Bebel Gilberto moves further away from her Brazilian heritage on her new album
In this week's paper I wrote about the rare Friday performance by Brazilian singer Moreno Veloso, son of the legendary Caetano Veloso. It turns out he's not the only scion of Brazilian music royalty in...
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A white, wealthy ward went to Rauner—and how the rest of Chicago voted on...
Chicago stuck to its faith in the governor's election Tuesday, overwhelmingly blessing the Democrat, Pat Quinn, citywide—but the Magnificent Mile opted for a higher power. In the gallery of the...
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Local label Tall Pat Records will release four records at once tomorrow night
Local label Tall Pat Records, headed up by the vertically gifted Patrick Sullivan, released its first slab of wax last March—the debut self-titled LP from local garage-pop band Dumpster Babies—and...
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The 2016 election will be different
The 2014 elections unfolded as was written. Conventional wisdom believed, and repeatedly told us, that the Republicans would take over Congress because:• The president is unpopular• Midterm elections...
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See a locally produced punk-rock musical this weekend at Township
Before Dave Grohl briefly broached the subject on his HBO documentary series Sonic Highways, the history of Chicago punk rock was chronicled in You Weren't There, Joe Losurdo and Christina Tillman's...
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Yawn offshoot Dam Gila airs out the sunnier side of psych-pop
Adam Gil has rebranded—slightly—for the release of his first solo album. His main project Yawn put out its second full-length LP Love Chills just two months ago, marking 2014 as a stacked year for the...
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On the Waterfront, In a Dream, and and other Reader-recommended movies to...
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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Polish Film Festival in America, and the rest of this week's screenings
One of my favorite films this year (Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida) and one of Ben Sachs's favorites (James Grey's The Immigrant) return for one last hurrah at the 26th Polish Film Festival in America, a...
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After campaigning as an outsider, governor-elect Rauner calls on Bill Daley...
Early on in his campaign for governor, Republican Bruce Rauner ripped into a rival candidate he described as an example of the "career politicians" and "cronyism" that dominated Illinois politics. "The...
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A Parson's bartender creates a cocktail with an oil not approved for human...
"I was afraid to even drink the stuff," Eric Houser of Parson's Chicken & Fish says of mustard oil, the ingredient with which Hanna Mutsch (Kuma's Corner) challenged him to create a cocktail. "It's...
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An open letter to the Lucas Museum
Dear everyone involved in creating the Lucas Museum,Thank you for sharing images of the new Lucas skatepark, multiplex, warehouse, and Museum of Narrative Art on the Chicago lakefront. And for...
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Did you read about Alayne Fleischmann, the Endonym Map, and Too Many Cooks?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That key economic statistics aren't faked, but you can't trust them anyway?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
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Former Chicagoans Outside World release a proggy, mathy new tune
About a year ago, Ben Scott and Hazel Rigby, the main forces behind local indie-pop act Outside World, took off to New York City and since their arrival, they've released only two new songs—albeit...
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Restaurant-quality seafood at retail in Villa Park
Over the past 40 years Villa Park-based Supreme Lobster, which supplies fresh fish to many of the top restaurants and retailers in Chicago, from Grace to Eataly, as well as vast quantities of frozen...
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Spotify, Soundcloud, and the web's leaky music infrastructure
In the first week since its release, Taylor Swift's new album 1989 sold at pre-streaming numbers—that makes sense, because she never streamed it. The only (legal) way to hear 1989 since its release on...
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Jazz bassist Jason Roebke brings together unexpected sounds in his edgy...
In this week's paper I previewed Saturday's performance at Constellation by the Jason Roebke Octet. Shows by that group have become infrequent since two of its members, trombonist Jeb Bishop and alto...
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Bruce Rauner keeps it in the Daley family
As one of the only people around who actually reads newspaper editorials—well, someone's gotta do it—I took one for the team and read the Tribune's gushing ode to Bruce Rauner's gubernatorial triumph....
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To leave a message for Speaker Madigan, press three
Bruce Rauner is being roundly rebuked for fibbing on Tuesday night, but let's cut the guv-elect, some slack. Rauner wanted everyone to know he was in charge and willing to work with the other side as...
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