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Lincoln Square's Gideon Welles gets bar food right
Artistic renderings of the stern-looking Gideon Welles, Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy, decorate the walls and menus at Gideon Welles Craft Beer Bar and Kitchen. The space looks much like it...
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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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Did you read about Apple, the Onion, and Joakim Noah?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That the U.S. Marshals Service has reportedly been flying planes outfitted to "mimic cellular towers, permitting...
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Brand-new spaced-out punk from Ex-Cult
Memphis punk band Ex-Cult has a new EP on the way early next year via Castle Face Records, and yesterday they shared a preview song from it: today's 12 O'Clock Track, "Cigarette Machine."Ex-Cult, one...
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Internet anxiety is boring: Death From Above 1979, Parkay Quarts, and the...
Rock bands hate the Internet—or at least they've turned their hesitations and anxieties about hyperconnectivity into fertile ground for songs.You'll find it in the first Death From Above 1979 album...
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Good old Bill, good old Bob, and the rest of this week's screenings
This week the Gene Siskel Film Center presents two documentaries on major American artists. Burroughs: The Movie is a digital restoration of Howard Brookner's 1983 profile of William S. Burroughs, the...
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Professor Rahm lectures on contract law
After reading the Tribune's postelection editorial in which they expressed their orgasmic joy over Bruce Rauner's gubernatorial victory—I believe they said the earth moved—I made one of my great...
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We're taking John Kass's bike bullying seriously
Conventional wisdom holds that the best way to make something go away is to ignore it. But rules usually have exceptions, this one included.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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The Nik Wallenda of style
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Fashion can be a balancing act. David's outfit has a lot of details, but they all work...
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Is Bruce Rauner the new Jane Byrne?
Jane Byrne ran for mayor in 1979 against the "cabal" that controlled Chicago. She won, and maybe she'd have taken on that cabal—if she'd had an actual movement behind her, with its own bloc of aldermen...
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Three spots for doughnut lovers
Find out what the wonut can teach us about history. Dat Donut 8251 S. Cottage Grove datdonut.com…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Taking matters—and cheese and cured meat—into your own hands
Chef Greg Biggers decided to have some fun with intensive certification and launched in-house charcuterie and cheese-making programs. by Michael Gebert Check out four of our favorite spots for...
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Chicago voice-over actor and romance novelist Ruth Kaufman is 'the most...
A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford."I always wanted to be an actor, but in the house I grew up in, you could be a doctor or a lawyer, or you could own your own...
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William S. Burroughs and cinema: Five standouts
In this week's paper J.R. Jones has a review of Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary of William S. Burroughs, the aptly titled Burroughs: The Movie, which is enjoying a brief run at the Gene Siskel Film...
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Chris Ware's buildings—without their stories
The Art Institute show "The Comic Art and Architecture of Chris Ware" reveals how the cartoonist draws on Chicago's built environment. by Tal Rosenberg The November 10 cover of the New Yorker features...
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Killer Mike and El-P of Run the Jewels meditate on a musician's true path
In an interview with Chicago producer A-Villa, Killer Mike recalls: "When I got there in the studio with El, I felt like Snoop the day he found Dre." by Leor Galil Hip-hop is a young man's game, by...
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Project Fierce sets out to open a shelter for LGBTQ youth
As the temperatures have begun to drop, Chicago's homeless—and the organizations that serve them—have begun to prepare for the long winter ahead. Of course, that's easier said than done, particularly...
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Stevie Wonder is a straight-up national treasure
It's pretty tough to be cynical about Stevie Wonder. As Maura Johnson put it in her preview of Friday's United Center show, where Wonder performed his landmark 1976 double LP, Songs in the Key of Life,...
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Riot Fest finishes cleaning up Humboldt Park, establishes the charitable Riot...
Riot Festdestroyed Humboldt Park this year—ask anyone who went and you'll hear survival stories from the festival season's worst mud pile. This morning, though, Riot Fest announced that work restoring...
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Did you read about Twitter, a worldwide chocolate shortage, and McDonald's
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That more than 40 federal agencies engage in domestic spying (aka "undercover operations")?…[ Read more ][...
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