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The Chicago Film Archives preserves midwest history one reel at a time
With two employees and vault in Pilsen, the CFA has been rescuing celluloid for a decade. by Ben Sachs The Chicago Film Archives vault is located in a room of a beige, nondescript former warehouse on...
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Learning to love your long labia
Dan Savage advises women respectively appalled by long labia, into butts but not buttholes, and less than thrilled by a boyfriend's dream of golden showers. by Dan Savage QI have been insecure about...
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Rahm Emanuel's evolving position on the minimum wage
When you head to the polls in February, Mayor Emanuel is hoping you'll think of him as a man of the people. You know, rather than the guy who closed all those public schools and mental health clinics...
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Did you read about Eric Garner, scientific progress, and the Bad Sex in...
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That even conservatives are blasting the grand jury decision not to indict officer Daniel Pantaleo in the killing...
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It's 'Emo Revival Christmas 2014,' the most wonderful time of the year
The term "emo revival" has mutated since breaking out of the underground one year ago. What had been shorthand for describing the sound of the genre's fourth wave has been pushed onto a whole lot of...
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It's easy to celebrate protests on foreign soil
Matters of principle benefit from distance. The Tribune Thursday carried an editorial applauding Joshua Wong, the 18-year-old organizer of the recent street protests in Hong Kong.…[ Read more ][...
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Designer Johan Engels has died, but Lyric Opera's Ring cycle creative team...
Set designer Johan Engels was a nearly palpable presence at Lyric Opera's press briefing with its very subdued Ring cycle creative team on Tuesday. The shock of Engels's unexpected death last month, at...
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A holiday theater roundup, from the Annoyance's Christmas pageant to a...
Forget Hannukah or Kwanzaa—this year it's all wassail, all the time. by Reader staff[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Folk guitarist Ryley Walker and free jazz drummer Ben Billington jam tonight...
Local folk-music guitarist Ryley Walker is playing a free show at Cole's tonight, Thu 12/4, with some other excellent local acts to benefit the Carrefour Collaborative. Walker has recently been...
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Chicago DIY label Air Balloon Tapes takes flight with its first two compilations
Local microlabel Air Balloon Tapes emerged last month with a distinct desire to give back to the DIY community. Inspired by indie-pop compilations from defunct UK label Sarah Records, which put out a...
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Mayor Rahm searches for his inner Al Sharpton
On Tuesday I was trudging through the mind-numbing details of Mayor Rahm's latest handout to wealthy bankers when the City Council, at the mayor's urging, voted to hike the minimum wage in Chicago. …[...
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Dead Man, The Producers, 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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Reese Witherspoon goes Wild, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
Think of the movie business as your fat uncle after Thanksgiving dinner: full of turkey, stuffing, gravy, and Canadian Club—all he wants to do is lie down under the piano for a while and sleep it off....
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Did you read about the NSA, #CrimingWhileWhite, and Miley Cyrus's spangled...
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About AURORAGOLD, the NSA's elaborate project for hacking cell phone networks worldwide?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe...
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Experimental-industrial group Corrections House mellow out with a Neil Young...
This Mon 12/8, half-local, experimental-industrial-metal "supergroup"Corrections House play at Cobra Lounge. The band has been on tour for the past week and have just released a live record taken from...
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It's psychedelic Friday at the Beat Kitchen, courtesy of Ghastly Menace and...
Both Ghastly Menace and Oshwa have kept busy cooking up new songs throughout 2014, and the local experimental-pop outfits are just now starting to share them with the world. Last month, the six-piece...
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Drinking year-old eggnog to put science to the test
Aging eggnog for a few weeks sounds a little dicey. Aging it for a year sounds insane.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Swedish saxophonist Jonas Kullhammar channels the past on his strong new record
Few musicians in this young century have provided me with as much consistent enjoyment and shown as much artistic depth as the Swedish reedist Jonas Kullhammar, a historically minded player who bucks...
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Ciao Bella Pizza is another cross-cultural surprise in Albany Park
One of the first food stories I ever wrote was about a pair of Argentine buddies who made terrific gelato and not so terrific pizza in a run down Lawrence Avenue storefront. The Penguin is, sadly, long...
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RIP Brother Mike, poet and mentor to Chicago's hip-hop scene
Chicago poet, activist, mentor, and multimedia educator Mike Hawkins, better known as Brother Mike, has died at age 38, according to several sources close to Hawkins. A cause of death has not yet been...
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