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Reader's Agenda Sat 6/29: Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, International...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:The Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival rages on today with All Tiny Creatures, Dumpster Babies, Black Moth Super Rainbow frontman Tobacco, and...
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Key Ingredient: Chef Peter Coenen of the Gage holds his nose and faces...
Gage chef de cuisine Peter Coenen holds his nose to work with sun-dried tomatoes. by Julia Thiel Aaron Arnett (sous chef at Davanti Enoteca), who challenged Peter Coenen of the Gage with sun-dried...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 6/30: Pride Parade, Bully.punk.riot, and Helen Mirren as...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:Pride Week culminates today with the Pride Parade in Boystown.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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What the Hell Is This Place? Paleteria Arco Iris
Paleteria Arco Iris in Avondale is a hub for the north side's paleta slingers. by Luca Cimarusti You could walk into Paleteria Arco Iris in Avondale and buy a scoop of mint chocolate chip or a Good...
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This week's Chicagoan: Trevor Burke, stand-up comic, age 11
This week's Chicagoan is Trevor Burke, an 11-year-old stand-up comedian. by Anne Ford A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. "I hated Cub Scouts because when I used my...
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Weekly Top Five: The best of New Hollywood
This week Chicago moviegoers are serendipitously treated to a trio of notable works by New Hollywood directors. The Northbook Public Library has Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club, a successful...
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Juno dreams of sushi
Juno, the post-Arami comeback from B.K. Park, is a work in progress by Mike Sula Just like pizza, there's no such thing as bad sushi. It certainly seems that way anyway, considering the endless...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 7/1: Alice Walker, Hari Kondabolu, and a queer librarian...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, visits Women & Children First to read selections from her new collection of poetry The World...
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The case for hockey as a blue-collar sport
"Are the Blackhawks Chicago's team?" Steve Bogira asked recently on the Bleader.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Did you read about childbirth, activists, and Tulsa?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That the United States is by far the most expensive country in which to have a baby, despite minimal differences...
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Best shows to see: Kwaidan, Lee Fields, the Evens, Burning Love
After a week of celebration, it almost feels anticlimactic that it's July. A defeat for defenders of DOMA, a victory for the Blackhawks.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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12 O'Clock Track: Blastbeats forever on Aluk Todolo's "Occult Rock I"
When I previewed the Aluk Todolo show that happened at Ultra Lounge last September, I couldn't stop waxing poetic about the blastbeat-scorched "Occult Rock I," the opener on the French metal trio's...
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In Rotation: Melissa Oglesby of Girls Rock! Chicago on Mikal Cronin's...
Current obsessions of Girls Rock! Chicago outreach director Melissa Oglesby and saxophonist Kate Walsh by Philip Montoro Philip Montoro, Reader music editor Mgła, With Hearts Toward None It's...
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A regular attraction at Doc Films (for men only)
Whenever I see a movie at University of Chicago's Doc Films—which is fairly often—I encounter the same inconvenience. Either before, during, or after the show, I excuse myself to the men's room in the...
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Illinois Appellate Court tells city: Cough up public records
For two years, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been fighting to keep the public from seeing a public document on the use of taxpayer resources. That may not sound fitting for the mayor who has repeatedly...
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Eating all the tacos at Bodega
There are many things wrong with Bodega, starting with the name. A bodega is a store.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Artist on Artist: George Clarke of Deafheaven talks to Stavros Giannopoulos...
George Clarke of Deafheaven talks to Stavros Giannopoulos of the Atlas Moth. by Leor Galil San Francisco metal band Deafheaven (see also Soundboard) started in 2010 as a low-key collaboration between...
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Sick beats and lake breezes at the Wavefront Music Festival
Sick beats and lake breezes at the Wavefront Music Festival, with Frankie Knuckles, Justice, and dozens more. by Miles Raymer The Wavefront Music Festival is built on a very simple premise: putting...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 7/2: Irvine Welsh, Alex Wiley, and a bechamel burger
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:As a part of the Public House Theatre's Put 'Em Up series in which authors present staged readings of new and in-progress screenplays and...
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Did you read about Cirque du Soleil, Dan Savage, and Andrew Mason?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:•Edward Snowden's latest statement from Moscow? —Tal Rosenberg• That the party of old, tired ideas plans to attack...
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