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Evanston's looking for a new tenant for the Next Theatre space on Noyes Street
It shouldn't have been a surprise to learn last month that Next Theatre Company was canceling its season and going out of business. Not after the revelation last summer that Next owed the city of...
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Tablecloth skirt takes the cake at the Hyde Park Art Center
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.To celebrate the Hyde Park Art Center's 75th anniversary, Kathleen had the idea of making...
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Rahm's first reelection rally makes for a great story
Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants voters to know the story of how he took office and began transforming Chicago from a decaying pit of corruption into a capital of opportunity that leaves no one behind,...
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If you haven't seen any films from France's poetic realism era, start here
This past Friday, Northwestern University's Block Cinema concluded its series dedicated to legendary film programmer and cinephile Henri Langlois with a screening of L'Atalante, Jean Vigo's unwavering...
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Did you read about Uber, Rolling Stone, and a 2,500-year-old mummy coffin?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About what it's like to be a cop in Saint Louis?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleSwedish trio Tape serves up their most melodic, meditative album yet
The Swedish trio called Tape has been creating stylistically elusive, lyrically beautiful, and texturally rich instrumental music for 15 years now, embracing its boundary-dissolving proclivities all...
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Devil in the White City vs. Chicago: City on the Make: Greatest Ever Chicago...
This winter, the Reader has set a humble goal for itself: to determine the Greatest Chicago Book Ever Written. We chose 16 books that reflected the wide range of books that have come out of Chicago and...
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Hot Doug's came and went—but Hot Doug's memorabilia is forever
How would you like a piece of Hot Doug's to live on at your very own sausage superstore? Memorabilia from the legendary Chicago encased meat emporium and line-based social platform will be among the...
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For a Pilsen nonprofit, gentrification makes promoting the arts a...
The steps leading up to Dvorak Park's community center on Cullerton Street are chalked with large-scale images of sugar skulls, or calaveras in Spanish. It's in Pilsen, after all, and although the...
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Telander welcomes Derrick Rose's stand on Eric Garner
Somebody was sure to say something about Derrick Rose in the Monday papers, and I was glad it was Rick Telander. Telander is moral without being a moralist, so I expected him to applaud Rose's decision...
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Christmas music and carbs collide at Patisserie Coralie in Evanston
For a little while, life was perfect at Patisserie Coralie, the new French bakery/cafe in Evanston where Cafe Mozart used to be. There was a pain au chocolat on the marble counter in front of me, a cup...
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Researchers rouse drowsing elders to tell them they're happy
In a happier world no one would write about happiness because happiness wouldn't be newsworthy. As things stand it's a red-hot topic.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Help-Portrait returns to Logan Square for free photos (and pie)
Holidays especially are a time for documentation. There's nothing quite like looking back at blurry old photos of the fam, gathered tightly 'round the Christmas tree or menorah or Kwanzaa kinara...
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Two big deals make White Sox contenders again; will Cubs follow suit?
Happy days are here again for White Sox fans. In barely the time it would take Adam Dunn to whiff, the south-siders soared into contention again last night, signing closer David Robertson and trading...
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Did you read about the CIA, Mark Wahlberg, and Seth Rogen?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• The Washington Post's summary of "20 key findings" from the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA...
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Ghostface Killah returns with more blazing soul-rap on 36 Seasons
Wu-Tang Clan member Ghostface Killah is my all-time favorite rapper, a prolific MC who slices through soul-tinged productions with insane syntactical acrobatics, bars packed with alliterative plosives,...
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Kasonja Holley is feeding the Loop's homeless on her lunch break
Once a week, Kasonja Holley slips off her heels, laces up a pair of white sneakers, and leaves work for her lunch break. She isn't the one eating, though.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on...
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Spotted in Wicker Park: A couple who've dressed alike for 20 years
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Ricardo and Jesse have dressed alike, down to every imaginable detail, for two decades....
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Lyric Opera's Anna Bolena is as gripping as a modern-day thriller
The first act of Lyric Opera's current production of Gaetano Donizetti's Anna Bolena is visually stunning, vocally impressive, and dramatically compelling. The second act is visually stunning, vocally...
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A Second City show with no message? No problem!
Main-stage revue Panic on Cloud 9 doesn't suffer for lack of a theme. by Tony Adler The opening sequence of the Second City's new main-stage revue had me worried. First there's an amusing but...
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