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Aldrich rides again, and the rest of this week's movies
It would be something of an overstatement to call Robert Aldrich an overlooked filmmaker. Kiss Me Deadly (1955), Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), and The Dirty Dozen (1967) remain well-known,...
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Did you read about Area 51, Jonny Flynn, and how to argue with climate-change...
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That yet another cast member has been injured while working on Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark? —Tony...
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12 O'Clock Track: "Teen Spirit" by Kendrick Lamar's new labelmate SZA
Kendrick Lamar ethered the entire hip-hop community earlier this week, in the process telling new artists not to get involved. So the fact that Lamar's label, Top Dawg Entertainment, got involved with...
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Twitter app can detect campylobacter, and other food news bites
• There's a new app that ferrets out tweets about food poisoning, according to the Tribune. • Eating the World investigates the South African barbecue known as braai.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
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Guitarist Mike Allemana gets behind another of the Freeman brothers
Guitarist Mike Allemana doesn't hide his affection for Chicago jazz history. In fact, he's been vested in seeing that it gets all of the support it needs.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on...
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Pretty, pricey bites at DryHop Brewers
Brewing equipment is a central design element of Lakeview's DryHop Brewers: the brewhouse and fermentation room are both on display behind glass, and behind the bar are six shiny beer tanks, striking...
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Nineteenth-century weirdness meets Hawaiian flair in Ukrainian Village
Nineteenth-century weirdness meets Hawaiian flair in Laura Moeller and Todd Hembrook's Ukrainian Village apartment. by Andrea Bauer"If I had a superpower, I would love to see into people's homes and...
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Who made the bootleg Acid Rap CD that hit the Billboard charts?
Last month local hip-hop phenom Chance the Rapper landed on the Billboard charts with his Acid Rap mixtape, which he released for free in April; a "label" called MTC sold 1,000 units, and it landed on...
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The audacity of long-awaited southeast Asian restaurant Oon
Oon, Matt Eversman's follow-up to Saigon Sisters, is ballsy but restrained. by Mike Sula When the siblings behind the French Market banh mi stall Saigon Sisters opened their full-service restaurant...
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Meet David Ellis: lawyer by day, writer of legal thrillers by night
"If you read my books, you'd probably think I'm a psycho," says David Ellis, whose latest book, The Last Alibi, is out this month. "I'm soft-spoken.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this...
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Twin Shadow takes on "Not In Love"
10cc's hit "Not In Love" has had an interesting life since it peaked at number two on the U.S. charts in 1975, first as a symbol of 70s soft rock's melodramatic excesses, then as a fetish object for...
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Show us your . . . homemade wand
Melissa Scholl's dad handcrafted her a wand, like a Harry Potter wand. by Jillian Sandler Why bother with Hogwarts when your dad can just make you a wand? Two years ago, after getting sorted into the...
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Reader's Agenda Sat 8/17: In Bloom Trail Jam, Oak Park Micro Brew Review, and...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:When Riverview Amusement Park was still a thing, roller coasters towered over the Western and Belmont intersection.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 8/18: Chicago Air & Water Show, La Intrusa, Chicago...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:Don't be alarmed at the sonic booms shaking the sky, it's all (hopefully) part of the Chicago Air & Water Show.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe...
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Weekly Top Five: Blaxploitation cinema
Yesterday, three of the city's most diligent film programming groups, Black World Cinema, the Chicago Cinema Society, and South Side Projections, teamed up to host a "Jim Kelly Day," an all day...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 8/19: Richard Buckner, Porn and Chicken, and GoodFellas
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:Richard Buckner performs tonight at Schubas.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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It's time to knock off walk-off
The other day my favorite baseball team, the Saint Louis Cardinals, beat Pittsburgh in extra innings on what the sports pages called a “walk-off single” by Matt Holliday. Walk-off single?…[ Read more...
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Did you read about Michael Shannon, stop-and-frisk, and Tolkien's Yiddish...
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• This close look at how medical marijuana is grown, tested, turned into usable products, and sold in Colorado?...
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Earl Sweatshirt's humane, heartbreaking Doris and 14 more record reviews
Earl Sweatshirt's humane, heartbreaking Doris and 14 more record reviews by Peter Margasak, Miles Raymer, Leor Galil, Kevin Warwick, Luca Cimarusti, Bill Meyer and Philip Montoro Nathan Abshire,...
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12 O'Clock Track: Iron Lung's ferocious powerviolence opus "Brutal Supremacy"...
Well over a decade in, Iron Lung has stayed true to its cause: writing less-than-one-minute powerviolence thrashers that are as abrasive now as they were back in the early aughts (and manning a label...
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