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Thursday and Friday: 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival according to Reader writers
Jack DeJohnette and Wadada Leo Smith are just two of the highlights of the first two days of the 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival. by Peter Margasak, John Corbett, and Bill Meyer See our previews of acts...
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The Reader's guide to the 35th annual Chicago Jazz Festival
The Chicago Jazz Festival moves to Millennium Park with its best lineup in five years. by Peter Margasak, John Corbett, and Bill Meyer See our previews of acts playing on: Thursday & Friday ·...
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Aftershows: 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival
2013 Chicago Jazz Festival aftershows: Kidd Jordan, the Rempis Percussion Quartet, and other late-night diversions by Peter Margasak See our previews of acts playing on: Thursday & Friday ·...
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Sunday: 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival according to Reader writers
Robert Glasper Quartet and others close out Jazz Fest's final day. by Peter Margasak, John Corbett, and Bill Meyer See our previews of acts playing on: Thursday & Friday · Saturday · Aftershows...
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Saturday: 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival according to Reader writers
Jason Moran and Gregory Porter highlight a jam-packed third day of Jazz Fest. by Peter Margasak, John Corbett, and Bill Meyer See our previews of acts playing on: Thursday & Friday · Sunday ·...
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Danielle Chenette, Synthetic Ritual, and the rest of the weekend in visual arts
Want something visually stimulating to marvel at this weekend? The Reader has you covered.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Education in Chicago: Shut up and go to school!
Way back when, I knew a couple who let their children miss a day of school because the whole family was vacationing somewhere in the Carribbean and they just didn't feel like coming home to a Chicago...
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Page one of the Tribune? Why?
One of the odder news stories I've read recently showed up on the front page of the Wednesday Tribune. The unreliable narrator can be an effective literary device, but it's a shaky way to write...
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One bourbon, one scotch, and 20 new hipster bars
One bourbon, one scotch, and 20 new hipster bars by Julia Thiel"There are no rules in shots," Henry Prendergast says. He and Robert Haynes are preparing a sort of miniature cocktail inspired by the...
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Anthony McKinney dies in prison
Anthony McKinney has died where state's attorney Anita Alvarez apparently wanted to keep him—in prison. He was 53.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Annals of burger crimes: The quesadilla burger at Cantina Pasadita
For a time it seemed that there was no stopping the inexorable advance of Empire La Pasadita. For decades, the taco triangle just south of the Division/Ashland intersection was a safe haven for legions...
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Street View 116: Capes are meant for the superglam
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Being a fashion blogger certainly has its perks, and I gotta say one of the highlights of...
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The search for the perfect pisco sour
I've had a lot of pisco sours in my time. There are the ones I drank during the two years I lived in Santiago, Chile.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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"There was no possibility in their mind that I didn't do it"
Andre Davis was sentenced to 80 years for an unforgivable crime. Two decades later, someone finally started taking his innocence claims seriously. by Jordan Michael Smith Part one of two On a summer...
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Chicago Fringe Festival on the northwestern frontier
The Chicago Fringe Festival descends on Jefferson Park. by Jillian Sandler In Pilsen since its local debut in 2010, the Chicago Fringe Festival moves this year to Jefferson Park, where it spreads its...
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A hot date gone soft
Dan on hot dates gone soft, boyfriends gone grabby, and more. by Dan Savage QI'm a cute, mostly straight, twenty-something, single, and (safely) sexually active woman. This happens to me pretty often:...
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Reader's Agenda Thu 8/29: Delilah's 20th Anniversary, Hamid Drake, Action...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:Never mind the craft-cocktail revolution, Delilah's has been getting derelicts drunk for two decades, slinging shots from an absurd selection...
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Best shows to see: Ty Segall, Mudhoney, the Chicago Jazz Festival, Chris...
Apparently the Oxford English Dictionary is adding an entry for the word "twerk."Soundboard has always been more of a Merriam-Webster fan—and that's how you know you can trust these live-music...
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Why be a restaurant blogger in a postblog world?
It was a technology that promised a new way for ordinary people to be heard without having to go through old media gatekeepers. Or at least to warn each other that there was a smokey on Highway 47,...
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