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The Lowland is just a book after all
The thing about reading something by Jhumpa Lahiri is that, unlike something by, say, James Joyce, you don't feel like you're reading a story that passed through somebody's consciousness to be enhanced...
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My best friend's big sister and Syria
John Kass expressed concern in the Tribune this week for the group that is "hardly mentioned" in the debate over Syria—that country's Christians. I read Kass's column and exclaimed silently, "Yes, and...
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Puerto Rican-inspired seclusion in Wicker Park
The design in Lauren Feece's Wicker Park home is inspired by four years spent in Puerto Rico working on a coffee plantation. by Aimee Levitt When Lauren Feece and her husband, Chris Silva, moved back...
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Brent Weinbach: Not here to make friends
Brent Weinbach: Not here to make friends. by Drew Hunt Unlike many comics, Los Angeles's Brent Weinbach isn't interested in endearing himself to an audience. On his latest album, the hysterical Mostly...
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Reader’s Agenda Sat 9/14: Beethoven Festival, No Age, and the Chicago Bacon...
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Riot Fest day one: Fall Out Boy brings out the Stanley Cup and Gwar brings...
Judging by its first day, one thing that Riot Fest has going for it is that it feels like a real, old-school festival. The volume of people induced sparse or nonexistent cell phone reception, which...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 9/15: Open Streets, Edgewater Home Tour, and a send-up of...
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Riot Fest day two: White-haired front men and a little puke
Old people rule. "The Guided by Voices sandwich," as GBV front man Robert Pollard put it to the crowd, saw the aging but no less agile Ohio rockers take the stage after wizardly Dinosaur Jr and before...
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What we do to keep the web editor off our backs
Because the Internet is insatiable, bloggers such as myself are always on the lookout for fresh meat to toss into its maw. The other day I spotted a juicy morsel.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 9/23: Jamie Moyer, No Lights No Lycra, and Carcass
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In Rotation: Reggie's booker Elle Quintana on never regretting Tindersticks
Current musical obsessions of Reggie's booker Elle Quintana and writer Robert Dean by Philip Montoro Philip Montoro, Reader music editor Fanfare Ciocarlia at Summerdance The Roma know how to fucking...
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Did you read about cobras, black widow spiders, and Jackie Lomax?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That several Republican legislators who voted to cut billions from the food stamp program personally receive large...
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12 O'Clock Track: "Bullets and Graves" is a heavy, industrial preview from...
Corrections House, the experimental industrial metal powerhouse featuring Mike IX Williams of Eyehategod and Scott Kelly of Neurosis—as well as local heavy metal staples Sanford Parker and Bruce...
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Best shows to see: Carcass, Body/Head, No Joy, and Black Twig Pickers
The nip in the air only reaffirms the fact that summer festival season is behind us, and for that I think we can thankful: no more porta-potties, shitty sound, traipsing through mud, and idiots wearing...
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Writers read, breweries fight: This week's food and drink events
Between Bites is a new food-related storytelling series featuring local writers or personalities and benefiting a local cause—in this case Un86'd, which helps hospitality professionals with medical...
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Against the grain or not, Blackwood BBQ's brisket is better than most
If you're studying this photo of barbecued brisket from Blackwood BBQ and thinking something's a bit off (besides lighting, composition, focus, etc), it's because it's been sliced parallel rather than...
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Bitches gotta write
Samantha Irby, the acerbic author of the hyperpopular blog Bitches Gotta Eat, publishes her first book. by Marya Hornbacher There is no summing up Sam—no writerly preface, no small-talk tidbits, no...
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Want to be a hero? Get shot.
Talking back to the papers . . . Editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez's unremitting enmity toward Barack Obama gives me a pretty good idea of what a lot of Republicans must have felt about Herblock...
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In praise of movies I don't fully comprehend
As far as I'm concerned, it wasn't a very good weekend for moviegoing, as I was kept in with my first bad cold of the season. I experienced one of those fits of congestion where it feels like your head...
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Austerity at play in a Stephen Kaltenbach survey
Austerity at play in a Stephen Kaltenbach survey by Andrea Gronvall In the late 1960s, Stephen Kaltenbach was among a group of New York-based artists who founded the movement eventually called...
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