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Cocktail Challenge: Potted meat
Austin Skiles of Lone Wolf uses the processed foodstuff in a twist on the negroni. by Kate Schmidt"A crappy version of Spam." That's what Austin Skiles of Barrelhouse Flat and Lone Wolf pictured when...
View ArticleDo we want cars we don't have to drive?
The pitch is not the reason the above Jean-Claude Van Damme commercial for Volvo trucks went viral, but let's consider the pitch. "This test was set up to demonstrate the stability and precision of...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 11/22: American Promise, Louder Than a Bomb University,...
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Jia Zhang-ke, Alexander Payne, Stephen Frears, and the rest of this week's...
Jia Zhang-ke's A Touch of Sin, which took best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival, opens Friday at Music Box; our long review is here. We also recommend Alexander Payne's Nebraska, about an...
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Did you read about the Central African Republic, legalized marijuana, and...
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That the White House press corps are livid about the Obama administration barring photographers from news events...
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12 O'Clock Track: Mono's "Legend" soundtracks a quest through Iceland
Over a period of two weeks in 2012, a few months before the release of Mono's sixth full-length album, For My Parents, photographer and independent filmmaker Henry Jun Wah Lee shot long, time-lapse...
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A congregation of three in a former Lakeview church
A converted church with 25-foot cathedral ceilings isn't too shabby a space for the Stapleses to raise a family. by Andrea Bauer Shawn and Suzanne Staples had a house-hunting goal: to find a permanent...
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Why my fourth-grade class didn't respond appropriately when we learned JFK...
I can't say I was devastated when I heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot to death in Dallas. In truth, I was relieved.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Tomorrow, join a discussion on Adam Curtis's The Century of the Self at the...
Tomorrow at 2 PM, the Edgewater branch of the Chicago Public Library (at 1210 West Elmdale) will screen selected moments from The Century of the Self, the 2002 documentary series that first brought...
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"Let There Be Light,""Art and Appetite," and the rest of your weekend in...
Tired of staring at your computer screen? Luckily for you, there are more exciting things to look at this weekend.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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On Sketches of Ethiopia, Mulatu Astatke draws a map larger than his homeland
Ethio-jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke returned to action recently with the release of Sketches of Ethiopia (Jazz Village), an impressive outing—cut with some of London's best improvisers—that embraces...
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How Long Will I Cry? is a huge success for Big Shoulders Books
Big Shoulders Books, Chicago's newest publishing company, released its first title, How Long Will I Cry?: Voices of Youth Violence, earlier this month. In just a few weeks, it sold out its entire...
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Trey Radel slept here
Trey Radel, the Republican congressman from Florida and self-described "hip-hop conservative,"is in the news: buying cocaine from an undercover cop on Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., pleading guilty...
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Winners and losers in Mayor Rahm's TIF game
Some reformers I know are a little down in the dumps after Mayor Emanuel trounced them in last week's TIF showdown. That is, when they tried to get the City Council to force the mayor to spend some of...
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The Chop Shop keeps it simple
The Chop Shop's multidisciplinary butcher/bar/restaurant/performance space does a lot—and does a lot with a little. by Mike Sula It was recently decided for me that, in order to address the...
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What's up with the Chicago Cultural Plan, the radio version
After reading about that nice birthday award the Chicago Cultural Plan got from the Metropolitan Planning Council, Mike Stephen of Outside the Loop Radio checked in with me about the plan's progress....
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Reader's Agenda Sat 11/23: Bacon, Sports & Beer Celebration, Chicago Toy &...
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Street View 144: Advanced style
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Guess who I ran into again? Sandra, my ultimate style icon, who was featured in one of my...
View ArticleReader's Agenda Sun 11/24: Chicago Book Expo, Mick Turner, and the Polish...
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Korean New Wave
The Park Chan-wook film Oldboy is enjoying something of a resurgence of late. The gruesome thriller screened this weekend at the Music Box, and starting Wednesday the remake directed by Spike Lee (yes,...
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