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Hollywood knows how to handle the truth
While bedbound for a couple of days, I watched chunks of movies I'd never heard of. One was a quickie 2005 version of War of the Worlds that resolves the crisis in humanity’s favor when the aliens all...
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Did you read about Evo Morales, Pope John Paul II, and Jason Everman?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That Egypt is looking at a military coup or revolution in the streets (again)? —Mick Dumke• That Bolivian...
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Street View 106: Punk chick at the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest style seen in Chicago.What I love about the punk aesthetic is its DIY, no BS kinda feel. I also happen to enjoy a...
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12 O'Clock Track: Tiger & Woods's disco cut-up of Escort's disco single...
Tiger & Woods are a duo who specialize in extracting snippets from disco and R&B tracks, a few of which they then loop into long, focused, propulsive dance-floor jams. The New York disco...
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A Hijacking and the cost of doing business
A Hijacking, which opens Friday at Music Box, deals with Somali pirates seizing a Danish shipping vessel in the Indian Ocean, and the ensuing ransom negotiation between the pirates and the shipping...
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A reading resolution for the second half of 2013
The second half of 2013 is beginning, offering a chance for second-half resolutions—ones we didn't make on New Year's Day, or made but failed to keep. I'm going to try the resolution proposed by Ross...
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Quelling expectations with Juiceboxxx's Beyond Thunder Zone
I've been a longtime admirer of Juiceboxxx, a Milwaukee-bred rapper who specializes in uplifting party anthems, so when I heard the dude had a new mixtape in the works I made sure to keep an eye out...
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Midnight's Children: How good intentions can sink an adaptation
The movie version of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, which opens Friday at the Gene Siskel Film Center, suffers from an inferiority complex that's common to film adaptations of highly regarded...
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What's going on in The Wall?
In The Wall, Martina Gedeck is a woman trapped by an invisible barrier. by Drew Hunt Based on an Austrian novel by Marlen Haushofer, The Wall tells the story of an unnamed woman (Martina Gedeck)...
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Happy Independence Day, Chicago—say no to the $55 million DePaul b-ball...
In honor of Independence Day, I urge everyone to sign the online petition calling on the city and DePaul University to stop their $55 million nonsense. That's the nonsense where Mayor Emanuel wants to...
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Favorites from the Spirits of Mexico festival
The Spirits of Mexico festival returned to Zocalo last week for its second year, offering tastes of tequila of various ages (silver, reposado, añejo) from about ten producers. A few of the distilleries...
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Napoleon is dynamite
The armies of Napoleon enthusiasts include cops, stockbrokers, historians—and a certain local rock critic. by Aimee Levitt Imagination governs the world. —Napoleon Bonaparte…[ Read more ][ Subscribe...
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Yeezus and the Lomaxes
It's been a few weeks since Yeezus started popping wheelies on the zeitgeist and I still have yet to see a cogent negative review of it. There are a lot of people who don't like the record, but most...
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Catalytic-Sound's free-jazz online clearinghouse
Fans of free jazz and improvised music tend to be fervid, but record sales are another story. This is fringe music, but the people who follow it are passionate, and since the music tends to be well...
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Cocktail Challenge: Capers
Josh "Sonic" Relkin of Sable crafts a cocktail for his fellow caper haters. by Kate Schmidt Challenged with capers by Terrace at Trump head bartender Ingi Sigurdsson, Josh "Sonic" Relkin of Sable...
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Adult entertainment
Dan on dating porn stars, negotiating threesomes, and getting your libido back postbreakup. by Dan Savage QI'm a 24-year-old woman who just ended a five-year relationship. It sucked.…[ Read more ][...
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Reader's Agenda Thu 7/4: Yankee Doodle Dandy, International Festival of Life,...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:Celebrate the holiday with some American cinematic nostalgia at the Music Box, where Yankee Doodle Dandy screens at 2 PM, followed by a...
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Best shows to see: Deafheaven, the Fresh & Onlys, Steve Kuhn, and the music...
According to the Constitution, the Fourth of July is for beer, brats, and slurring along with Lee Greenwood's "God Bless America" until you pass out. According to Soundboard, it's an opportunity to...
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Good midseason news for Cubs and White Sox fans
It ain't over till it's half over, as Yogi Berra might say about this year's Cubs and White Sox. Midway through the 2013 campaign, the Cubs are in fourth place, 10 games under .500, and 15 1/2 games...
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12 O'Clock Track: Celebrate Independence Day with Dan Deacon's "USA" suite
There are so many great ways to celebrate Independence Day, and this year I've got a new one: listening to Dan Deacon's four-part "USA" suite from his excellent 2012 album, America. It's both beautiful...
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