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Poor Richard's sister: Jane Franklin's Book of Ages
John Adams declined to attempt to write a biography of his fellow revolutionary Benjamin Franklin. "To develop that complication of causes, which conspired to produce so singular a phenomenon, is far...
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Did you read about marijuana legalization, David Zwirner, and Barenaked Ladies?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About how the legalization of marijuana could affect the alcohol industry? —Brianna Wellen• Nick Paumgarten on...
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Key Ingredient: Dana Cree of Blackbird sweetens up pine sap
Blackbird pastry chef Dana Cree makes ice cream with an ingredient that "looks like a tree took a poop." by Julia Thiel The Chef: Dana Cree (Blackbird) The Challenger: Thomas Raquel (Acadia) The...
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12 O'Clock Track: Warm up with the Light Touch Band's "Chi-Ca-Go (It's My...
So it got cold out really fast this week. It happens every year, and still, every time it does, everyone takes to their social media to unleash countless "OMG IT'S SO COLD WHY DO I LIVE IN CHICAGO?"...
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Alex Barnett plays tonight, gets ready to drop brand-new LP
As reported in this week's Gossip Wolf, local synth guy Alex Barnett is about to release his new LP, Retrieval, a collaboration with Faith Coloccia (who also plays in Mamiffer with Aaron Turner from...
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Matthias Ståhl reps the vibe for Europe
The vibraphone remains a staple in jazz music, yet within the genre it's ultimately not a particularly popular instrument. Chicago, for instance, can only boast a handful of serious full-time...
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Beer, brick-oven pizza, and rafters at Iron Horse Ale House
Iron Horse Ale House's logo is a hybrid of a locomotive and a beer tap. It's pretty manly, pretty turn-of-the-century.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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A little ma, a lot of la at Sze Chuan Cuisine
Sze Chuan Cuisine serves the (slightly) milder food of Sichuan's gastronomic capital. by Mike Sula Last summer DNAinfo ran a short item about Sze Chuan Cuisine, the latest of many newer Chinatown...
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City Council to Mayor Rahm: I'm your puppet!
One of my favorite songs from the 1960s is "I'm Your Puppet," by James & Bobby Purify, the great soul-singing duo of cousins from Florida. It's the one that goes, "Pull the string and I'll wink at...
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Sala Bua's tao-jeaw is like a coconut Bolognese
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This week's Chicagoan: Ruth Smith, seamstress for plus-sized children
This week's Chicagoan is Ruth Smith, seamstress for plus-sized children by Anne Ford A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. "I knew I wanted to sew part-time, but I...
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Reader's Agenda Sat 11/30: Corrections House, Paper Machete, and classic...
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Street View 147: Out with the new, in with the old
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Thanks to the counterculture spirit of the 60s, wearing second-hand clothes became a...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 12/1: John Waters, Deck the Holodeck, and Pedway
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Monday night at Trenchermen: Sportsman's Club pops up
I recently read an eye-opening Atlantic piece about the myriad ways retailers try to sucker you on Black Friday and the many shopping-focused pseudoevents thereafter. One of its central precepts was to...
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More neighborhood movies, past and present
The novel premise of the documentary Antarctica: A Year on Ice, which Chicago Filmmakers will screen at its Andersonville location this coming Saturday and then at Columbia College the following...
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In Rotation: Music photographer Carmelo Española on Antwon's low-budget video...
Current obsessions of music photographer Carmelo Española and Sick/Tired vocalist Adam Jennings by Philip Montoro Philip Montoro, Reader music editor Vukari at Ultra Lounge on Sat 11/2 In June, when...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 12/2: Robbie Fulks, Of Time and the City, and Sportsman's...
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Did you read about David Mamet, the Grand Canyon, and millennials?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That David Mamet continues to achieve new levels of crankiness? (Now he considers President Obama a "tyrant.")...
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Talking with the principals behind Eataly: Joe Bastianich
Sheerly in terms of size and ambition, Eataly Chicago—which opens today at 4 PM at 43 E. Ohio (no phone, no Chicago information on the website, eataly.com)—is the food story of the year. The massive...
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