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Best shows to see: Anne La Berge, Cass McCombs, Immortal Bird, MellowHigh
The dry season for live music is about to set in, but you wouldn't necessarily know it by looking at the abundance of show offerings this weekend. Tonight Geoff Farina's Unnamed Band makes its debut at...
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Did you read about TipsForJesus, LeBron James, and Mike Magee?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That the National Security Agency is collecting vast amounts of data on cellphone use and user networks around the...
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12 O'Clock Track: Open Mike Eagle and Busdriver pay homage to class photos...
December is pretty quiet for new music releases, and I'm pretty keen on using the month to play catch-up and spend a little more time with certain albums and EPs I've let slip past me during the year....
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Chicago Commercial Collective hits the road
In September, when I talked with the folks behind Chicago Commercial Collective about their remount of TimeLine Theatre's Julia Child play, To Master the Art, they said they'd soon be rolling out a...
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A sausage outlaw goes legit
Four years ago I wrote about a couple of North Shore househusbands who ran a thriving meat market out of a suburban home kitchen. E & P Meats had a 200-plus member/customer e-mail list to which...
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Live forever in the upcoming Empty Bottle book
Curbside Splendor is dying to know about the darkest nights you've spent at the Empty Bottle, the venerable, forward-thinking mostly rock 'n' roll club in Ukrainian Village. The local publisher wants...
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Paper Mice bid farewell to bassist Adam McCormack
On Friday at the Burlington, local math-pop trio Paper Mice will be playing their last show with bassist Adam McCormack, who is heading out west with his family to be closer to his parents in LA....
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Street View 149: Hip habits die hard
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Chicago is definitely a small big town (or vice versa, I never know). It’s funny how I...
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Coming soon: The lauded drug-war documentary Narco Cultura
Though it comes to Chicago with hardly any fanfare, Narco Cultura (which opens tomorrow at the City North 14 in Logan Square and the Showplace 14 in Cicero) is one of the best-reviewed nonfiction...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 12/6: The Nutcracker, Tasting Table Open Market, and...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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"Resisterectomy,""Lunch Drawings," and the rest of your weekend in visual arts
Give your eyes something exciting to stare at this weekend. Here's what's going down in visual arts.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Recalling the trolley line that wasn't built in Chicago
Grazing the Internet, I just came across this story in my hometown Saint Louis Post-Dispatch: "St. Louis is not alone in resurgence of streetcars."It's certainly not alone in talking the talk about...
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Soundcheck: Wavves get loud and rowdy at Park West
Wavves started out in 2008 as the bedroom recording project of San Diego's Nathan Williams, an outlet for him to craft supercatchy—but totally fractured—lo-fi pop songs. Over the years, the project has...
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Did you read about Nelson Mandela, Christmas Tinner, and "Blurred Lines"?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• Former NYT executive editor Bill Keller's obituary for Nelson Mandela? —Tal Rosenberg•Desmond Tutu on Nelson...
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12 O'Clock Track: Who needs the new Black Flag when you can have "My War?"
I've listened to the brand-new Black Flag record, What the . . . , their first new release after a nearly 30-year break, all the way through three times today.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments...
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Art and madness at One of a Kind Show
Yesterday was the last day of Hanukkah. It was also the beginning of Holiday Craft Fair Season.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Welcome to the dollhouse in Tiffany Gholar's Fine Arts Building studio
Interior designer Tiffany Gholar plans and builds mini spaces within her colorful studio. by Andrea Bauer Tiffany Gholar's studio in the Fine Arts Building is a riot of color—magentas, oranges,...
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Ben Paterson, Dave Douglas, Keefe Jackson, and a tribute to Bill Russo mark a...
December is usually one of the quietest months of the year on the concert calendar, but for jazz fans this weekend presents a dizzying variety of excellent live-music choices. Considering the upcoming...
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How Chicago should honor Mandela
After Nelson Mandela died yesterday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel issued a statement: "The world is sadder now because he has died; but we are comforted knowing that the world is better because he lived. . . ....
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Happy Together, Primer, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online...
Each Friday, we recommend seven Old Movies to Watch Now, all of which come recommended by one of our critics and can currently be screened online. Read the review, watch the movie, feel accomplished.…[...
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