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Weekly Top Five: The best of Joe Dante
Chicago moviegoing has been overrun by the inevitable glut of holiday fare that arrives this time each year. The city's theaters have Christmas options aplenty, including the Music Box's Annual...
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In Rotation: The Reader's Tal Rosenberg on the only house musician in the...
Current musical obsessions of DJs and producers Ross Kelly and Samantha Roberts by Tal Rosenberg Tal Rosenberg, Reader digital content editor Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, House Arrest This is the...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 12/16: The 12 Steps of Christmas, The Nutcracker...
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An old story at Chicago Public Media—employees seek union; management seeks...
Most bosses like to think of themselves as good bosses and the businesses they run as happy families. I imagine this is especially true at not-for-profits, where the pay might be modest but there's a...
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Did you read about the Boston marathon bombers, R. Kelly, and NSA surveillance?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About our overdocumented life? —Steve Bogira• This amazing memoir by a woman who had an affair with her teacher...
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12 O'Clock Track: An emphatic salute to 90s-era noise rock on Bummer's...
The kids are gonna be all right. A trio of young'uns from Kansas City, Bummer—yes, the perfect band name—sounds like it's part of an early-90s noise-rock scene that mostly existed before the band's...
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Gay marriage by the headlines
In The Battle Over Marriage, Leigh Moscowitz looks at how gay activists harnessed the power of the press. by Yasmin Nair In the popular imagination, gay marriage is conceived as a battle between...
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Best shows to see: Red Fang, MT Coast, Kanye West, DKV Trio
Busy nights full of great shows don't stop until we're right up to Christmas, apparently. This week, even with the holiday right around the corner, there are huge gigs to catch every night.…[ Read more...
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With Oldboy, Spike Lee exercises and we all feel the burn
Taken as stylistic exercise, Spike Lee's remake of Oldboy (which opened Friday at the Logan Theatre after a short run at the multiplexes) may be the most impressive movie of its kind to hit Chicago...
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The Cassoulet Hot: Death by hot dog
Before I ordered the Cassoulet Hot at Hoppin' Hots, the upscale hot dog joint in the Andersonville storefront formerly occupied by Great Lake pizza, I had never paid $8 for a hot dog outside of a...
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Black Flag's not totally terrible What The . . . and 15 more record reviews
Dam-Funk & Snoopzilla's house-party jams, Last False Hope's steel-toed bluegrass, and 14 more records reviewed. by Peter Margasak, Leor Galil, Kevin Warwick, Bill Meyer, David Whiteis, Monica...
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Too Much Light at 25: An oral history
The Neo-Futurists reflect on a quarter century of their forever-running show, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. by Janet Potter Earlier this month the Neo-Futurists celebrated the 25th...
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I miss the Patio Theater already
UPDATE: As a few commenters have noted below, the theater has fixed its heating and intends to remain open. I apologize for sounding a false alarm.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Show us your . . . ousider-art collection
Joey Gallimore's outside-art collection began when he purchased a Wesley Willis drawing for 20 bucks. by Gwynedd Stuart Joey Gallimore started collecting outsider art by accident. In 2002, when he was...
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Zoom in: Avondale
The hackerspace Pumping Station: One built a replica of a TARDIS and then went ahead and hoisted it up on the roof. by Luca Cimarusti Unfamiliar with the interdimensional travels of Doctor Who? Well,...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 12/17: Kanye West, DKV Trio, and The Second City That...
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On Homeland, a flawed plot point was in the way, so it's history
WARNING: The following contains spoilers about recent episodes of the Showtime series Homeland and the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. Critics I've read who have commented on the Sunday finale of Homeland...
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Charter school operator won't say how it spent your tax dollars
Charter school operator won't say how it spent your tax dollars. by Ben Joravsky Mayor Rahm Emanuel keeps telling us that Chicago's school system is too broke to adequately fund the schools it already...
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Looking back at 2013 with the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard has revealed its year-end Hot 100 list, ranking the highest-performing singles of the year based on radio play, sales, and Internet streaming. Adding all those spins and sales up and placing...
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Lilli Carré in three dimensions
Lilli Carré blurs the boundaries between comics and art in a solo show at the MCA. by Noah Berlatsky Comics have a fraught relationship with the gallery. High artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Jeff...
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