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Chen Kaige's Caught in the Web: Topical cautionary tale or historical drama?
For two more nights, Facets Multimedia will show Chen Kaige's latest film, Caught in the Web, a topical comedy-drama about life in the age of the 24-hour news cycle. Reviews of the movie tend to...
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The year in movie revivals, H through N
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (Music Box Theatre, November) The Music Box has come to specialize in reviving unsung American movies of the 1960s and '70s, forgoing the usual repertory suspects for moody...
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A federal judge allows Ron Dorfman and Ken Ilio to get married
When some (I like to think of as fairly dramatic) medical concerns of mine showed up in a Mike Sneed column earlier this month, my friend Ron Dorfman immediately put me in my place. His e-mail, slugged...
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2013 ends with an "eh"
I spent most of 2013 going on and on about what a landmark year it was for pop music as art, with records by Daft Punk, Drake, Lorde, and others proving that edgy aesthetics and mass popularity aren't...
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12 O'Clock Track: Have a merry dubbed-out holiday with Jackie Mittoo, Bagga,...
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Poverty and addiction created a heroin entrepreneur
Authorities were closing in on a west-side heroin ring linked to deadly shootings when they came across Parris Fultz. Fultz didn't appear to have any connections to the New Breeds drug organization in...
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Reader's Agenda Wed 12/25: Christmas, Mary Wilson and the Four Tops, and The...
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Gig poster of the week: Strong men with strong hair at Soul Summit
ARTIST: Scott WilliamsSHOW: Soul Summit with Windy City Soul Club at Double Door on Sat 12/21MORE INFO:scottwilliamsdesign.com[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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The year in movie revivals, P through Z
Le Pont du Nord (Gene Siskel Film Center, April) Jacques Rivette's 1981 film, a characteristically paranoid fantasy shot on location in Paris, received its first Chicago run this past spring. I...
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Head of Passes: Bless this mess
I can't remember the last time I called anything electrifying, but the 2010 Steppenwolf Theatre production of Tarell Alvin McCraney's trilogy, "The Brother/Sister Plays," was exactly that for me. Set...
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My five favorite Chicago rap details of 2013
Year-end music lists typically cover albums, songs, and concerts; these are fine ways to reflect on a swath of great music, but there isn't always room for the little details that help make a...
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12 O'Clock Track: "Song My Love Can Sing," a preview from Doug Paisley's...
I've been a huge fan of the Toronto singer-songwriter Doug Paisley since stumbling upon his terrific eponymous 2009 debut. He's gotten better and better with time, and with his forthcoming new album,...
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Mayor Rahm and I will have to find a new breakfast spot
It's with a heavy heart that I must report the demise of a north-side institution: the Lincoln Restaurant is closing at the end of the year. Nooooo!!!!Over the last 20 or so years, the Lincoln's been...
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A dozen of the best things I drank this year
Writing about food and drink means I get to try a lot of good things; and even more mediocre things; and once in a while, something truly terrible. (Whiskey mixed with peach liqueur and bacon-infused...
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Comic Liza Treyger on the funny thing about being a young woman
Comic Liza Treyger offers incisive commentary with a stoner-sweetheart affect. by Molly Adams On her website, among cute headshots decorated with Blingee-like stickers, there's a picture of Liza...
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Our favorite music of 2013
Six Reader writers, 12 months, 30 picks—and not one list that just rearranges the same records you'll see everywhere else by Peter Margasak, Miles Raymer, Philip Montoro, Leor Galil, Kevin Warwick and...
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Finger-blast from the past
An archival Savage Love on the importance of the clitoris by Dan Savage DEAR READERS: Sophia Wallace, the NYC-based conceptual artist behind the amazing Cliteracy project, was a guest on my podcast...
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The year onstage: Five debuts, four imports, three revivals—and two feuds
The Building Stage said good-bye, Jamil Khoury said a lot, and other notable moments from the year in theater. by Tony Adler Last summer Jamil Khoury erased all doubt: he's far and away the...
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Reader's Agenda Thu 12/26: Kid Sister, The Normal Heart, and Merry Kwanzaa
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