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The folk-song army's attack on Inside Llewyn Davis
In the span of a single week the New York Times posted not one but two articles from irate folksingers bitching about the authenticity—or lack thereof—in Inside Llewyn Davis. They are companion pieces...
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The constructive hoax of Propaganda
In my capsule review, I describe the found-footage documentary Propaganda (which screens at the Gene Siskel Film Center tomorrow at 5:30 PM and on Tuesday at 8:30 PM) as "a provocative thought...
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RIP Jon Anderson: Writer, publisher, swell guy
Jon Anderson was impossibly handsome and he married a Rockefeller. If there is more to him than that, Chicago wasn't dying to know about it.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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More good news from Mayor Rahm!
As a break from the ceaseless news of carnage, waste, and corruption, I'd thought I'd bring you some good news, Chicago. We have many great restaurants in this town!I learned this from a press release...
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Zoom in: Edgewater
The Heart O'Chicago Motel can still easily be spotted thanks to its iconic neon sign. by Aimee Levitt Nobody remembers why the Heart O'Chicago Motel was built on Ridge instead of Lincoln like the rest...
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Reader's Agenda Sat 1/18: Windy City Rollers, Soul Summit, and Heavens What...
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Street View 160: Expressive minimalist
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.I think great style happens when there's a balanced mix of thoughtfulness and...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 1/19: Dating for Nerds, Segovia Classical Guitar Series,...
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Francois Truffaut
Today at 5:30 PM (and once more tomorrow at 6 PM), the Gene Siskel Film Center hosts a screening of Francois Truffaut's The Story of Adele H. (It screens alongside Andrzej Zulawski's horror classic...
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Weather report for the Auditorium Theatre: Too Hot to Handel
Too Hot to Handel: The Jazz-Gospel Messiah is your grandmother's choral classic sliced, diced, spiced, swirled, swung, amplified, and totally reinvented. In its ninth annual incarnation at the...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 1/20: Dinner Party, The Square, and Charlotte Martin
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Taking on The Field: A Gchat conversation about World Star Hip Hop's new...
Nearly two weeks ago popular video site World Star Hip Hop released a documentary called The Field: Chicago (A Profile of the City's Hottest Artists, the Violence That Surrounds Them, and the Hope...
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Best shows to see: Perfect Pussy
About a year ago comedian Donovan Strain claimed to have pinpointed the exact date Ice Cube commemorates in his 1993 single "It Was a Good Day"—January 20, 1992. Vulture fact-checked Strain's...
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Did you read about Martin Luther King, Obama, and Richard Sherman?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• Glenn Greenwald on Martin Luther King's antimilitarist views? —Ben Sachs•New Yorker editor David Remnick's profile...
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Would you let your children listen to Justin Roberts?
Chicago kids' musician Justin Roberts is up for a Grammy, so we asked seven local parents to listen to his latest album. by Leor Galil This weekend Evanston kids' musician Justin Roberts goes to Los...
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12 O'Clock Track: The rock 'n' roll bravado of Sex Snobs' noisy "Sick as a Dog"
Oakland's Sex Snobs could easily just be filed under straight-up noisy punk rock—they've got the gurgling, crunchy bass tone and evil-sounding guitar riffage down, that's for sure—but what makes them...
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Do parents truly not care much if their daughters can think?
The Sunday Review section of this Sunday's New York Times carried a report headlined "Google, Tell Me. Is My Son a Genius?" Yes, but what about my daughter?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on...
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Pasta nero is the new black
"This is something you'd only have seen in Puglia," chef John Coletta of Quartino, the two-story Italian restaurant in River North, says. "Even in Lazio, you wouldn't see it."The "it" here is dough for...
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Street View 161: Street-style heaven at Beauty Bar
Whoever complains they can't find stylish folks around here should have attended Kokorokoko's Street Style Summit. Local fashionistas came dressed to prove haters wrong.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
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Dragon Lady Doppelbock: Why do I do this to myself?
Because it's doppelbock season, last week I stopped by Binny's in River North on the way home from work to pick up a bottle of Weihenstephaner Korbinian. (I was already working through three six-packs...
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