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A new fish spot, a soon-to-be smokin' joint, and Super Bowl Sunday events
Element Collective has been promising us chicken forever, but it looks like we're getting fish first. The restaurant group behind Nellcote and Old Town Social keeps teasing us with Facebook pictures of...
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Did you read about David Adjmi, for-profit colleges, and the confessions of a...
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About playwright David Adjmi, who's been accused of copyright infringement for his parody of the old TV sitcom...
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12 O'Clock Track: Get smoky with Harsh Toke's "E Minor Jam"
At last week's Earthless show a friend of mine suggested I check out another San Diego-based instrumental rock band, Harsh Toke, which I'm pretty sure is the best band name I've ever heard. Turns out...
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Dismantling the stigma of guns
Dismantling the stigma of guns by Mick Dumke The first lesson Gerald Vernon shared with his conceal-and-carry class is, to him, the most fundamental: "The only thing that stops bad people with guns is...
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About to be a household name: Mikaela Shiffrin
Four years ago, almost to the day, my back went out and I spent two weeks in bed. Those happened to be the two weeks of the winter Olympics.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Mayor Rahmye (that's Rahm + Kanye) takes the stage
For the last two years Mayor Emanuel's been waging war on the students in Chicago public schools—or at least their teachers—with his cuts and closings. So it's only fitting that some of these students...
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Street View 163: #MadeForInstagram
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Artist and LVL3 director Vincent Uribe joined forces with Chelsea Culp to curate...
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This week's moviegoing dilemma: Katharine Hepburn or Nagisa Oshima?
In her essay for the winter series "Early Katharine Hepburn," Doc Films programmer Ursula Wagner writes that "Hepburn's unconventional looks, intense personality, and ambiguous gender presentation all...
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Hopscotching through A Life in Men
Last night I finished reading A Life in Men, a new novel by a Chicago writer named Gina Frangello. I felt compelled to read the whole thing, but I'm not sure how much I actually enjoyed it.…[ Read more...
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At Paul Kahan’s Nico Osteria, two worlds collide with a bang
At Paul Kahan's Nico Osteria, two worlds collide. by Mara Shalhoup Moments after the guy at the bar opened his mouth, I feared my infatuation with Nico might shatter. Whatever happened next would have...
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Show us your . . . passenger pigeon
Steve Sullivan of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum explains that the bird was hunted so rabidly it wasn't able to reproduce at a high enough rate. by Aimee Levitt In the early 1800s, when passenger...
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Reader's Agenda Sat 2/1: Chinese New Year celebrations, Juggernaut Film...
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Ants in dialogue in the work of Michael DeForge
Indie comic artist Michael DeForge's new graphic novel depicts a chatty, grotesque, anthropomorphic Ant Colony. by Dominic Umile In January, an article in the science journal ZooKeys described a newly...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 2/2: Super Bowl parties, Ephebophilia, and "Beyond...
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Weekly Top Five: The best of David Lynch
On Thursday, February 6, at 9 PM, as part of an ongoing series dedicated to actor Nicolas Cage, the University of Chicago's Doc Films hosts a screening of David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990), in which...
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Artist on Artist: Boots Riley of the Coup talks to ShowYouSuck
Boots Riley of the Coup lays some truth on straightedge Chicago party rapper ShowYouSuck. by Miles Raymer For more than two decades Chicago native Boots Riley and his Oakland-based group the Coup have...
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The anti-Vivian Maier
In "To Perform, To Conceal," Paul-David Young curates an abandoned trove of art-school photographs. by Aimee Levitt Update: The photographer whose work is featured in "To Perform, To Conceal" is...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 2/3: LitMash, Youth Code, and The Mother
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Get to know your Jean Banchet Award winners
To no one's surprise Grace, by near universal acclaim the finest fine-dining restaurant to open here in years, dominated the Jean Banchet Awards on Friday night—slightly awkwardly, since the master of...
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Did you read about the $urreal, skim milk, and Coca-Cola's Super Bowl ad?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That Philip Seymour Hoffman "lived for great art, and it's impossible to escape the idea that he died for...
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