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Getting buzzed on frat country
It's been a while since there's been a legitimate country smash on the pop charts (Taylor Swift doesn't count; neither does Pitbull), but the bottom half of the Hot 100 stays consistently full of the...
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Were Jeopardy! contestants less smart in the 80s?
Regular Jeopardy! viewers are currently enjoying a welcome respite from the frenetic trivia stylings of Arthur Chu, a three-day champ whose game-play strategy is really smart but really annoying to...
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Gossip Wolf: A White Mystery album announcement? Spring must be coming.
New music from White Mystery and Verbal Kent, a new menswear shop co-owned by Tony Trimm, and more by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil Gossip Wolf can always tell when spring is coming—the announcement of a...
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Things to do on Valentine's Day that aren't awful
Valentine's Day dining and events Valentine's Day Dining A10 Chef Matthias Merges offers a four-course prix fixe; reservations recommended.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Vampire Academy: A bloody mess
Undead teens clash in the young-adult romance Vampire Academy. by J.R. Jones"They suck at school," announces the poster for this high school horror comedy, but in point of fact the whole movie sucks....
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Camille Claudel 1915: Crazy he calls me
With Camille Claudel 1915, Bruno Dumont tells of a committed artist. by J.R. Jones The sad life and stunted dreams of French sculptor Camille Claudel are the stuff of feminist parable. In 1884, as a...
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With Third Symphony, the Hamburg Ballet makes sense of Mahler
The Hamburg Ballet makes sense of Mahler with Third Symphony. by Jena Cutie Gustav Mahler's symphonies, less classical than romantic and avant-garde, are unique for their emotional complexity....
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Reader's Agenda Wed 2/12: Reggie & the Full Effect, Breaking Bad Trivia...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Gig poster of the week: Nona, the Abominable Snowman, and friends
ARTIST: Anna GrossSHOW: Nona, Pet Symmetry, Wet Wipes, and the Valenteens at Township on Sun 3/9MORE INFO:annagrossout.tumblr.com[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Write Club composes typewritten letters of love and hate
In this week's paper, Leor Galil has a sweet and funny story about Downwrite, a custom songwriting service cofounded by Bob Nanna of Braid. For a few hundred bucks, Nanna and his colleagues will write...
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Watch the Synth-Chili Cook-Off founders play a synth and make chili
Synthesizers and chili go together like . . . well, like nothing else really.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Did you read about Shaun White, Flappy Bird, and Joakim Noah?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About a proposal to be made today for car-free streets in Chicago? —Steve Bogira• About a Utah legislator who...
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12 O'Clock Track: Distressing microtonal black metal from Jute Gyte's new...
I just wrote about Jute Gyte for In Rotation, only to discover after press deadline that it (or rather he) had released yet another album last week—for a total of 17 full-lengths since 2010. Most of...
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Representative Derrick Smith is not available to take your call
Anybody seen Derrick Smith?He's the state representative for the near-north and west-side Tenth District, but he doesn't seem to be available right now—or last week, or the year before. In fairness,...
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Biologists evolve in Timeline's The How and the Why
The How and the Why survives on smarts and at least one great performance. by Tony Adler Twenty-eight-year-old grad student Rachel Hardeman tiptoes into Professor Zelda Kahn's Cambridge office...
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Black Cinema House to present Jules Dassin's rarely revived Uptight this Sunday
On Sunday at 4 PM Black Cinema House will screen the rarely revived Uptight (1968), a drama set among black revolutionaries in Cleveland, Ohio. Urban planner and architecture critic Lee Bey will...
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Tonight: Embrace Psalm One's new name at the Hideout
In May local MC Psalm One (aka Cristalle Bowen) dropped an EP called Free Hugs, her first release under the name Hologram Kizzie. The title is a hat tip to Bowen's positivity, and the EP's artwork...
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V-Day Issue: A duo that met on the dance floor
V-Day Issue: Aay Preston-Myint and Colin Dickson's first date "didn't just have a third wheel, it had 20." by Kevin Warwick The couple: Aay Preston-Myint, 32, and Colin Dickson, 28 Years together:...
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V-Day Issue: Finding love in poli-sci and sci-fi
V-Day Issue: Claire and Rufus Barner intend to leave Chicago a better place than they found it. by Gwynedd Stuart The power couple: Claire and Rufus Barner, both 27 Years together: Nine total, married...
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