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Coming soon: Mohsen Makhmalbaf's deceptively simple The Gardener
Taken at face value, Mohsen Makhmalbaf's The Gardener, which opens at the Gene Siskel Film Center this Friday, is lightweight stuff. It shows the Iranian filmmaker and his son Maysam visiting the...
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Legacy: Beyond the yellow tape
Channel 11 presents Legacy, a Chicago story of tragedy and triumph. by J.R. Jones To commemorate the Chicago International Film Festival's 50th anniversary, Channel 11 is launching a series of monthly...
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Goodman Theatre's Buzzer is broken by contrivance
The sympathy ratios are off in Jessica Thebus's staging of Tracey Scott Wilson's Buzzer at Goodman. by Tony Adler Actress Lee Stark would appear to be the consensus vision of what a nonwhite lawyer...
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Gossip Wolf: Locrian's Andre Foisy teaches yoga for your grimmest chakra
Yoga for your grimmest chakra, new music from Catholic Tapes, and more by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil We don't refer to beloved local musicians as poseurs very often, but for Andre Foisy of Locrian...
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Are Chicago's elite private schools as diverse as they claim to be?
The socioeconomic makeup of the city's elite private schools is a public policy issue—or should be one. by Steve Bogira This is the fourth installment in our occasional series on segregation in...
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Reader's Agenda Wed 2/26: The How and the Why, Metal Church, and Johnny Cash...
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Gig poster of the week: Shred into Arluck Time
ARTIST: Francisco RamirezSHOW:Arluck Time at Empty Bottle on Sat 2/8MORE ONLINE:bureauprintresearchdesign.com[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Jason Collins—a big story, or what?
It's odd to read a news story preoccupied with the question of whether it's actually a news story. Jason Collins's first game in the NBA since he announced he was gay was either a historic occasion...
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The Alvin Ailey dancers have moved beyond Revelations
In 1958, Alvin Ailey set out to choreograph the moral enlightenment of the African-American soul. Revelations was an immediate, irresistible success.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this...
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Meet the farmers behind the Good Food Festival in new video
Now in its tenth year, the Good Food Festival is, most everyone can agree, a good thing. To the public the event—which will be at the UIC Forum from March 13 to 15—is mainly Saturday's fair, which...
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Did you read about Philip Seymour Hoffman, Harold Ramis, and Adam Dunn?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That China's smog problem is being compared to a nuclear winter? —Leor Galil• About the myth of mobility?…[ Read...
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12 O'Clock Track: Revisiting Camper Van Beethoven's high-water mark
Time hasn't been especially kind to Camper Van Beethoven, the 80s band from Santa Cruz, California, that was a veritable showroom model of what used to be called "college rock" (before it was...
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One gorgeous fish out of water: Lyric Opera's Rusalka
More than a century after it was written, Lyric Opera is presenting Chicago with a ravishing premiere of Rusalka, Antonín Dvořák's 1901 "fairy tale for adults." The rhapsodic score—performed under the...
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It's all in the timing: U. of C. hosts a conference on Cinemetrics this Saturday
In a making-of documentary about Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blue, the Polish director recounts the making of a scene in which Juliette Binoche's character becomes lost in thought while drinking coffee in a...
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Alex Wiley on the road to becoming his "Own Man"
Last Wednesday I noted what a strong week it had been for Chicago hip-hop, even though it wasn't entirely finished, and the day after that I got stuck on new tracks from, among others, Ibn Inglor...
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Ruth Gruber and Rena Olenick: Parallel lives
The traveling exhibit "Ruth Gruber: Photojournalist" officially opened on Sunday afternoon at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center with a screening of Ahead of Time, a documentary about...
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More transparency from Mayor Rahm and CPS
My recent opus on the saga at Ames Middle School was so complicated that I never got around to telling you one of my favorite parts: the so-called FOIAgate angle. So allow me to eat some hummus for...
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Has challenger Will Guzzardi made northwest-side state rep Toni Berrios more...
How challenger Will Guzzardi made northwest-side state rep Toni Berrios more progressive by Ben Joravsky All right, everybody—time for a political quiz! For ten trivia points and a bucket of fried...
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Keep calm and introduce yourself
Dan on dealing with anger issues, exploring bisexuality without offending the boyfriend, and working kinks into a new relationship. by Dan Savage Q I'm 21 and still a virgin. I also have depression.…[...
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Reader's Agenda Thu 2/27: "Renoir's True Colors," the Sonics, and Oak & Iron III
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