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Of brisket, oysters, and General Tso's chicken at Old Crow Smokehouse
Wrigleyville, Lakeview, and Lincoln Park have been saturated with new barbecue spots in recent times, a few of them sporting the sort of ersatz hillbilly shtick that would make Larry the Cable Guy...
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Mali's Habib Koité returns to the Chicago area in support of a chill new album
Tonight the veteran Malian musician Habib Koitéperforms at Northwestern University's Pick-Staiger Hall in support of a brand-new album, Soô (Contre Jour), released just Tuesday. Koité is a regular...
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Did you read about Tony Blair, Bill Hicks, and Ruby Tuesday?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About the debate over whether climate change will cause a spike in violent crime? —Mick Dumke• That charter school...
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Key Ingredient: Andrew Brochu goes classic with milk jam
Aviary chef Andrew Brochu's experimentation leads him back to the barnyard with milk jam. by Julia Thiel OO.ready(function() { window.player =...
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12 O'Clock Track: The Gossip Wolf premiere of Kit's "I Bop"
This week's edition of Gossip Wolf includes some news about Kit, the Chicago-via-Cincinnati rapper behind last year's moody, subterranean New Wavey mixtape. As Gossip Wolf mentions, the MC recently...
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Best shows to see: Hellfyre Club, Alaya, Wadada Leo Smith, Sick/Tired
On Saturday the Empty Bottle is putting on Winter Frozen Dancing, a free afternoon concert featuring Marnie Stern, Diarrhea Planet, and Heavy Times that's being held outdoors. It's tough to imagine...
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Bric-a-Brac hosts a fund-raiser for a new PA this weekend
Bric-a-Brac Records, the Avondale record and collectibles shop that opened last June, will be hosting a fund-raiser event on Sunday, March 2, to fund a PA system for its in-store shows. Ever since the...
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The 2014 primaries offer the latest evidence that it pays to be rich if...
You don't have to be rich to get into politics. But if you actually want to win an election, it sure helps.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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The Americans, a thriller? Not exactly
"Fast-paced drama," Alessandra Stanley, New York Times. "Tension-filled series," Lori Rackl, Chicago Sun-Times.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Reader's Agenda Fri 2/28: Ron Funches, Wes Anderson Anthology, and Revelations
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Manhattan, 12 Monkeys and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online...
Each Friday, we recommend seven Old Movies to Watch Now, all of which come recommended by one of our critics and can currently be screened online. Read the review, watch the movie, feel accomplished.…[...
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Public housing, private prisons, and the rest of this week's screenings
This year the Chicago International Film Festival turns 50, and in observation of that milestone, WTTW Channel 11 will be broadcasting a monthly series of notable features that screened in the...
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Cast off winter's cruel grip with oxtail polenta at Cellar Door Provisions
If you must have a reason to venture out into the rimy hellscape of never-ending winter, I'm going to suggest it should be to hunch over the oxtail polenta at Logan Square's Cellar Door Provisions and...
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Make the drive to Chicagoland's only Lao restaurant
Spicy Thai Lao is in a blink-and-you-miss-it south-suburban strip mall. But you don't want to miss it. by Mike Sula When Kaew Saengsom was a little girl in her home province of Nakhon Phanom in...
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Did you read about J.K. Rowling, Paula Deen, and normcore?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That the Old English name for February was Solmonath, which means "mud month"? (It was also known as Kale-monath,...
View Article12 O'Clock Track: "Dig" is loud and dreamy shoegaze from Nothing
It's always interesting to see what happens to hardcore kids when they grow out of being young and angry. My current musical obsession is one of these cases: Nothing is a postrock-influenced...
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Matias Piñeiro's Viola riffs on Shakespeare and messes with your mind
On Sunday at 7 PM Doc Films will present the Chicago premiere of the 2012 Argentinian film Viola as part of their superb series of recent Central and South American cinema. It's a curious film,...
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"Promiscuous Code,""This Was Supposed to Help," and the rest of your weekend...
After a week of staring at a computer screen, it's about time you expose your eyes to something exciting. Here's what's going down in visual arts this weekend.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments...
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Peter Evans and Cory Smythe promise to take early jazz into the stratosphere
This Sunday afternoon International Contemporary Ensemble presents the latest event in its OpenICE concert series at the Chicago Cultural Center. ICE, of course, is one the most adventurous and...
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Pioneer Girl, or little Vietnamese cafe in the suburbs
It's kind of amazing, if you think about it, how many common experiences have never been described in fiction, even though they seem so obvious in retrospect. For instance, how many bookish girls have...
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