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Our guide to the European Union Film Festival at Gene Siskel Film Center
More than 60 new features make their Chicago premieres through March at the European Union Film Festival. Launched back in 1998, the European Union Film Festival has grown into one of the city's very...
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ISAT follies—making up the school code
In my role as the guy on staff who has to do the really boring stuff, I've spent the better part of the day reading the Illinois school code. Ahhhh!!!I'm reading the code because I want to ascertain...
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Did you read about Bill de Blasio, sanitary pads, and Beyonce?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That New York mayor Bill de Blasio, who calls charter schools a "destructive force," is trying to reverse the...
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12 O'Clock Track: "Gauzy Dress in the Sun," steel-kissed melancholy from...
On March 18, Merge Records will reissue Bloomed, the 1994 debut album of Richard Buckner, appended with a bonus disc containing various live recordings and studio rarities made around the time of its...
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Listen to the track Caleb James made with his dad for The Jones 2.0
Save Money rapper and producer Caleb James lands on the cover of this week's B Side as he prepares to release the follow-up to last year's The Jones, a mixtape packed with feel-good throwback party...
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What happens when all-star chefs get in bed with Big Food?
What happens when all-star chefs get in bed with Big Food? by Mike Sula Almost two years ago a minor food media scandal erupted when a website called Snackpicks.com, owned by Kellogg's, published a...
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The U. of C. Film Studies Center to host a program of silent films from...
Films from mainland China have arrived steadily in the U.S. since the mid-80s, when such "fifth generation" filmmakers as Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou broke onto the international scene. Yet there have...
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Hey, who put avocado in my hot chocolate?
Ina did, that's who. This week I wrote about a bunch of local chefs and their surprising relationships with Big Food—consulting and developing recipes for giant corporations like Nestle and Kraft, or...
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Moist toilette
Dan on postpoop-gasms, a pee-shy boyfriend refusing to unlock the bathroom door, and a stepson who leaves a few drops of spooge behind. by Dan Savage Q Straight female with a question. It's about...
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Lafayette Leake
Brilliant pianist Lafayette Leake played countless sessions with blues giants but released little music of his own. by Plastic Crimewave[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Reader's Agenda Thu 3/6: Ty Dolla $ign, Buzzer and Brews, and Yiyun Li
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Sun-Times Media rehires four photographers and gives them new titles
In an era of journalism when everyone is expected to do everything, is there still a place for the specialist who does one thing well?Possibly not. But Sun-Times Media is bringing four photographers...
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When news of El Chapo Guzmán's capture reached a federal prison
Word travels fast in prison. A couple of weekends ago Derek Thomas was watching a basketball game on one of the TVs in a common area inside McDowell Federal Correctional Institution in West Virginia,...
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Did you read about Debo Adegbile, monocles, and UFOs?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That seven Senate Democrats torpedoed President Obama's nomination of Debo Adegbile to head the Justice...
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12 O'Clock Track: Baathhaus's first video is theatrical and sexual, just like...
Back in June Gossip Wolf reported that queer-friendly synth-poppers Baathhaus were working on their first music video—it's for a massive trance-industrial number called "Cave Song." Baathhaus founder...
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Best shows to see: Ty Dolla $ign, Classixx, George Strait, Vattnet Viskar
On Tuesday local indie hip-hop label Closed Sessions released the official debut album from Treated Crew's Mic Terror, Fresh Prince of Darkness, and the rapper's celebrating its release with a party on...
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Cocktail Challenge: Catnip
Kristin Wolfel of the Charleston crafts a catnip cocktail for her Friday-night drinking buddy. by Kate Schmidt Challenged by Henry Prendergast of Analogue to make a drink with catnip, Kristin Wolfel,...
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The Senate's rejection of Debo Adegbile
A battle had been brewing over President Obama's nomination of Debo Adegbile to head the civil rights division of the Justice Department. In January, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights...
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Cairo Gang play a rare show at Rainbo Club this Sunday
It's rare that fabled Ukrainian Village watering hole Rainbo Club hosts rock shows, but when it does it's almost a magical experience. The warm, wooden environment of the dark bar is the perfect...
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Los Angeles, America's doughnut capital, has sent us Stan's Donuts
I used to envy people in LA because they got to live in the Doughnut Capital of America. It didn't matter that the designation was mostly self-proclaimed.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on...
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