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"Fractured Yet Rising,""The Way of the Shovel," and the rest of your weekend...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 3/7: Charlie Murphy, Comedy March Madnezz Tournament, and...
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Ajami, Two Lovers, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week
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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The European Union Film Festival, and the rest of this week's screenings
If you've never sampled the European Union Film Festival at Gene Siskel Film Festival, you're missing out on some of the best international cinema to roll through Chicago all year. It doesn't stop for...
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Chicken sandwiches—not that there's anything wrong with that!
Leghorn Chicken, the long-awaited chicken sandwich stand from chef Jared Van Camp and the others at Element Collective (Nellcôte, Kinmont, etc), opened at 11 AM at 959 N. Western yesterday, and closed...
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Did you read about porta-potties, Oscar Meyer, and Thurston Moore?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That student health insurance at the University of Illinois's flagship campus will begin to cover sex change...
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12 O'Clock Track: Lorde's excellent take on the Replacements
It's obvious that pretty much everyone loves the Replacements. And it's pretty safe to say that most everyone likes Lorde a whole lot too, even if they don't want to admit it.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe...
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The Miracle of this year's European Union Film Festival
In addition to hosting Chicago premieres from internationally lauded filmmakers, every year the European Union Film Festival spotlights active directors who aren't especially well-known here because...
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Dieb13's weightless vinyl
I won't make any argument that the Austrian turntable artist Dieb13 is a jazz musician—even though he plays in the great Swedish Azz with reedist Mats Gustafsson, tuba player Per-Åke Holmlander, and...
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Baffo tries to bring a bit of Mario Batali's Babbo to the midwest
Eataly's fine-dining restaurant would benefit from a higher dose of simplicity. by Mike Sula One way to think of Baffo, the fine-dining restaurant on the ground floor of Eataly, is that it's Babbo...
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Our excellent Baroque weekend: Haymarket and Lyric present rarely performed...
We’ve got a Baroque opera minifestival going this weekend, with Lyric Opera performing Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito and Haymarket Opera Company offering a double bill by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Le...
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ISAT drills in the age of Mayor Rahm
In solidarity with the students and teachers who are just finishing week one of the ISAT madness, I went to the dentist and had a tooth drilled. I figured if they have to be miserable, let me be...
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A brief word on the ISATs
I just read Ben Joravsky's Bleader post on the ISAT debate in Chicago's public schools, and I want to add a point that is far from original but can't be emphasized enough. Teachers didn't like the...
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Zoom in: River North
Adam Brooks's Freedom Wall has been tattooed to the side of 325 W. Huron in River North for nearly 20 years. by Aimee Levitt The best way to see Adam Brooks's most enduring piece of artwork—a list of...
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Reader's Agenda Sat 3/8: SXSW Send Off Party, Chicago League of Lady Arm...
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Street View 171: Put a bow on it
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.It's close to Kat's birthday now, so it's only natural she would walk around gift-wrapped...
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This week's Chicagoan: Doris Adepoju, truck driver
Doris Adepoju, truck driver: "But driving the truck is fun. It's fuuuuuuuun. I don't mind the ruggedness of it." by Anne Ford A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford....
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Reader's Agenda Sun 3/9: Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton, Greys, and Garage Rep
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Cary Grant
This week Chicago moviegoers have the opportunity to see not one but two films featuring the one and only Cary Grant: the famous George Cukor comedy The Philadelphia Story (1940) and the lesser-known...
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Kylie Minogue's cheerfully lascivious Kiss Me Once and 15 more record reviews
Reader writers tackle Morbus Chron's feral-to-cerebral death prog and 14 more new records. by Peter Margasak, Miles Raymer, Leor Galil, Kevin Warwick, Monica Kendrick, Bill Meyer, Luca Cimarusti, Kim...
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