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In Rotation: The Owl's Aaron Dexter on his soundtrack to endless winter
Current musical obsessions of the Owl's Aaron Dexter, the Sueves' Joe Schorgl, and the Reader's Luca Cimarusti by Luca Cimarusti Luca Cimarusti, Reader music listings coordinator Metallica, . . . And...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 3/10: European Union Film Festival, Wonder Years, and...
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Best shows to see: The Wonder Years, Pat Metheny Unity Group
If you've got access to a friend's ex-girlfriend's father's coworker's HBO Go account, chances are high that you spent the weekend binge-watching True Detective and could stand to spend an evening or...
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Did you read about Chicago neighborhoods, Herbalife, and berets?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About how Chicago's neighborhoods got their names? (With a lot of helpful addenda in the comments section.…[ Read...
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12 O'Clock Track: TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone makes scuzzy, noisy garage in...
I'm a bit of a freak about art-rock outfit TV on the Radio. For example, as a college senior enrolled in a small liberal arts school outside of Boston, I hopped a bus down to Brooklyn to catch...
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Thanks to Cremeria La Ordeña #2, Albany Park is now the mole capital of Chicago
Back in October, when I wrote about the great southwest-side Guerrerense grocery Cremeria La Ordeña, owner Nicolas Aguado mentioned that he and partner Luciano Dominguez were scouting locations in...
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Visitors—or, the movie as sculpture exhibit
I'm glad to have seen Godfrey Reggio's feature-length montage Visitors on a big screen (it's currently playing at the Landmark Century Centre), even though I didn't particularly care for the movie on...
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Street View 172: Bold and bright
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Regina fights the gloomy weather by pairing her fiery red coat with a shiny sequined...
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In I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp Richard Hell reflects on his childhood...
In I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp Richard Hell reflects on his childhood and punk stardom. by Hannah Gold"It's all essence, and it's available to those who, to all appearances, have nothing,"...
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The problem with Chicagoland, according to John Kass
When it comes to CNN's Chicagoland, for once, I don't necessarily disagree with John Kass. by Michael Miner John Kass is so often wrong in my view that I try to maintain a quota system on how often I...
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The immigrant's dilemma
The closer JoséÁngel got to the American dream, the more he was forced to disappear. by Tori Marlan Editor's note: JoséÁngel's last name is being withheld to protect him from retribution based on his...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 3/11: Chi-Town Jazz Festival, It Gets Better, and Moshin...
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Will Americans catch the secession virus?
When President Obama said Vladimir Putin's invasion of the Crimea put him "on the wrong side of history," it made me wonder what those two sides consist of. I suppose there's the dark side, on which...
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Did you read about Frank Ocean, Skrillex, and Zach Galifianakis?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That the CIA illegally searched the computers of a Senate committee investigating the agency's interrogation...
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12 O'Clock Track: Listen to Television rock out in 1978
I've played Television's Marquee Moon and Adventure to the point of exhaustion—I can barely stand listening to them anymore, regardless of how much I love the music on both albums—but for some reason I...
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The light is winning (we think): A True Detective recap
We battled Carcosa-themed nightmares, the flat circularity of time, and HBO Go's epic server crash to bring you this Gchat about the flawed but still pretty great finale of the best television show...
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How much will Chicago's new digital manufacturing institute end up costing...
President Obama and Mayor Emanuel tout a $70 million grant for a site that already received $10 million in public subsidies. by Ben Joravsky For the last several weeks, Mayor Emanuel, Governor Quinn,...
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URL music festival SPF420 goes to SXSW
The music portion of South by Southwest is kicking into high gear and by now you've probably seen more than enough Twitter hashtags and Instagram shots of Austin to realize the festival is happening....
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The Chainsmokers' paint-by-numbers virality
Conventional wisdom holds that the explosive, meme-enabled viral popularity of surprise hits like Baauer's "Harlem Shake" is one of those things that simply can't be bought, that it has to occur...
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Coming soon: The films of Jan Nemec at Facets Multimedia
Starting in the mid-1950s, the Soviet Union entered into a period of cultural thaw, easing up on censorship and other repressive practices. Many of the Eastern Bloc nations followed suit, resulting in...
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