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Keeping the faith
Dan on staying faithful, exploring BDSM without the sex, and embarking on a fantasy facial by Dan Savage Q I have a slowly terminal disease and don't have more than five or six years left. I haven't...
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Reader's Agenda Thu 3/13: "Hemingway the Hunter," Kokorokoko's anniversary,...
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Best shows to see: Milford Graves & Joe McPhee, Chicago Symphony Orchestra...
If you're sick of hearing about South by Southwest I recommend checking out a flyer lo-fi pop musician Jimmy Whispers made for his headlining show at the Hideout on Friday; he's calling the show the...
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Bill Cahill, and a glorious day at Wrigley, RIP
Today, with a new shroud of snow topping the remains of a winter that refuses to let us out of its grip, the late-summer day last year when I met Bill Cahill seems like a dream. The sky was blue, the...
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The impact of charter school expansion
A mayor who wanted to privatize his school system would realize it couldn't be done in one swoop. There'd be too much opposition from parents and union teachers.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
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Did you read about Richard M. Daley, Marty McFly, and French bulldogs?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About the car that barreled through a crowd at SXSW, killing two people? —Kevin Warwick• About a hormone released...
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12 O'Clock Track: Absolutely Not's ever-endearing spazziness on "Hole in Yer...
One thing Absolutely Not has never been short on is blown-out, hyped energy. Since I first wrote about 'em back in 2011 the spazzy garage-punk trio, fronted by Donnie Moore, has been honing its...
View ArticleCutting through the Noisey: A Gchat about Vice music website's Chiraq video...
A couple months ago Vice's music site, Noisey, debuted an eight-part video series about the local hip-hop scene (or, more specifically, the drill scene) called Chiraq; it's the second major extensive,...
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Key Ingredient: Mike Bagale of Alinea candies Necco Wafers
Challenged to make a dish with Necco Wafers, Mike Bagale of Alinea candies the candy. by Julia Thiel OO.ready(function() { window.player =...
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Let's talk about a song on Skrillex's forthcoming debut album
Monday night EDM posterboy Skrillex used his recently launched phone app called Alien Ride to stream his forthcoming debut full-length, Recess (not to be confused with local kids' musician Justin...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 3/14: W. Kamau Bell, Cedric Watson, and Cock
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The Moderns, The Lady From Shanghai and other Reader-recommended movies to...
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 Face of Love, the face of Wes Anderson, and the rest of this week's...
What do Wes Anderson and the Khmer Rouge have in common? Well, nothing, but that's never stopped us before.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Did you read about Netflix, Vybz Kartel, and Lady Gaga?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• Former Politico reporter Joseph Williams's account of working in retail? —Tal Rosenberg• About the Commission of...
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How a story about the horrors of housing projects became part of a horror movie
On Monday, Longform posted a Reader story I wrote 27 years ago about a murder in a Chicago housing project. Longform is a website that curates articles—most of them current, some of them old—of at...
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12 O'Clock Track: Celebrate Saint Patrick's Day with Van Morrison's "Dweller...
For me, Saint Patrick's Day has never been an occasion to wear awful green clothing and go bar hopping until I vomit. My vision of Saint Patrick's Day is informed by the mystical Celtic folk-blues of...
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First Tuesdays at the Hideout with me and Mick Dumke!
A few weeks ago Tim Tuten, co-owner of the Hideout, asked Mick Dumke and me to come on over to his tavern at 1354 W. Wabansia. Tim led us to his upstairs office, fed us a beer or two, and then revealed...
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A conversation with physics professor David Kaplan on his new movie Particle...
The new documentary Particle Fever, which opens today at the Music Box, recounts the opening of the Large Hadron Collider in 2008 and the events leading up to the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson (a...
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Rough waters at Kinmont
The Element Collective's fish house Kinmont serves only sustainable seafood. by Mike Sula In what will surely be an affront to certain species of indiscriminate eaters, there is no dolphin, baby seal,...
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Pianist Matthew Shipp reaches a new plateau
Last June New York pianist Matthew Shipp played a rare trio concert in Chicago, delivering a scorching, tightly coiled set at Constellation with bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Whit Dickey. He's been...
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