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Two cheers for the return of the restaurant reviewer
It takes a special kind of myopia to worry that restaurant reviewing is dying when more Americans are doing it than ever. (Online restaurant critic, the last job Americans will do.)…[ Read more ][...
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Show us your . . . drones
Last year, drone enthusiast Ryan Twose founded the Chicago chapter of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. by Gwynedd Stuart Between Obama's enthusiasm for drone strikes and the...
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Reader's Agenda Sat 3/15: Zine Fest, School of Hard Rocks, and Pedrito...
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Street View 174: Ray of sunshine
Vanessa was feeling colorful once the sun came out and the temps finally went up. After hearing someone talk about nurses, she composed a look inspired by them.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments...
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A house of glass in Oak Park
Laurie Freivogel lets the ingenuity contained within her subterranean glass-art studio spill over into her Oak Park home. by Andrea Bauer The Space video crew and I trampled into the Oak Park home of...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 3/16: Pi(e) Day, Dan Graham documentaries, and Nick Hennies
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Wes Anderson
The Grand Budapest Hotel, the newest film by the divisive Wes Anderson, is now playing citywide after premiering in New York and LA last week. J.R. Jones has a review of the film in this week's paper,...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 3/17: Chicago Story Week, Indian, and Porn and Chicken
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Best shows to see: Indian, Ex Hex, Marijuana Deathsquads
Lorde's Aragon Ballroom performance is all sold out, but fortunately there are plenty of other concerts to see during the next few days. Tonight there's Islands at SPACE and MT Coast at Empty Bottle.…[...
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Ferran Adrià and the devil
The room was a classroom at Eataly. The attendees were journalists from the blogosphere to the Tribune.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Did you read about Paul Ryan, squirrels, and the Cubs?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That the Tokyo Electric Power Company is cutting major corners in the ongoing Fukushima disaster cleanup? —Drew...
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12 O'Clock Track: Danish D-beat on Halshug's "Skyd Eller Dø"
When Reader music editor Philip Montoro sent me an e-mail a couple of weeks back simply titled "A bit of Danish D-beat for free," I figured my tastes would agree with the Bandcamp link inside. Working...
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That horrible, terrible blunder of Jim Oberweis—going someplace warm
It's tricky for political writers to frame a campaign story just before an election. Whether the story's about a big deal or small potatoes will probably depend on the framing.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe...
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Here's to dogged Chicago detective work
In May of 2012 I was a burglary victim. Someone broke into my apartment while I was sleeping and stole a laptop, a cell phone, and some money from a change jar.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments...
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Middle Brow Beer Company debuts with the Life Pursuit
The craft-beer boom has accommodated all sorts of business models: Madison-based MobCraft, for instance, uses crowdsourced recipes voted on by nerds across the country (in 2013 RateBeer named it the...
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Northwestern pulls the plug on a high-profile professor
Feeling the heat over an alleged sexual assault, Northwestern pulls the plug on a high-profile professor. by Deanna Isaacs If Peter Ludlow hadn't been a 55-year-old star professor at Northwestern...
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Q-BBQ: Please make it stop
I may be forgetting a few, but over the past 14 months or so I've writtenabout at least tennewbarbecuerestaurants within the city limits. In the cases of all but twoorthree I can neatly sum up their...
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Terror in the aisles: Revisiting Bigas Luna's Anguish
Since invoking Spanish genre entertainment in my review of Non-Stop, I've been thinking a lot about Bigas Luna (Jamon, Jamon), the Spanish writer-director who passed away last year at the age of 67....
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Alvin Lucier is sitting in a room (at the MCA)
Composer Alvin Lucier comes to Chicago for a three-day retrospective. by Peter Margasak In 1965, with the premiere of Music for Solo Performer, Alvin Lucier began the career that has distinguished him...
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Lone Wolf, your local source for sgroppino and Three Floyds beer
Lone Wolf has capitalized on the West Loop's popularity as a dining destination, positioning itself as a place to get pre- or post-meal drinks and snacks—or to have a drink while waiting for a table at...
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