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Reader's Agenda Tue 3/18: Story Week Festival of Writers, Pocket Guide to...
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Phillip Foss's Meatyballs rides again
Once they were the future—food trucks, bringing innovative new tastes to the hungry masses of the Loop and other places where drab fast food dominated. It was Phillip Foss with Meatyballs Mobile and...
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What was in those files the Tribune didn't pick up?
Buried in the recent report by special prosecutor Dan Webb, "The Death of David Koschman," is this tantalizing suggestion: that the Sun-Times campaign to fix responsibility for Koschman's death in 2004...
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Did you read about illegal marijuana cultivation, bluefin tuna, and cartoon...
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• How illegal marijuana cultivation wreaks havoc on the environment? —Mick Dumke• About the alarming state of the...
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Chicago meter money keeps flowing to private investors
Mayor Emanuel says he's saved drivers money, but evidence is lacking. by Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky On March 5, Mayor Rahm Emanuel issued a press release boasting that motorists in Chicago had saved...
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Welcome to Night Vale comes alive
The podcast that details the odd happenings and characters populating the fictional town of Night Vale goes on tour. by Brianna Wellen In the Town of Night Vale, hooded figures, bizarre flashing...
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12 O'Clock Track: Procol Harum's "Too Much Between Us," in honor of the...
Over the past week I and the rest of the staff at the Reader have been working on our bar issue, which will appear online in the near future. Over the course of reviewing our Neighborhood Bar Guide, I...
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Young Thug weirds his way onto the Hot 100
Young Thug is the latest in a long line of idiosyncratic mixtape rappers to inspire a level of obsession on the rap Internet that approaches the cultic. Like many objects of hip-hop fascination for...
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I'm watching Lindsay Lohan's reality show and that's probably not OK
A few years ago (more than a few now, I guess) there was a not-terribly-successful show on HBO called The Comeback. On it Lisa Kudrow plays Valerie Cherish, a shrill, washed-up sitcom star who becomes...
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Gossip Wolf: Who's gonna play Lollapalooza?
Lollapalooza lineup predictions, long-lost punk goodies from HoZac, and more by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil Summer is still months away, but the interminable promo blitz for Lollapalooza should kick...
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Street View 175: Template for dudes
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.I recently said that I love guys carrying bags, and this applies to Lukas as well. How...
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Court Theatre's Water by the Spoonful will leave you thirsty
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play Water by the Spoonful fails to wring out a drop of genuine drama. by Justin Hayford In the final moments of Water by the Spoonful, the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play...
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Le Week-end: Here come the boomer cliches
In Le Week-end, Jim Broadbent stars as a former 60s radical awash in self-pity. by Ben Sachs As light entertainment for grown-ups, Le Week-end has a fair amount going for it: fine lead performances...
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Reader's Agenda Wed 3/19: Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival, Soiree Grand Nord,...
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Gig poster of the week: The War on Drugs takes an island retreat
ARTIST: Daniel MacAdamSHOW: the War on Drugs, Mark McGuire, and White Laces at Metro on Sun 3/23MORE INFO:crosshairchicago.com[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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In some ways, the 2014 primaries brought out the best in Illinois politics
The November election season started even before the primary votes were counted Tuesday. For months Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bruce Rauner has been blasting away at Governor Pat Quinn, calling...
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In Sixty Story Animal, Beau O'Reilly celebrates a landmark birthday with...
Beau O'Reilly turns 60 this year, on May 16. I haven't done a hard count, but an educated guess would put the number of stories, songs, and plays he's written in his time at "a lot."…[ Read more ][...
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The Operature: Dance inspired by a former professor's "stud file"
Chicago writer and academic Samuel Steward was so obsessed with cataloging his sexual experiences that he kept a file of 746 cards, systematically cross-referenced, detailing hundreds of erotic...
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Links to PDFs of Reader crossword puzzles and previous weeks' solutions by Ben Tausig Recent Crosswords Upbeat Mixes (PDF) - 03.20.2014…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Did you read about Bruce Rauner, Harry Houdini, and The Bachelor?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That Bruce Rauner failed to blow away the field, as polls indicated he would, but he did squeak his way to the GOP...
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