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In Bedrock Faith, there's more than one way to terrorize a neighborhood
Parkland is a far-south-side middle-class neighborhood. Its tidy homes boast trim lawns.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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William Friedkin's Sorcerer rolls back into action at the Music Box
For the next two Fridays and Saturdays at midnight, the Music Box will screen a new restoration of Sorcerer, William Friedkin's 1977 remake of Henri-Georges Cluzot's The Wages of Fear. The director's...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 3/21: Our Spring Cocktail Challenge, Lunice, and Sixty...
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Eye Vybe Records presents the first-ever Good Vybes Fest
Logan Square's Karissa Talanian originally launched Eye Vybe Records in 2011 simply as a method of putting out tapes by her band at the time, but at some point last year, things picked up and got...
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Did you read about Phantom of the Opera, kimchi, and Kate Bush?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That we're all doomed? —Tal Rosenberg• About how a little less supervision and more danger might be good for...
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12 O'Clock Track: "You Gonna Get It" is classic, unruly Bay-area garage rock
Before he was fronting Thee Oh Sees, John Dwyer was creating high-strung, noisy garage racket in the Coachwhips, a stripped-down trio who originally called it a day in 2005. With Thee Oh Sees on...
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Muppets, nymphos, air sex, and the rest of this week's screenings
In this week's long review Ben Sachs looks at Le Week-end, the latest from British screenwriter Hanif Kureishi (My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid); Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan star...
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Demonlover, Sisters of Gion, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch...
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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Matt Bauder's ever-evolving sound
Reedist Matt Bauder spent just a few years in Chicago, between 1999 and 2001, but he made a strong mark—and the city's improvised music scene left its imprint on him in return. He's a no-nonsense...
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Japonais by Morimoto: At the top of the sushi food chain
Japonais by Morimoto: At the top of the sushi food chain by Mike Sula Masaharu Morimoto arrived in Chicago a few months ago like a lot of telegenic chefs who decide to launch satellites into the...
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One bite: Ajida's curry age mono ramen
I'm tempted to launch a parallel rant to Monday's barbecue tirade, this one about our troubling ramen situation. Just like the glut of unexceptional barbecue dilettantes that's swamped the city, the...
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More thoughts on Resnais, Breaking Bad, surrealism, and "surrealism"
I've had surrealism on the brain since Alain Resnais, arguably the last living heir to that movement, died a few weeks ago. Nowadays writers commonly use the word "surreal" when they simply mean...
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Mayor Rahm sends in the ISAT inspectors to Drummond elementary school
When I got word yesterday that central office inspectors were hauling in kids from the classroom to interrogate them about their teachers, I said—no way!Mayor Emanuel may be hardheaded, vindictive, and...
View ArticleReader's Agenda Sat 3/22: The Salvagers' Ball, Welcome to Night Vale Live,...
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Street View 176: Walk of game
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.I spotted Carly on a late Sunday afternoon walking back to her home in Lincoln Park. She...
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Waiting for Andrew Wiggins? Might as well wait for Godot.
Waiting for a savior? Nothing wrong with that, so long as you're not an NBA team.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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A Hunger Games knockoff set in 22nd-century Chicago
Divergent, the latest Hunger Games knockoff, envisions a 22nd-century Chicago. by J.R. Jones Like The Hunger Games, Divergent is adapted from a young-adult novel (the first in a trilogy, naturally) and...
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Comedian Amy Schumer gets dirtier
New York comedian Amy Schumer is unapologetic about her sexuality, narcissism, and hatred for almost everyone—consequently creating a comedic triple threat that spares nothing from her snark. Her...
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This week's Chicagoan: Margie Lawrence, baseball artist
This week's Chicagoan, Margie Lawrence: "Ted Williams was a handsome man; that's why he pops up in my art a lot." by Anne Ford A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford....
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