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Jeff Mahin of Stella Barra Pizzeria tops a gumbo-inspired pizza with okra
Who knew that okra can mimic mozzarella? Jeff Mahin of Stella Barra Pizzeria tops a gumbo-inspired pizza with the slimy seed pod. by Julia Thiel OO.ready(function() { window.player =...
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Street View 178: The sensitive biker
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Artist Ben Morino manages to look both tough and benign by pairing his biker jacket with a...
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David Roth's Evanston home links to his past
David Roth's Evanston home links to his past with archival photos and a collection of analogue cameras used as decoration. by Andrea Bauer David Roth's Evanston home is full of links to the past: the...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 3/30: The Randolph Street Market, How to Dress Well, and...
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"Performing Images" exposes our parochial view of pop culture
In the U.S. we tend to think of pop culture as our thing: a recent, Western phenomenon based in rock music, hip-hop, Hollywood film, and maybe the occasional YA novel. The Smart Museum's exhibit...
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Weekly Top Five: The best unrealized films
This week the Music Box is showing the new documentary Jodorowsky's Dune, which details Chilean cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowksy's failed attempt to adapt Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel Dune. The film...
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David Grubbs on the meaning of records
David Grubbs on why the experimental music of the 1960s was so rarely recorded at the time—and what changes when we listen to it today. by Peter Margasak David Grubbs teaches classes in creative...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 3/31: Chicago Improv Festival, Extinct Entities, and...
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Support sustainability in beermaking, and other food news
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Did you read about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the bubonic plague, and...
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That part of the reason Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 hasn't been found is because the oceans are polluted? —Drew...
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12 O'Clock Track: Trail of Dead's 'It Was There That I Saw You,' the opener...
Taking into account their overwrought, long-winded band name and knack for writing sweeping, emotional posthardcore epics, . . . And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead were built to rule the moody,...
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Best shows to see: Dum Dum Girls, Rich Halley 4
Today is opening day for the MLB; if you haven't filled up on beer and Cracker Jacks by the end of the afternoon and are in the mood to keep the celebrations going there are some great shows to see...
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Pho now, L.D. Pho has Lincoln Square's only proper pho
In terms of its commercial offerings Lawrence Avenue west of Western in Lincoln Square looks kinda Balkan, its smoky bars and dingy coffee shops crowded with an older population of domino-slapping...
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At long last Penrose blesses Chicago with its beer
Penrose Brewing of Geneva, Illinois, threw a Chicago launch party last Monday at a lovely Humboldt Park studio space shared by Michael Kiser of Good Beer Hunting. Because that was a week ago, Karl...
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Who let that evil wizard into the Music Box Theatre?
I found it odd that much of the anticipatory buzz surrounding the rollout of the new restoration of William Friedkin's Sorcerer (which I discussed a few weeks back) emphasized that this would be the...
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Aldermen advance Rahm's South Loop plan without analyzing it first
While the plan for independent analysis stalls, the City Council approves $55 million for the mayor's hotel and stadium deal. by Ben Joravsky In January, when I sat down for what ended up being a...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 4/1: First Tuesdays with Mick and Ben, . . . And You Will...
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The Upright Citizens Brigade, in its element
Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh have written the book on improv. Well, they've written a book, anyway.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Remembering Frankie Knuckles
House-music legend Frankie Knuckles died yesterday at the age of 59. Along with fellow pioneers such as Larry Levan and Ron Hardy, Frankie helped strip disco's 4/4 bass thump from its pop setting and...
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