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Cocktail Challenge: Dandelion
Sean Patrick Riley of the Burlington crafts a dandelion-infused G&T that's (supposedly) good for you. by Kate Schmidt OO.ready(function() { window.player =...
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Que viva Uruguay!: Notes on Rambleras and Solo
The English-speaking world remains largely unaware of the low-key, yet highly flavorful humanist filmmaking that's been flourishing in Uruguay for the past decade or so. This may be because—unlike the...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 4/4: Opening day, Hari Kondabolu, and Tony Malaby
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On the Bowery, Teeth, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online...
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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CUFF, CLFF, and the rest of this week's screenings
When it rains, it pours: this week brings both the Chicago Underground Film Festival, with screenings through Sunday at the Logan, and the Chicago Latino Film Festival, with shows through April 17 at...
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Did you read about Walmart, Mozilla, and Medellin?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That Walmart collects 18 percent of all food stamp spending in the United States, some of it from its own workers?...
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12 O'Clock Track: "Robitussin and Rejection" is a welcome return from Eyehategod
The first Eyehategod LP in 14 years is due out in late May, and the band has just released a preview track from it, and holy crap, it's fucking awesome. The new song, "Robitussin and Rejection," is...
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The Key Ingredient Cook-Off returns
It's time again: the Key Ingredient Cook-Off is returning for its second year, this time on May 9 at the Museum of Broadcast Communications. Much like our biweekly chef-to-chef challenge, Key...
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Is Rahm the new Clinton? Depends what "is" is.
This week there's been a lot of talk about Mayor Emanuel's pension plan, which hit the papers on Tuesday and by Wednesday morning was being fast-tracked through the Illinois Assembly before being...
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Bottlefork: A fine chef meets the Dec
At Rockit Ranch's Bottlefork, a fine chef meets the Dec by Mike Sula It's possible that the food writers of Chicago are running out of ways to heckle Billy Dec, who serves as carnival barker and...
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Kneehigh Theatre's Tristan & Yseult shows the low comedy and high anguish of...
I've never believed that love can be found, fated, or conjured. It's got to be, well, made.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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The progeny of Phil Cohran mesmerize in Brothers Hypnotic
On Monday night at 10 PM, WTTW will screen Reuben Atlas's Brothers Hypnotic, a lively, music-soaked documentary about the Chicago-bred Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. The group, which moved to New York in...
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If you want to know why our aldermen are such mayoral rubber stamps, Dick...
If I were Mayor Rahm, I'd say that our opening-night gig at the Hideout was such a smashing success that Mick Dumke and I should replace David Letterman when he retires. But alas, I'm not blessed with...
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Show us your . . . custom DeLoreans
Rich Weissensel's interest in DeLoreans predates Back to the Future. by Jake Malooley Roads? Where Rich Weissensel is going he doesn't need roads—at least while behind the wheel of his custom DeLorean...
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Reader's Agenda Sat 4/5: Railroad photography, The Vinegar Works, and...
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Street View 180: Breezy in black
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Kudos to Sumi for wearing black so breezily and fashionably this spring. Loving her...
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This week's Chicagoans: Allen and Judy Koessel, wall-covering designers
Allen and Judy Koessel, wall-covering designers: "We did fabric for Walter Payton." by Anne Ford A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. Judy: Even though Al and I are...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 4/6: Windy City Gay Idol, A Space Odyssey, and Eleventh...
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Chris Ware, Lynda Barry, Daniel Clowes, and other cartoonists open up in a...
"I discovered Raw magazine while looking for pornography in the back room of my local Omaha comic shop," Chris Ware recalls in Outside the Box, a collection of in-depth conversations between...
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier's two-part epic Nymphomaniac can finally be viewed in proper now that both volumes are in theaters and on VOD. As is usually the case with a new Von Trier movie, the film's reputation...
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