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Colson Whitehead deals a weak hand with The Noble Hustle
In The Noble Hustle, novelist Colson Whitehead bellies up to the table at the World Series of Poker ready to fold. by Jonathan Messinger Poker players are traditionally segregated into two groups...
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Family secrets fill Julia Glass's And the Dark Sacred Night
As a successor to the National Book Award-winning Three Junes, Julia Glass's And the Dark Sacred Night is just good enough. by Aimee Levitt As a mystery, Julia Glass's fifth novel, And the Dark Sacred...
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The Book of Unknown Americans features a pair of powerhouse immigrant oral...
Cristina Henríquez crafts a powerhouse pair of immigrant oral histories in her novel The Book of Unknown Americans. by Jonathan Messinger No story is as deserving of an oral history as the immigrant's...
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The politics of fiction in O, Democracy!
Kathleen Rooney's debut novel is rooted in her disillusioning experience as an aide to a senator from Illinois. by Laura Pearson Anyone aware of Kathleen Rooney's controversial exit in 2010 from...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 4/15: "Chicagoisms," Godflesh, and Cheap Thrills
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Did you read about Google Glass, AC/DC, and Joakim Noah?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• Philip Gourevitch on the genocide in Rwanda 20 years ago? ("At no other time in the history of our species were so...
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12 O'Clock Track: Joy Division's 'Passover' song
Last night and tonight are the first two nights of Passover, and while I'd love to post a cover of "Dayenu" or something like that, my mind always zeroes in on Joy Division's "Passover" whenever I...
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Are there five good things about the Cubs so far?
Only an incurable optimist could find five reasons to be hopeful about the Cubs based on their play the first two weeks this season. But I'm willing to try.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on...
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When Chicago spent its pension money on the mayor's pet projects
As mayor, Richard M. Daley spent hundreds of millions of dollars on unnecessary pet projects—and Emanuel seems to have the same bad habit. by Ben Joravsky As we all prepare for Mayor Rahm Emanuel's...
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Chicago magazine's best, and the rest
If there were a Chicago food "establishment," its debutantes' ball would be the list of the best restaurants published by Chicago magazine around this time each year, trotting out the latest...
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The Hot 100 turns disturbingly wholesome
If you believe social conservatives in the media, the Hot 100 is a den of musical iniquity full of songs that are little more than advertisements for easy sex, drug abuse, and general un-American...
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Chance the Rapper's Acid Rap gets bootlegged again, this time on vinyl
If you attended the CHIRP Record Fair this past weekend there's a chance you came across some of the recent rap and R&B bootleg records I wrote a B Side cover story about a handful of months...
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Inkwell
Links to PDFs of Reader crossword puzzles and previous weeks' solutions by Ben Tausig Recent Crosswords Odds and Evens (PDF) - 04.17.2014…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Street View 182: Wicker Park vision
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Aja was a true vision as she sashayed down Milwaukee Avenue on a breezy Friday night. Love...
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Record Store Day 2014 at a glance
Record Store Day at a glance—including an interactive map that details the festivities at participating shops. Is a ten-inch with four versions of Ray Parker Jr.'s Ghostbusters theme (original,...
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Gossip Wolf: A new High Spirits record to cheer up any metalhead
New music from High Spirits and the Please & Thank Yous, plus a long-overdue Silkworm reissue by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil Gossip Wolf has been hankering for a new full-length from High Spirits...
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In Oculus, home is where the haunting is
In Mike Flanagan's Oculus, a brother and sister reunite at the site of their parents' gruesome deaths. by Ben Sachs Regardless of any supernatural elements, the richest horror films tend to be ones...
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Chaplin's The Kid is all right
The Silent Film Society of Chicago finds shelter at the Patio for a screening of Chaplin's The Kid accompanied by a live orchestra. by J.R. Jones The shuttering of the Portage Theater last May left...
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How do record stores get such great used vinyl?
When record stores aren't buying used vinyl directly from the public, they might find a carload of goodies at the Chicagoland Record Collectors Show. by Leor Galil If you spend much time in record...
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