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Street View 185: Belle in pastel
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.Color is a language in itself, and a very important element in any outfit, even if you’re...
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Alan Lake's casa de soul in Ukrainian Village
Alan Lake's apartment is bursting at the seams with art, cookbooks, and percussion instruments from around the world. by Andrea Bauer Meet Alan Lake: musician, chef, author. He played percussion on...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 4/27: Hair Wars, Tollbooth, and Holly Golightly
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Orson Welles
This week the Gene Siskel Film Center screens a brand new DCP print of Orson Welles's Shakespeare adaptation, Othello. Scanned from the controversial 1992 restoration that toyed with the film's sound...
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Remembering footwork master DJ Rashad
Calumet City footwork master Rashad Harden, better known as DJ Rashad, died Saturday at the age of 35. Harden had been one of the biggest names in footwork, a fast-paced style of dance music that...
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Elected officials say it's time for Illinois to move toward legalizing marijuana
Legalize it. At the very least, start taking steps toward legalizing it.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Illinois politicians now talking openly about legalizing pot
Marijuana legalization just entered the political mainstream in Illinois. Three state legislators and a Cook County commissioner stood before cameras and reporters at the county building Monday...
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At the Hull-House Museum, artwork made while doing time
Through the Prison + Neighborhood Art Project, Stateville Correctional Center inmates find creative ways to serve out their sentences. by Jake Malooley The other day Damon Locks was at Stateville...
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For $320 million, how much time would the CTA's Belmont bypass really save?
For $320 million, how much time would the CTA's Belmont bypass really save? by Ben Joravsky When Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently announced plans to spend about $320 million on the CTA's "Red-Purple...
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Reader's Agenda Tue 4/29: Helen Prejean, Sound of Silent Film Festival, and...
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View ArticleMosh pits and toilet paper antics at Saturday's Black Lips show
Photographer Alison Green captured the chaos at the Black Lips show on Saturday night at Logan Square Auditorium. As usual, the Georgia rockers didn't disappoint, with mosh pits, toilet paper antics,...
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Don't judge Donald Sterling without listening to the conversation
The saga of Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, is like a dog run for our pent-up feelings about racial justice. Whatever strong convictions in that area we might wish we had more...
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Did you read about antibiotics, Buzzfeed, and wonuts?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• About the failure of the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks? —John Dunlevy• About the harms done by...
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12 O'Clock Track: "You Can Always Sleep," graceful jazz-house from Francis...
Back in November, I caught the Brooklyn DJ and musician Francis Harris opening for DJ Sprinkles at Smart Bar. I knew nothing of Harris's music and found his inclusion on the bill odd.…[ Read more ][...
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Gossip Wolf: Red Scare Industries celebrates ten years
Red Scare Industries celebrates ten years, and The-Drum launches the Lo Motion label by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil In 2004 Tobias Jeg left a gig at pop-punk powerhouse Fat Wreck Chords to found Red...
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John Oliver does it behind a desk
"Welcome, welcome, welcome to . . . whatever this is," John Oliver said at the beginning of his new HBO show, Last Week Tonight.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Vivian Maier, cottage industry
Vivian Maier is the subject of an ever-growing number of exhibits and studies. Does the legend do her justice? by Deanna Isaacs This spring, just seven years after her life's work was sold out of...
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Happy tenth to Boka Group, Alinea back in top ten, and other food news
Boka Group, the restaurant group behind Girl & the Goat, Balena, and other restaurants here or soon to come, held a tenth anniversary event at their first, namesake restaurant last night. Cofounder...
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Like it or not, 5 Seconds of Summer is rock's future
As rock 'n' roll has become increasingly irrelevant to the modern pop music conversation, its most faithful fans, those who still believe it's infused with the same revolutionary transformative energy...
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This year's Chicago Humanities Fest is all about the journeys
The Chicago Humanities Festival, to many minds (including this one) the very best of Chicago's many, many festivals, announced this year's theme this morning: Journeys. "We've been wanting to do...
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