- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 9, 2012
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12 O'Clock Track: O Têrço, "Flauta"
Brazil's O Terco cut this psychedelic ballad before they turned into a prog behemoth.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 9, 2012
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Oscar-nominated short animations: A Wild Life
The year's contenders open Friday at Landmark's Century Centre.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 9, 2012
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This Week's Food and Drink Events
Wine dinners, wine making, truffle making, and other food and drink events this week.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 9, 2012
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This week in Food & Drink
In this week's Food & Drink: Acadia, Key Ingredient flour, Valentine's Day dining
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 9, 2012
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In this week's Reader: We bother with Valentine's Day
What's in the February 9, 2012 issue of the Reader: Valentine's Day
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 9, 2012
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Minnie Riperton's "Reasons"
Several hundred words on why you should be listening to "Reasons" right now
- News & Features, Mudville, Feb 9, 2012
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Cheering for losers
Even the excellent DePaul women’s basketball team stinks it up when I get behind them
- Performing Arts, Culture Vultures, Feb 9, 2012
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This week's Culture Vultures recommend . . .
Jane Addams's travel medicine kit and Tom Brown's Field Guide series
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 9, 2012
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Valentine's Day: Why bother?
An unlikely ode to the most odious of holidays
- Music, In Rotation, Feb 9, 2012
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In Rotation: Jail Flanagan of Forced Into Femininity on pissed-off diva Xina Xurner
Plus: Reader music editor Philip Montoro on Finnish black-metal psychonauts Oranssi Pazuzu and composer Charles Joseph Smith on Rockford piano prodigy Emily Bear
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Feb 9, 2012
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Heart and Sole
River North Dance Chicago puts on a Valentine show
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Feb 9, 2012
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Solo Jams for a cold season
A new edition of MPAACT's late-night performance series
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 9, 2012
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How not to hook up
Tales from the Continental's den of 4 AM iniquity
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 9, 2012
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Tales from the dating front
Readers submit their stories about an underwhelming Johnson, an overwhelming leisure suit, a long-lost Parisian love affair, and more
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 9, 2012
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Defining the #perfectcompanion
Some of our favorite responses to our @Chicago_Reader entreaty: Tweet what makes yr ideal mate
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Reviews, Feb 9, 2012
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Getting it right on the near south side
Acadia: Chef Ryan McCaskey's Elysium amidst the weeds
- News & Features, Savage Love, Feb 9, 2012
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What are these two old married dudes thinking?
Plus: Self-outing in the Grindr era, and do I tell my GGG girlfriend that I kissed a guy?
- Music, Music Feature, Feb 9, 2012
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Anna Clyne scores big
Symphonies still prefer dead composers, but Clyne beat the odds to land a plum job with the CSO at the tender age of 30
- Music, Music Column, Feb 9, 2012
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Q&A with Ninja of Die Antwoord
"We kind of noticed why everyone likes us. It was like, Oh shit, I have a gun and I didn’t know that I had a gun."
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 9, 2012
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Dear Elsa
A letter to first loves, cigarettes, and Chicago
