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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
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Mamet alert: Race runs on

Goodman Theatre adds a couple more chances to see Race
- by Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Goodman Theatre, David Mamet, Race, Chuck Smith, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
Now playing: Chronicle

A short review of the new teen sci-fi release
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Chronicle, Cloverfield, sci-fi, Josh Trank, Max Landis

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
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Now showing: Big Miracle

John Krasinski and Drew Barrymore save the whales in a superior children's drama
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Universal Pictures, George H.W. Bush, Michael Dukakis, Beaufort Sea, Greenpeace, Soviet Union, Jack Amiel, Michael Begler, Tom Rose, Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World?s Greatest Non-Event, Ken Kwapis, John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Baker, Tim Blake Nelson, children’s movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
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It is time to watch the "Dance (A$$)" video

Your raunchy rap cure for the Februaries
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Big Sean, Dance (A$$), Nicki Minaj, WJLB, hip-hop, video, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
'In the rematch, bet on Goliath'

Taking the Patriots over the Giants in a prediction for Super Bowl XLVI
- by Ted Cox
- Tags: Mudville, Sports, Super Bowl XLVI, New England Patriots, New York Giants, Bill Belichick, Goliath

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
Why didn't Bruce Norris play the game?

Producer Scott Rudin drops the Broadway version of Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Bruce Norris, Scott Rudin, Clybourne Park, Steppenwolf Theatre, Anna D. Shapiro, Amy Morton, Martha Lavey, Michael Riedel, The Pain and the Itch

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
A new direction for Viennese electronica kingpin Patrick Pulsinger

A live quartet recording featuring Austrian electronica whiz Patrick Pulsinger pays tribute to Morton Feldman
- by Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Patrick Pulsinger, Pamelia Kurstin, Hillary Jeffery, Rozemarie Heggen, Besides Feldman, Morton Feldman, Col Legno

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
One Bite: Burmese pickled tea salad

Yuzana brand laphet thote is a delicious but morally dubious snack
- by Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, laphet thote, Burmese food, pickled tea salad, Yuzana, Golden Pacific Market

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
12 O'Clock Track: Extra Life, "Righteous Seed"

Thundering, creepy art-rock from experimental Brooklyn band Extra Life
- by Leor Galil
- Tags: Crickets, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Extra Life, Charlie Looker, Parts and Labor, Righteous Seed, Dream Seeds, Northern Spy, After the Jump Festival

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
The Facebook paradox

Pew reports that we get more from Facebook than we give
- by Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News Bites, Facebook, Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, Facebook friendships

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
Sales this weekend

A local designer closes up shop, a huge vintage sale, and more
- by Heather Kenny
- Tags: Style, Axis of Evelyn, Evelyn Daitchman, Dovetail Vintage, Cities in Dust, Scarlett Gray, Robin Richman, Krista K, Anastasia Chatzka, sales

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
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This week's movie action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Hamlet and His Problems, Coriolanus, David Haglund, Ralph Fiennes, My Childhood, My Ain Folk, Bill Douglas, The Innkeepers, Ti West, The House of the Devil, My Piece of the Pie, Cedric Klapisch, When the Cat's Away, Navajo Joe, Burt Reynolds, Untamed Mikio Naruse, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Hideko Takamine, Windfall movie, The Woman in Black, Daniel Radcliffe, Rowland Brown, Blood Money, Dennis Hopper, The Last Movie, Robert Bresson, A Man Escaped, Mouchette, Bela Tarr, The Man From London, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, Persepolis, Billy Wilder, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Wes Anderson, The Royal Tenenbaums, John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2012
Bedbug extermination, historically

Bedbugs in history: electrocution devices, Bed Bug Row, and more
- by Julia Thiel
- Tags: Inside the Reader, Science, Bedbugs Week, bedbugs, bed bugs, in-laws, Cliff Doerksen, Bed Bug Row, Chicago vice district, south side Levee

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 2, 2012
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An early glimpse of Don Cornelius

Don Cornelius started out on a black news show on Chicago's WCIU
- by Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Film, Don Cornelius, Soul Train, A Black's Views of the News, Tom Weinberg, Media Burn, FuzzyMemories.TV, WCIU, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 2, 2012
Hubris Productions comes out of the closet on snarkiness

Hubris Production changes its mission statement
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Hubris Productions, Torch Song Trilogy, Steel Magnolias, Agnes of God, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Bent

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 2, 2012
Bugged by the zebras

It's not just the officiating, but the calls are galling for Chicago fans
- by Ted Cox
- Tags: Mudville, Sports, NBA, Bulls, Heat, Derrick Rose, LeBron James, Illinois, Fighting Illini

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Goodman Theatre adds a couple more chances to see Race

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John Krasinski and Drew Barrymore save the whales in a superior children's drama

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Your raunchy rap cure for the Februaries

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Taking the Patriots over the Giants in a prediction for Super Bowl XLVI

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Producer Scott Rudin drops the Broadway version of Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

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A live quartet recording featuring Austrian electronica whiz Patrick Pulsinger pays tribute to Morton Feldman

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Yuzana brand laphet thote is a delicious but morally dubious snack

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Thundering, creepy art-rock from experimental Brooklyn band Extra Life

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Pew reports that we get more from Facebook than we give

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A local designer closes up shop, a huge vintage sale, and more

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Bedbugs in history: electrocution devices, Bed Bug Row, and more

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Don Cornelius started out on a black news show on Chicago's WCIU

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Hubris Production changes its mission statement

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