- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 18, 2013
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Best of Chicago is coming soon (even sooner if you pay attention)
We want to give you an early peek at #bestofchi.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 18, 2013
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NeverWet: Today's science mind-melt
Rust-Oleum's NeverWet repels wetness. The name's pretty self-explanatory.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 18, 2013
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VICE magazine tries to find the glamour in suicide
Good photos in bad taste
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 18, 2013
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Jeremy Scahill on Dirty Wars and the global battlefield
The journalist takes questions about his muckraking documentary.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 18, 2013
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The unstoppable Pharrell Williams
The brilliant one-trick pony superproducer is back on top
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 18, 2013
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Outdoor film series sponsored by the Latino Cultural Center begins tomorrow
Noting the cultural institute's free Film in the Park series
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 18, 2013
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Just illin' with the New York Times
All the germs that are fit to print
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 18, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: Gunplay's ravey mixtape cut "Been Did It"
Glowsticks and mixtape rap collide
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 18, 2013
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Did you read about Brazil, Jimmy Hoffa, and Chief Keef?
Also surveillance, the DSM-5, caffeine, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and scale armor for guinea pigs?
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 18, 2013
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Where are the editorial cartoonists who take the side of the NSA?
Editorial cartoonists take one side in the NSA scandal.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 18, 2013
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The TIF wash—et tu, Bright One?
Any way you slice it, TIFs takes hundreds of millions of tax dollars from things we say we want, like our public schools, and spend them on things we never asked for, like a basketball arena for DePaul.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 18, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Tue 6/18: Millennium Park movies, One-Minute Play Festival, and Douglas Ewart
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, June 18
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Jun 18, 2013
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Hedwig Dances joins forces with Cuban group DanzAbierta
Could world peace be next?
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 17, 2013
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My favorite book about Chicago moviegoing
Revisiting Daniel Pinkwater's young adult novel The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 17, 2013
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Suddenly, it's summer: More alfresco drinking and dining
Ten more spots with outdoor seating—now that it's nice out
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 17, 2013
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The black power Burzum: A Gchat about Kanye West's Yeezus
Two Reader music critics dissect the rapper-producer's new album.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 17, 2013
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DryHop may not need a good review, but they're getting one
The throngs at DryHop's first weekend are on to something—this new brewpub is making some very fine, very fresh beer.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 17, 2013
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Best shows to see: East-West Collective, Shockwave Riderz, French-American Peace Ensemble
Between now and Wednesday, your live-music options include the East-West Collective, Shockwave Riderz, the French-American Peace Ensemble, Daniel Lanois, Psychic Steel, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 17, 2013
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How to eat radishes
Braising French breakfast radishes in chicken fat turns them into pink baby mice.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 17, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: Airport 5's (Robert Pollard and Tobin Sprout) "Stifled Man Casino"
Quite possibly the best song from this brief Guided by Voices side project
