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, Jan 4, 2013
This week's Chicagoan: Dennis Dobrydnia, Vietnam-era vet
"They just spent a year in a place most 'em damn near almost died in, and now they’re gonna take orders from a guy who’s gonna make sure they’re sweeping the floors."
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, Dec 12, 2012
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There's only one place in Chicago to play futsal, a stylish indoor offshoot of soccer
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, Dec 10, 2012
Show us your . . . portraits of googly-eyed vaginas
Photographer Katya Hervatin goes ocular on some vulvas
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, Dec 10, 2012
This week's Chicagoan: "Naughty Natanya" Rubin, burlesque performer
". . . less like jumping out of an airplane than like jumping out of an airplane riding a shark diving into a shot glass of Jell-O."
by Anne Ford
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, Nov 28, 2012
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Those half-submerged Buddha heads on the ground? That's Indira Johnson's Ten Thousand Ripples project
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, Nov 28, 2012
Show us your . . . sock animals
A look at Therese Burton's wild and crazy footwear
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, Nov 28, 2012
This week's Chicagoan: Angie Donenberg, co-owner, Lice Detectives
"When I arrived, his hair was shining and moving. There were bugs falling off his hair onto the floor."
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, Nov 14, 2012
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Taking a tour of the largest and oldest temple where freemasons still practice
by Silvia Chavez
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, Nov 14, 2012
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Behind the screen of Kiss Kiss Cabaret
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, Nov 14, 2012
This week's Chicagoan: James Ciccotti, bridal-shoe designer
"If you buy something cheap somewhere, you lose, I lose, and then you're on the dance floor without your shoes."
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, Nov 1, 2012
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A Banksy-influenced artist is tagging the neighborhood with political graffiti
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, Nov 1, 2012
Show us your . . . candy memorabilia
Historian Leslie Goddard has a collection you might take from a baby
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, Nov 1, 2012
This week's Chicagoan: Howard Cort, septuagenarian and activist
"I and a Moroccan fellow and an Iraqi Jew from Israel, we shared an apartment on Rittenhouse Square."
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, Oct 18, 2012
This week's Chicagoan: Michael Adkesson, veterinarian, Brookfield Zoo
"You're basically doing a root canal on a very large scale. The elephant's doing great."
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Alderman Danny Solis has used his own money to renovate and create new murals in his 'hood
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, Oct 17, 2012
Show us your . . . kilt
One man’s journey into a pantsless world
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The neighborhood's Community Christian Church is replacing people's "hurry, worry and busy"
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, Oct 3, 2012
This week's Chicagoan: Rich Jentzen, hospice social worker
"Well, Jesus was not too thrilled the night before he was going to die."
by Anne Ford
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, Oct 3, 2012
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Amy Gard's Volkswagon gets all the chicks
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, Sep 20, 2012
Zoom in: Wicker Park
In a yard on one sleepy street sits a very big gun
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