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Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife, Jun 23, 2011
Best dance club

Smart Bar voted best dance club
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, Best dance club, Readers' poll, Smart Bar, Berlin, Evil Olive

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Music, Soundboard, Apr 28, 2011
Soundboard: April 28-May 4

Recommended and notable shows, including Ghe20 Goth1k, David Grubbs, Hunx & His Punx, Femi Kuti & the Positive Force, Dead Milkmen, and more
- Tags: Soundboard, Berlin, Hideout, Empty Bottle, Enemy, Impala Gallery, Metro, Lincoln Hall, Congress Theater, Graham Foundation, American Legion Hall, Ghe20 Goth1k, David Grubbs, Fielded, Hunx & His Punx, Shannon & the Clams, Mind Over Matter, Mogwai, Battles, Dead Milkmen, Grails, Florian Hecker, Femi Kuti & the Positive Force, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers, An Horse

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Music, Soundboard, Aug 25, 2011
Soundboard, August 25-31

The Hold Steady, Peter Bjorn and John, Supreme Cuts, and other shows this week
- Tags: Soundboard, The Hold Steady, Peter Bjorn and John, Supreme Cuts, I Can Hear Myself Levitate, Six Organs of Admittance, War on Drugs, Susana Baca, Braid, Lost in the Trees, NRBQ, Release the Sunbird, Vreid, Jim Ward, Metro, Lincoln Hall, Berlin, Reggie's Rock Club, Empty Bottle, Schubas, Mayne Stage, FitzGerald's

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Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife, Jun 23, 2011
Best LGBT dance party

Chances Dances voted best LGBT dance party
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, Best LGBT dance party, Readers' poll, Chances Dances, Stardust, Berlin, FKA, Big Chicks

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Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife, Jun 23, 2011
Readers' Poll
Best nongay gay bar

Berlin and Town Hall Pub voted best nongay gay bars
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, Best nongay gay bar, Readers' poll, Berlin, Town Hall Pub, Beauty Bar, Evil Olive, T's Bar Restaurant, the Whistler, Wrigley Field, Readers' Poll

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Music, Soundboard, Nov 11, 2010
The List: November 11-17, 2010

Critics' Choices and other notable shows: Aloe Blacc, Clinic and the Fresh & Onlys, Luisa Maita, the Soviettes, Dimmu Borgir, Bosco Delrey, and more
- by Miles Raymer, Peter Margasak, Jessica Hopper, Bill Meyer, Deanna Isaacs, and Monica Kendrick
- Tags: Soundboard, Berlin, Lincoln Hall, Schubas, Mandel Hall, Logan Square Auditorium, Civic Opera House, Bottom Lounge, Reggie's Rock Club, House of Blues, Francis W. Parker School, Empty Bottle, Mandel Hall, University of Chicago

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Music, Music Feature, Dec 19, 2012
People Issue 2012:
Teen Witch, the DJ

"The whole reason of going to school is networking, but I realized I could do that with partying."
- Tags: Music Feature, Berlin, CULT, seapunk, DJs, Teen Witch zine, DJ Teen Witch, Teen Witch, Zain Curtis, partying, club culture, Kyle Leuck, Yoko Homo, Scott Cramer, Rihanna, zines, Subterranean

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Music, Music Sidebar, Oct 15, 2009
Decibelle

Spread over four days, the festival's seventh installment features Emilie Simon, Meshell Ndegeocello, JD Samson, and Psalm One.
- by Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Music Sidebar, Decibelle, Women & Children First, Emilie Simon, Meshell Ndegeocello, JD Samson, Psalm One, Michelle Tea, Eileen Myles, Estrojam, Berlin, Old Town School of Folk Music, Heartland Cafe, Skybar, Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall

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Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife, Jun 23, 2011
Best gay bar

Sidetrack voted best gay bar
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, Best gay bar, Readers' poll, Sidetrack, Berlin, Big Chicks

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Music, Soundboard, Apr 22, 2010
The List: April 22-28, 2010

Critics' Choices and other notable shows: Reflection Eternal, Peter Brötzmann & Hamid Drake, Céu, Drop the Lime, the Styrenes, and other notable shows
- by Peter Margasak, Liz Armstrong, Miles Raymer, Bill Meyer, Monica Kendrick, and Ann Sterzinger
- Tags: Soundboard, Mark Shippy, Pat Samson, U.S. Maple, Miracle Condition, Matt Carson, Quenchers Saloon, Xinobi, Moullinex, Bruno Cardoso, Luis Clara Gomez, Phantogram, Susana Baca, Chabuca Granda, Peter Brotzmann, Hamid Drake, Mike Reed, Mike Reed's People, Places, and Things, Berlin, Lincoln Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music, Hideout, Ceu, Green Dolphin, Symphony Center, Drop the Lime, Smart Bar, Empty Bottle, Styrenes, Anat Cohen, Chicago Octet, Jozef Van Wissem, Heaven Gallery, Jonsi, Sigur Ros, Fifty Nine Productions, Reflection Eternal, Talib Kweli, Hi-Tek, House of Blues, Thomas Function, Empty Bottle, Orchestra Hall, Symphony Center, Borders, the Vic, Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall, Green Dolphin Street

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Music, Nightlife, Jun 30, 2011
The city's best party promoter takes us through a wild Pride weekend

Hourly dispatches from the bar & and club front
- Tags: Nightlife, Scott Cramer, Berlin, Abbey Pub, Do312.com, Cramer PR & Events, Pride Parade, Chrissy Murderbot, DJ Psychobitch, Alinka, All the Way Kay, Orivlle KIine, Schubas

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Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife, Jun 23, 2011
Best anything-goes club

Berlin voted best anything-goes club
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, Best anything-goes club, Readers' poll, Berlin, Evil Olive, Exit

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Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife, Jun 20, 2012
Readers' Poll
Best Gay Bar

Berlin
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, Berlin, Readers' Poll

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Mar 5, 2013
Our guide to week two of the European Union Film Festival

Toby Jones stars in Berberian Sound Studio this week.
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, The European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Berberian Sound Studio, Peter Strickland, Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Antonio Mancino, The Conversation, Carmina or Blow Up, Carmina Barrios, Flicker, Patrik Eklund, Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg, Anatole France, Lilith, Latvia, Yevgeny Pashkevich, The Last Time I Saw Macao, Joao Rui Guerra da Mata, Portugal, China, Joao Pedro Rodrigues, To Die Like a Man, Oma & Bella, Jewish, Holocaust, Berlin, Alexa Karolinski

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 10, 2007
UriNations

What does it take to keep pee in its place?
- by Harold Henderson
- Tags: Design, Landscape architecture, Pruned, Public Space, Urination, Lima Peru, Berlin

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 6, 2009
I see Jon Hilkevitch and raise him

The Trib's transportation columnist makes some debatable but thoughtful suggestions about the CTA - but I'm more impressed by Berlin's crackdown on fixies.
- by Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Cta, Berlin, Chicago Transportation Authority, fixies, fixed-gear bikes

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Music, Soundboard, Oct 7, 2010
The List: October 7-13, 2010

Critics' Choices and other notable shows: Belle & Sebastian, Dungen, Tim Sparks, Burton Greene, Faun Fables, Kylesa, Chucho Valdes, and other notable shows
- by Miles Raymer, Liz Armstrong, Peter Margasak, Bill Meyer, Deanna Isaacs, and Jessica Hopper
- Tags: Soundboard, Lincoln Hall, Berlin, Mayne Stage, Civic Opera House, Hungry Brain, Schubas, Metro, Symphony Center, Chicago Theatre, Schubas, Bottom Lounge, Subterranean, Hideout

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Smart Bar voted best dance club

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Recommended and notable shows, including Ghe20 Goth1k, David Grubbs, Hunx & His Punx, Femi Kuti & the Positive Force, Dead Milkmen, and more

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The Hold Steady, Peter Bjorn and John, Supreme Cuts, and other shows this week

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Chances Dances voted best LGBT dance party

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Berlin and Town Hall Pub voted best nongay gay bars

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Critics' Choices and other notable shows: Aloe Blacc, Clinic and the Fresh & Onlys, Luisa Maita, the Soviettes, Dimmu Borgir, Bosco Delrey, and more

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"The whole reason of going to school is networking, but I realized I could do that with partying."

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Spread over four days, the festival's seventh installment features Emilie Simon, Meshell Ndegeocello, JD Samson, and Psalm One.

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Sidetrack voted best gay bar

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Critics' Choices and other notable shows: Reflection Eternal, Peter Brötzmann & Hamid Drake, Céu, Drop the Lime, the Styrenes, and other notable shows

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Hourly dispatches from the bar & and club front

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Berlin voted best anything-goes club

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Berlin

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Toby Jones stars in Berberian Sound Studio this week.

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What does it take to keep pee in its place?

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The Trib's transportation columnist makes some debatable but thoughtful suggestions about the CTA - but I'm more impressed by Berlin's crackdown on fixies.

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Critics' Choices and other notable shows: Belle & Sebastian, Dungen, Tim Sparks, Burton Greene, Faun Fables, Kylesa, Chucho Valdes, and other notable shows

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October 7, Berlin

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