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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 26, 2012
Reader film criticism, in focus at last

The Reader debuts an alphabetical database of its huge long-review catalog
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago Reader, Rotten Tomatoes, The Muppets, Cliff Doerksen, Alien vs. Predator, J.R. Jones, The Adjustment Bureau, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector, D.W. Griffith, America D.W. Griffith, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ali movie, Army of Shadows, The Aviator movie, Drew Hunt, Asher Klein, film criticism, movies

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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: Science, Behind Our Scenes, bedbugs, bed bugs, in-laws, Cliff Doerksen, Bed Bug Row, Chicago vice district, south side Levee, Variations on a Theme

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 25, 2011
Black holes

Will particle physics cause the end of the world?
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Paranormal, Science, Lit & Lectures, Books, 2012, Steve Alten, Phobos: Mayan Fear, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, Fermilab, Tevatron, particle physics, Mount St. Helens, neutrinos, Cliff Doerksen, Mayan prophesy, doomsday, Rotten Tomatoes, big bang, black holes, oops

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News & Features, Chicago Reader at Forty, Oct 6, 2011
2009

The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- by Michael Miner
- Tags: Chicago Reader at Forty, parking meters, privitization, Morgan Stanley, Michael Jackson, Jackson Five, One-derful Records, Steeltown, journalism, print is dead, Nelson Algren, Entrapment, Cliff Doerksen

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Blogs, Bleader, May 9, 2011
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Key Ingredient Wins a Beard Award

Julia Thiel and Michael Gebert score another Beard award for the Reader with a win for their multimedia feature Key Ingredient.
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, James Beard Foundation Awards, Key Ingredient, Julia Thiel, Michael Gebert, Sky Full of Bacon, Cliff Doerksen, mince pie, Grant Achatz, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 31, 2011
Things You Should Read

Why writing about food sometimes seems pointless: it's all been done so well already.
- by Julia Thiel
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, good food writing, Martha Bayne, Whet Moser, Cliff Doerksen

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 24, 2011
One Bite: Mince Pie

What better memorial to the late Cliff Doerksen than an epic bout of mince-pie making?
- by Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Cliff Doerksen, mince pie, James Beard Awards, Sheila Sachs, Sarah Kavage, Industrial Harvest

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 20, 2010
From the Archives: Cliff Doerksen's "Same Old Song and Dance"

The late Cliff Doerksen on payola
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, The Reader, Cliff Doerksen, payola, the biz

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 20, 2010
Remembering Cliff Doerksen

The Reader's Cliff Doerksen dies.
- by Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News Bites, Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader, Ira Glass, Anaheed Alani, Mince pie, "Bad News From the Past, " "American Babel: Rogue Radio Broadcasters of the Jazz Age, "

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 4, 2010
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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, Fair Play, Valerie Plame, Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Joseph Wilson, Reeling The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, Reeling 2010, Polish Film Festival in America, Cliff Doerksen, The Island Inside, Gene Siskel Film Center, Dog Sweat, Due Date, Todd Phillips, The Hangover, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, For Colored Girls, Tyler Perry, Ntozake Shange, The Man on the Balcony, Terezin, Me Too, Mighty Uke, Vision From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen, Margarethe von Trotta, Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon, Doc Films, Fritz Lang, The Big Heat, The Big Sleep, The Big Lebowski, Cascade Drive-In, Sam Peckinpah, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Giorgos Lanthimos, Dogtooth, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 23, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable releases in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Carey Mulligan, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro, Mark Romanek, One Hour Photo, Wall Street Money Never Sleeps, Oliver Stone, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Henri-Georges Clouzot Inferno, Clouzot The Raven, The Wages of Fear, Diabolique, La Verite, Enter the Void, Gaspar Noe, I Stand Alone, Gaspar Noe Irreversible, Chicago Architecture in Motion, Chicago Filmmakers, Buried Ryan Reynolds, Catfish movie, Centurion Neil Marshall, Neil Marshall The Descent, Colin movie, Devil M. Night Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense, I'm Still Here, Cliff Doerksen, Jack Goes Boating, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Egon Schiele, Keith Dukavicius, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Fearmakers, Music Box, Jacques Tourneur, Golub, Kartemquin Films, Leon Golub, Block Museum Northwestern, Killer's Kiss, Stanley Kubrick, Little Women, Gillian Armstrong, Louisa May Alcott, Whirlpool, Otto Preminger, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 13, 2010
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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, Ed M. Koziarski, Daniel Kraus, Cliff Doerksen, Gene Siskel Film Center, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, Alex Gibney, Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron The Smartest Guys in the Room, Jack Abramoff, Lourdes, Jessica Hausner, Forbidden Cinema, Dennis Nyback, Chicago Filmmakers, Breathless movie, Just Wright, Queen Latifah, Letters to Juliet, Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Women Without Men, Shirin Neshat, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Jay Warren, Jacqueline Smessaert Brennan, Botnik, Robert Siodmak, Cobra Woman, Kurosawa Ikiru, Doc Films, Robert Bresson, L'Argent, Alfred Hitchcock Lifeboat, Bank of America Cinema, Rashomon, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 3, 2010
Cliff Doerksen With His Beard

Cliff Doerksen takes home the James Beard award for best newspaper food feature for his Reader cover story on mince pie.
- by Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Cliff Doerksen, The Real American Pie, James Beard Foundation, Beard Awards, Kevin Pang, The Cheeseburger Show, Chicago Tribune

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 23, 2010
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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, Death at a Funeral, Chris Rock, Andrea Gronvall, Secret in Their Eyes, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Cliff Doerksen, Joshua Katzman, Peter Margasak, Back-up Plan, Jennifer Lopez, Everything Strange and New, Frazer Bradshaw, The Losers, Zoe Saldana, Jason Patric, Pomegranates and Myrrh, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Rebuilding Hope, 22 Years From Home, Lost Boys of Sudan, A Shine of Rainbows, Aidan Quinn, Connie Nielsen, Soundtrack for a Revolution, John Legend, Wyclef Jean, Joss Stone, Richie Havens, the Roots, Blind Boys of Alabama, Otto Preminger, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Northbrook Public Library, Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Gene Siskel Film Center, I'm No Angel, Mae West, Bank of America Cinema, Louis Malle, Vanya on 42nd Street, Doc Films, film festivals, movies., Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 26, 2010
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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, Secret of Kells, Up movie, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Princess and the Frog, European Union Film Festival, Chloe movie, Atom Egoyan, Sweet Hereafter, Mother Bong Joon Ho, Bong Joon Ho, Bong Joon Ho Host, Waking Sleeping Beauty, Greenberg Noah Baumbach, Greenberg Ben Stiller, How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks, Cliff Doerksen, Avatar, Most Dangerous Man in America, Glenn Beck, Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers, New York Times, film festivals, movies., Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 22, 2010
Mike Sula, Cliff Doerksen: 2010 Beard Award Finalists

The Reader is a finalist for two 2010 Beard Awards, for feature stories by Mike Sula and Cliff Doerksen.
- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Media, Food & Drink, Food, Beard Awards, James Beard Awards, Mike Sula, Cliff Doerksen, The Charcuterie Underground, E & P Meats, The Real American Pie, Mince Pie, Kevin Pang, Monica Eng, Steve Dolinsky, Tim Carman, Washington City Paper, Alinea, Spiaggia, Lettuce Entertain You, LYE, Rich Melman, Mindy's Hot Chocolate, Hot Chocolate, Mindy Segal, How Not to Hire a Chef

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 22, 2010
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This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and recommended revivals in this week's Chicago Reader.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Cliff Doerksen, Denzel Washington, The Book of Eli, Clair Denis, 35 Shots of Rum, Gigante, Facets Cinematheque, Liverpool, Say My Name, Chicago Filmmakers, Tapped, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, Elia Kazan, Baby Doll, Jean-Luc Godard, Band of Outsiders, A Face in the Crowd, Olsen and Johnson, Hellzapoppin', Michelangelo Antonioni, The Passenger, Jack Nicholson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Howard Hawks, Scarface, John Ford, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Eric Rohmer, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 4, 2009
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Cliff Doerksen Died for Your Sins

New movie reviews for the week of December 4.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Cliff Doerksen, Armored movie, Transylmania, John 15:13, Sebastian Silva, Maid Sebastian Silva, The Maid, Hong Sang-soo Night and Day, Hong Sang-soo, Jim Sheridan Brothers, Brothers movie, Robert De Niro Everybody's Fine, Lucrecia Martel, Headless Woman, Ben Russell, Let Each One Go Where He May, Dave Foley The Strip, They Came to Play, Jason Reitman, Up in the Air, Up in the Air George Clooney, Gene Siskel Film Center, New Comedy Mavericks, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 6, 2009
Madam, I'm Adam
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Cliff Doerksen, Max Mayer, Adam movie, Adam Hugh Dancy, Adam Max Mayer, Hugh Dancy, Asperger's syndrome, Rose Byrne, Black Harvest International Film and Video Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Andrea Gronvall, The Seed, Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968, Orangeburg massacre, The Nine Lives of Marion Barry, Marion Barry, Scott Hamilton Kennedy, The Garden, Scott Hamilotn Kennedy Garden, South Central Los Angeles, Revanche, Rumba, The Answer Man, Jeff Daniels, The Cove, In Sickness and In Health, In My Father's Church, Irene in Time, Henry Jaglom, Julie & Julia, Meryl Streep, Julia Child, Paper Heart, Michael Cera, Brighton Rock, Graham Greene, Busby Berkeley, Footlight Parade, James Cagney, Girl Shy, Harold Lloyd, Silent Summer Film Festival, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin, Pather Panchali, Satyajit Ray, Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock Psycho, Grant Park, Rear Window, Northbrook Public Library, movies, Chicago movies, film festivals

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 19, 2009
Afric-a-go-go

The African Diaspora Film Festival opens today at Facets Cinematheque. Plus, this week's Critic's Choices and new reviews.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Film Festivals, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Science fiction, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jia Zhang-ke, Andrea Gronvall, Terence Davies, Of Time and the City, Lola Montes, Max Ophuls, Cliff Doerksen, Errol Flynn, Food, Inc., African Diaspora Film Festival, Glorious Exit, Gospel Hill, Giancarlo Esposito, Jacques Romain, Youssou N'Dour, Return to Goree, Moon movie, Seraphine de Senlis, 24 City, Accidental Army, Czechslovak Legion, Capers movie, Mr. Art Critic, Eating Buccaneeers, Will Ferrell, Land of the Lost, Sandra Bullock, Proposal movie, Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola, Conversation Coppola, Ace in the Hole, Billy Wilder, Adventures of Robin Hood, Exile Ophuls, James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy

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