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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 28, 2012
Turn dah ever-loving lights back on . . .

Marvin Tate and Dave Hilliard collaborate on a new project, The Amazing Mister Orange
- by Elly Fishman
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Music, Marvin Tate, Dave Hilliard, David Byrne, D-Settlement, Elastic Arts Foundation, Amazing Mister Orange

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 9, 2010
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Celia the Queen

"Celia the Queen," a 2008 documentary about salsa superstar Celia Cruz, screens tonight as part of Latino Fashion Week.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Style, Film, Music, Celia Cruz, Havana, Cuba, Salsa, Celia the Queen, David Byrne, Quincy Jones, Andy Garcia, Wyclef Jean, Johnny Pacheco, Willie Colon, Tito Puente, Joe Cardona, Mario de Varona, Latino Fashion Week, Pipers Alley, Suite Lounge, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 15, 2010
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Celebrating Tom Zé

On Sunday afternoon the Chicago Cultural Center screens an excellent documentary on Brazilian musician Tom Ze in conjunction with new Ze releases on Luaka Bop Records.
- by Peter Margasak
- Tags: Film, Music, Free Shit, Post No Bills, Swag, Tom Ze, Estudando a Bossa, Studies of Tom Ze, Astronauta Libertado, Igor Iglesias, tropicalia, Brazilian music, Chicago Cultural Center, Luaka Bop Records, David Byrne, Christopher Dunn, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 31, 2009
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Mixtape For a Low Dishonest Decade

21 songs for a terrible decade.
- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Music, Mae Shi, HLLLYH, M.O.P., Ante Up, The Thermals, The Body The Blood The Machine, M.I.A., Paper Planes, Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit, The Very Best, Brokencyde, Freaxx, Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell, The Saga of Njal Burned Alive, Lee Sandlin, Neko Case, Furnace Room Lullaby, Mountain Goats, We Shall All Be Healed, Killer Mike, Lil Wayne, The Evens, Parts & Labor, Lady Gaga, Let's Dance, Victor Pelevin, Friedmann Space, The Lonely Island, Andy Samberg, Aaron Neville, Louisana 1927, Randy Newman, Limp Bizkit, Johnny Rzeznik, The Killers, Radiohead, Kid A, Southland Tales, Modest Mouse, David Byrne, Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, The Hold Steady, The Extra Glenns, This Year, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 29, 2009
Chicago Best Sellers for Week Ending October 25

what's been hot in local bookstores
- by Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, Lost Symbol, Dan Brown, Help, Kathryn Stockett, Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger, Hardball, Sara Paretsky, The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, Christopher McDougall, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, Gail Collins, Bicycle Diaries, David Byrne, Chicago Best Sellers, Zeitoun, Dave Eggers, Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson, Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffe, Annie Barrows, Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery, Sarah's Key, Tatiana De Rosnay, Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell, American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, and the Birth of Hollywood, Howard Blum, Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan, Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story, Diane Ackerman, Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking, Julia Child

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 22, 2009
Chicago Best Sellers for week ending October 18
- by Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, Lost Symbol, Dan Brown, Hardball, Sara Paretsky, Help, Kathryn Stockett, Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore, Chicago Humanities Festival, Children's Book, A.S. Byatt, True Compass, Edward M. Kennedy, Manood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon, Bicycle Diaries, David Byrne, Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Read My Pins: Stories From a Diplomat's Jewel Box, Madeleine Albright, Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, Say You're One of Them, Uwem Akpan, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, Indignation, Philip Roth, Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein, Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell, This Is Not a Book, Keri Smith, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, Michael Pollan, Freakonomics, Steve D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, My Life in France, Julia Child

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 6, 2009
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Goldston scores silent "Passion"

Cellist Lori Goldston, who performed with Nirvana, plays her original score to the silent classic "La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc" Tuesday at the Nightingale.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Cat Power, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Nirvana, David Byrne, Nightingale, Carl Theodor Dryer, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1928, silent, classic, Lori Goldston, Black Cat Orchestra, Specratone, RenÃ©e Falconetti, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 4, 2008
"World Music": actual foreign people no longer required

White Americans can apparently make "world music" now, but good luck getting respect if you're a foreigner who plays the traditional music they're ripping off.
- by Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Music Journalism, World Music, Brian Eno, Vampire Weekend, Joshua Klein, David Byrne

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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, April 12, 2013

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The Swedish techno producers remix the charming and cheesy 1982 title song off of Roxy Music's Avalon.

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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A lost classic from Brazilian soul great Tim Maia

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Marvin Tate and Dave Hilliard collaborate on a new project, The Amazing Mister Orange

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"Celia the Queen," a 2008 documentary about salsa superstar Celia Cruz, screens tonight as part of Latino Fashion Week.

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On Sunday afternoon the Chicago Cultural Center screens an excellent documentary on Brazilian musician Tom Ze in conjunction with new Ze releases on Luaka Bop Records.

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21 songs for a terrible decade.

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what's been hot in local bookstores

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Cellist Lori Goldston, who performed with Nirvana, plays her original score to the silent classic "La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc" Tuesday at the Nightingale.

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White Americans can apparently make "world music" now, but good luck getting respect if you're a foreigner who plays the traditional music they're ripping off.