- News & Features, Savage Love, May 16, 2013
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Should Mom buy Playboy for her kid?
Plus: Gays have 99 problems, but drunk straight girls making out ain't one.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 3, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Fri 5/3: Cinco de Mayo Festival, Key Ingredient Cook-Off, and Cremaster Cycle
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, May 3.
- News & Features, Savage Love, Apr 25, 2013
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Happy, gay, free
A light Love after a heavy week
- Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Mar 15, 2013
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"Rising Up": Hale Woodruff's murals on a northern tour
Six paintings by the Harlem Renaissance artist leave the south for the first time since their installation—over half a century ago.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 15, 2013
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When man met mammoth and painted it (part one)
A preview of the Field Museum's Lascaux cave paintings exhibit
- Movies, Movie Review, Feb 6, 2013
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Meet the skull and crossbones
Stolen Seas dives deep into the economic waters of modern Somali pirates.
- Movies, Movie Critic's Choice, Oct 10, 2012
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Developing story
Ross McElwee's Photographic Memory contrasts a father's youth with his son's
- Movies, Movie Review, Aug 15, 2012
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French disconnection
Chris Rock braves a household of galling Gauls in Julie Delpy's 2 Days in New York
- Movies, Movie Review, Jul 24, 2012
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Big with child
French teens flaunt the power of pregnancy in 17 Girls
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 1, 2011
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Histoire de Melody Gainsbourg
Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar celebrates the 20th anniversary of Serge Gainsbourg's death Wednesday 3/2 with a program of TV appearances, Scopitone films, music and specialty cocktails.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 20, 2011
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Fallen Gods
Ernesto Daranas's drama "Fallen Gods" sets a Havana turf war against the legend of pimp Alberto Yarini Ponce de Leon, who murder led to France's ouster from Cuba. It screens Tuesday 2/22 in the Latino Cultural Center's Reel Film Club series.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 3, 2010
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Plus chic que ça et tu meurs
Being buried alive is the height of vulgarity
- Blogs, Bleader, May 12, 2010
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Inch'Allah Sunday
An Algerian woman reunites with her estranged husband, and finds herself drawn to French culture against the wishes of her conservative mother-in-law in Yamina Benguigui's 2001 film "Inch'Allah Sunday," screening Wednesday 5/12 at Alliance Francaise.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 6, 2010
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The Upright Man
Robin Shuffield's 2006 documentary "Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man," about the Marxist leader of Burkina Faso, and Djibril Diop Mambety's Senegalese dramatic short "The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun" screen Thursday 5/6 in the Black World Cinema series.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 23, 2010
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Alcest's Dangerous Fairyland
Ethereal French black-metal band Alcest plays Reggie's on Saturday.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 7, 2010
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Annals of Foie Gras
"Halal foie gras, then, is seen as a shining example of integration."
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 20, 2009
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Sergent Garcia returns to Chicago
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 20, 2007
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Map heaven
Fine old maps join golf tournaments in the ranks of things best viewed from home.
