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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 14, 2013
Reader's Agenda Mon 1/14: Slut River, Jimi Hendrix, and "The Mermaid and the Dragon"

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, January 14, 2013
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Permanent Records, Iowa City, Slut River, Kevin Warwick, Greg Ginn, Dead Kennedys, Sioux City Pete & the Beggars, Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix, Woodstock, Music Box, The Mermaid and the Dragon, Beauty and Brawn Art Gallery and Think Space, Lindsey Meyers

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Arts & Culture, Chicago Reader's Guide to New Year's Eve, Dec 21, 2012
New Year's Eve Guide 2012

Our picks for the best places to be when the ball drops
- Tags: Chicago Reader's Guide to New Year's Eve, Black Ensemble Theater, The Jackie Wilson Story, The Marvin Gaye Story, One Name Only, Bootlegger's Ball, Moonshine Brewing Company, Burlesque New Year's Eve Striptacular, Gorilla Tango's Geek Girls, Chemically Imbalanced Comedy, Chemically Imbalanced Theater, Kiss Kiss Cabaret New Year's Eve Hullabaloo, Greenhouse Theater Center, Nerd Year's Eve, Star Wars, Challengers Comics + Conversation, DANK Haus, Feuerzangenbowle, The Poseidon Adventure, Music Box, Morseland, Slo 'Mo, the Whistler, Time Travel Spectacular, Elastic, Messing and the Wisemen, Antony and the Tramps, Airborne Toxic Event, Metro, Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires, Lincoln Hall, Eternals Espiritu Zombi Group, Hideout, Marked Men Bad Sports, Empty Bottle, Wanda Jackson, Double Door, Porter Robinson, Congress Theater, Beauty Bar, Hood Internet, Moon Boots, Only Children, The Castle, Paul Oakenfold, Evil Olive, Porn and Chicken, Funky Buddha Lounge, The Mid, The Shrine, DJ B-Man, Teedra Moses, Spy Bar, Kalendr, Inphinity, Gene Farris, Acadia, Big Jones, Blackbird, Hoppin' John, Blackbird, Chef David Posey, Chilam Balam, Natalie Oswald, Deleece, Due Lire Vino and Cucina, Fork, Tim Cottini, Grass Fed, Jerry's Andersonville, Longman and Eagle, Jared Wentworth, Mercadito, Ryan Poli, Mercat a la Planxa, Nana, Park Grill, People Tapas Lounge, The Publican, Brian Huston, Senza, Noah Sandoval, Sepia, Andrew Zimmerman, Slurping Turtle, Godzilla, Takashi Yagihashi, SmallBar Division, Storefront Company, Tesori, Trenchermen, Yusho, Matthias Merges, Zed 451, Zocalo

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 21, 2012
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Quentin Tarantino's thousand-bullet clip, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained, Columbia Pictures, Rust and Bone, Jacques Audiard, Prophet movie, Jean Gentil, Barrymore movie, Christopher Plummer, Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away, The Impossible movie, Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Jack Reacher, Tom Cruise, Lee Childs, Les Miserables, Scrooge and Marley, A Christmas Carol, This Is 40, Judd Apatow, Knocked Up, Funny People, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Antonio Gaudi, Gene Siskel Film Center, James Whale, Frankenstein, David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia, Music Box, Stanley Donen, Royal Wedding, Northbrook Public Library, Chicago movies, Video

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Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Dec 19, 2012
People Issue 2012:
Michael Robbins, the poet

"I have a real aversion to poetry readings, even when I'm reading at them."
- Tags: Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, New Yorker, Paul Muldoon, Michael Robbins, Alien Vs. Predator, smoking, University of Chicago, Hyde Park, Jonathan Franzen, Anthony Madrid, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, poetry readings, Art Institute, poetry, poets, Music Box, Art Institute of Chicago, Price Auditorium

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 19, 2012
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Our enormous film-festival package, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Alex Cross, Tyler Perry, James Patterson, Easy Money, The Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter, Shaw Brothers Studio, For Ellen, Paul Dano, Middle of Nowhere, Mourning movie, Sinister movie, Ethan Hawke, Smashed movie, War of the Buttons, You've Been Trumped, Donald Trump, Aberdeenshire, Hayao Miyazaki, Castle in the Sky (1986), University of Chicago Doc Films, Claude Sautet, Classe Tous Risques, Sam Raimi, Drag Me to Hell, Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Logan Theater Chicago, William Wellman, Night Nurse, Music Box, Jacques Tourneur, Nightfall movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead, Vic Theatre Chicago, Steve McQueen, Hunger movie, Shame movie, Art Institute of Chicago Rubloff Auditorium, Don Mullan, Bloody Sunday, Paul Greengrass, DePaul University Daley Building, Terror in the Aisles, The Massacre, Portage Theater Chicago, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 11, 2012
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Chicago International Film Festival, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Stand Up Guys, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin, Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours, Cristian Mungiu, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Ken Burns, The Civil War documentary, The House I Live In, Eugene Jarecki, Why We Fight, Photographic Memory, Ross McElwee, Sherman's March, Bright Leaves, Argo, Ben Affleck, Now Forager, The One-Armed Swordsman, Shaw Brothers, The Other Dream Team, Seven Psychopaths, Martin McDonagh, In Bruges, Waiting for a Miracle, Dawn Logsdon, Lolis Eric Elie, Faubrourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, DuSable Museum of African American History, James Whale, Frankenstein, Logan Theater Chicago, Alexei Guerman, Khroustaliov My Car!, Gene Siskel Film Center, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, Music Box, Hayao Miyazaki, Princess Mononoke, University of Chicago Doc Films, Cinema Borealis, Chicago Northwest Film Society, Chicago Film Archives, Home Movies and the Avant Garde, Music Box of Horrors, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 8, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Mon 10/8

What's on the Agenda for Monday, October 8, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Karl Marx, Harold Washington Library Center, Lincoln Hall, Beth Orton, Sugaring Season, Peter Margasak, Sam Amidon, Music Box, The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 28, 2012
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This week's movies, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Can movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Vogue, Music Box, Head Games, Steve James, Hoop Dreams, Stevie movie, At the Death House Door, Hotel Transylvania, Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Cee-Lo Green, House at the End of the Street, Elisabeth Shue, Jennifer Lawrence, How I Ended This Summer, Gold Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival, Looper, Rian Johnson, Brick movie, The Brothers Bloom, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Lou Harrison: A World of Music, Love Likes Coincidences, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Logan Lerman, Pitch Perfect, Anna Kendrick, Elizabeth Banks, Rebel Wilson, Snowman's Land, Harold Pinter, The Dumb Waiter, Vulgaria, Bernardo Bertolucci, Before the Revolution, Block Museum of Art, John Carpenter, Dark Star, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Facets Cinematheque, James W. Anderson, Northwestern University, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Fred Camper, Robert Bresson, Pickpocket, Jack Conway, Red-Headed Woman, Chicago Horror Film Festival, Audre Lord's Cultural Legacy, Audre Lord: The Berlin Years 1984-1992, The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lord, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 21, 2012
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The aesthetics of crap, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Drew Hunt, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Paul W.S. Anderson, Mortal Kombat, Death Race, Resident Evil: Retribution, How to Survive a Plague, David France, ACT UP, The Master movie, Paul Thomas Anderson, United Film Festival Chicago, Music Box, Chicago Farmer, Fast Talk, Sadermania: From Fanship to Friendship, Michael Pena, Jake Gyllenhaal, Detropia, Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Jesus Camp, End of Watch, David Ayer, Training Day, Hello I Must Be Going, Melanie Lynskey, Liberal Arts, Majority movie, Brenna Murphy, Robert Nelson, 10 Years, Channing Tatum, Rosario Dawson, Justin Long Trouble With the Curve, Clint Eastwood, James Stewart, Vertigo, Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley, Gold Diggers of 1933, Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In, Landmark's Century Centre, Sight & Sound, Vertigo, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 30, 2012
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Have one on Studs, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Studs' Place, Studs Terkel, Museum of Broadcast Communications, Sebastian Bane, Patrick Wang, In the Family movie, Facets Cinematheque, Compliance movie, Craig Zobel, Great World of Sound, Sleepwalk With Me, Mike Birbiglia, Seth Barrish, Ira Glass, Music Box, Christiaan Zwanniken, Convento movie, The Apparition movie, Warner Bros, For a Good Time, Call movie, Lawless movie, John Hillcoat, The Proposition, The Road, Little White Lies, Guillaume Canet, Tell No One, Oslo August 31, Joachim Trier, Reprise movie, Red Hook Summer, Spike Lee, Gibson Gowland, Eric von Stroheim, Greed, Airplane!, Northbrook Public Library, Howard Hawks Scarface, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead, Landmark's Century Centre, Orson Welles, Touch of Evil, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 24, 2012
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The boy who wasn't there, and the rest of this week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Bart Layton, The Imposter, Chicken With Plums, Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis, Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, Don DeLillo, Robert Pattinson, The Expendables 2, Sylvester Stallone, Hit and Run movie, Dax Shepard, Patang movie, Prashant Bhargava, Premium Rush movie, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Robot & Frank, Frank Langella, Black Harvest Film Festiva, Gene Siskel Film Center, Brooklyn Castle, Father's Day, White Scripts and Black Supermen, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski, Music Box, Arthur Penn, The Chase movie, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Noel, Pretty Poison, Greg Mottola, Superbad, University of Chicago Doc Films, Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver, Landmark's Century Centre, movies, Video

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Music, Gossip Wolf, Aug 22, 2012
Gossip Wolf: Lending The Master a hand

Singer-songwriter Daniel Knox helps out with the Music Box's 70-millimeter screening. Plus: Chrissy Murderbot gets down with his dog, and the Burlington turns five.
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Daniel Knox, Music Box, Paul Thomas Anderson, John Atwood, Chris Shivley, Chrissy Murderbot, Chris E. Pants, Bloodiest, Rabbit Rabbit, Cave, E+, Lasers and Fast and Shit, Burlington

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 17, 2012
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Noir City: Chicago 4—it's like, none more black

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Music Box, Film Noir Foundation, White Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, William Castle Undertow, Robert Ryan, Max Ophuls Caught, Nicholas Ray, On Dangerous Ground, Howard Hughes, RKO Radio Pictures, Enterprise Pictures, 2 Days in New York, Julie Delpy, 2 Days in Paris, Chris Rock, Adam Goldberg, ParaNorman, Laika Studio, Coraline, Beyond the Myth, The Contradictions of Fair Hope, Englewood (The Growing Pains in Chicago), Free Men movie, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Why Stop Now, Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo, Tracy Morgan, Noir City: Chicago 4, Jacques Rivette, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Gene Siskel Film Center, F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, University of Chicago Doc Films, Robert Redford, Quiz Show, Transistor, Hideout Chicago, Chicago Film Archives, CFA Media Mixer, film festivals, film noir, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 17, 2012
Coming not so soon: The Master

Paul Thomas Anderson's take on the Church of Scientology, which previewed at the Music Box Thursday night
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Music Box, The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out Chicago, Weinstein Company, Dave Jennings, Joaquin Phoenix, L. Ron Hubbard, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Daniel Day Lewis, Paul Dano, Scientology, Ambyr Childers, Amy Adams, Enchanted movie, New York Daily News, Tom Cruise, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 9, 2012
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Joe Dante's fully clothed orgy, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, John Carpenter, Joe Dante, W.C. Fields, It's a Gift, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Steven Spielberg, Gremlins movie, Matinee movie, Small Soldiers, The Hole movie, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The Movie Orgy, Ben Sachs, Ann Hui, A Simple Life, Facets Cinematheque, Ballplayer: Pelotero, The Bourne Legacy, Jeremy Renner, Matt Damon, The Campaign movie, Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, The Curators of Dixon School, Hope Springs, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Kumare movie, Vikram Gandhi, Searching for Sugar Man, Surviving Life (Theory and Practice), Jan Svankmajer, Unforgivable movie, Andre Techine, Wolf, Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Music Box, Dennis Scott, David Lynch, Blue Velvet, Landmark’s Century Centre, William Friedkin, s The French Connection, Paul Wegener, The Golem, University of Chicago Doc Films, Yasujiro Ozu, A Hen in the Wind, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Flashback Weekend, The Thing movie, The Exorcist, Linda Blair, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 3, 2012
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Sick with fear, and the rest of the week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's, you know, issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Drew Hunt, Columbia College, Killer Joe, William Friedkin (The Boys in the Band, The French Connection, The Exorcist, Cruising, Bug movie, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Tracy Letts, August: Osage County, Knox College, Galesburg, The Exorcist, William Friedkin, A Black Harvest Feast, Gene Siskel Film Center, Black Harvest Film Festival, The Christmas Tree, Angel Krsiti Williams, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Girlfriend Boyfriend, The Loves of Pharoah, Ernst Lubitsch, The Queen of Versailles, Richard's Wedding, Total Recall, Paul Verhoeven, Alice Svankmajer, Lewis Carroll, Jan Svankmajer, Abel Ferrara, The Driller Killer, Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead, Logan theater, Busby Berkeley, The Gang's All Here, Music Box, Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life, King Kong, Lewis Milestone, Hallelujah I'm a Bum, Portage theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Dziga Vertoz, The Man With the Movie Camera, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 27, 2012
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All this and air-conditioning too: the week's movies

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Music Box, Chicago French Film Festival, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, 17 Girls, A Cat in Paris, Gene Siskel Film Center, Umberto Lenzi, Nightmare City, University of Chicago Doc Films. Hayao Miyazaki, Porco Rosso, Sacrifice movie, Chen Kaige, Farewell My Concubine, El Velador, Culiacan, The Watch movie, Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, Vince Vaughn, Marx Brothers, Leo McCarey, Duck Soup, Logan theater, Harold Lloyd, The Kid Brother, Portage theater, Tim Baker, Frank Borzage, Little Man What Now?, Stuart Schulberg, Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, Spertus Institute, Jame Whale, Show Boat, 50 Years @ 1512: A History of the Better Boys Foundation, Lawndale 10, Block Museum of Art, Rare Baseball Films: The Newsreels, David Filipi, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, film festivals, movies, Video

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Movies, Movie Sidebar, Jul 26, 2012
Chicago French Film Festival

Reviews of select movies showing at the Music Box this weekend
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago French Film Festival, French cinema, Guillaume Canet, Cedric Khan, Christophe Honore, Frederic Jardin, Kitty Genovese, Lucas Belvaux, Music Box

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 23, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Mon 7/23

What's on the Agenda for Monday, July 23, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, LCD Soundsystem, Shut Up and Play the Hits, Music Box, Mark Raterman, Tim Robinson, My Mans, Justin Hayford, Wrigleyville, iO

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 7, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Sat 7/7

What's on the Agenda for Saturday, July 7, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Blues and Brews Cruise, Charlie Pickett, Chosen Few Old School Reunion Picnic, Wayne Williams, Tony Hatchett, Jesse Saunders, Jay Duplass, Cyrus, The Puffy Chair, the Coen Brothers, Raising Arizona, Music Box, The Film That Changed My Life

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