- Blogs, Bleader, May 3, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: "Wires" is summery, 90s-flavored pop-rock
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is the infectious, 90s-flavored "Wire" from New York's Lurve.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 26, 2013
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As pecking orders go among cities, what's the place of Chicago?
Comments on Rachel Shteir's New York Times book review suggest a complex sort of civic assessment.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 25, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Thu 4/25: the American Whiskey Affair, Off Off Broadzway, and Intelligentsia's Logan Square debut
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, April 25.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 23, 2013
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Rachel Shteir—cat's-paw of New York's cunning plot to make the world despise us?
More thoughts on the DePaul professor and her essay on Chicago
- Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Apr 18, 2013
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Ghosts of memory in the paintings of McArthur Binion
"Ghost: Rhythms," a collection from early in the artist's career, looks like the work of an older man.
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature, Apr 17, 2013
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Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and sublime doughnut
A University of Chicago student and her doughnut-loving professor put Dat Donut to the test.
- Movies, Movie Sidebar, Apr 10, 2013
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Our guide to the Chicago Latino Film Festival
The annual event kicks off Friday at 600 N. Michigan.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Mar 28, 2013
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In Chicago, comics do it by the seat of their pants
The 16th annual Chicago Improv Festival kicks off on April Fools' Day.
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Mar 25, 2013
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Mad Men, Mad World looks at the 60s through smoke-colored glasses
In a new collection, Mad Men gets the academic treatment.
- Performing Arts, Comedy Critic's Choice, Mar 11, 2013
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Eddie Pepitone, more than just a loudmouth
The stand-up comedian has been yelling at you for decades. Pay attention already.
- Movies, Movie Critic's Choice, Feb 26, 2013
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Pavilion's teen dream
Tim Sutton's drama captures the urgency and unease of adolescence.
- Music, Gossip Wolf, Feb 26, 2013
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Gossip Wolf: Sniffing out the Lollapalooza lineup
Plus: The Owl launches a cassette label, and Saki hosts Low and Jeff Tweedy
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 6, 2013
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Oscar-nominated live-action shorts: The "30-Second Auteur" takes to the high seas in Asad
Oscar-nominated live-action shorts: Asad
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 6, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Wed 2/6: Ken Burns, In>Time Performance Festival, and the Vaccines
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, February 6, 2013.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 31, 2013
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Benjamin, the R&B alter ego of Chicago Stone Lightning Band's front man, releases an outrageous new single
Cherries Records re-presses "Love Is Gonna Let You Down" b/w "Not a Moment Too Soon."
- Movies, Movie Review, Jan 30, 2013
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Location is everything in the Brazilian drama Neighboring Sounds
Kleber Mendonca Filho's first feature takes us somewhere real.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 22, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Tue 1/22: Michael Vallera at Empty Bottle, The Motherfucker with the Hat, and R.H. Quaytman
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, January 22, 2013
- News & Features, Savage Love, Jan 9, 2013
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Dick
The long and the short of it. Plus: further additions to the sexual lexicon.
- News & Features, Feature, Dec 19, 2012
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People Issue 2012:
Kimmy Walters, the Twitterer"You've just gotta filter out noise."
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Nov 28, 2012
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A Trib theater critic’s two cities
Why opinion from Chicago matters in New York—and vice versa
