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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 3, 2013
Chicago gets rid of its cops—just like Oakland

Chicago is not alone when it comes to firing cops and spending their salaries on things that no one needs
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, News, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Bears, Oakland Raiders, Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Clara, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Blackhawks

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 22, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Sat 9/22

What's on the Agenda for Saturday, September 22, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, San Francisco, Deerhoof, Breakup Song, Peter Margasak, Schuba's, Lakeview, Buke and Gase, Annoyance Theatre, TJ Jagodowski, Noah Gregoropoulos, Rebecca Sohn, Almost Atlanta, Keith Griffith, Barbara Royal, Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Park, The Royal Treatment: A Natural Approach to Wildly Healthy Pets

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 9, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Thu 8/9

What's on the Agenda for Thursday, August 9, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, San Francisco, Schuba, Sonny & the Sunsets, Peter Margasak, Daniel Johnston, Magic Trick, Tim Cohen, Fresh and Only's, Derf Backderf, My Friend Dahmer, Quimby's Bookstore, Wicker Park, The Underground, Timothy Hiatt, You Only Earned What We Gave You.

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You Are Here, Zoom in, Aug 8, 2012
Zoom in: Andersonville

With the addition of the city's first parklet, A-ville gets even nicer
- by Asher Klein
- Tags: Zoom in, parklets, people spots, Andersonville, San Francisco, Ellen Shepard, Andersonville Chamber of Commerce

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 5, 2012
Retweet it, only louder

Urban noise pollution is forcing birds to sound off
- by Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Science, Boom!, Silence vs. Noise Week, noise pollution, light pollution, San Francisco, Presidio, songbird, Atlantic, sparrow

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 10, 2012
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Substituting tea-tree oil for nicotine

Can tea-tree toothpicks help me cut back on smoking? The jury's still out.
- by Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Paranormal, Architecture, Other Stuff, Apropos of Nothing, Tea Tree Therapy, toothpick, smoking, cigarettes, quitting, Ryan Gosling, Drive, San Francisco, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 28, 2011
The rules of the game

Revisiting Joan Didion's "Slouching Toward Bethlehem"
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Money, Media, Lit & Lectures, News, Books, $$$, Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Wall Street, San Francisco, hippies, subprime crisis, subprime mortgage crisis, financial crisis, Margin Call, Glass-Steagall Act, New York magazine, Frank Rich, Slate, Dahlia Lithwick

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 13, 2011
An instant of silence at Soldier Field

Bear fans' 9/11 minute of remembrance Sunday fell 58 seconds short.
- by Steve Bogira
- Tags: Flotsam and Jetsam, Sports, moment of silence, 9/11, Ryan Field, Northwestern, football, London, Edward George Honey, King George V, Grenadier Guards, Great Britain, Remembrance Day, Chicago Bears, Soldier Field, Robert De Niro, taps, Shanksville Pa., USA, bugler, Candlestick Park, San Francisco, 49ers, Phoenix, Arizona Cardinals, National Anthem, Houston, Houston Texans

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News & Features, Feature, Mar 10, 2011
An Artist's Homecoming

Chicago painter Calvin Jones stored work at the South Side Community Arts Center for a decade. Now that he's getting a memorial show there, they can't show any of it.
- by Jeff Huebner
- Tags: Feature, Calvin Jones, South Side Community Art Center, Nelson Jones, AfriCOBRA, Faheem Majeed, Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, AFAM Gallery Studio and Cultural Center, Army & Lou's, Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, San Francisco

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 29, 2010
Raindance Reunion

Hollywood producer and Chicago native Michael Shamberg joins his comrades from the Vietnam-era radical video collective Raindance Corporation for their first-ever reunion Tuesday, Nov. 30 at Loyola University.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Film, Free Shit, Swag, Books, Michael Shamberg, Raindance, corporation, reunion, Elizabeth Coffman, Loyola University, radical software, media activism, Republican, democrat, national, convention, City News Bureau, Time Magazine, Steven Soderbergh, Matt Damon, Contagion, Pulp Fiction, Erin Brockovich, New York, San Francisco, TVTV, Veins in the Gulf, Louisiana, wetlands

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 27, 2010
Morning Art: Amanda Friedman

Work by Amanda Friedman, on display at David Weinberg Gallery.
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Chicagoland, Visual Art, Twin Peaks, San Francisco, Amanda Friedman, David Weinberg Gallery

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 23, 2010
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Sonic Orphans

Bill Daniel screens films of The Beatles, The Avengers, The Huns, Boy Problems, Sonic Youth and Butthole Surfers, Sunday at the Nightingale.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Music, Bill Daniel, Sonic Orphans, Lost Pogo Dance Films, Nightingale, Christy LeMaster, Blue Ribbon Glee Club, Best of Chicago, Best Alternative Film Venue, Beatles, Beatlemania, San Francisco, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Austin, Huns, Houston, Boy Problems, punk, Johnny Cash, kinoscope, Avengers, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 19, 2010
So Long, Peter Vestinos

Mixologist Peter Vestinos is headed west.
- by Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Peter Vestinos, the Tasting Room, Sepia, Wirtz Beverage Group, the Exchange, Third Coast Cocktail Club, Bar DeVille, NoMi, Naha, the Roof at the Wit, cocktails, San Francisco

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 16, 2009
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575 Castro St.

Jenni Olson's Harvey Milk homage "575 Castro St." plays in "Threat Level: An Evening of Queer Shorts," Wednesday 12/16 at the Nightingale.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: LGBT, Film, Amy Kazymerchyk, Song for a City, Z.A. Martohardjono, Five Haikus for the New York Subway, Global Action Project, Youth Making Media, 3 Queer Mice, Sasha Wortzel, Guess I Won't Make It To Vegas, Lokchi Lam, Untitled Video, Sarah Hagey, Black Bottle, Diane Busuttil, Dirt and Desire, Katrina del Mar, Gang Girls, Harvey Milk, Gus Van Sant, San Francisco, Jenni Olson, 575 Castro St., queer shorts, threat level, Nigthingale, Brooklyn, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 10, 2009
Giving Girls a Second Chance

The Google-proof Girls and their album, "Album"
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Girls, indie rock, garage rock, Christopher Owens, Chet "JR" White, Children of God, San Francisco

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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, April 25.

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A selection from the Savage Love archives

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Chicago is not alone when it comes to firing cops and spending their salaries on things that no one needs

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What's on the Agenda for Saturday, September 22, 2012

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What's on the Agenda for Thursday, August 9, 2012

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With the addition of the city's first parklet, A-ville gets even nicer

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Urban noise pollution is forcing birds to sound off

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Can tea-tree toothpicks help me cut back on smoking? The jury's still out.

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Revisiting Joan Didion's "Slouching Toward Bethlehem"

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Bear fans' 9/11 minute of remembrance Sunday fell 58 seconds short.

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Chicago painter Calvin Jones stored work at the South Side Community Arts Center for a decade. Now that he's getting a memorial show there, they can't show any of it.

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Hollywood producer and Chicago native Michael Shamberg joins his comrades from the Vietnam-era radical video collective Raindance Corporation for their first-ever reunion Tuesday, Nov. 30 at Loyola University.

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Work by Amanda Friedman, on display at David Weinberg Gallery.

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Bill Daniel screens films of The Beatles, The Avengers, The Huns, Boy Problems, Sonic Youth and Butthole Surfers, Sunday at the Nightingale.

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Mixologist Peter Vestinos is headed west.

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Jenni Olson's Harvey Milk homage "575 Castro St." plays in "Threat Level: An Evening of Queer Shorts," Wednesday 12/16 at the Nightingale.

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The Google-proof Girls and their album, "Album"