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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 13, 2012
Bicycle Dreams documentary premieres in Chicago

The bicycle documentary Bicycle Dreams, about the endurance ride Race Across America, premieres in Chicago at the Viaduct Theater on Thursday
- by Julia Thiel
- Tags: Bicycling, Film, Cycling, Race Across America, Viaduct Theater, Chainlink, New Belgium Brewing, Bicycle Dreams

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 18, 2011
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This week's movie action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Werner Herzog, Into the Abyss, Michael James Perry, Death Row movie, Investigation Discovery, Kartemquin Films, At the Death House Door, Steve James, Hoop Dreams, Stevie movie, The Interrupters, Peter Gilbert, Fred Camper, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Every Song Is About Me, Lope movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Festival of New Spanish Cinema, 3 movie, Tom Tykwer, Run Lola Run, Jean-Pierre Melville, Army of Shadows, University of Chicago Doc Films, Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris, Gene Siskel Film Center, Steven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Music Box, Jean-Luc Godard, Week-end movie, Chicago Food Film Festival, Kendall College, Intelligentsia Roasting Works, Illinois International Film Festival, Viaduct Theater, Kinky Film Festival, Leather Archives and Museum, film festivals, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 23, 2011
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Bicycle Film Festival

The Bicycle Film Festival Chicago hosts screenings Friday 2/25 and Saturday 2/26, with parties at Beauty Bar, the Viaduct and Darkroom starting Thursday 2/24.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Bicycling, Film, Cycling, Bicycle Film Festival, Darkroom, Viaduct Theater, Beauty Bar, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 24, 2010
Morning Art: Steve Diet Goedde

Part of "The Dirty Show," on display at Viaduct Theater
- by Julia Thiel
- Tags: Chicagoland, Visual Art, Steve Diet Goedde, Dirty Show, Viaduct Theater

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 5, 2010
Michael Shannon, Punk Rocker

More on "I'll Die Tomorrow" star Michael Shannon's music, theater and film career.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Music, Michael Shannon, Jim Sikora, Corporal, Steppenwolf, Revolutionary Road, I'll Die Tomorrow, Pegboy, Jesus Lizard, punk, Viaduct Theater, Bruce Norris, Parallelogram, Lisa D'Amour, Detroit, Kate Arrington, Brooklyn, Hypocrites, Our Town, Lexington, Adam Rapp, Finer Noble Gases, Martin Scorcese, Boardwalk Empire, Humana Festival, Lexington, HBO, Barrow Street Theater

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Movies, Movie Feature, Jun 3, 2010
Back to the 90s, for a Night

Jim Sikora wants to recapture the Chicago punk scene of yore, with help from Michael Shannon—and you.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Movie Feature, Viaduct Theater

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Music, Music Sidebar, May 27, 2010
Summer Guide: Follow the Music

The biggest and best of the music fests
- by Reader staff
- Tags: Music Sidebar, Chicago Gospel Music Festival, Millennium Park, Do-Division Street Fest, Chicago Blues Fest, Ribfest Chicago, Metronome Celebration, Taste of Randolph Street, Takin' It to the Streets, Inner-City Muslim Action Network, Marquette Park, Taste of Chicago, Green Music Fest, African/Caribbean International Festival of Life, Washington Park, Irish American Heritage Festival, Irish American Heritage Center, Chicago Folk & Roots Festival, Welles Park, West Fest, Pitchfork Music Festival, Union Park, Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, Wicker Park Fest, Grant Park, Neon Marshmallow Fest, Viaduct Theater, Caribbean Festival, Union Park, African Festival of the Arts, Washington Park, Chicago Jazz Festival, Viva! Chicago Latin Music Festival

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Blogs, Bleader, May 14, 2010
Experimental Music in Chicago, Tonight and This Summer

Tonight at Heaven Gallery, TV Pow's Todd Carter debuts a new multichannel work using archival Sun Ra recordings; the Neon Marshmallow Festival, scheduled for August, announces its impressive lineup.
- by Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Todd Carter, Sun Ra, Experimental Sound Studio, Creative Audio Archive, 2010: Digital Black of Sun Ra Pt. II, Heaven Gallery, Neon Marshmallow Fest, Greg Kelley, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Bhob Rainey, Carlos Giffoni, Emeralds, Noveller, Jason Lescalleet, Excepter, Unfact, Dave Sims, Jesus Lizard, Sarah Lipstate, Viaduct Theater

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, May 13, 2010
Saints, Villains, and Real Men

Two plays, The Good Negro and Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, explore the myths and realities of black life in the south.
- by Zac Thompson
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, The Good Negro, Goodman Theatre, Goodman Theater, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, Viaduct Theater, Tracey Scott Wilson, Martin Luther King Jr., Nambi E. Kelley, Billy Eugene Jones, Demetrios Troy, Mick Weber, John Hoogenakker, Mike Tuta, E. Patrick Johnson

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 25, 2010
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The Other Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek, a project of LA noise king John Wiese, plays the Viaduct Theater on Friday night.
- by Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, John Wiese, Sissy Spacek, noise, experimental music, Viaduct Theater, Illusion of Safety, Gerritt Wittmer, Paul Knowles, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 5, 2010
Chicago Gets a Festival of Experimental Music and Noise

The Neon Marshmallow Festival, a promising new event devoted to experimental music and noise, arrives in Chicago this August.
- by Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Neon Marshmallow Festival, music festivals, experimental music, noise, Astral Social Club, Carlos Giffoni, Emeralds, Viaduct Theater, Red Electric Rainbow, Acid-Marshmallow, Daniel Smith, Matt Kimmel

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Oct 22, 2009
The New Boo Review

We sample this year’s harvest of Halloween productions.
- by Tony Adler, Albert Williams, and Zac Thompson
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Carpenters Halloween, Nightmares on Lincoln Avenue, Anna in the Darkness 2009: The Basement, Scared Stiff, Rhymes With Evil, The Modern Prometheus, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: A New Folk Musical, Salem! The Musical, Scooty & JoJo, Annoyance Theatre, Corn Productions, Dream Theatre, Filament Theatre, RBP Rorschach, InFusion Theatre Company, Chemically Imbalanced Theater, Viaduct Theater, Cornservatory, Scott Bradley, Tyler Beattie, Brad Lawrence, Lina Bunte, Dan Wessels

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 9, 2009
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Story of Youth

Jeff Alulis's documentary "Let Them Know: The Story of Youth Brigade and BYO Records" screens Saturday 10/10 as part of Riot Fest.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Music, Youth Brigade, BYO Records, Better Youth Organization, Let Them Know, Riot Fest, punk, LA, label, Shawn Stern, Mark Stern, Jeff Alulis, Dead Kennedys, VIaduct Theater, Congress Theater, Social Distortion, NOFX, Fugazi, Ian MacKaye, Fat Mike, Steve Soto, Adolescents, Matt Skiba, Alkaline Trio, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 20, 2009
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Chicago at play

Chicagoans make subversive puppets, dance to house music, look for love over boardgames, lead cheers and ride their bikes in the winter in the documentary omnibus "Chicago360 v. 4: Play," premiering tonight at the Music Box Theatre.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Board Games, Music Box Theatre, viaduct theater, WNUR, Split Pillow, Chicago360, house music, DJ Sangre, Sam Barber, John Pappas, Nerds at Heart, Home Sweet House, Jennifer Thornton, Chicago Spirit Brigade, adult cheerleaders, Allison Daniel, Beetlebomb, RJ Buckler, John Firak, Breakwater Bicycle, bike commuting, dating service, board game dating service, bicycle commuting, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 11, 2009
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Swamp rock and cinema at the Viaduct

The Howlin' Tumbleweeds present the Muddy River Film Festival
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Evanston, swamp rock, viaduct theater, Video

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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The bicycle documentary Bicycle Dreams, about the endurance ride Race Across America, premieres in Chicago at the Viaduct Theater on Thursday

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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

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The Bicycle Film Festival Chicago hosts screenings Friday 2/25 and Saturday 2/26, with parties at Beauty Bar, the Viaduct and Darkroom starting Thursday 2/24.

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Part of "The Dirty Show," on display at Viaduct Theater

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More on "I'll Die Tomorrow" star Michael Shannon's music, theater and film career.

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Jim Sikora wants to recapture the Chicago punk scene of yore, with help from Michael Shannon—and you.

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The biggest and best of the music fests

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Tonight at Heaven Gallery, TV Pow's Todd Carter debuts a new multichannel work using archival Sun Ra recordings; the Neon Marshmallow Festival, scheduled for August, announces its impressive lineup.

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Two plays, The Good Negro and Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, explore the myths and realities of black life in the south.

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Sissy Spacek, a project of LA noise king John Wiese, plays the Viaduct Theater on Friday night.

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The Neon Marshmallow Festival, a promising new event devoted to experimental music and noise, arrives in Chicago this August.

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We sample this year’s harvest of Halloween productions.

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Jeff Alulis's documentary "Let Them Know: The Story of Youth Brigade and BYO Records" screens Saturday 10/10 as part of Riot Fest.

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Chicagoans make subversive puppets, dance to house music, look for love over boardgames, lead cheers and ride their bikes in the winter in the documentary omnibus "Chicago360 v. 4: Play," premiering tonight at the Music Box Theatre.

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The Howlin' Tumbleweeds present the Muddy River Film Festival