- Music, Music Sidebar, May 23, 2013
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HoZac digs deep for the 2013 Blackout
This year's lovingly curated lineup features power-pop progenitor Dwight Twilley, weirdo sci-fi postpunks Chrome, and lots more.
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature, Mar 14, 2013
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Twelve essential watering holes
Chicago booze enthusiasts (including Reader staffers) share their expert tips for drinking across the city, from morning to late night to the morning after.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 8, 2013
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Why didn't these artists know Amoeba's Vinyl Vaults digital store was selling their music?
Amoeba's Vinyl Vaults store says it tries to reach every rights holder whose music it sells, but the Reader reached nine artists in its catalog, none of whom had been contacted.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 14, 2013
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Best shows to see: Slut River, Child Bite, and Paul Giallorenzo and Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten
The best shows to see Monday through Wednesday are Slut River, Child Bite, and Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 16, 2012
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12 O'Clock Track: Johnny Ill Band, "In the Wintertime"
"In the Wintertime" by Johnny Ill Band is an upbeat pop song detailing how much the winter totally sucks.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 9, 2012
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Marijuana votes produce legal haze and hope for reforms
Legalization votes in Colorado and Washington show that the nation's marijuana policies are a tangled mess
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 6, 2012
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The Reader's Agenda: Thu 9/6
What's on the Agenda for Thursday, September 6, 2012
- Blogs, Bleader, May 31, 2012
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Learning through seeing: an interview with experimental documentarian Sabine Gruffat
An interview with experimental documentarian Sabine Gruffat about her feature I Have Always Been a Dreamer
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 26, 2012
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12 O'Clock Track: Negative Approach, "Nothing"
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Nothing," from hardcore-punk pillars Negative Approach.
- Movies, Movie Sidebar, Apr 11, 2012
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Stories about storeys: Architecture & Design Film Festival
The third annual festival at the Music Box
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 14, 2012
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Midcentury Pittsburgh and "Detroitism"
Representing black urban life, then and now
- Galleries & Museums, Art Critic's Choice, Feb 9, 2012
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Excavating Pittsburgh's Hill District
"Teenie Harris, Photographer" turns up a lost world
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 11, 2012
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Obama in town this evening for the usual reason
The nation's fund-raiser-in-chief visits Chicago
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 2, 2011
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Give me Detroit in December, damnit!
Thinking about college football in light of the Big Ten title game this weekend.
- Galleries & Museums, Art Sidebar, Sep 22, 2011
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Bumper stickers, bookmarks, postcards
"The Alternative Press Multiple Originals Project" celebrates 30 years of letterpressed poetry
- Music, Music Review, Jul 28, 2011
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DJ Khaled and the hip-hop illuminati vs. Danny Brown
The Miami-based producer has a team of crazy millionaires, but the Detroit MC only needs himself
- Music, Music Feature, Jul 21, 2011
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Big Sean, big shadow
Kanye West's label might not be the best place to release a debut album called Finally Famous
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 6, 2011
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The greatest rap video ever (not really, but it's still good)
Detroit MC Danny Brown is coming to town.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 8, 2011
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Tale of 2 Cities
Filmmakers from Chicago and Detroit, including Ronit Bezalel, Tom Pallozolo, Carmine Cervi and Thomas Comerford, show in the joint video installation Tale of 2 Cities, opening Friday 4/8 at Chicago Urban Art Society and Detroit's 5e Gallery.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 28, 2011
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Kill the Irishman
The Midwest Independent Film Festival offers an advance screening of "Kill the Irishman," about Cleveland mobster Danny Greene, Tuesday 3/1 at Landmark Century Centre.
