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, Jan 16, 2013
Outkast isn't reuniting—deal with it
What the Outkast member's Frank Ocean remix and the response to it says about our growing desire to see our wildest musical dreams come true
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Kanye West and the perils of cool-dad syndrome
Examining the rapper-producer as he prepares for fatherhood
by Leor Galil
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, Nov 14, 2012
Where else can you see Pablo Picasso and Yul Brynner in the same movie?
Revisiting Jean Cocteau's
Testament of Orpheus
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Holy Motors
by Ben Sachs
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, Nov 14, 2012
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The week I learned about hot chicken
Looks so good, looks so far away
by Sam Worley
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, Sep 20, 2012
Things to do with semicolons
Put them on your skin, for one
by Sam Worley
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, Aug 9, 2012
Beasts of the southern weird
More on Marc Smirnoff's firing from the
Oxford American
by Sam Worley
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, Aug 2, 2012
What's destroying our productivity this week?
Throwing up on the Writer's Diet website
by Sam Worley
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, Jul 12, 2012
A Gchat about sexuality, gender, and how they're relevant to our writing
A couple of
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staffers talk it out: Do we want to write about ourselves? Should we?
by Julia Thiel
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, Jul 10, 2012
Sin
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Something is definitely missing from "Single in Chicago," the NYT's buzzy travelogue. Now it's missing most of its word count
by Asher Klein
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, Jun 19, 2012
A photo of Morrissey with a cat on his head
Morrissey let someone put a cat on his head for a promo photo
by Kevin Warwick
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, Jun 18, 2012
What does it mean to be the best?
We're kicking off Best of Chicago 2012 with Best Week, this week's Variations on a Theme
by Tal Rosenberg
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, May 23, 2012
If you give a hoarder a million bucks . . .
Alex Jordan's House on the Rock
by Elly Fishman
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, May 18, 2012
Facehunter and me: a story of admiration and rejection
A description of the day I was not photographed by the Face Hunter
by Isa Giallorenzo
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, May 14, 2012
This week: Style, street and otherwise
This week's Variations on a Theme: style
by Kate Schmidt
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, Apr 27, 2012
Mahler in my living room
Listening to Gustav Mahler's Sixth Symphony after watching the recent biopic
Mahler on the Couch
by Ben Sachs
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, Apr 23, 2012
First
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A review of the HBO series Girls.
by Elly Fishman
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, Apr 19, 2012
Man bites pizza
On deep-fried food that's not from Wisconsin
by Sam Worley
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, Apr 19, 2012
Some of the 2,548 wittiest things anybody ever said
Nine of the 2,548 wittiest things every said
by Jerome Ludwig
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