- Blogs, Bleader, May 6, 2013
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Hey, the Reader won some awards this past weekend
A James Beard award and three Lisagor awards were bestowed upon Reader staff on Friday.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 1, 2013
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In Another Country: Hong Sang-soo's visions and revisions
The South Korean filmmaker's collaboration with French actress Isabelle Huppert is now available on DVD.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 26, 2013
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The tragedy of Rick Alverson's The Comedy
Tim Heidecker makes his dramatic debut in this indie feature by the director of New Jerusalem.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 8, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: "The best [Fleetwood Mac] song that never made it to a record album"
Stevie Nicks's "Silver Springs," now appended to a recently reissued Rumours.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 16, 2013
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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
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 2, 2013
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Kanye West and the perils of cool-dad syndrome
Examining the rapper-producer as he prepares for fatherhood
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 14, 2012
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Where else can you see Pablo Picasso and Yul Brynner in the same movie?
Revisiting Jean Cocteau's Testament of Orpheus in light of the thematically similar Holy Motors
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 14, 2012
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The week I learned about hot chicken
Looks so good, looks so far away
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 20, 2012
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Things to do with semicolons
Put them on your skin, for one
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 9, 2012
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Beasts of the southern weird
More on Marc Smirnoff's firing from the Oxford American
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 2, 2012
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What's destroying our productivity this week?
Throwing up on the Writer's Diet website
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 12, 2012
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A Gchat about sexuality, gender, and how they're relevant to our writing
A couple of Reader staffers talk it out: Do we want to write about ourselves? Should we?
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 10, 2012
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Sin
gle in Chicago: an erasure poemSomething is definitely missing from "Single in Chicago," the NYT's buzzy travelogue. Now it's missing most of its word count
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 19, 2012
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A photo of Morrissey with a cat on his head
Morrissey let someone put a cat on his head for a promo photo
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 18, 2012
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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
- Blogs, Bleader, May 23, 2012
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If you give a hoarder a million bucks . . .
Alex Jordan's House on the Rock
- Blogs, Bleader, May 18, 2012
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Facehunter and me: a story of admiration and rejection
A description of the day I was not photographed by the Face Hunter
- Blogs, Bleader, May 14, 2012
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This week: Style, street and otherwise
This week's Variations on a Theme: style
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 27, 2012
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Mahler in my living room
Listening to Gustav Mahler's Sixth Symphony after watching the recent biopic Mahler on the Couch
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 23, 2012
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First Girls problems
A review of the HBO series Girls.
