- Blogs, Bleader, May 8, 2013
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Mayor Emanuel plays rough and tough with Cardinal George
Rahm will mess with anyone who dares to oppose his policies against the poor.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 17, 2012
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Punch my Mancard!
Like a gift from God
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 28, 2011
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Wanted: Miracle
Miracles happen more often than you think in the midwest
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 9, 2012
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Partial confession is good for the soul
Confession, Francis Cardinal George style.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 2, 2012
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What's new again: Terence Davies's Madonna and Child (1980)
Revisiting Terence Davies's early short film in light of his latest, The Deep Blue Sea
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 18, 2012
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Alphabet Town
On the ABCs of Chicago streets
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 18, 2012
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Albini expands on his totally correct views re: Amanda Palmer
Somehow there is beef between Steve Albini and someone else and he's the one who's not the asshole in the situation
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 22, 2013
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Bless Me, Ultima; or, they do make them like they used to
Writer-director Carl Franklin takes a refreshingly old-fashioned approach in adapting Rudolfo Anaya's acclaimed young adult novel
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 31, 2011
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Take a knee, Tebow
Does Tim Tebow deserve to be mocked?
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 23, 2012
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Breaking! Fox News "unearths" 1995 Reader article about Obama
Fox News "unearths" 1995 Chicago Reader story about Barack Obama
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 23, 2012
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Baha'i, how you doing?
The Baha'i House of Worship celebrates the centenary of its cornerstone
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 26, 2012
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John McPhee on the New Yorker's motherfucking history
The long struggle for swearing rights in a tasteful magazine
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 19, 2012
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Farm-to-tavern fare at Farmhouse Tavern
Farmhouse Tavern offers well-executed farm-to-table food and a good beer list
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 26, 2013
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Holiness is nice but not essential in a pope
Cardinal George explains what the Catholic Church needs in a pope.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 19, 2011
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Testament Week: Salvation terminator
Testament Week begins with Luke 6:27-29
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 25, 2012
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Watching in awe
The Republican primaries—theocrats in action
- Blogs, Bleader, May 1, 2012
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Volleyball as a subversive art
Parsing out the radical implications of Nanni Moretti's Italian comedy We Have a Pope
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 29, 2012
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Having the best-worst, most terrible time with Gerard Manley Hopkins
The marvelous wretchedness of Hopkins's "Terrible Sonnets"
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 19, 2012
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2016: Obama's America: an exegesis
I watched Dinesh D'Souza's crappy movie so you don't have to
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 7, 2013
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We voted. Now the church votes.
The state of the church—as a billion Catholics wait to be told who their next leader is.
