- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 17, 2013
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Have a juicy tale of romantic woe? We want to hear it!
For our Valentine's Day issue, we're asking for your least romantic stories.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 13, 2013
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Weekly Top Five: Roman Polanski films
The best of the controversial Polish director, whose 1979 film Tess screens in a digital print at the Siskel Center this week
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 10, 2013
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Introducing killer high school punks the Ungnomes
The Ungnomes, fronted by Jon Langford's son Jimmy, play at Martyrs' this weekend
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 3, 2013
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Ian's Party is back and bigger than ever
Ian's Party is back for its sixth year, with almost 40 bands playing at two venues
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 28, 2012
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My Best of 2012 Spotify playlist—five hours of the year's most pleasure-inducing music
Where else can you hear ZZ Top's "I Gotsta Get Paid" and E-40's "I'm Laced" in the same place?
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 27, 2012
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My favorite films of 2012
Top Ten Films of 2012
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 21, 2012
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To Kill a Mockingbird and the kindest cut
How a good Hollywood filmmaker uses a close-up of a child's face
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 19, 2012
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It goes both ways: the Dearborn bike lane gives Rahm bragging rights and cyclists a protected ride
A ride up and down the new protected, two-way bike lane on Dearborn Avenue
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 18, 2012
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The spookily fantastic tweets of @arealliveghost
How good is Kimmy Walters, aka @arealliveghost, at Twitter? I once responded to a really great tweet with a marriage proposal. We didn't know each other.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 16, 2012
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Weekly Top Five: An ode to "the soul of film noir," Robert Mitchum
Weekly Top Five: Robert Mitchum performances
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 11, 2012
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Shooting the breeze with Jeff Garlin
I had lunch with Jeff Garlin, whose stand-up show plays through this Sunday, December 16, at Steppenwolf
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 7, 2012
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Double tall nostalgia with a shot of obnoxious
I admit it: I think the past was better than now and Europe is better than here
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 6, 2012
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Rabid Rabbit's dark take on opera at New Capital's 24HRS/25DAYS celebration
Local four-piece avent-garge metal act Rabid Rabbid take on the doom and gloom of Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 5, 2012
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How to do Christmas music right
If you must listen to Christmas music, it should be the Roots, Jimmy Fallon, and Mariah Carey
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 29, 2012
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"Supergroup" Treasure Fleet welcomes its second LP
Treasure Fleet, another Chicago supergroup featuring members of the Arrivals, Smoking Popes, and Lawrence Arms, celebrate the release of their sophomore LP tomorrow night
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 28, 2012
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We're all Trapped in the Closet
R. Kelly's preposterous and engrossing hip-hopera remains watchable even as it gets stranger
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 17, 2012
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Mixtapes: the gifts that keep on giving
Waxing on about the mixtape
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 16, 2012
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Your dramatic art-pop ballad of the day
Charli XCX's nocturnally gorgeous "Forgiveness"
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 13, 2012
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Color me amped about Bun B's hip-hop coloring book
Rappers + coloring books = $$$
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 9, 2012
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The best Craigslist ad for a vintage, early-70s motorcycle that I've seen today
The blueprint for selling your vintage motorcycle on Craigslist
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