Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature
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Our 2009 fiction issue, featuring stories by Benjamin Kumming, Stephen Markley, Natalie Edwards, Will Fletcher, and Robert Cass
Chicagoland A Very Reader Christmas: Hardrock, Coco, and Joe
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Chicagoland / Music A Very Reader Christmas: Blind Blake, "Lonesome Christmas Blues"
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Chicagoland / Food Chain / Film / Food & Drink Xmas Exit Strategy
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If you don't celebrate Christmas, or if you do but you've had enough for today, you've got options. Check out our roundup of Chinatown Chinese restaurants open today.
Crazy Heart opens at Century 12 and CineArts 6, Landmark's Century Centre, and River East 21; "Jeff Bridges finds the perfect vehicle for his lazy charm and bitter irony in the role of Bad Blake, a washed-up country star trying to climb out of the bottle and put his life back together," writes J.R. Jones.
The sardonic, minimalist Romanian drama Police, Adjective, and Jacques Tati's 1953 classic Mr. Hulot's Holiday screen at the Music Box.
Almodovar's latest screens at multiple venues, as does the highly recommended The Young Victoria. And, of course, Avatar ("watching it, I began to understand how people in 1933 must have felt when they saw King Kong") screens all over the place.
Chicagoland A Very Reader Christmas: Swedish Christmas in Andersonville
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Bad News From the Past Evasion of the Bodysnatchers
Posted by Cliff Doerksen on Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 10:00 AM
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Your City Council Now more than ever, it's important to follow what our 50 aldermen are up to. Are our representatives up to the task of telling the mayor "no" once in a while, or, better yet, of coming up with an alternative vision of Chicago government? Read our guide and decide for yourself what their prospects are.
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Movies To See Today
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Precious
With Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey as executive producers, this drama about an obese, illiterate black teen in Harlem practically guarantees some emotional uplift. But
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Chatham 14, Ford City, Renaissance Place and River East 21
Broken Embraces
Another Pedro Almodovar movie, another blast of critical hyperbole hailing his Cukor-style alchemy with star Penelope Cruz. Normally I would just cover my head and
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Century 12 and CineArts 6, Landmark's Century Centre and Renaissance Place
Crazy Heart
Jeff Bridges finds the perfect vehicle for his lazy charm and bitter irony in the role of Bad Blake, a washed-up country star trying to
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Century 12 and CineArts 6, Landmark's Century Centre and River East 21
» More Critics' Choices and other Recommended Movies
The List: December 24-30, 2009 Critics' Choices and other notable concerts: Robbie Fulks, Roy Hargrove, Josh Berman's Old Idea, Fiery Furnaces, and more
The Keeper of the Cassettes What to do with those old practice tapes? Chunklet's Henry Owings is digitizing and posting rarities from the 80s and 90s.
Evil Hates the Light Why do negotiations for a new anti-counterfeiting treaty need to be hidden from the public?
Best Bites of 2009 And a few sips too
White Lightning From the East A new Chinatown liquor store is the go-to spot for the potent spirit baijiu.
Chinese for Christmas? Sixteen options for Christmas dining in Chinatown.
Pure Fiction Our 2009 fiction issue, featuring stories by Benjamin Kumming, Stephen Markley, Natalie Edwards, Will Fletcher, and Robert Cass
When Princesses Grow Up The Young Victoria puts a reality check on the Disney fantasy.
What's Wrong With Up in the Air Only in a year of mediocre movies would this patronizing Clooney vehicle be Oscar material.
Holiday Theater Shows running through Christmas and beyond
The Fragility of Family The Icarus tragedy from a parent's point of view
The Delusions of Losers Mamet's hard look at a hopeless pursuit of the American Dream
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