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Feature
A NATO/G8 primer: Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
- by Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke
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Tags: Feature, G8, G8 summit, NATO, NATO summit, Occupy movement, protests, riots, Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Leslie Hairston, City Council, contractors, competitive bidding, civic-minded rich people, Ray Suarez, Garry McCarthy, parking meters, Chicago Parking Meters LLC, World Business Chicago, fiascos
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Sidebar
Is Chicago prepared to deal with potential G8/NATO riots?
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Sidebar
Will Chicago learn from its $12 million protest mistake?
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Deanna Isaacs on Culture
Out of mothballs, the Chicago Cultural Plan is getting a public redo
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Savage Love
Dan Savage takes questions from students and staff at the University of Alaska
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Music Column
Now that Jeff Mangum has made his second coming, what's left for him to do?
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Artist on Artist
Sharon Van Etten talks to Chris Salveter of Judson Claiborne
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Three Beats
News and new releases from Absolutely Not, BBU, and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm
- by Peter Margasak, Miles Raymer and Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Three Beats, Peira Records, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Raymond Strid, BBU, juke, Mishka, Mad Decent, Mike Milam, Absolutely Not, garage punk
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Gossip Wolf
The latest on Willis Earl Beal, Thirds, Stripped & Chewed Music, and Bare Mutants
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Movie Review
Lionel Rogosin's On the Bowery exposed life on skid row
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Movie Review, Lionel Rogosin, documentary, cinema verite, neorealism, the Bowery, John Cassavetes, Marina Goldovskya, rayon, James Agee, Mark Sufrin, Richard Bagley, skid row
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Movie Critic's Choice
Woody Harrelson is a renegade cop in Oren Moverman's Rampart
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Movie Feature
An index of the Chicago Reader's long reviews from 1971 to now.
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Restaurant Reviews
The souped-up Applebee's that is Laurent Tourondel's BLT American Brasserie
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Cocktail Challenge
Justin Anderson of the Bedford, Branch 27, and the forthcoming La Sirena Clandestina, makes an Asian Bloody Mary with muddled caviar
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Cocktail Challenge, Justin Anderson, Bradley Bolt, John Manion, La Sirena Clandestina, Ernest Hemingway, Donshuunouo, Japan, caviar, Branch 27, Slideshow
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Performing Arts Review
Jon Steinhagen's new Dating Walter Dante needs to flesh out its heroine
- by Kerry Reid
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, Washington Post, Newsweek, Dating Walter Dante, Jon Steinhagen, Raven Theatre, Jerry Springer, Drew Peterson, Aces, Blizzard '67, Jacob Watson, Frances Maggio, Brigitte Ditmars, Michael Boone, Kristin Collins, Jason Huysman, Antoine Pierre Whitfield
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Performing Arts Sidebar
The Joffrey's winter concert includes Wayne McGregor's uncharacteristically tender Infra
- by Laura Molzahn
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Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Wayne McGregor, Joffrey Ballet, Winter Fire, Auditorium Theatre, Royal Ballet, Infra, Julian Opie, William Forsythe, In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, Christopher Wheeldon, After the Rain
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Culture Vultures
In-the-know Chicagoans recommend cover band Weepin’ Willows, ComJourn.com, Destruction Myth
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Performing Arts Review
Chay Yew debuts at Victory Gardens Theater with Ameriville
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, Victory Gardens Theater, Dennis Zacek, Chay Yew, Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, James Sherman, Pulitzer Prize, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, American Idiot, Ameriville, Steven Sapp, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, Gamal Chasten, William Ruiz, Universes, Condoleeza Rice, Walmart, Luis Alfaro, Oedipus El Rey
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Art Review
The MCA's "This Will Have Been" takes a comprehensive look at art in the 80s
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Art Review, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Helen Molesworth, Institute of Contemporary Art, AIDS, Ronald Reagan, Diane Arbus, Guggenheim, Nan Goldin, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Douglas Crimp, Frank Stella, Sherrie Levine, Frazer Ward, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gran Fury, Guerrilla Girls, The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist, Kissing Doesn’t Kill, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Slideshow
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Show us your [____]
Each week, we ask you to show us something. This week it's Eric Prahl's Transformers
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Zoom in
Zoom in: The Morton Salt Company on Goose Island
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Chicagoans
This week's Chicagoan: Funeral director Aldo Marin dissects his craft
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Bleader
Gonzo sci-fi tech-death from newly Chicago-based Gigan
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Bleader
A true confession—my Democratic regrets
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Regrets Week, Politics, Clout City, Variations on a Theme, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Rod Blagojevich, Blago, Rich Whitney, Green Party, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR, Rick Santorum
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Bleader
Let's hear it for the middle finger, in all its glory
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Paranormal, Mudville, Media, Music, Sports, middle finger, Adele, M.I.A., Super Bowl, flip the bird, Grammys, Brit Awards, Boston Beaneaters, the Guardian, Village Voice, fuck you
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Bleader
Connecting the dots between the new release House of Pleasures and Maurice Ravel's symphonic piece La Valse (1920)
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Bleader
Norwegian singer Susanna Wallumrød collaborates with Swiss baroque harpist Giovanna Pessi on an arresting song by 17th-century composer Henry Purcell.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Giovanna Pessi, Susanna Wallumrod, The Plaint, If Grief Could Wait, ECM, Henry Purcell, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, 12 O'Clock Track, Video
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Bleader
In Margaret, sin is ennobling
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Bleader
Benefit tonight for Ron Shock
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Bleader
Chicago News Cooperative is folding
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Bleader
A review of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
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Bleader
Diamanda Galas calls out the loathsome profiteers who ran Whitney Houston "into the ground," calls Clive Davis a "colossal pig"
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Bleader
Simeon plays for the city title, followed by a previously scheduled game against top suburban competition
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Bleader
The Del Fuegos play Lincoln Hall and SPACE, and they've got a new record in the works
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Del Fuegos, Boston rock, Turn Right, reunions, Friday Night, Paisley Underground, Lincoln Hall, SPACE, Miller beer, Video
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Bleader
The Chicago Cultural Plan will be written in Toronto
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: Lit & Lectures, Music, Visual Art, Clout City, News, Performing Arts, Dance, Arts, Books, Chicago Cultural Plan, Lord Cultural Resources, Michelle Boone, Orit Sarfaty
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Bleader
Why the Chicago News Cooperative is closing
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Bleader
In the Santorum campaign, it's easy to say "Islamic" when you mean "environmental"
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Politics, News, Clout City, Rick Santorum, Alice Stewart, MSNBC, President Obama, radical Islamic, radical environmental, tongue slips, Republican primary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Newt Gingrich, super PACs, Marxists, socialists, communists, Muslims
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Bleader
Why did President Obama allow Mayor Emanuel to talk him into having the G8/NATO summits in Chicago?
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: The Reefer, Politics, Clout City, President Barack Obama, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago, NATO, G8, Dick Van Dyke, Morey Amsterdam, Mick Dumke, The Big Lebowski
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Bleader
Facets presents an evening of beer and film conversation
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Bleader
What the hell is "artificial birth control"?
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: How To..., Paranormal, Media, Politics, Clout City, Ross Douthat, New York Times, birth control, pulling it out, Google, Frank Bruni, gay marriage, natural birth control
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Bleader
Photography helps carry a fictional story about Chicago in the new issue of Once magazine
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Bleader
A Blackhawks fan rides the train back to Chicago in the enemy company of a formal Blue Crew road trip
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Bleader
New campus for Malcolm X College; new president for Shimer
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Bleader
City officials have tabled a proposal to reform marijuana laws
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Crime, The Reefer, Politics, Clout City, marijuana, pot, possession, tickets, arrests, John Fritchey, decriminalization, Rahm Emanuel, Danny Solis, Garry McCarthy, Chicago Police Department, Cook County, Chicago politics
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Bleader
The Second Annual Synthesizer Chili Cook-Off, Sunday at the Empty Bottle
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Second Annual Synthesizer Chili Cook-Off, Empty Bottle, Brett Naucke, Beau Wanzer, Andy Ortmann, Jeremiah Fisher, Rolan Vega, Jeff Host, Anthony Janas, Steve Krakow, Mike Broers, Brandon Walsh
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Bleader
I debate Alderman Joe Moore about Mayor Rahm, TIFs, and the G8/NATO summits
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: The Reefer, Politics, Clout City, Alderman Joe Moore, TIFs, the 49th ward, Don Gordon, Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Mary Scot-Boria, Fiddler on the Roof
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Bleader
The simple things Rick Santorum can do to win tonight's debate
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Politics, News, Clout City, Republican debates, Rick Santorum, Michael D. Shear, New York Times, The Caucus, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, health care, gas prices, fake conservative, severely conservative
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Bleader
The new sights-to-see map in the State and Grand subway station may not have all its facts right
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Bleader
A short review of the latest from Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki
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Bleader
The Butcher & Larder chorizo verde isn't green, but it's the best
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, chorizo verde, green chorizo, El Gallo Bravo, Rob Levitt, Butcher & Larder, sausage, Mexican food, Toluca, Rick Bayless
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Bleader
A consideration of the films of Yilmaz Güney as works of protest
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Bleader
What's in the February 16, 2012 issue of the Reader
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Inside the Reader, Politics, Behind Our Scenes, Clout City, Mick Dumke, Ben Joravsky, NATO, G8, Deanna Isaacs, Chicago Cultural Plan, You Are Here, Chicagoans, Aldo Marin, funeral director, Show Us Your, Transformers, Zoom In, Morton Salt Company, umbrella girl, Savage Love, Alaska
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Bleader
Half Acre's newest beer, Cipher, contains an actual cipher
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Bleader
This week's edition of "Variations on a Theme": Protest Week
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Inside the Reader, Protest Week, Politics, Behind Our Scenes, Clout City, Variations on a Theme, Protest Week, Ben Joravsky, Mick Dumke, NATO, G8
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Bleader
Francisco Ramirez's design for the Arluck Time benefit
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Bleader
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Milestone Film & Video, On the Bowery, Lionel Rogosin, The Perfect Team, Rampart movie, Oren Moverman, L.A. Confidential, Declaration of War, In Darkness, Agnieszka Holland, Europa Europa, The Secret Garden, London River, Rachid Bouchareb, Days of Glory, Outside the Law, Safe House, Denzel Washington, Tony Scott, The Story of Lover's Rock, This Means War, Charlie's Angels movie, McG, The Vow movie, Channing Tatum, Rachel McAdams, Robert Bresson, L'Argent, The Devil Probably, Sergio Leone, Duck, You Sucker!, Nicholas Ray, In a Lonely Place, Wes Anderson, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, David Lynch, Mulholland Dr., Steve James, Barbara Kopple, Harlan County U.S.A., The Film That Changed My Life, The Interrupters, Bob Hercules, Joffrey Ballet, Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance, Kenneth Lonergan, Margaret movie, Tony Adler, Steve Bogira, Deanna Isaacs, Michael Miner, Sam Worley, movies, Video
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Bleader
Ravenswood's Koval Distillery is calling for volunteers
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Bleader
A review of Mikio Naruse's Daughters, Wives and Mother, playing tonight at Doc Films
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Bleader
LA producer out-Weeknds the Weeknd
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Bleader
What's on in shopping this weekend, beginning February 17, 2012
- by Heather Kenny
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Tags: Style, Lazar Shopping, Jennifer Tyler, Jackie Rogers, Giuliana Teso, the Wrights, Traipse, Scott Montgomery, Tax-Free Weekend, the 900 Shops, Mark Shale, MaxMara, Karen Millen
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Bleader
Allium, chef Kevin Hickey's redo of Seasons, has opened in the Four Season Hotel Chicago
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Bleader
APEC protests in Santiago, George W. Bush's exploits, and students facing down tear gas and water cannons.
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Protest Week, Politics, Clout City, Chile, Santiago, protests, APEC, G8, NATO, George Bush, student protests, APEC protests, Protest Week, Variations on a Theme
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Bleader
How a charter school becomes a haven for a great teacher who should never have been "redefined"
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: The Reefer, Politics, Clout City, Sunny Neater-DuBow, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Public Schools, Ron Huberman, Illinois State Supreme Court, Chicago Teachers Union, Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, "Won't Back Down"
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"Without a Soul," a brand-new song from Obnox, aka Cleveland garage-punk institution Lamont "Bim" Thomas
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Crickets, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Obnox, Lamont Thomas, Bim, I'm Bleeding Now, Without a Soul, Puffy Areolas, This Moment in Black History, Bassholes, Cleveland, Ohio, Smog Veil Records
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Bleader
Extra items for your Sat 2/18 agenda
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SNL gets indie-er
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In Margaret, a teenager learns more than her teachers can ever convey
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Margaret Week, Margaret, Kenneth Lonergan, Gene Siskel Film Center, Anna Paquin, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick, Matt Damon, Hina Abdullah, movies, Video
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Fresh performing arts reviews and previews
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Dance, Arts, American Idiot, Ameriville, Dating Walter Dante, Baseball Music, Bell, Book, and Candle, Chester and the Unbearable Burden, Crossed, Crowded House, The Gingerbread House, Hunger, Orpheus Descending, The People's Barnum, Show Boat, Sweet Home, Joffrey Ballet, Winter Fire
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Steppenwolf Theatre expands with purchase of neighboring building
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Film critic for a day: Deanna Isaacs on Kenneth Lonergan's film, Margaret
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: Film, Margaret Week, Kenneth Lonergan, You Can Count on Me, Anna Paquin, J. Smith-Cameron, Kieran Culkin, Woody Allen, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gene Siskel Film Center
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Bleader
Flamboyant Megaupload founder out on bail
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The fermented soybean paste at New Chicago Kimchee is as close to blue cheese as you can get without milking a cow
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We pay attention to Newt Gingrich so you don't have to
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Tonight at Barn & Company: a pitmaster's prix fixe
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Listen to the Cribs' new Chicago-specific single.
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One day left to buy yourself a new Compton hat
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The Blackhawks turn things around by emphasizing the little things that make a team excel
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The city has yet to receive any grant money to prepare for the summits in May
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Protest Week, Politics, Clout City, News, Variations on a Theme, G8, G8 summit, NATO, NATO summit, Occupy movement, protests, riots, Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Gary Schenkel, City Council, grants, Office of Emergency Communications Management, OEMC, grants, federal grants, Urban Areas Security Initiative, Lori Healey, National Special Security Event, transparency, Freedom of Information Act
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Annals of arts and crafts: how to attach the mayor to your face
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"Mother Abyss," from Sentenced to Life, the upcoming album by Seattle metal band Black Breath
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James O'Shea announces a halt at the Chicago News Cooperative
