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Deanna Isaacs on Culture
Columbia College president to student: "Shut up"
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Savage Love
Dan goes intergenerational on May-December romances, potentially dirty old men, and teen dating
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Ben Joravsky on Politics
Rahm Emanuel's longer school day plans hit resistance
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Feature
A Reader staffer searches through, down, and across the history of crosswords to construct his own
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Feature, crosswords, crossword puzzles, Ben Tausig, Inkwell, New Yorker, Margaret Petherbridge, Margaret Farrar, Simon & Schuster, Stanley Newman, cruciverbalism, Marc Romano, Crossworld, Talk of the Town, prohibition, Will Shortz, Will Weng, Eugene T. Maleska, new wave, Crossworder's Own Newsletter, Elizabeth Bishop, One Art, Cynthia Plaster Caster, Matt Gaffney, Gridlock, American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, Brian Eno, Shortz Factor, scumbag, illin', Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart, Julieanne Smolinski, Ben Joravsky, Martha Stewart, M Diddy, Genghis Khan, chow chow, assface
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Artist on Artist
Kool & the Gang's Robert 'Kool' Bell talks to the Eternals' Wayne Montana
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Tags: Artist on Artist, Kool & the gang, Wayne Montana, funk, Van Halen, Robert "Kool" Bell, Eumir Deodato, James "J.T." Taylor, bass, The Eternals, Manu Dibango, Will Smith, Motwon
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Three Beats
A preview of A John Cage Festival, a posthumous party for Sandy Bull, and a birthday bash for Underground Communique
- by Peter Margasak and Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Three Beats, John Cage, Eliza Garth, noise, A John Cage Festival, Nomi Epstein, Sandy Bull, world music, Steve Krakow, Jeff Parker, Underground Communique Records, punk music, Justin Schwier, Rollo Tomasi
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Gossip Wolf
Lollapalooza predictions, Locrian's big deal, and Ben Clarke's new Quarter Mile Thunder
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Lollapalooza, Lolapalooza 2012, At the Drive-In, the Shins, Odd Future, Alabama Shakes, Korn, Leonard Cohen, Sigur Ros, Locrian, Handmade Birds, Bloodiest, Quarter Mile Thunder, Ben Clarke, Emmet Kelly, Jeremy Lemos
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Movie Review
Rachel Weisz stars in the Terence Davies drama The Deep Blue Sea
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Movie Review, Terence Davis, iPod, silence, noise, Terence Rattigan, The Long Day Closes, Of Time and the City, music, diagetic music, nondiagetic music, Samuel Barber, Rachel Weisz, Simon Russel Beale, Tom Hiddleston
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Movie Critic's Choice
Seann William Scott stars as a hockey thug in Goon
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Cocktail Challenge
Longman & Eagle's Derek Alexander draws on the spice trade in his chai-flavored cocktail with baby-formula pearls and breast-milk bubbles.
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Restaurant Reviews
The wood-fired small plates at Urban Union look better on paper.
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Culture Vultures
Chicagoans recommend iO Theater, Aripo's sandwiches, and the Harlotry and Necromancy Appreciation Society
- by Asher Klein
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Tags: Culture Vultures, Alan Goldsher, Game of Thrones, Game of Groans, TJ Jagodowski, David Pasquesi, Tracy Letts, Michael Shannon, improv, Greg Harris, DePaul Art Museum, arepas, Mike Steele, Island Theatre Company, The Harlotry and Necromancy Appreciation Society, iO, Aripo's Venezuelan Arepa House
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Performing Arts Sidebar
Polish performance troupe Teatr Zar at the Museum of Contemporary Art
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Art Critic's Choice
DePaul Art Museum's "Studio Malick" shows work by Malian photog Malick Sidibé
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Bleader
On the persistent poor health of African-Americans
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Science, Disparity Week, Politics, health disparities, African-Americans, cancer, chemotherapy, asthma, diabetes, infant mortality, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, obesity, cirrhosis, schizophrenia, murder, mortality and morbidity, socioeconomic status, poverty, segregation, Social Science & Medicine, Variations on a Theme
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This week's "Variations on a Theme": Silence and Noise Week
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Gail Collins's obsession with Mitt Romney's dog inspired a crossword
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"Factoid": you're doing it wrong
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We invite you to try to outperform us at our own obsession.
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Derrick Rose wins the hyped matchup with Jeremy Lin—and the game.
- by Ted Cox
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Tags: Mudville, Disparity Week, Sports, Chicago Bulls, Jeremy Lin, Linsanity, Derrick Rose, Stacey King, New York Knicks, NBA, basketball, Variations on a Theme
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Is Chicago lagging New York because we have no spirit-exclusive cocktail bars. That's just horsefeathers.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Hangover Week, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Lauren Viera, Scofflaw, Danny Shapiro, Matty Eggleston, Peter Vestinos, Paul McGee, gin, mixology, bartenders, Charles Joly, Mike Ryan, The Aviary, Lynn House, The Violet Hour, Barrelhouse Flat, MAza Azul, Mercadito, Variations on a Theme, Video
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Two-wheel pride: Working Bikes Co-op hosts a bike auction and Bike Snob NYC rides into town
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Bulls fans should learn something from the scream that almost waylaid Tiger.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Mudville, Silence vs. Noise Week, Sports, News, Tiger Woods, PGA, Arnold Palmer Invitational, noise, silence, NBA, Chicago Bulls, LeBron James, free throws, United Center, Variations on a Theme
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Clothes to make you feel pretty
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The Duchess of Chicago makes its Russian debut in Yekaterinburg.
- by Elly Fishman
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Tags: Theater, Arts, Emmerich Kalman, Philip Kraus, The Duchess of Chicago, Light Opera Works, Greg Opelka, Sverdlovsk State Academic Musical Comedy Theater, Yekaterinburg, Michael Unger, Patti Colombo
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Silence! Noise! All last week on the Bleader
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Lyric Opera's dynamite production of Show Boat brings race to the fore.
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Arts, Disparity Week, Music, Lyric Opera, Show Boat, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, James Whale, Paul Robeson, Francesca Zambello, miscegenation, Variations on a Theme
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Marvin Tate and Dave Hilliard collaborate on a new project, The Amazing Mister Orange
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Wednesday's Soup & Bread gets jazzy
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Food Chain, Music, Food & Drink, Post No Bills, Soup & Bread, jazz, Immediate Sound, Hideout, Mike Reed, Dave Rempis, Mitch Cocanig, Nate Lepine, Kent Kessler, Jason Adasiewicz, Ryan Hembrey, Jim Baker, Joshua Abrams, Avreeayl Ra
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The Lincoln Square Wine Stroll, free oysters, the Chicago Beer Festival, and more.
- by Daniel Gerzina
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Lincoln Square Wine Stroll, Amy's Candy Bar, The Grafton, Ruff Haus Pets, The Perfect Cup, Pizza D.O.C., Old Town School of Folk Music, Pro-Holistic Institute, Planet Access, Beans and Bagels, A Perfect Cup, Femme Du Coupe, Mad Men, Fleur de Lis Flower Shop, Greg Koch, Stone Brewing Co., The Craft of Stone Brewing Co., The Brewer's Apprentice, Round Lake Beach Cultural and Civic Center, Timothy O'Toole's, Three Floyds, Half Acre, New Belgium, GT Fish and Oyster, Chicago Beer Festival, 5 Rabbit, Goose Island, Strange Pelican, Magic Hat, Sierra Nevada, Guinness, Sapporo, Thumbs Up, Dodo, Irv and Shelly's Fresh Picks, Mana Food Bar, Bleeding Heart Bakery, Shedd Aquarium, Fenn Valley Vineyards, Fountainhead, Allagash, Victory Brewing Company, The Lost Abbey, Letizia's Fiore, Hum, Armagnac, Paul Virant, Vie, Kate Leahy, The Preservation Kitchen, Dupage Medical Group Charitable Fund, D.O.C. Wine Bar, Molly's Cupcakes.
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The Hawks make retired goaltender Ed Belfour seem needed in a 6-1 loss to Nashville.
- by Ted Cox
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Tags: Mudville, Sports, Blackhawks, Ed Belfour, Nashville Predators, Joel Quenneville, Corey Crawford, Ray Emery, Viktor Stalberg, NHL, hockey
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National Cleavage Day: a celebration most everyone can deeply appreciate
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Let's be honest—some parents just want the schools to babysit their kids.
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Jonathan Alter blames Nader for . . . what?
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The race to bring Cook County court records into the modern world
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Crime, Disparity Week, Politics, Clout City, News, Cook County, Cook County Circuit Court, court clerk, clerk's office, Dorothy Brown, Rick Munoz, Ricardo Munoz, alderman, City Council, criminal justice, transparency, public records, Chicago Reporter, guns, marijuana, grass gap, Variations on a Theme
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The Reader debuts an alphabetical database of its huge long-review catalog
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Chicago Reader, Rotten Tomatoes, The Muppets, Cliff Doerksen, Alien vs. Predator, J.R. Jones, The Adjustment Bureau, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector, D.W. Griffith, America D.W. Griffith, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ali movie, Army of Shadows, The Aviator movie, Drew Hunt, Asher Klein, film criticism, movies
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Mayor Emanuel's bad school policy brings Chicago together.
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Listen to all of Willis Earl Beal's forthcoming XL debut, Acousmatic Sorcery.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Boom!, Music, Willis Earl Beal, XL, Hot Charity, Handwritten Recording, John Mulhouse, City of Dust, Acousmatic Sorcery, Found magazine, Rick Riggs, Filter, Albuquerque, Jamie-James Medina, Video
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The Michigan DNR hates Mangalitsas, Philip Foss makes a snack, Ellen Malloy eats pancakes with the enemy, and more
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Army & Lou's, Izola's, Edna's, Ellen Malloy, Phillip Foss, Dale Levitski, Frog & Snail, J.P. Graziano, Gary Wiviott
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Scott Harris's new chain of doughnut shops, Glazed and Infused, opens soon in Wicker Park, the West Loop, and Lincoln Park.
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Revenge, Chicago-style
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Charles Murray is right: society is stratified. Wonder why.
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Disparity Week, Politics, Food & Drink, Subway, panhandlers, Financial Times, Edward Luce, Charles Murray, American Enterprise Institute, libertarianism, The Bell Curve, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 2060-2010, "cognitive elite, " David Brooks, Paul Krugman, David From, Al Tiramisu, black truffle pasta, Variations on a Theme
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Bobby Rush was kicked out of the House today for a statement of support for Trayvon Martin.
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Shower-man, my latest upstairs neighbor, cannot be called very environmentally aware.
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In this week's Food & Drink: small-plates wine bar Urban Union, Cocktail Challenge baby formula
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Urban Union, Jason Chan, Michael Shrader, Taylor Street, Longman & Eagle, Derek Alexander, Cocktail Challenge, Danny Shapiro, Scofflaw, durian, the Hideout, Beauty Bar, Berlin
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MillerCoors launches a new ad campaign to stand up to the craft brewing bullies.
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Some babbling about the Magnetic Fields
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Unexpected new releases by Pelican guitarist Trevor de Brauw and west-side rap legends Crucial Conflict
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Things I Love, Music, Trevor de Brauw, Crucial Conflict, Pelican, Chord, Winters in Osaka, Dead Dragon Mountain, Sun Splitter, Andrew Barber, Fake Shore Drive, Bad Dudes
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Two cheers for disparities.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Disparity Week, Disparities, Dean Martin, Terror House Museum, sentencing reform, education reform, Budapest, Hungary, A Clockwork Orange, Variations on a Theme, Video
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Do their readers need tips from teenagers?
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It’s a noise registered not by decibels but by its ability to invade every nook and cranny of one’s psyche.
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A blinding flash of light told Andy Russell he'd just had yet another concussion
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Composer Nomi Epstein talks about Aperiodic's upcoming A John Cage Festival.
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Neon Marshmallow's Matt Kimmel brings the booking heat to the Burlington.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Burlington Bar, Matt Kimmel, Daniel Smith, Neon Marshmallow, Imaginary Softwoods, John Elliott, Rene Hell, Emeralds, experimental music, Video
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The county board president has a beef with longtime ally Kwame Raoul
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Disparity Week, Politics, Clout City, News, Will Burns, elections, Fourth Ward, Hyde Park, Toni Preckwinkle, Kwame Raoul, Christian Mitchell, Kenny Johnson, 26th District, Illinois House of Representatives, Illinois General Assembly, Democratic primary, reform, Variations on a Theme
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The Sylvia strip is going away, but cartoonist Nicole Hollander intends to keep drawing
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Nicole Hollander, Sylvia, Nancy Pelosi, Alicia Eler, Deanna Trejo, Laura Zinger, Marie Antoinette, Avram Eisen, Chicago Tribune
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The past, the future, and nine songs to hear on Spotify
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music, Spotify, Hunx and His Punx, Terry Malts, Ceremony, Neon Indian, Grimes, Chairlift, White Car, Chromatics, Rihanna, Drake, Empty Bottle, Metro
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Former MCA curator Tricia Van Eck discusses her new Edgewater-based project, 6018NORTH.
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After the vile Immortals, director Tarsem Singh bounces back with a comic retelling of Snow White
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Tarsem Singh, Immortals movie, The Fall movie, Terry Gilliam, Mellissa Wallack, Jason Keller, Snow White, Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, fantasy movies, Video
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Last night's show was awesome!
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Do This, Music, Magnetic Fields, Stephin Merritt, Claudia Gonson, Shirley Simms, John Woo, Sam Davol, Kelly Hogan, the Vic, 69 Love Songs, Love at the Bottom of the Sea, Video
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Simeon's talent and size advantage over Bloom prevails in the Illinois state basketball semifinals.
- by Ted Cox
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Tags: Mudville, Disparity Week, Sports, IHSA, Simeon, Bloom, Jabari Parker, Steve Taylor, Donald Moore, Proviso East, Illinois, Variations on a Theme
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In a rare exhibition night game telecast, A.J. Pierzynski elates barroom viewers with an inside-the-park home run.
- by Ted Cox
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Tags: Mudville, Hangover Week, Sports, White Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, A.J. Pierzynski, Gavin Floyd, spring training, Comcast SportsNet Chicago, baseball, MLB, Variations on a Theme
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What is it with those songbirds chirping away at three in the morning?
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Science, Silence vs. Noise Week, light pollution, songbirds, 4 AM bar, chirping, dawn chorus, The Independent, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Variations on a Theme, Video
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Bobby Womack returns in style with "Please Forgive My Heart."
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Bobby Womack, Please Forgive My Heart, XL, Damon Albarn, Richard Russell, Bootsy Collins, The Bravest Man in the Universe, 12 O'Clock Track, Video
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Obscure electronic-music pioneer Laurie Spiegel makes an appearance in the blockbuster's score.
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Film, Music, Hunger Games, Laurie Spiegel, Sediment, Wired, electronic music, T-Bone Burnett, sci-fi, Electrocomp 200, Video
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"Holy Geometry" is fuzzy, catchy garage rock from Blasted Canyons.
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There's no finer cocktail than a well-crafted manhattan
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Street artist Left Handed Wave talks about his work and rise in Chicago's street art scene.
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The great world-music series Music Without Borders is missing from the city's announcement of Millennium Park's summer programming.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Millennium Park, Pritzker Pavilion, Music Without Borders, Michael Orlove, Downtown Sound, Loops and Variations, Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz, summer, free concerts
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Rob Mazurek's new Pulsar Quartet, featuring superb New York pianist Angelica Sanchez, kicks off a four-night Whistler residency.
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Does Helen Thomas deserve a table at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner?
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After-birth abortion flap finally hits the Tribune
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A brief consideration of alcohol's effect on filmmaking
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Hangover Week, Film, Hangover Week, John Ford, The Wings of Eagles, George Cukor, Yasujiro Ozu, John Cassavetes, Hong Sang-soo, Tokyo Story, Variations on a Theme
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Highly suspicious — anyone who keeps to himself
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Silence vs. Noise Week, Sergeant Robert Bales, solitude, silence, land's end, loners, Brian Patrick Eha, gregariousness, advertising, Ted Bundy. Amelia Earhart, Variations on a Theme
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Check out new spring pieces from a local designer, trunk shows in the South Loop, and more
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International Tom Hanks Day returns March 31
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Do This, Whoa, Film, Tom Hanks, Tom Hanks Day, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, gretest actor ever, Big, Toy Story, Lifeline Energy, Video
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Honoring the legacy of a legendary Chicago civil rights activist
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Politics, Clout City, News, Robert Lucas, Bob Lucas, CORE, Cicero, Martin Luther King Jr., Richard J. Daley, civil rights, civil rights movement, James Ralph, Northern Protest, Otto Kerner, racism, Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization, KOCO, Jay Travis, Tim Evans, Toni Preckwinkle, Fourth Ward, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Public Schools, community organizing
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Do your part in preserving Chicago bar history, by taking an old sign off my hands.
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Revisiting the Richard Lester war movie parody, newly available on DVD
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I wish Jon Hamm were still an unknown actor
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Robert "Kool" Bell stays cool, Lollapalooza predictions, John Cage-related happenings, and more
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music, Kool & the Gang, Eternals, I Kong Kult, Lollapalooza, John Cage, Sandy Bell, Underground Communique, Hunx & His Punx, Heavy Cream, Shooter Jennings, Chairlift, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Keith Jarrett
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Mayor Emanuel and police superintendent Garry McCarthy vow an assault on drug dealers and users
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Crime, The Reefer, Politics, Clout City, News, drugs, gangs, violence, marijuana, war on drugs, Chicago Police Department, Rahm Emanuel, Garry McCarthy, community policing, CAPS, Humboldt Park, west side, pot, pot possession, drug reform, murder, homicide, shootings
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A variety of openings and shows happening around Chicago this weekend.
- by Elly Fishman
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Tags: Arts, Visual Art, Mickalene Thomas, Naomi Beckwith, Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Institute Chicago, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, PeregrineProgram, David Salkin, Catherine Sullivan, Reva and David Logan Arts Center, University of Chicago
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Big deal about brackets, the NCAA Tourney isn't as fun without the little guys
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Mudville, Sports, NCAA Tournament, Kentucky, North Carolina, basketball, underdog, Final Four, bracket, NBA, Ohio State
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The perverse social experiment that is a Lincoln Park hot dog shack
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Things I Hate, Hangover Week, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Wiener's Circle, Huffington Post, This American Life, racism, class, confusion, Variations on a Theme, Video
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "The Blessed Void" from All Pigs Must Die.
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How certain recent movies use silence as an artistic device
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Foreign, Silence vs. Noise Week, Film, Silence vs. Noise Week, Slow Cinema, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Hors Satan, Bruno Dumont, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lisandro Alonso, James Benning, Variations on a Theme
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To make us listen closer, composer Radu Malfatti gets rid of most of the notes
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Silence vs. Noise Week, Music, Post No Bills, silence, noise, John Cage, 4'33", Radu Malfatti, free improvisation, Wandelweiser Group, Variations on a Theme
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Making something out of nothing on the spring training beat.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Mudville, Sports, News, Spring training, baseball, Robin Ventura, White Sox, Tribune, Mark Gonzales, lineups, it is what it is, New York Times, William Safire, Joe Pickett, American Heritage Dictionary, Urban Dictionary, Paul Konerko, Alex Rios, Adam Dunn, spaniels
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Tony's Finer Foods makes the finest damn salsas.
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As is the case with many theories, the Theory of Hangover-Induced Neurosuperiority [THIN] has its detractors
- by Mara Shalhoup
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Tags: Hangover Week, Food & Drink, University of Illinois at Chicago, Wired, Frontal Cortex, sleepiness, brain damage, hangover, creativity, heavy drinking, Variations on a Theme
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Enter the Reader's Bacon Cocktail Challenge and enjoy the world premiere of the new Baconfest 2012 video
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Baconfest, Mike Ryan, Stephen Cole, Sable, Barrelhouse Flat, cocktails, bacon, cocktail challenge, Video
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- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Silence vs. Noise Week, Film, The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Davies, Rachel Weisz, Silence vs. Noise Week, Bleader, Goon movie, Seann William Scott, Let the Bullets Fly, Jiang Wen, Chow Yun-Fat, The Salt of Life, Gianni Di Gregorio, Mid-August Lunch, John Landis, The Blues Brothers, Patio Chicago, Max Ophuls, Liebelei, Portage Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Andrei Tarkovsky, My Name Is Ivan, University of Chicago Doc Films, Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs, Douglas Sirk, There's Always Tomorrow, Music Box, Apichatpong Weerasathakul, Tropical Malady, Gene Siskel Film Center, Daniel Eisenberg, Phil Grabsky, In Search of Haydn, Jian Ping, Mulberry Child, Brent Green, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, movies, Variations on a Theme, Video
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The Portage Park fish market smokes a sweet, snappy decapod
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UNO's win in the 21st legislative district is not exactly a ringing endorsement for charter schools.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Education, Politics, Clout City, Rudy Lozano Jr., Silvana Tabares, Alderman Edward Burke, House Speaker Michael Madigan, Mick Dumke, Juan Rangel, United Neighborhood Organization, charter schools, Mayor Rahm Emanuel
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Maybe it's time to turn to a digital alarm clock.
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A reconsideration of the 2011 British horror film
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Is Rahm Emanuel aware that Chicago already has a community policing program?
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Crime, Politics, Clout City, News, drugs, gangs, violence, war on drugs, Chicago Police Department, Rahm Emanuel, Garry McCarthy, community policing, CAPS, Humboldt Park, west side, drug reform, murder, homicide, shootings, Jimmy Simmons, Ron Holt, Richard M. Daley
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A breakdown of all the hijinks and shenanigans on the Bleader last week
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The Tribune Co. and DirecTV battle over rights fees.
- by Ted Cox
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Tags: Mudville, Silence vs. Noise Week, Media, Sports, Tribune Co., WGN Channel 9, DirecTV, Cubs, White Sox, Bulls, Blackhawks, CW, Variations on a Theme
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A documentary on White Sox great Minnie Minoso seeks final funding.
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All the news that's fit to fix.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Media, News, New York Times, corrections, Republican presidential primary, Newt Gingrich, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd, NCAA women's basketball, Florida, Ohio State, J.D. Pooley, Associated Press, Elena Roger, Broadway, Evita, What’s New Buenos Aires?, Kreutzer Sonata, Tolstoy, Pozdnyshev, mixed martial arts, South by Southwest Music Festival, Battery Park, Hudson River, East River
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The Wedding Present play their 21-year-old album Seamonsters on Tuesday at the Double Door.
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Locally grown industrial dance-music revivalism
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The latest Daley to run for office attracts the interest—and checks—of many of the city’s powerful
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Politics, Clout City, News, Patrick Daley Thompson, Richard M. Daley, Richard J. Daley, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, water rec district, wastewater, sewage, campaign contributions, 2012 primary elections, Rahm Emanuel, Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County Democratic Party, Abdon Pallasch, Chicago Sun-Times, Michael Daley, William Daley, Jack George, William J.P. Banks, John Doerrer, Richard Devine, Terry Peterson, Ed Burke, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, Chicago Association of Realtors, Grosvenor Capital Management, Michael Sacks, World Business Chicago, J.B. Pritzker, Wirtz Beverage, Frank McMahon, Freeborn and Peters, Katten Muchin Rosenman, Larry Suffredin, Debra Shore, Kari Steele
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The law school prof behind the challenge to the health care bill used to sell ads for the Reader.
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Veteran Brazilian singer Marisa Monte is back with a gorgeous, restrained new album.
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This week's featured gig poster features a very stoned James Brown
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Sun-Times sportswriter Lacy Banks dies
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Nat Baldwin of Dirty Projectors brings his peculiar bass-and-voice solo project to the Hideout on Friday.
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From the department of coming through on blog promises
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Style, Swag, Music, Misfits, Tortoise, John Herndon, Danzig, tattoos, punk, video, Video
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A preview of the 2011 Indian documentary The Bengali Detective, which receives its Chicago premiere this weekend
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A conversation with filmmaker and curator Shai Heredia about a traveling program of Indian experimental films
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Kites are fun, and dis Miss Kelly Hogan at your peril, asshole.
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Things I Hate, Things I Love, Music, Sam Worley, crosswords, Magnetic Fields, Stephin Merritt, Kelly Hogan, Scott Ligon, Papa Was a Rodeo, Hideout, the Flat Five, Casey MacDonough, Mavis Staples, Neko Case, Robyn Hitchcock, Andrew Bird, Jon Langford, Vic Chestnutt, the Free Design, Kites Are Fun, Video
