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People Issue 2012: "You've just gotta filter out noise"
by Reader staff
Tags: Feature , People Issue 2012 , People Issue , Latoya Winters , John Campos , Angel Olsen , Millon Dollar Mano , Kimmy Walters , Dave Matta , Alejandro Cerrudo , Dave Cerda , Jackie Taylor , Vern Hester , Tara D. , Ehsan Ghoreishi , Becca Hall , Martin Kastner , Keith Magee , Kayce Ataiyero , Michael Robbins , Mitzi Scott , Dave Odd , Abra Berens , Zain Curtis , Teen Witch , Dee Alexander , Roger Sosner , Tony Bacon , Janet Voight
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Youth worker at Marillac: "I wanna help people from where I come from. I went through what they're going through."
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CPD community policing advocate: "Some blocks look like Afghanistan and others look like any other street in Chicago."
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@aRealLiveGhost: "You've just gotta filter out noise."
Tags: Feature , Kimmy Walters , Twitter , Cool Date , @TPHD , social media , poetry , poetry readings , New York , @arealliveghost , Weird Twitter , Twet Crew , @dryhugs , @rare_basement , @UtilityLimb , @famouscrab , @dril
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Executive director of the National Public Housing Museum: "I looked into the face of the poor. I saw my calling."
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Chicago Steam general manager: "Even as a lifelong basketball fan I didn't appreciate how complex the business is."
Tags: Feature , Kayce Ataiyero , Chicago Steam , basketball , minor league basketball , journalists , Ron Hicks , sports , Chicago Tribune , Deborah Leigh Key , Dolton Rec Center , News & Observer , Victor Saracini , Philadelphia Inquirer , Chris Webber , Fab Five , Arthur Agee , Sam Houston
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Addict who's 12 years clean: "You can call it a bottom, or you can call it a blessing."
Tags: Feature , People Issue 2012 , People Issue , Mitzi Scott , The Survivor , Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities , Emages , drugs , drug addiction , cocaine , marijuana , codeine , heroin , freebase , A Safe Haven , Kennedy-King College , Professor Larry Ross
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Beer vendor and LP collector: "Any person with a strong back and a weak mind can do it."
Tags: Feature , People Issue 2012 , People Issue , Roger Sosner , The Seller , beer vendor , record collector , White Sox Park , Wrigley Field , United Center , Chicagoland Record Collectors Show , Darlene Payne & the O.D. Girls , This Melody , Copy Cat song , Big Bill Hill show , eBay , US Cellular Field
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Chicago Public Schools employee: "The union guy told me, 'Just be happy you got a job.'"
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Deep-sea explorer: "There must have been cliffs 20 meters high and it's dark and you can only see ten feet ahead of you."
Tags: Feature , People Issue 2012 , People Issue , Janet Voight , Field Museum , The Diver , zoology , cephalopod mollusks , Alvin submersible , amphipods , wood-boring clams , flatworms
Savage Love
Dan on the roots—or lack thereof—of kinky tendencies, plus some fooling around in the family tree.
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Dan on third wheels, blow job technique, and urine enemas.
Music Feature
Bonnie "Prince" Billy collaborator: "I just kind of had to find something that I could hold onto."
Tags: Music Feature , Will Oldham , Emmett Kelly , Angel Olsen , Bonnie "Prince" Billy , Cairo Gang , Bathetic Records , songwriting , Half Way Home , Pillars & Tongues , Static Films , Kerry Couch , Ottoman Empire , Sac House , Marissa Nadler , The Babblers , Cafe Mustache , Miko's Italian Ice , Ronny's
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Kanye West's tour DJ: "I didn't know I was ever gonna DJ for Jay-Z."
Tags: Music Feature , People Issue 2012 , People Issue , Million Dollar Mano , Millon $ Mano , Kanye West , Treated Crew , DJ Rashad , DJ Spinn , 2 Chainz , Jay-Z
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Eclectic music curator: "I feel a great deal of responsibility as a DJ in this town."
Tags: Music Feature , Brian Chankin , The Menahan Street , Charles Bradley , Dave Matta , soul , Northern Soul , Motown , 60s soul , DJs , reggae , world music , hip-hop , underground hip-hop , Soul Summit , The Owl , The Whistler , Double Door
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Founder of CULT at Berlin: "The whole reason of going to school is networking, but I realized I could do that with partying."
Tags: Music Feature , Berlin , CULT , seapunk , DJs , Teen Witch zine , DJ Teen Witch , Teen Witch , Zain Curtis , partying , club culture , Kyle Leuck , Yoko Homo , Scott Cramer , Rihanna , zines , Subterranean
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Leader of the Evolution Ensemble: "There was a freedom in jazz and all of the different chances you could take."
Tags: Music Feature , Dee Alexander , Rashida Black , Tomeka Reid , James Sanders , Ernie Adams , jazz , Iqua Colson , Newport Jazz Festival , Evolution Ensemble , 3Arts Award , Douglas Ewart , Jimmy Ellis , Theophilus Reed , Orvieto Jazz Festival , Rita Warford , Von Freeman , Progressive Art Center , Moosehead Lounge , "Light" Henry Huff" , Yosef Ben Israel , Ken Chaney , Avreeayl Ra
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Windy City Times columnist: "I wanna be a dirty old man and I wanna shoot rock 'n' roll."
Tags: Music Feature , Vern Hester , photographers , photography , Windy City Times , Paul Natkin , film , concert photography , black and white film , Tracy Baim , Gay Life
Gossip Wolf
A gift from Rabble Rabble, plus GLC's on a roll
by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
Tags: Gossip Wolf , Rabble Rabble , Cole's Bathroom , Matt Ciarleglio , Logan Square , Cole's , Empty Bottle , Vamos , Magic Milk , Experimental Sound Studio , The Drone for the End of Time , Kanye West , Fellowship &Congregate , Cathedral , The Anti Sim , Silence of the Lames , Million Dollar Mano , Blended Babies , SK , Really Doe , Bun B , Treated Crew , Reggie's Rock Club
Movie Feature
Cabbie/musician/ documentarian: "I knew that I had to work my ass off."
Tags: Movie Feature , People Issue 2012 , People Issue , Ehsan Ghoreishi , The Filmmaker , cabbie , cabdriver , taxi , Mashhad , Iran , Dominick's , Truman College , Columbia College , Doug Abram , Black Bear Combo , Chicago Gypsy Brass Band , Miguel Silveira
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Northwest Chicago Film Society cofounder: "If it was born on celluloid and we can't get celluloid, we won’t show it."
Tags: Movie Feature , University of Chicago , Rebecca Hall , movies , projectionists , Classic Film Series , film , film projection , Kyle Westphal , Northwest Chicago Film Society , Becca Hall , Univ. of Chicago Doc Films , Portage Theater , Gene Siskel Film Center
Movie Critic's Choice
In Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone , a woman loses her legs and then her heart.
Food & Drink Feature
Owner of Odd Produce: "I take wild plants that we find elsewhere and transplant them and just let them go nuts"
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Co-owner of Bare Knuckle Farm: "I think people have lost some contact with how their food is grown."
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Designer of Alinea's serviceware: "I had no desire to be an artist. I thought art was all ego."
Tags: Food & Drink Feature , People Issue 2012 , People Issue , Martin Kaster , The Craftsman , Crucial Designs , Alinea , Next restaurant , Aviary , Grant Achatz , the Porthole , The Aviary , Next
Chicago Reader's Guide to New Year's Eve
Our picks for the best places to be when the ball drops
Tags: Chicago Reader's Guide to New Year's Eve , Black Ensemble Theater , The Jackie Wilson Story , The Marvin Gaye Story , One Name Only , Bootlegger's Ball , Moonshine Brewing Company , Burlesque New Year's Eve Striptacular , Gorilla Tango's Geek Girls , Chemically Imbalanced Comedy , Chemically Imbalanced Theater , Kiss Kiss Cabaret New Year's Eve Hullabaloo , Greenhouse Theater Center , Nerd Year's Eve , Star Wars , Challengers Comics + Conversation , DANK Haus , Feuerzangenbowle , The Poseidon Adventure , Music Box , Morseland , Slo 'Mo , the Whistler , Time Travel Spectacular , Elastic , Messing and the Wisemen , Antony and the Tramps , Airborne Toxic Event , Metro , Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires , Lincoln Hall , Eternals Espiritu Zombi Group , Hideout , Marked Men Bad Sports , Empty Bottle , Wanda Jackson , Double Door , Porter Robinson , Congress Theater , Beauty Bar , Hood Internet , Moon Boots , Only Children , The Castle , Paul Oakenfold , Evil Olive , Porn and Chicken , Funky Buddha Lounge , The Mid , The Shrine , DJ B-Man , Teedra Moses , Spy Bar , Kalendr , Inphinity , Gene Farris , Acadia , Big Jones , Blackbird , Hoppin' John , Blackbird , Chef David Posey , Chilam Balam , Natalie Oswald , Deleece , Due Lire Vino and Cucina , Fork , Tim Cottini , Grass Fed , Jerry's Andersonville , Longman and Eagle , Jared Wentworth , Mercadito , Ryan Poli , Mercat a la Planxa , Nana , Park Grill , People Tapas Lounge , The Publican , Brian Huston , Senza , Noah Sandoval , Sepia , Andrew Zimmerman , Slurping Turtle , Godzilla , Takashi Yagihashi , SmallBar Division , Storefront Company , Tesori , Trenchermen , Yusho , Matthias Merges , Zed 451 , Zocalo
Performing Arts Feature
HSDC choreographer: "I make you uncomfortable so the contrast is greater."
Performing Arts Feature
Hell in a Handbag Productions founder: "I loved camp before I knew it was camp."
Tags: Performing Arts Feature , People Issue , People Issue 2012 , Dave Cerda , The Performer , Hell In a Handbag Productions , Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer , Poseidon! , Scarrie , Hammond, IN , John Waters , Female Trouble , Pink Flamingos , Parkway Theatre , Kelly Anchors , Sweetback Productions , The Birds , Tippi Hendren , Alfred Hitchcock
Performing Arts Feature
Black Ensemble Theater founder: "I put my life into this and I don't want it to go when my life goes."
Tags: Performing Arts Feature , People Issue 2012 , People Issue , Jackie Taylor , The Dramatist , Black Ensemble Theater , Seward Park , Cabrini-Green , Dennis Zacek , Loyola University , Free Street Theater , Patrick Henry , Cooley High , Joyce Sloane , Second City , Black Ensemble Theater Cultural Center
Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature
Author of Alien vs. Predator : "I have a real aversion to poetry readings, even when I'm reading at them."
Tags: Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature , New Yorker , Paul Muldoon , Michael Robbins , Alien Vs. Predator , smoking , University of Chicago , Hyde Park , Jonathan Franzen , Anthony Madrid , Seminary Co-op Bookstore , poetry readings , Art Institute , poetry , poets , Music Box , Art Institute of Chicago, Price Auditorium
Art Feature
Founder of Hotbox mobile gallery: "It's getting people really excited about street art again."
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On photography's power to change people's perspectives
by Sarah Nardi
Tags: Arts , Visual Art , Politics , News , Sandy Hook Elementary , genocide , holocaust , Rwanda , Khmer Rouge , Killing fields , gun control , photography
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What's on the Agenda for Monday, December 17, 2012
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , Extraordinary Popular Delusions , Jim Baker , Steve Hunt , Brian Sandstrom , Mars Williams , Beat Kitchen , Bill Meyer , Greater Grand Crossing Branch , Chicago Public Library , Steve Bogria , Kartemquin , Gordon Quinn , Peter Kuttner , UE/Wells , Winnie Wright , Age 11 , Trick Bag , Bret Slater , Thomas Robertello Gallery , An Amulet That Matters
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Traumatic losses are almost commonplace for some kids in Chicago
by Steve Bogira
Tags: Segregation , People Week , News , Latoya Winters , Marillac House , People Issue , East Garfield Park , segregation , Martin Luther King , Lawndale , open housing , Richard J. Daley , fires , shootings , Laverne Williams , Delenna Williams , Variations on a Theme , People Issue 2012 , People Issue
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Jahbreaker proves it's all about the follow-through
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Pew reports a spike in calls for gun reform after Sandy Hook
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When it comes to treating the paying customers with disdain, Bears star Brian Urlacher has nothing on Mayor Rahm
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What's on the Agenda for Tuesday, December 18, 2012
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , Graham Parker & the Rumour , Park West , Judd Apatow , This Is 40 , Three Chords Good , Peter Margasak , Brooklyn , Justin Cooper , Monique Meloche Gallery , Board , The Second City , The Second City That Never Sleeps: Letters to Santa , Fred Armisen , Jason Sudeikis , Olivia Wilde , Jeff Tweedy , Kim Deal , Onward Neighborhood House
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Jeryl Levin and Cynthia Linton come out with the second edition of The Chicago Area Ethnic Handbook—just in time for Christmas!
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A body was pulled from the river yesterday. Are they the remains of this long-lost Lincolnwood man?
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Also one of the MCC escapees was caught, the best books (and book covers) of the year, and escort-biz sidelines?
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Tonight Thrill Jockey celebrates its 20th anniversary with a party at the Empty Bottle, but just what will happen remains a mystery
by Leor Galil
Tags: Do This , Music , Thrill Jockey , Bettina Richards , Empty Bottle , Tortoise , the Sea and Cake , Man Forever , Kid Million , Peter Margasak , Matmos , Video
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As the touring circuit cools down for the holidays, let's take notice of the great Chicago talent that surrounds us all year round
by Peter Margasak
Tags: Do This , Music , Extraordinary Popular Delusions , Graham Parker & the Rumour , People's Temple , Best Shows to See , Soundboard , Witches & Devils , Raul Malo , Robbie Fulks , Chicago Symphony Orchestra , Anna Clyne , Jason Stein , Rob Mazurek
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Eyes of Madness" by crust-punk band Tragedy
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Some decided to love or hate Chief Keef's Interscope debut prior to its release, but the album shouldn't inspire such strong feelings
by Leor Galil
Tags: Music , Chief Keef , Keith Cozart , Finally Rich , Interscope , Gawker , drill , hip-hop , WorldStarHipHop , John Cage , G.O.O.D. Music , Love Sosa , Hallelujah , I Don't Like , Rick Ross , Laugin To The Bank , Video
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More testimony from Mitzi Scott, counselor and recovering addict
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Also Kuma's Corner's second location, the Broadway World Chicago awards, and the Ali Soufan interview?
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This week's Variations on a Theme: People Week
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Local producers finish a good year with a great remix
by Miles Raymer
Tags: 12 O'Clock Track , Music , the Hood Internet , A.C. Newman , Doomtree , Lazerbeak , Willy Joy , My Gold Mask , Donwill , Junior Pande , 12 O'Clock Track
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The B Side of the People Issue: Angel Olsen, Million Dollar Mano, Dee Alexander, and more
by Philip Montoro
Tags: People Week , Music , Variations on a Theme , People Issue 2012 , People Issue , People Week , Angel Olsen , Million Dollar Mano , DJ Dave Matta , Dee Alexander , Vern Hester , Zain Curtis , Teen Witch
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Let Deadmau5 and Kat Von D envelop you in blissful ignorance
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How a good Hollywood filmmaker uses a close-up of a child's face
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Things I Love , Film , To Kill a Mockingbird , Robert Mulligan , Gregory Peck , Mary Badham , Italian neorealism , Parental Guidance , Billy Crystal , family movies , advertising , Gene Siskel Film Center
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Also the NRA, Instagram photos, Tom Tomorrow, and Bears fans?
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Live video of Arbouretum playing at Thrill Jockey's 20th-anniversary show in Baltimore; the Chicago installment happens on Thursday at the Empty Bottle.
by Peter Margasak
Tags: 12 O'Clock Track , Music , Post No Bills , Thrill Jockey Records , 12 O'Clock Track , Empty Bottle , Tortoise , the Sea and Cake , Man Forever , Arbouretum , World Split Open , Video
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Photography, rock, Buddhism, and enthusiasm are a part of what makes him one extraordinary Chicagoan
by Leor Galil
Tags: Arts , People Week , Music , Visual Art , Variations on a Theme , People Issue 2012 , Vern Hester , People Issue , Riot Fest , Gwar , Soka Gakkai International
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Some of this year's better holiday releases, both old and new
by Peter Margasak
Tags: Music , Post No Bills , Andy Cirzan , holiday music , Christmas , John Soss , Sound Opinions , Electric Company , Tim Sparks , Nutcracker Suite , Tchaikovsky , Tracey Thorn , Tinsel and Lights , Bonnie "Prince" Billy , Dawn McCarthy , Christmas Eve Can Kill You , Everly Brothers , Video , Audio
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The mark of a great mind is its ability to rationalize away misgivings lesser minds should be ashamed they don't have
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Mars Williams's Albert Ayler tribute band mixes in songs of the season for its annual holiday concert
by Peter Margasak
Tags: Music , Post No Bills , Mars Williams , holiday music , Christmas , Witches & Devils , Hideout , free jazz , Albert Ayler , Chicago jazz , Audio
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He will be greatly missed, but to say that is completely insufficient
by Michael Miner
Tags: Media , News , Jerome Ludwig , Chicago Reader , Nichiren Buddhism , Soka Gakkai International , Lotus Sutra , Sun-Times Media , Brigitte Kather , Bookworks , Bob Roschke , Ronda Pilon
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Lakeview's Asado Coffee Roasters has plans to branch out
by Kate Schmidt
Tags: Food Chain , Food & Drink , Asado Coffee Company , Kevin Ashtari , Mike Sula , drip coffee Jeff Liberman , Big Shoulders Coffee , Gaslight Coffee Roasters , Ipsento , Bow Truss , Mirage espresso makers
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For the first time in 27 years there's been an escape from the jail in the South Loop
by Steve Bogira
Tags: Crime , News , Metropolitan Correctional Center , Chicago Defender , escapes , Chicago Tribune , jails , Jose Banks , Secondhand Bandit , Kenneth Conley , bank robbery , Tinley Park , Dirksen Federal Building , Paul Gapp , Harry Weese , Bernard Welch , Hugh Colomb , Michael Halberstam , David Halberstam , Aryan Brotherhood
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Best of 2012 Countdown: Animation
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Also public worker promises, James Gray, and jihad naughty and nice?
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What's on the Agenda for Saturday, December 22, 2012
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Arts , 23rd Annual International Small Print Show and Holiday Sale , Chicago Printmakers Collaborative , Hamid Drake , Michael Zerang , Links Hall , Winter Solstice , Bill Meyer , MTV , Jersey Shore , may be over , Paul DelVecchio , DJ Pauly D , Horseshoe Casino
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Also various reports on mass shootings and Glenn Greenwald on Zero Dark Thirty
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Best of 2012 Countdown: human-interest documentary
by J.R. Jones
Tags: Film , Fake It So Real , Robert Greene , documentary , North Carolina , amateur wrestling , Jonathan Demme , Magic Mike , Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet , Searching for Sugar Man , Sixto Rodriguez , Malik Bendjelloul , folk rock , Video
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Previewing the Christmas-themed video art program by Everything Is Terrible! , coming to Lincoln Hall this Friday
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Do This , On Video , Comedy , Everything Is Terrible! , Lincoln Hall , video mash-up , video art , Channel 2020 , YouTube , End of Days , Food Party , Mayan Apocalypse
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Streeterville's Local Root: local and seasonal, so what's with the tomatoes?
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A retro-fied pop star takes on a new decade and finds success
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Best of 2012 Countdown: Political Documentary
by J.R. Jones
Tags: Film , This Is Not a Film , Islamic Republic , Jafar Panahi , house arrest , Kartemquin Films , Kathy Berger , Ines Sommer , Beneath the Blindfold , political documentary , torture victims , Kirby Dick , Leon Panetta , The Ambassador , Detropia , Putin’s Kiss , You’ve Been Trumped , Video
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Fugitives could be charged with breaking and exiting
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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
by J.R. Jones
Tags: Film , Quentin Tarantino , Django Unchained , Columbia Pictures , Rust and Bone , Jacques Audiard , Prophet movie , Jean Gentil , Barrymore movie , Christopher Plummer , Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away , The Impossible movie , Naomi Watts , Ewan McGregor , Jack Reacher , Tom Cruise , Lee Childs , Les Miserables , Scrooge and Marley , A Christmas Carol , This Is 40 , Judd Apatow , Knocked Up , Funny People , Hiroshi Teshigahara , Antonio Gaudi , Gene Siskel Film Center , James Whale , Frankenstein , David Lean , Lawrence of Arabia , Music Box , Stanley Donen , Royal Wedding , Northbrook Public Library , Chicago movies , Video
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Best of 2012 Countdown: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
by J.R. Jones
Tags: Film , Ridley Scott , Alien , Prometheus , MacGuffin , Branded , sci-fi , Philip K. Dick , Jamie Bradshaw , Aleksandr Dulerayn , Looper , Duncan Jones. Source Code , Moon Duncan Jones , Shane Carruth , Primer , science fiction movies , fantasy movies , Video
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A ride up and down the new protected, two-way bike lane on Dearborn Avenue
by Kevin Warwick
Tags: Cycling , Things I Love , Two Wheels , News , cycling , Rahm Emanuel , bike lanes , Loop , Dearborn , Grid Chicago , protected bike lane , pedestrian , motorist , two-way bike lanes , buffered lane , cyclist , parking
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Janet Voight, deep-sea biologist, talks about what she's found at the bottom of the ocean
by Julia Thiel
Tags: Science , People Week , News , Janet Voight , Field Museum , zoology curator , biologist , octopus , Alvin , Variations on a Theme , People Issue 2012 , People Issue , Video
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Ron Roenigk takes over Skyline from Wednesday Journal Inc. and Ann Gerber may now run on page one
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What's on the Agenda for Sunday, December 23, 2012
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Arts , Flosstradamus , Metro , Brenmar , ComedySportz , Octavarius , Lord of The Rings , The Two Turtledoves , War Horse , Cadillac Theater , Tony Adler
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What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, December 19, 2012
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , Portage Theater , Northwest Chicago Film Society , The Night of the Hunter , Robert Mitchum , Holiday Land , Chicago Bulls , Derrick Rose , Kent McDill , Barbara's Bookstore , 100 Things Bulls Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die , Congo Square Theatre , The Nativity , Langston Hughes , Black Nativity , Kennedy-King College Theatre , Laura Molzahn , Ilesa Duncan , McKinley Johnson
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Yes, it's just two hours of low-budget movie trailers—but it's incredible
by Miles Raymer
Tags: On Video , Whoa , Film , Trailer War , grindhouse , Thunder Cops , Voyage of the Rock Aliens , Alamo Drafthouse , Drafthouse Films , Jim Kelly , Warhawk Tanzania , Animal Protector , Force Four , Force Five , Star Crash , Maniac Cop 2
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Ring in the end of the world with Metallica's apocalyptic classic, "The Four Horsemen"
by Luca Cimarusti
Tags: 12 O'Clock Track , This Will Kill You , Music , 12 O'Clock Track , Metallica , The Four Horsemen , Kill 'em All , apocalypse , Armageddon , heavy metal , Video
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What's on the Agenda for Thursday, December 20, 2012
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , Thrill Jockey , Tortoise , the Sea and Cake , Man Forever , Empty Bottle , Salonathon , You’re Gonna Die: A Holiday Fantasia , Metro , Baathhaus , Grades , Shea Coulee , Big Dipper , Details , Leor Galil , Los Angeles , Cameron Esposito , Lincoln Lodge , Bobby Minelli , Adam Burke , Rhea Butcher , Roasted Chestnuts: A Holiday of Jokes
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Check out the woozy "7Milli" from local rapper, producer, and Stones Throw signee Julian Malone
by Leor Galil
Tags: 12 O'Clock Track , Music , 12 O'Clock Track , Julian Malone , 7Milli , Stones Throw , 2008ighties , BRKF$T Club , Enemy: The Time & Loves of Malone , J Dilla , Video
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Alderman Howard Brookins Jr. sounds like he's already preparing to challenge Anita Alvarez for state's attorney in 2016
by Mick Dumke
Tags: Crime , Politics , News , 60 Minutes , Anita Alvarez , Cook County state's attorney , wrongful convictions , false confessions , necrophilia , Howard Brookins Jr. , 21st Ward , David Koschman , R.J. Vanecko , Chicago Sun-Times
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An aggressive job posting needs an explanation
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What's on the Agenda for Friday, December 21, 2012
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , The Experimental Sound Study , Drone for the End of Time , MTV , From G's To Gents , Houston , Riff Raff , Reggie's Rock Club , Miles Raymer , DJ Benzi , MattBoyWhite , Lincoln Hall , Everything Is Terrible , Holiday Special 2012! Cataclysmic Transformation!
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Local hardcore band the Killer hosts their fifth annual holiday toy drive this weekend
by Luca Cimarusti
Tags: Do This , Music , charity , toy drive , Salvation Army , Angel Tree , the Killer , Weekend Nachos , Enabler , Like Rats , Ox King , hardcore , heavy Viaduct Theatre
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Reader 's Agenda, Christmas Eve, 2012
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs A Christmas Carol Again , Marissa Oberlander , The Christmas Schooner , Zac Thompson , It's a Wonderful Life: Live at the Biograph! , Julia Thiel , For you moviegoers , holiday options abound as The Music Box screens both White Christmas and Frank Capra's version of It's a Wonderful Life. The double feature is preceded by an audience singalong , with Santa Claus himself manning the theater's legendary organ. Meanwhile , fans of holiday horror and holiday comedies ought to visit Logan Theater for screenings of Silent Night , Deadly Night 2 and National Lampoom's Christmas Vacation , Porn and Chicken , Best Dance Party , Best of Chicago , Evil Olive , Gorilla Tango , Season's Geekings: A Gorilla Tango Burlesque Holiday Special
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Reconsidering The Village , M. Night Shyamalan's maligned 2004 feature
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Film , Politics , M. Night Shyamalan , The Village , The Sixth Sense , Unbreakable , Signs , war on terror , Sean Baker , Starlet , plot twists , 9/11 , Adam Curtis , The Power of Nightmares , reactionary politics
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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.
by Asher Klein
Tags: Things I Love , Arts , The Internet , People Week , Variations on a Theme , Twitter , Kimmy Walters , @arealliveghost , Weird Twitter , poetry , People Issue 2012 , People Issue
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Where I found food that was absolutely flawless
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The beer nerds' holy grail made its first officially sanctioned appearance in America last week
by Philip Montoro
Tags: Beer and Metal , Music , Food & Drink , Beer and Metal , beer , metal , Westvleteren , Westvleteren XII , Westvleteren 12 , Saint Sixtus , Saint Sixtus Abbey , Belgium , Belgian , Trappist , Cesare Bonizzi , Slough Feg , Metal Monk , Heavy Metal Monk , Video
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Presents opened? Christmas dinner consumed? Looking for something to do?
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , Quentin Tarantino , Django Unchained , Judd Apatow , This is 40 , Tom Hooper , Les Miserables , Parental Guidance , Bette Midler , Billy Crystal , David Lean , Lawrence of Arabia , Music BoxMost of the city will be shut down this evening , but there's one spot that will be as bustling as ever: Chinatown. So if you find that you're in the mood for a little Asian cuisine , or hell , if you're all by yourself and just seeking a bit of company , check our listings , hop the Red Line , and treat yourself to a bit of atypical holiday activity all alone tonight.Similarly , a good number of watering holes will have their doors open to those of us who are alone on Christmas. Your best bet might be at Delilah's , which will screen the Johnny Cash Christmas Special from 1979. The variety special features appearances from Anne Murray , Tom T. Hall , and even Andy Kaufman , while The Man in Black serenades his live studio audience with various holiday classics. Christmas spirit shall abound—the spirits behind the bar , even more so.
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On gun control, Judge Richard Posner deferred to his adversary, Justice Antonin Scalia
by Michael Miner
Tags: Media , News , Justice Antonin Scalia , Judge Richard Posner , the Second Amendment , gun control , District of Columbia v. Heller , the New Republic , McDonald v. Chicago , the 14th Amendment , Bryan Garner , Judge Joel Flaum , Judge Ann Williams , Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts