Savage Love
Dan fields students' queries on open relationships, bisexuals, and appropriate uses of whipped cream
by Dan Savage
Tags: Savage Love , whipped cream , trust , Savage Love reading rituals , long-term relationships , sweat , students' questions , open relationships , bisexuals , Eric Olalde , bisexual friends , whipped cream , Madison, Wisconsin , Ann Coulter , parenting , reading aloud , gay children , anal toys , relationships , sex , medical comment
Deanna Isaacs on Culture
After Newtown, Victory Gardens stages a work revisiting another school shooting
by Deanna Isaacs
Tags: Deanna Isaacs on Culture , Mary Hollis Inboden , The Warriors , Kimberly Senior , Evan Linder , The Warriors for Newton , Jonesboro, Arkansas , Westside Middle School shooting , Jonesboro shooting , New Colony , Will Rogers , theater , benefits , Newton, Connecticut , Sandy Hook school shooting , school shootings , Victory Gardens Theater
Ben Joravsky on Politics
ICE, CME, and TIFs: In the battle of the acronyms, New York fared better than Chicago
by Ben Joravsky
Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics , TIFs , Eric Holder , job creation , public funding , Rahm Emanuel , mergers , Intercontinental Exchange , New York City , Chicago , New York Stock Exchange , ICE , Chicago Board of Trade , CBT , Chicago Mercantile Exchange , Richard M. Daley , New York Times , Sam Holloway , firefighters , pensions , taxes
In Rotation
Current musical obsessions of Vocalo's Jesse Menendez and Richard Giraldi of Loud Loop Press
by Leor Galil
Tags: In Rotation , Lukach , Liel Liebovitz , Tablet magazine , Biz Markie , Get on Down label , Fat Boys pizza box , Wu Tang Clan , The Biz Never Sleeps , Bargain Bin Blasphemy , Wayne Newton , While We're Still Young , Jesse Menendez , Vocalo , P.O.S. , We Don't Even Live Here , Doomtree , Internet Radio Fairness Act , Pandora , We Appreciate Your Enthusiasm: The Oral History of Q101 , James VanOsdol , Richard Giraldi , Loud Loop Press , Rolling Stones , Sympathy for the Devil , Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! , Keith Richards , Mick Taylor , The Meters , James Bond , Skyfall , Thomas Conner , Nancy Sinatra , You Only Live Twice , Shirley Bassey , Goldfinger , Sheryl Crow , Tomorrow Never Dies , Tina Turner , Goldeneye
Music Feature
Four Chicago producers talk about J Dilla in light of the reissue of his masterpiece
by Leor Galil
Tags: Music Feature , Donuts , Odd Couple , J Dilla , Lili K. , Chance the Rapper , James Yancey , City of Win , Stones Throw , Serengeti , Jeff Jank , Skyzoo , Doom , Ghostface , Flying Lotus , Animal Collective , Peter Cottontale , Tony Roche , Stefan Clark , mixtapes , Hannibal Buress , Jackson 5 , Mikkey Halsted Smoke DZ , Dionne Warwick , samples , Jadakiss , box sets , doughnuts , Tony Trimm
Gossip Wolf
Round one of this years’ Pitchfork predictions, and more
by Leor Galil and J.R. Nelson
Movie Review
As a radical account of American slavery, Django Unchained pales in comparison to Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Tal Rosenberg
Tags: Movie Review , Django Unchained , Quentin Tarantino , Inglourious Basterds , World War II , antebellum , Harriet Beecher Stowe , Uncle Tom's Cabin , Jamie Foxx , Kerry Washington , Christoph Waltz , Leonardo DiCaprio , Samuel L. Jackson , True Romance , Tony Scott , Jackie Brown
Movie Critic's Choice
With Zero Dark Thirty , Kathryn Bigelow dramatizes the search for Osama bin Laden
Cocktail Challenge
Rodan’s Eric Chaleff soothes his flu with falernum
by Kate Schmidt
Tags: Cocktail Challenge , Eric Chaleff , Rodan , Bloodiest , cocktail challenge , falernum , tea-infused rum , The Rum Dynasty , Jenny Kessler , Masa Azul , Slideshow
Restaurant Reviews
Fat Rice harmonizes the food of Portugal and its former colonies
by Mike Sula
Tags: Restaurant Reviews , Portuguese colonial cuisine , Portuguese cuisine , fusion cuisine , Hugh Amano , bacalhau de vovo , X-Marx , Logan Square , Abraham Conlon , Adrienne Lo , Fat Rice , Recommended
Performing Arts Sidebar
The Fillet of Solo storytelling festival is back
by Niel Spidle
Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar , Fillet of Solo Festival , Lifeline Theatre , Big Stories, Up Close , Heartland Studio , GayCo , Amanda Rountree , 185 Buddhas , 2nd Story , EnSolo , The Kates , Alicia Solisdrawl , Mia McCullough , Story Club , Write Club , Tekki Lomnicki , Anne Purky , Beth Ann Bryant-Richards , Sweat Girls
Comedy Critic's Choice
The twelfth Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival runs ten days at Stage 773
by Kevin Warwick
Tags: Comedy Critic's Choice , Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival , Bri-Ko , Cupid Players , Brian Posen , Street Tempo Theatre , Stage 773 , Rabbit Rabbit , Puterbaugh Sisterz , Off Off Broadway , Stupid Time Machine , Heavyweight , FUCT , Chloe Sevigny's Fanny Pack
Fiction
Fiction Issue 2013: Four reader-submitted stories selected by guest curator Zach Dodson
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Fiction Issue: “Isn't that right, Pete?” by Andrew Hicks
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Fiction Issue: “LOS” by J.D. Sommer
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Fiction Issue: “State Hospital,” by Bridget Gamble
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Fiction Issue: "Conjuring Danny Squires" by Sam Weller
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Best of 2012 Countdown: Worst of 2012
by J.R. Jones
Tags: Year in Review , Film , Darling Companion , Lawrence Kasdan , Diane Keaton , Kevin Kline , movies , The Lorax , Dr. Seuss , worst of 2012 , computer animation , The Avengers , Joss Whedon , Jonathan Rosenbaum , Variations on a Theme
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Also The Book of Mormon breaking box office records and local bartering systems in Greece?
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Isa Giallorenzo's Street View 069
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My ballot for the upcoming Rhapsody jazz critics poll
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Emanuel's recent Sun-Times column leaves out an essential detail about the war against guns: he was missing in action when he could have done something to help wage it
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Where else can you hear ZZ Top's "I Gotsta Get Paid" and E-40's "I'm Laced" in the same place?
by Miles Raymer
Tags: Things I Love , Year in Review , Music , Action Bronson , Charli XCX , Jeremih , Spotify , Kendrick Lamar , Frank Ocean , 2 Chainz , Rick Ross , Andre 3000 , Gorillaz , James Murphy , ZZ Top , E-40 , Chief Keef , Fun. , Ellie Goulding , Riff Raff , 2012 year in review , Variations on a Theme
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What's on the Agenda for Friday, December 28, 2012
by Luca Cimarusti
Tags: Do This , Arts , Agenda , Creative Control , Saki , Joe McAdam , Marty DeRosa , Cameron Gillette , Timmy Brochu , Cullen Crawford , Shlohmo , Bottom Lounge , Sepalcure , Abstract Science DJs , Danny Tanner , Attend the Tale of Danny Tanner: A Full House Musical , Gorilla Tango Theatre , Skokie , Chris Gorton , Katie Johnson-Smith
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is D'Angelo's sensual stunner "Send It On," from his acclaimed album Voodoo
by Tal Rosenberg
Tags: 12 O'Clock Track , Dim the Lights , Music , 12 O'Clock Track , D'Angelo , Voodoo album , Undeclared TV show , Judd Apatow , Soulquarians , ?uestlove , Roy Hargrove , J Dilla , James Poyser , Video
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Top Ten Films of 2012
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Things I Love , Film , The Master , Paul Thomas Anderson , Two Years at Sea , Ben Rivers , Haywire , Steven Soderbergh , Moonrise Kingdom , Wes Anderson , The Comedy , Rick Alverson , Goodbye First Love , Mia Hanson-Love , Django Unchained , Quentin Tarantino , The Day He Arrives , Hong Sang-soo , The Deep Blue Sea , Terrence Davies , A Burning Hot Summer , Philippe Garrel , Bernie , Richard Linklater , Killer Joe , William Friedkin , Wuthering Heights , Andrea Arnold , Tchoupitoulas , Bill Ross , Turner Ross , The Color Wheel , Alex Ross Perry , Magic Mike , Steven Soderbergh , Alps , Yorgos Lanthimos , Let the Bullets Fly , Wen Jiang , Wanderlust , David Wain , Keyhole , Guy Maddin , Attenberg , Athina Rachel Tsangari , This is Not a Film , Jafar Panahi , The Innkeepers , Ti West , In Another Country , Hong Sang-soo , 2012) , 21 Jump Street , Phil Lord , Chris Miller , Beyond the Hills , Christian Mungiu , Leviathan , Lucien Castaing-Taylor , Verena Paravel , Mekong Hotel , Apichatpong Weerasethakul , Post Tenebras Lux , Carlos Reygadas , Hors Satan , Bruno Dumont , Aita , José María de Orbe , Memories of a Morning , Jose Luis Guerin , Palaces of Pity , Gabriel Abrantes , Daniel Schmidt
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2012 was the year of the Chicago Cultural Plan, remember that?
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Highly recommended Angolan kuduro
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Simplest is best at this Logan Square grocery store and deli
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Not quite an eyeball soup, but pretty close
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Thursday, January 3, 2013
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , Reckless Records , Jim Magas , Empty Bottle , Pspoilers , Notes and Bolts , Miles Raymer , Jeremy Lemos & Peter Speer , Andy Ortmann , Matt Zivich , The Second City Bill Murray , John Belushi , Tina Fey , Amy Poehler , Who Do We Think We Are? , stand-up comedy , sketch comedy , Dwayne Kennedy , Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell , Last Comic Standing , Zanies
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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
by J.R. Jones
Tags: Opening , Film , John Magaro , Not Fade Away , The Big Picture Eric Lartigau , The Guilt Trip , Seth Rogen , Barbara Streisand , Not Fade Away , Rolling Stones , The Sopranos , David Chase , Parental Guidance , Billy Crytal , Bette Midler , Promised Land , Gus Van Sant , Matt Damon , John Krasinski , Dave Eggers , David Lean , Lawrence of Arabia , Michael Roemer , Nothing But a Man , Pim de la Parra , One People , F.W. Murnau Sunrise , Anthony Mann , Winchester '73 , Chicago movies , Video
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Also "the austerity dance," sex offenders running for public office in India, and the best long-form writing of the year?
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Friday, January 4, 2013
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , Mark Bazer , Hideout , The Interview Show , Rebecca Skloot , The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks , Moto , Homaro Cantu , Henry Wishcamper , Other Desert Cities , The Stone Chromatics , Shatner's World: We Just Live In It , William Shatner , Paramount Theatre , The Transformed Man , Ian's Party , The Arrivals , The House that Gloria Vanderbilt , and Dr. Manhattan , Township , Quenchers , cheap beer
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Objecting to something Tom Hooper said on NPR
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Ian's Party is back for its sixth year, with almost 40 bands playing at two venues
by Luca Cimarusti
Tags: Do This , Things I Love , Music , Ian's Party , Chicago , Elgin , Brokedowns , Wide Angles , Meat Wave , Paper Mice , Absolutely Not , Bollweevils , Canadian Rifle , Arrivals , Township , Quenchers
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The General Assembly could vote this week on the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act, and Cardinal George urges Catholics to ask their representatives to vote against it
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Agenda for Saturday, December 29th, 2012
by Luca Cimarusti
Tags: Do This , Arts , Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer , Mind Spiders , Novice , Dumpster Babies , Marked Men , Bad Sports , Empty Bottle , Hamburger Mary's , Goilla Tango Theatre Skokie , Holy Bouncing Boobies: A Batman Burlesque
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The year in revival screenings
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Year in Review , Film , Best of 2012 , year in review , revival screenings , Gene Siskel Film Center , Facets Multimedia , the Nightingale , Doc Films , Bill Douglas , My Ain Folk , My Way Home , Bill Douglas Trilogy , Robert Bresson , Four Nights of a Dreamer , White Nights , Two Lovers , La Notti Bianche , The Devil's Cleavage , George Kuchar , Daughters Wives and a Mother , Mikio Naruse , Hideko Takamine , Satyajit Ray , Rabindranath Tagore , The Home and the World , Charulata , Northwestern University , Block Cinema , The Gang's All Here , Busby Berkeley , Les Blank , CIMM Fest , Macunaima , Impala Sound DJs , the Whistler , The Oak , Lucian Pintilie , Romanian Cinema , The Sign of Leo , Eric Rohmer , Whisper of the Heart , Hayao Miyazaki , Studio Ghibli , One People , African Diaspora Film Festival , Come Back Africa , Welcome to Pine Hill , You and Me , Fritz Lang , Northwest Chicago Film Society , Portage Theater , Cinema Borealis , Urban Peasants , Ken Jacobs , The Movie Orgy , Joe Dante , The Hole , Gremlins 2 , South Side Hub of Projection , Poetry Foundation , Stan Brakhage , Deus Ex , Hauling Toto Big , Robert Nelson , experimental film , The Smiling Star , Werner Schroeter , Philippines , Kingdom of Naples , Palermo or Wolfsburg , Aleksei Guerman , Twenty Days Without War , My Friend Ivan Lapshin , Nothing But a Man , Michael Roemer , The Plot Against Harry , Robert Young
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President Obama slowly starts another one of his famous evolutions—on marijuana reform and gun control—just in time for the shifts in the polls
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Beers new to the market and recent World Beer Championship medal winners
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Sunday, December 30, 2012
by Tal Rosenberg
Tags: Do This , Arts , Agenda , Neurosis , Atlast Moth , Bloodiest , Driehaus Museum , Help Wanted: The Holiday Servants' Tour , Music Box Theatre , F.W. Murnau , Sunrise film , Lawrence of Arabia , David Lean
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Local synthesizer experiments, local jazz, local rap, and nostalgic punk
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Pizza beer, tamaleras, suckling pigs, and more
by Mike Sula
Tags: Food Chain , Food & Drink , the Matchbox , David Gervercer , Jackie Fields , Colleen Bush , pizza beer , hangovers , Rick Bayless , tamales , Gene Kato , Sumi Robata Bar , From Belly to Bacon , Chicago Food Snob , Carlos Martinez , Video
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Learning to love all things local in Logan Square
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is Explosion in the Sky's "The Birth and Death of the Day"
by Kevin Warwick
Tags: 12 O'Clock Track , Music , 12 O'Clock Track , Explosions in the Sky , The Birth and Death of the Day , Swans , Kate Bush , Whatever Brains , Video , Jessica Hopper , postrock , punk , Indiana , Alice in Wonderland , Video
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Also retrograde amnesia and the self, Andrew Sullivan, and journalists writing about themselves?
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Also Tribune dropping AP, Joshua Foer's New Yorker story, and Peter Parker?
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This week's poster is by Ryne Estwing of the Glassy Breaks design collective
by Luca Cimarusti
Tags: Gig Posters , Arts , Music , Visual Art , Ryne Estwing , Glassy Breaks , Metro , the Faint , Trust , Icky Blossoms , Dark Wave Disco DJs
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for December 31, 2012, and January 1, 2013
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Previewing the University of Chicago film society's winter calendar
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Do This , Film , Doc Films , Robert Mitchum , William Wellman , The Story of G.I. Joe , Ernie Pyle , 1928 , King Vidor , The Driver , Walter Hill , Howard Hawks , El Dorado , Rio Bravo , The Patsy , Marion Davies , Secret Ceremony , Joseph Losey , The Wind , Victor Sjostrom , Paul Leni , The Man Who Laughs , University of Chicago , Joel and Ethan Coen , Louis Malle , Amy Taubin , Wong Kar-Wai , Christopher Doyle , Happy Together , In the Mood for Love , Gus Van Sant , Psycho , Zhang Yimou , Hero
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The great soul and gospel singer Fontella Bass is dead at 72
by Peter Margasak
Tags: RIP , Music , Post No Bills , Fontella Bass , Rescue Me , Chess Records , Lester Bowie , Art Ensemble of Chicago , Theme de Yoyo , Les Stances à Sophie , Video
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A sad New Year's song from 20 years ago
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"Wildcat Strike" is a funky, experimental Krautrock jam by Baltimore's Horse Lords
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Frank Ocean leads the charge in making the Internet and pop music safer for sincerity
by Leor Galil
Tags: Year in Review , Music , Frank Ocean , Channel Orange , Tumblr , Grantland , Steven Hyden , Emily White , Lana del Rey , Riff Raff , Damon Krukowski , Pitchfork , Kendrick Lamar , Chief Keef , Reddit , Violentacrez , Gawker , Michael Brutsch , TextEdit , Video
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Wednesday, January 2, 2013
by Tal Rosenberg
Tags: Do This , Arts , Agenda , Soup and Bread , Swim Cafe , Milk & Honey Cafe , La Sirena Clandestina , Wendy Miller , Martha Bayne , the Hideout , Publican Quality Meats , Vatican Shadow , Dominick Fernow , the Burlington Bar , Hieroglyphic Being , Kevin Drumm , Sheer Hellish Miasma , Felt comedy , iO , Improv Olympic , Ryan Hubbard
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Chicago is not alone when it comes to firing cops and spending their salaries on things that no one needs
by Ben Joravsky
Tags: Politics , News , Mayor Rahm Emanuel , Chicago Bears , Oakland Raiders , Oakland , San Francisco , Los Angeles , Santa Clara , Chicago Bulls , Chicago Blackhawks
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Comparing Bernie , Magic Mike , Moonrise Kingdom , and Silver Linings Playbook in terms of style and themes
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Year in Review , Film , Comedy , American comedy , year in review , best of 2012 , Silver Linings Playbook , Bernie , Magic Mike , Moonrise Kingdom , David O. Russell , Richard Linklater , Steven Soderbergh , Wes Anderson , Bruce Willis , Channing Tatum , recession , bipolar disorder , Jack Black , Matthew McConaughey , Cody Horn , community , Alex Pettyfer , Bradley Cooper , Jennifer Lawrence , Variations on a Theme
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What might the author of Death in Venice have had to say about Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master ?
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Books , Arts , Year in Review , Film , Thomas Mann , Paul Thomas Anderson , The Master , Joaquin Phoenix , 70-millimeter , Music Box Theatre , Lawrence of Arabia , year in review , best of 2012 , Richard Linklater , Bernie
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Examining the rapper-producer as he prepares for fatherhood
by Leor Galil
Tags: Narcissism , Music , Kanye West , Kim Kardashian , Washington Post , Jay-Z , Glory , Blue Ivy Carter , Grantland , Alex Pappademas , Chief Keef , G.O.O.D. Music , Lex Luger , I Don't Like , H.A.M. , New York Times Magazine , L.E.P. Bogus Boys , King Louie , King L , Young Chop , Video
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"Zipper Tripper" by the Shrine is an intense blast of Black Flag worship
by Luca Cimarusti
Tags: 12 O'Clock Track , Music , the Shrine , Primitive Blast , Zipper Tripper , Tee Pee Records , Los Angeles , punk , metal , Black Flag , My War , video , 12 O'Clock Track , Video
