Savage Love
Dan on senseless gay panic and the value of throupledom
by Dan Savage
Tags: Savage Love , transsexual , sex worker , anal sex , Mexico , three-person relationship , PDA , throuples , gipster , Molly Young , New York , saddlebacking , foreplay , nonintercourse sex , virginity , frottage , outercourse , the Princeton Rub , the pearl tramp stamp , Chicago , the Cardinal George
Feature
Are the Blue Demons poised to recapture their fading glory?
Ben Joravsky on Politics
How Mayor Emanuel could turn Jones high into a neighborhood school
by Ben Joravsky
Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics , Rahm Emanuel , Chicago Public Schools , Pacific Garden Mission , CPS , high schools , college preparatory high schools , Jones high school , Jones Commercial School , William Jones College Preparatory , Jones College Prep , Richard M. Daley , South Loop , gentrification , Arne Duncan , Robert Fioretti , Paul Vallas , Becky Carrol , neighborhood schools
Michael Miner on Media
Negotiations between Sun-Times Media and the Chicago Newspaper Guild reach an impasse
by Michael Miner
Tags: Michael Miner on Media , Chicago Newspaper Guild , Michael Ferro , Dave Pollard , Sun-Times Media , Craig Rosenbaum , unions , Lynne Stiefe , Pioneer Press , Chicago Sun-Times , Wrapports LLC , James Tyree , labor relations , Tom Thibeault , Jim Kirk , Ted Rilea , Timothy Knight
Gossip Wolf
Sons of the Silent Age do Bowie for pediatric cancer research, and more
by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
Tags: Gossip Wolf , David Bowie , Sons of the Silent Age , Heroes , Sons of the Silent Age , Chris Connelly , Ministry , Revolting Cocks , Matt Walker , Filter , Smashing Pumpkins , Garbage , Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles , Shirley Manson , Pablove Foundation , Metro , Waco Brothers , T. Rex , Death on the Autobahn , Kill Hannah , Greg Corner , Kraftwerk , Blake Judd , Hate Meditation , Nachtmystium , Job Bos , Dark Fortress , Jef Whitehead , Leviathan , Twilight , Vitandus , Indie Recordings , black metal , Corrections House , Scott Kelly , Neurosis , Mike IX Wiliams , Eyehategod , Bruce Lamont , Yakuz , Bloodiest , Sanford Parker , Minsk , Nachtmystium
Music Feature
The CSO's Katinka Kleijn premieres a duet for cello and brain waves
by Peter Margasak
Tags: Music Feature , Chicago Symphony Orchestra , Columbia College , Katinka Kleijn , electroencephalography , Alvin Lucier , cello , EPOC Neuroheadset , EEG , Daniel R. Dehaan , brain waves , Ryan Ingebritsen , Adam Brooks , Matthew Wilson , Industry of the Ordinary , Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery , alpha waves
Movie Critic's Choice
Claude Sautet flips the script on cop movies in Max et les Ferrailleurs
Movie Critic's Choice
In Michael Haneke’s Amour , a husband and wife face their last days together
Cocktail Challenge
Masa Azul's Jenny Kessler makes the Shiitake Flip.
Restaurant Reviews
Reno is more than just a miracle bagel
by Mike Sula
Tags: Restaurant Reviews , pizza , bagels , Katie Wyer , wood-fired bagels , Montreal-style bagels , wood oven , Johnny Anderes , Elliot Green , Neapolitan-style pizza , Luke LeFiles , Reno , Logan Square , Recommended
Key Ingredient
L2O’s Matthew Kirkley makes gummies out of a creepy texture
by Julia Thiel
Tags: Key Ingredient , warabi starch , food texture , Matthew Kirkley , gelatin , gel , bracken fern , bracken starch , L2O , mussel-clementine gummy , Video
Theater Review
Curious Theatre Branch mounts the 24th annual Rhinofest
by Jena Cutie
Tags: Theater Review , Rhinoceros Theater Festival , fringe theater , Curious Theater Branch , R.J. Tsarov , Barrie Cole , Cornell Woolrich , Jenny Magnus , Beau O'Reilly , Paul William Brennan , Brain Surgeon Theater , Trash Vortex , Bruised Orange Theater Company , RhinoFest , Prop Thtr , Diana Slickman , Jeff Dorchen , David Isaacson , Greg Allen
Theater Review
Steppenwolf Theatre stages Stephen Adly Guirgis's The Motherfucker With the Hat
by Tony Adler
Tags: Theater Review , Steppenwolf Theatre , Sandra Delgado , Stephen Adly Guirgis , Anna Shapiro , John Ortiz , Gary Perez , David Lindsay-Abaire , Jimmy Smits , Todd Rosenthal , Recommended
Book Review
Kathryn Born's dystopian new novel, The Blue Kind , tracks a trio of immortal junkies
Chicagoans
This week's Chicagoan: Dennis Dobrydnia, Vietnam-era vet
by Anne Ford
Tags: Chicagoans , Columbia, South Carolina , veterans , U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs , post-traumatic stress disorder , veterans , Da Nang , Vietnam war , Dennis Dobrydnia , Vietnam veterans , Vietnam-era veterans , National University of Health Sciences
Links to PDFs of Reader crossword puzzles and previous weeks' solutions
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Life imitates art at a lunch place near the Reader .
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Sunday, January 6, 2013
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , Nellie McKay , SPACE , Peter Margasak , Revelation Records , Texas Is the Reason , Do You Know Who You Are? , Miles Raymer , Into Another , Sense Field , Popeye , NFL playoffs , Philly cheesesteaks , Monti's , Lincoln Square , Mike Sula
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Try the beef soup sleeper at this Brighton Park Mexican restaurant
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Wednesday, January 9, 2013
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , Lincoln Hall , The 3 Penny Was Here , The Big Lebowski , High Fidelit , John Cusack , Wicker Park , Laura Callier , Gel Set , Empty Bottle , Microsoftcore XXXCell , Magic Key , Matchess , Sarah Weis , The Chicago Composers Orchestra , Garfield Park Conservatory , Lawrence Axelrod , J. Lawrie Bloom
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The music director will miss all Chicago Symphony Orchestra performances through January 19 due to illness
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The Village rapper celebrates his forthcoming Club Wiley mixtape with a listening party
by Leor Galil
Tags: Do This , Music , Alex Wiley , Club Wiley , Kembe X , the Village , Jugrnaut , Freddie Gibbs , Raekwon , Chance the Rapper , Vic Mensa , Julian Malone , Video
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After a six-month lockout, students are back on the air at Northeastern Illinois University's WZRD FM
by Deanna Isaacs
Tags: Arts , Education , Media , Music , WZRD , Northeastern Illinois University , NEIU , John Wilson , AAUP , Academe , Leor Galil , Peter Enger
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A new Lakeshore East Oaxacan restaurant sports an uneven menu
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Reporting the opening of two new movie theaters in Chicago
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Film , ArcLight Cinemas , Cinema Dome , California , Harper Theater , New City , North/Clybourn , revival screenings , New 400 , Hyde Park , Rogers Park , Old Town , Pipers Alley , the Village Theater
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Monday, January 7, 2013
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Thursday, January 10, 2013
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , Gene Siskel Film Center , Michael Phillips , Chicago Tribune , Ben Kenigsberg , Time Out Chicago , Oscars , Mykki Blanco , Beauty Bar , Supreme Cuts , Teen Witch, Fresh off his recent Comedy Central special Shovel Fighter , former Chicago stand-up Matt Braugner (MADtv , The Late Show with David Letterman) performs at Up Comedy Club with support from local comic favorites , Ever Mainard and Adam Burke.
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Local makgeolli, tamale perfume, a lawsuit for Billy Dec, and more
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Previewing notable film screenings in Chicago from January 11-17
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Opening , Film , Jean Rouch , Edgar Morin , Chronicle of a Summer , Gene Siskel Film Center , Amour , Michael Haneke , Max et les Ferrailleurs , Claude Sautet , Michel Piccoli , Romy Schneider , The Sheik and I , Caveh Zahedi , Gangster Squad , Ruben Fleischer , Zombieland , The Iran Job , Last Call at the Oasis , Somewhere Between , Desire (1936) , Frank Borzage , Ernst Lubitsch , Last Days of Pompeii , Silent Film Series , Music Box Theatre , revival screenings , Passage to Marseilles , Michael Curtiz , Northbrook Public Library , Tess , Roman Polanski , DCP restoration , John Carpenter , The Thing , Video
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A genre-challenging residency, eloquent jazz, and intoxicating experimental pop
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Friday, January 11, 2013
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , C.T. McCluskey , Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art , Pat Mahoney , LCD Soundsystem , Smart Bar , Kyle Woods , Kid Color , John Heffron , The Tonight Show with Jay Leno , Last Comic Standing , Improv
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Local punk outfit My Dad takes on Wesley Willis's "Cut the Mullet"
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Tuesday, January 8, 2013
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , George Saunders , MacArthur Genius Grant , Harper's , McSweeney's , GQ , Lincoln Hall , The Tenth of December , Adam Levin , DO312 Film Series , 80s nostalgia , Cobra Lounge , George Lucas , Howard the Duck , Rod Amateau , The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, The Kit Kat Lounge and Supper Club hosts a watch party for RuPaul's Drag Race , in which the the best episodes from the infamous reality show are projected on seven screens. Jade , a past contestant on the show and Kit Kat Lounge's "house diva" is slated to make "special appearances."
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Isa Giallorenzo's Street View 070
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Brokeback, the long-running side project of Douglas McCombs (Tortoise, Eleventh Dream Day), is back with its first new recording in a decade
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Poetry magazine editor Christian Wiman resigns
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A few of the best shows to see this weekend include Speck Mountain and Circuit des Yeux, Quicksand, and John Fullbright
by Kevin Warwick
Tags: Do This , Music , Speck Mountain , Circuit des Yeux , Quicksand , John Fullbright , FitzGerald's , Metro , Lincoln Hall , Revelation Records , Game of Thrones , Downton Abbey , Peter Margasak
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Today's music news is dumb, but we can go dumber
by Miles Raymer
Tags: On Video , Music , Taco Leg , Kanye West , Kim Kardashian , Marlon Wayans , Lil Wayne , Azealia Banks , Angel Haze , ugh , Video
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On visiting a family friend who gained fame and fortune as a puppet named Alan Tracy
by Michael Miner
Tags: Theater , Arts , Television , Matt Zimmerman , Thunderbirds , Gerry Anderson , Dan Castellaneta , The Simpsons , Alan Tracy , West Side Story , Jack Klugman , Richard Rodney Bennett , Shirley Chapman , Oscar Hammerstein II , Sudbury
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Lessons learned from a week in London
by Michael Miner
Tags: Transportation , Media , News , London , Chicago Transit Authority , London Tube , New York subways , Chicago Tribune , John Hilkevitch , Elgin Marbles , "Auld Lang Syne"
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Also Rachel Aviv, the Mirage Tavern rerun, Richard Ben Cramer, and foosball?
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In covering college football, the media isn't always a good sport
by Michael Miner
Tags: Media , Sports , News , Adrian Arrington , Eastern Illinois University , John Keilman , Chicago Tribune , NCAA Division I-A , Penn State , Purdue , Orange Bowl , Northern Illinois University , Dave Doeren , Jerry Kill , Rod Carey , Mid-American Conference , Florida State
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Synthesizer psychedelia from a cultishly adored musician-slash-blogger
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Saturday, January 12, 2013
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , Schubas , Second Annual Turkey Bow , Challengers Comics + Conversation , Atomic Sketch , AG47 , Three Floyds , Cafe Mustache , ShowYouSuck , One Man Pizza Party III: Rest in Pizza , Beavis & Butthead can dig , Leor Galil , Bottom Lounge , St. Millie , Warhound
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A Gchat about iDosing
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Also kids with learning disabilities, legalized marijuana's effects on young teens, and football and financial juggernaut the SEC
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It's been less than a year since Kitty Pryde first captured the Internet's attention, which has been enough time for people to forget their most polarizing opinions of the teenaged rapper
by Leor Galil
Tags: The Internet , Music , Kitty Pryde , rap , hip-hop , Florida , Rolling Stone , Dead Island , D.A.I.S.Y. Rage , Okay Cupid , Sufjan Stevens , Chopped and Scrooged , Why? , Yoni Wolf , Haha I'm Sorry , Video , Video
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RIP Mizu Yakitori & Sushi Lounge
by Kate Schmidt
Tags: Food Chain , Food & Drink , Mizu Yakitori & Sushi Lounge , Mike Sula , Lure Izakaya Pub , Union Sushi & Barbeque Grill , River North restaurants , Old Town restaurants , Bob Roth , Seijiro Matsumoto , Annie Zheng , Slurping Turtle , Masaki , Noon Hour Grill , Yuzu Sushi & Robata Grill , Chizakaya , Yusho , favorite restaurants of 2012 , Sumi Robata Bar
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On guarding the gates of the Hall of Fame
by Michael Miner
Tags: Media , Sports , News , Baseball Hall of Fame , Baseball Writers' Association of America , Paul Hagen , J.G. Taylor Spink Award , Rick Telander , Chicago Sun-Times , Hal Bodley , MLB.com
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On Katie Roiphe's In Praise of Messy Lives
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Considering how U.S. government agencies have interacted with Hollywood in the 50s and today
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Film , Zero Dark Thirty , Kathryn Bigelow , Anthony Mann , Strategic Air Command , James Stewart , J. Hoberman , An Army of Phantoms , Hollywood Reporter , Tina Daunt , Dave Kehr
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The North Korean leader stumbles upon a Reader post. A Gchat ensues.
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Illinois may be the center of our nation's confusing and contradictory approach to firearms
by Mick Dumke
Tags: Crime , Politics , News , assault weapons , Illinois , Chicago , violence , guns , firearms , Illinois State Police , FOID card , Garry McCarthy , Chicago Police Department , gangs , Andrew Papachristos , gun control , Illinois state senate
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Sunday, January 13, 2013
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , farmers' markets , Logan Square Farmers' Market , Congress Theater , Green City Market , Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum , Nerds at Heart , Christian Mingle , Alikewise , Market Pub , Star Trek , Jonathan Safran Foer , Everything Is Illuminated , Eating Animals , Spertus Institute , Judaism Writing and Inspiration
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Comparing two sets of violent eyes: James Stewart in Winchester '73 and John Cusack in The Paperboy
by Ben Sachs
Tags: This Will Kill You , Film , Gene Siskel Film Center , Winchester '73 , Anthony Mann , James Stewart , psychopaths , Bend of the River , The Man From Laramie , It's a Wonderful Life , John Cusack , The Paperboy , Lee Daniels , drag revue
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Chief Keef and Trinidad James take to the Hot 100
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Unable to pass gay marriage, Mayor Rahm elects to undercut Daley's run for governor instead
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Monday, January 14, 2013
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , Permanent Records , Iowa City , Slut River , Kevin Warwick , Greg Ginn , Dead Kennedys , Sioux City Pete & the Beggars , Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock , Jimi Hendrix , Woodstock , Music Box , The Mermaid and the Dragon , Beauty and Brawn Art Gallery and Think Space , Lindsey Meyers
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "The Mountain Song," from the Crucifucks album Wisconsin
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An Icelandic performance artist who isn't afraid to make you uncomfortable
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Also higher temperatures, Qualcomm's disastrous speech, and Chicago's scrap-metal collectors?
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A rundown of Chicago film screenings for the week of January 4
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Opening , Film , Chicago movies , Zero Dark Thirty , Kathryn Bigelow , Near Dark , Strange Days , Detour , Edgar G. Ulmer , Any Day Now , Music Box Theatre , Django , Sergio Corbucci , Django Unchained , Quentin Tarantino , Spaghetti Western , Tal Rosenberg , J.R. Jones , Ben Sachs , The Flat , Arnon Goldfinger , How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire , Gene Siskel Film Center , Stranger Than Fiction , Pice Check , The Rabbi's Cat , Sister , Home , Ursula Meier , William Wellman , The Story of G.I. Joe , Doc Films , Wong Kar-Wai , As Tears Go By , The Walls of Jericho , film noir , John Stahl , Portage Theater , On the Waterfront , Elia Kazan
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Long live Post-Enemy and Tritriangle
by Peter Margasak
Tags: Music , Post No Bills , Enemy , Jason Soliday , Tritriangle , Post-Enemy , Aaron Dilloway , Modern Jester , Jason Lescalleet , Green Pasture Happiness , Exhumed Corpse , Darin Gray
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Kim Jong-un hopes to see French actor Gerard Depardieu accompanying Bill Richardson and Eric Schmidt on their controversial humanitarian flight to North Korea
by Kate Schmidt
Tags: Seriously? , Shots Fired , News , Bill Richardson , Eric Schmidt , North Korea , Kim Jong Un , Gerard Depardieu , Vladimir Putin , Mordovia , Saransk , public urination , taxes
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A new beer store opens on the northwest side
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Chief Keef may not have moved to Northbrook but his major label debut, Finally Rich will soon be in circulation at the north suburb's public library
by Leor Galil
Tags: Seriously? , Music , Chief Keef , Keith Cozart , Northbrook , Northbrook Public Library , Twitter , Finally Rich , Cathleen Doyle , Andy Kim , Pitchfork , Consequence of Sound , Billboard , Fake Shore Drive , Video
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Brooklyn's favorite indie darlings the Men drop a new jam.
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Also Bill Maher, a news story that reads like Dan Brown, and using Google Earth for food gardens?
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Also about the links between lead poisoning and crime, Dick Mell and his daughter, and Shoah and a new documentary?
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The Southern's Cary Taylor wants to destroy deli containers
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Urban farming and better care of vacant lots could reduce crime and improve life in poorer areas
by Steve Bogira
Tags: Crime , Neighborhoods , Segregation , News , crime , violent crime , trees , Philadelphia , environment , greening , Landscape and Urban Planning , Jeremy Mennis , Mary K. Wolfe , Temple University , Baltimore , vacant lots , shootings , American Journal of Epidemiology , Perelman School of Medicine , University of Pennsylvania , University of Illinois , Alex Kotlowitz , Mother Jones , urban farming , community gardens , Englewood , Washington Park , Woodlawn , Green Healthy Neighborhoods , Riverdale , Cabrini-Green , North Lawndale , poverty , segregation , concentrated poverty
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Saturday, January 5, 2013
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , Revelation Records , House of Blues , Gorilla Biscuits , Start Today , Kevin Warwick , By a Thread , Down to Nothing , Youth of Today , College of Complexes , Gary Ross , Pleasantvile , Lincoln Restaurant , Tom Segura , Your Mom’s House , Conan , Comedy Central , Just For Laughs Comedy Festival , Improv
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Tuesday, January 15, 2013
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , Internet Superheroes: Art and Technology , Museum of Contemporary Art , Alex Inglizian , First United Methodist Church , It's Complicated , John Roy , Conan , The Tonight Shopw , Zanies
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Scott Williams designed this week's featured gig poster, which celebrates the three-year anniversary of Soul Summit
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Community Media Workshop announces its newest Studs Terkel Award winners.
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Average smoked meats from the owner of Jack's on Halsted
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A dubious dissing of Downton Abbey
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A closer look at Mayor Emanuel's plan to "revitalize" the CAPS program
by Mick Dumke
Tags: Crime , Politics , News , drugs , gangs , violence , war on drugs , Chicago Police Department , Rahm Emanuel , Garry McCarthy , community policing , CAPS , west side , west Humboldt Park , murder , homicide , shootings , budget , policing , Chicago city budget , Roger Bay , Walter Burnett Jr.
