Savage Love
Dan on starter dildos and the zombie apocalypse
by Dan Savage
Tags: Savage Love , sex store , sex toys , Valentine's Day , Jennifer Pritchett , Smitten Kitten , Minneapolis, Minnesota , vibrating dildo , G-spot , prostate stimulation , Claire Cavanah , Babeland , Seattle , New York City , cock ring , gas masks , floggers , cock locks , fucksaw
Ben Joravsky on Politics
Jesse Jackson Jr. leaves Chicago without independents
by Ben Joravsky
Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics , Harold Washington , Jane Byrne , Frank Coconate , progressive politics , Rahm Emanuel , Michael Bilandic , Jesse Jackson Jr. , Gery Chico , Richard M. Daley , Daley Machine , machine politics , Mike Quigley , mayoral elections , Rick Munoz , Sandi Jackson , 7th Ward , 2nd Congressional District of Illinois
Deanna Isaacs on Culture
A judge's dismissal of the Prentice preservationists' case leaves a window open.
by Deanna Isaacs
Tags: Deanna Isaacs on Culture , Prentice Hospital , preservation , landmark status , landmarks , Chicago Architecture Club , Chicago Architecture Foundation , Edward Torrez , Alan Cubbage , BauerLatoza Studio , architecture , Landmarks Illinois , National Trust for Historic Preservation , Bertrand Goldberg , Neil H. Cohen , Commission on Chicago Landmarks , Northwestern University , Mardell Nereim , public notice , due process , Martin Sinclair , lawsuits
Music Sidebar
This year Tomorrow Never Knows is bigger than ever, with Merchandise, Chelsea Wolfe, the Walkmen, Jessie Ware, and much more.
by Luca Cimarusti
Tags: Music Sidebar , Tomorrow Never Knows , Lincoln Hall , Schubas , Metro , Smart Bar , HideoutFather John Misty , Low Times , Tom Scharpling , Maggie Serota , Daniel Ralston , Steve Albini , Bear in Heaven , Supreme Cuts , Merchandise , Free Energy , Orwells , Chelsea Wolfe , King Dude , Geographer , School of Rock , Born Ruffians , Wild Belle , Niki & the Dove , Ssion , Freelance Whales , Hundred Waters , Jessie Ware , Lucero , Slam , Jeff Derringer , Derrick Carter , Black Madonna , Studio Casual , Only Children
Gossip Wolf
Gossip Wolf: New blood in Anatomy of Habit, a new band from Josh Chicoine of the M's, and a new mixtape from Alex Wiley
by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
Tags: Gossip Wolf , Anatomy of Habit , Dylan Posa , Mark Solotroff , Blake Edwards , Kenny Rasmussen , Will Lindsay , Indian , Wolves in the Throne Room , Greg Ratajczak , Tortoise , John McEntire , BloodLust! , CIMMfest , Josh Chicoine , Cloudbirds , Max Crawford , Edward Anderson , Mazes , 1900s , Colby Starck , Head of Femur , Shane Schroeder , Hot as Hell , Schubas , Tomorrow Never Knows , Chelsea Wolfe , the Amazing , King Dude , Alex Wiley , Village , Club Wiley , Chance the Rapper , Julian Malone , Freddie Gibbs , Raekwon , GLC , Closed Sessions , Elevator Lofts
In Rotation
Current obsessions of Alma Negra’s Erin Page and Anatomy of Habit’s Mark Solotroff
by Philip Montoro
Tags: In Rotation , Philip Montoro , El Leef , Anatomy of Habit , Mark Solotroff , Sister of Mercy , Sisters of Mercy bootlegs , bootlegs , Alma Negra , Erin Page , Neurosis , King Dude , Thin Lizzy
Music Feature
Chicago producer Nick Zanca, aka Mister Lies, has had a whirlwind year—and his debut album doesn't even come out till next month
by Leor Galil
Tags: Music Feature , Pitchfork's "Best New Track" , Portals , Bankrate , Soleman , Svengali , Jessica Blanchet , Different Sleep , Absent Fever , Flashlight Tag , Mister Lies , Columbia College , Nick Zanca , GarageBnd , Logic , Jessie Ware , Tomorrow Never Knows , Lefse Records , Nolan Andrea , Rafa Alvarez , Peter Luber , Potholes in My Blog , Eloise Hess , Tyler Andere , Lake Rescue , Lincoln Hall , Video
Movie Review
In Gunman’s Walk , Phil Karlson presents a progressive vision for westerns.
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Movie Review , Gunman's Walk , Phil Karlson , Tab Hunter , Van Heflin , James Darren , Phil Nugent , John Ford , Wagon Master , Fort Apache , The Searchers , They Rode West , Robert Francis , The Phenix City Story , Daniel Mainwaring , Joseph Losey , The Lawless , Crane Wilbur , Hell to Eternity , revisionist Western , Pearl Harbor , Japanese American imprisonment , The Brothers Rico , Recommended
Movie Critic's Choice
The subjects wrote the script in Jean Rouch’s quasi-documentary Moi, un Noir .
Restaurant Reviews
Grace's food weakens the knees, but Curtis Duffy's long-awaited restaurant isn't all the way there yet.
by Mike Sula
Tags: Restaurant Reviews , Curtis Duffy , prix fixe menus , Grace , ingredients , chefs , egos , fine dining , Vanity Fair , Corby Kummer , Avenues , Alinea , Elizabeth , expensive restaurants , Grant Achatz , Trio , autographed menus , open kitchens , presentation , flora menu , fauna menu , Michael Muser , French wines , Loire Valley wines
Comedy Critic's Choice
Kurt Braunohler performs at the Hideout, on a bill with Cameron Esposito
Performing Arts Sidebar
The RE|Dance cofounder goes back to his Appalachian roots for Homeland
by Laura Molzahn
Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar , RE , Dance Group , Homeland dance , Michael Estanich , Lucy Riner , Nemacolin Pennsylvania , Fiddlers 4 , Wailin' Jennys , Daiva Bhandari , Kym Nolden , Hamlin Park , Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater , Recommended
Performing Arts Review
Margi Cole’s the Dance COLEctive performs in "Free/Bound" at Stage 773.
Culture Vultures
Mister Tom Musick, Dollhouse Reading Series, and the Claudettes
Tags: Culture Vultures , Gallery Cabaret , Zachary Whittenburg , Hubbard Street Dance Chicago , The Claudettes , Michael Caskey , Jeff Semmerling , Meredith Miller , Semmerling & Schaefer Mask Studios , Mister Tom Musick , Ronnie Kuller , Dollhouse Reading Series , Michael Robbins , Dolly Lemke , Ryan Spooner , Johnny Iguana , Poetry Foundation
Theater Review
Lisa Dillman's American Wee-Pie premieres at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
by Tony Adler
Tags: Theater Review , Lisa Dillman , cupcakes , comedy , Megan Carney , Keith Kupferer , American Wee-Pie , Kurt Brocker , Regina Garcia , Jennifer Pompa , Rivendell Theatre
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Top Five Debut Films
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Weekly Top Five , Film , They Live by Night , Nicholas Ray , Rebel Without a Cause , The Great McGinty , Preston Sturges , The Miracle of Morgan Creek , Unfaithfully Yours , Targets , Peter Bogdanovich , Roger Corman , Francis Ford Coppola , Monte Hellman , Jack Hill , Jack Nicholson , Boris Karloff , L'Age D'Or , Luis Bunuel , Salvador Dali , Shadows , John Cassavetes , Bela Tarr , The Family Nest , Kevin Smith , Clerks , Badlands , Roman Polanski , Knife in the Water , Pier Paolo Pasolini , Accatone , Mama Roma , Citizen Kane , Orson Welles , Breathless , Jean-Luc Godard , Sauve qui peut (la vie) , Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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A car crashes into the Apple store in Lincoln Park.
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Saint Louis brewery Perennial won a silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival with its Heart of Gold wheat wine
by Philip Montoro
Tags: Beer and Metal , Music , Food & Drink , beer , metal , Beer and Metal , Perennial , Perennial Artisan Ales , Heart of Gold , wheat wine , Phil Wymore , Cory King , Goose Island , Half Acre , Great American Beer Festival , Fister , Rites of Impiety , the Lion's Daughter , Saint Louis
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The countdown of my favorite albums of 2012, part two
by Peter Margasak
Tags: Year in Review , Music , Post No Bills , Fay Davis-Jeffers , Mika Vainio , Kevin Drumm , Axel Dörner , Lucio Capece , Deerhoof , Josh Berman , Oren Ambarchi , António Zambujo , Keith Fullerton Whitman , Eli Keszler , Cate Le Bon , Cairo Gang , Avishai Cohen , Triveni , Emmett Kelly , Year in Review 2012 , favorite records 2012 , Variations on a Theme
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They make you want to see more
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Dim the Lights , Moviegoing , LGBT , Film , Moviegoing , introductions , Fred Camper , avant-garde cinema , Gene Siskel Film Center , Some Came Running , Rebel Without a Cause , mise-en-scene , Vincente Minnelli , Rob Christopher , Queue Tips , David Kodeski , Back Street , Susan Hayward , gay subtext , Shaft , "hand acting" , Ben Sachs on moviegoing
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Also air pollution, the Second amendment, and a shooting outside of the Sun-Times building?
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Also enormous walls of dust, Hit the Wall , and nude-celebrity photo shoots?
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Previewing new releases and notable revival screenings playing in town between January 18 and 24
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Opening , Film , Gunman's Walk , Phil Karlson , Andrew Sarris , Jean Rouch , Moi un Noir , The Lion Hunters , Doc Films , Music Box Theatre , Doc Films , Gene Siskel Film Center , Raising Arizona , Coen brothers , Cosmopolis , David Cronenberg , The Trouble With Harry , Alfred Hitchcock , Out of the Past , Jacques Tourneur , Zazie in the Metro , Louis Malle , Days of Being Wild , Wong Kar-wai , Devil in a Blue Dress , Walter Mosley , Chicago Cultural Center , West of Memphis , Amy Berg , West Memphis Three , Bel Borba Aqui , In Bed With Ulysses , A Haunted House , Marlon Wayans , Sexy Baby , La Rafle , Luv , Common , Video
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A German-style dark wheat beer brewed with Belgian yeast and aged in Heaven Hill barrels
by Philip Montoro
Tags: Beer and Metal , Food Chain , Music , Food & Drink , La Petite Mort , Central Waters , Central Waters Brewing Company , Local Option , Bierwerker , Heaven Hill , bourbon , beer , weizenbock , dunkelweizen , Alexi Front , Noah Hopkins , Tony Russomanno , Jon Scordato , Anello Mollica , heron , metal
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First impressions of first impressions
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A few thoughts on the sound of 16-millimeter projectors
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Moviegoing , Film , Ben Sachs on Moviegoing , Jim Trainor , The Fetishist , Roots and Culture Gallery , 16-millimeter film , film projectors , Holy Motors , Leos Carax , Jean-Luc Godard , Film Socialisme , Video
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Thursday, January 17, 2013
by Katie Kather
Tags: Do This , Arts , Chicago History , Harold Washington Library , Sweet Home Chicago: The History of America's Candy Capital , Chicago Shakespeare Theater , Cadre , South Africa , Willy Mason , Folk , Country , Old Town School of Folk Music
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Weekly Top Five: Robert Mitchum performances
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Things I Love , Weekly Top Five , Film , Robert Mitchum , Northwest Chicago Film Society , Portage Theater , Out of the Past , River of No Return , The Locket , The Friends of Eddie Coyle , The Lusty Men , Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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StoryCorps will move into the Chicago Cultural Center this spring.
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Lovano's Us Five quintet releases its third album, Cross Culture , for Blue Note.
by Peter Margasak
Tags: Jazz , Music , Post No Bills , Joe Lovano , jazz , Us Five , Cross Culture , Francisco Mela , Otis Brown III , Esperanza Spalding , James Weidman , Lionel Loueke , Peter Slavov , Blessings in May , Audio
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The final installment of 40 favorite albums of 2012 countdown
by Peter Margasak
Tags: Year in Review , Music , Post No Bills , Duane Pitre , Josephine Foster , Frank Ocean , Billy Hart , Streifenjunko , Stefan Prins , Eric Boeren , Giovanna Pessi , Susanna Wallumrød , Vijay Iyer , David Virelles , favorite records of 2012 , Year in Review 2012 , Variations on a Theme
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Comparing two recent U.S. releases as theatrical experiences
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Whoa , Moviegoing , Film , Ben Sachs on Moviegoing , In the Family , Patrick Wang , Facets Multimedia , The Master , Paul Thomas Anderson , Apichatpong Weerasethakul , Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives , Tropical Malady , Aleksei Guerman , Twenty Days Without War , My Friend Ivan Lapshin , Gene Siskel Film Center , digital cinema , Side by Side , J.R. Jones , Roger Ebert
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Eat some broiled yellowtail collar.
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Top Five Steven Spielberg Films
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Weekly Top Five , Film , Steven Spielberg , Minority Report , Hook , The Terminal , AI: Artificial Intelligence , Jaws , Lincoln , Duel , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Jurassic Park , Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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Why so much movie music disappoints when compared to Scott Walker's cinematic new album Bish Bosch
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Moviegoing , Film , Music , Scott Walker , Bish Bosch , The Drift , Scott 4 , The Seventh Seal , music in movies , headphone albums , David O. Russell , Silver Linings Playbook , Led Zeppelin , What Is and What Should Never Be , Wes Anderson , Martin Scorsese , SDS1416+13B (Zercon , A Flagpole Sitter) , Louis B. Mayer , Pitchfork , The Master , Hors Satan , Ben Sachs on moviegoing
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The Internet's strangest video star gave my phone number to thousands of his devotees.
by Luca Cimarusti
Tags: Seriously? , The Internet , News , Shoenice , YouTube , phone calls , prank calls , text messages , harassment , Internet , viral video , videos
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Reconsidering the work of Louis Malle and Claude Sautet in light of recent Chicago revivals
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Foreign , Film , Louis Malle , Claude Sautet , Max et les Ferrailleurs , Michel Piccoli , Romy Schneider , Murmur of the Heart , Doc Films , Gene Siskel Film Center , Un Coeur en Hiver , Jean-Luc Godard , Numero Deux , bourgeois realism , Lacombe Lucien , Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud , Nouvelle Vague , crime films , Classe Tous Risques , A Man Escaped
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The top five films with "marathon" running times
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Weekly Top Five , Film , Variations on a Theme , La Belle Noiseuse , Jacques Rivette , Stalker , Andrei Tarkovsky , Magnolia , Paul Thomas Anderson , Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles , Chantal Akerman , Satantango , Bela Tarr , Fanny and Alexander , The Decalogue , Berlin Alexanderplatz , La Commune (Paris 1871) , Edvard Munch , Punishment Park , Privilege , Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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Two Brothers' oak-aged wet-hop IPA and the equally heavy-handed Devin Townsend
by Philip Montoro
Tags: Beer and Metal , Music , Food & Drink , beer , metal , Beer and Metal , Two Brothers , Two Brothers Brewing , Heavy Handed , Heavier Handed , wet hop , foudre , harvest ale , Devin Townsend , Devin Townsend Project , Strapping Young Lad , Love? , Alien , City , Supercrush! , bald bastard , Video
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Friday, January 18, 2013
by Katie Kather
Tags: Do This , Arts , Bingo Night , 826CHI , Wicker Park , Bucktown , Chicago Zine Fest , Threadless , Intelligentsia , Green Dolphin , Crystal Method , Grace Potter & the Nocturnals , Riviera Theatre , Langhorne Slim
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Charming atmosphere, less-than-charming food at Lakeview's Bistro Dre
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The trailer for Beyonce's documentary disturbs, fascinates.
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Whoa , Media , Film , Music , Beyonce , Life Is But A Dream , HBO , GQ , Amy Wallace , Cave of Forgotten Dreams , Phillip K. Dick , android , celebritism , social networking , Google , hyperreal. , Video
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Juggalos, fake blood, and more
by Miles Raymer
Tags: On Video , The Internet , Music , Deathface , Johnny Love , Marilyn Manson , juggalos , Lil Internet , seapunk , Tumblr , Twitter , Video
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The Beast that came from Jersey and the Beast that comes from Milwaukee
by Philip Montoro
Tags: This Will Kill You , Beer and Metal , Music , Food & Drink , The Beast , Cosmic Hearse , Aesop Dekker , Devil's Music , Power Metal EP , Last Beastial Incarnation , Scott Ruth , Jack Pitzer , the Hinge , Milwaukee's Best , Milwaukee's Best Ice , New Jersey , Eugene , Oregon , poor life decisions , Video
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My belated countdown of my 40 favorite albums of the year
by Peter Margasak
Tags: Year in Review , Music , Post No Bills , Mike Wexler , Jeremy Pelt , Ivar Grydeland , Huntsville , Kevin Drumm , Eivind Opsvik Overseas , Neneh Cherry , the Thing , J.D. Allen Trio , Aaron Dilloway , Wolf Eyes , Dr. John , Dan Auerbach , Henry Threadgill Zooid , favorite records of 2012 , Year in Review 2012 , Variations on a Theme
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Reconsidering the clownish antics of three works in light of the latest Trap Door Theatre production
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Theater , Moviegoing , Film , Ben Sachs on Moviegoing , clowning , Pierre Étaix , Yoyo , Denis Lavant , Holy Motors , Leos Carax , Music Box Theatre , Gene Siskel Film Center , Life Without Principle , Johnnie To , Lau Ching-wan , Trap Door Theatre , The Arsonists , Victor Quezada-Perez
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Pundits like to pronounce on what people in the news do and don't deserve , but do they understand how magisterial and self-important they sound when they do?
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Weekly Top Five: most anticipated films of 2013
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Weekly Top Five , Film , Taste of Money , Side Effects , Mud , Frances Ha , Before Midnight , Im Sang-Soo , Steven Soderbergh , Noah Baumbach , Jeff Nichols , Richard Linklater , Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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The Chicago Tribune 's terrific series on itself deserves book, HBO treatments.
by Michael Miner
Tags: Media , News , Michael Oneal , Steve Mills , Chicago Tribune , Broken Deal , Sam Zell , Tribune Company , HBO , Joy Bergman , David Carr , New York Times , Colonel McCormick , Randy Michaels , Dennis FitzSimons , Rupert Murdoch , Wall Street Journal , Gerald Kern , Dean Baquet , Robert Lurie , Equity Group Investments , Ann Lurie
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A new study by the Chicago Teachers Union shows that Jerry Reinsdorf and Rocky Wirtz are masters of the property tax system
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Thoughts on a recent midnight show at the Logan Theater
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Paranormal , Neighborhoods , Moviegoing , Film , The Shining , Stanley Kubrick , The Logan Theater , Logan Square , Comfort Station , midnight movies , BluRay , digital projection , nostalgia , Jack Nicholson , Overlook Hotel , Ben Sachs on moviegoing
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Punch-Drunk Love leads the list
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On "Together We're Fucked," which took first prize at Bridgeport Art Gallery's inaugural artist competition.
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Stone wraps up its series of yearly one-off beers with a dry, spicy Belgian-style dark ale
by Philip Montoro
Tags: Beer and Metal , Food & Drink , Beer and Metal , beer , metal , Stone Brewing , Vertical Epic , 12.12.12 , Vertical Epic Ale , Belgian , cinnamon , nutmeg , allspice , sweet orange peel , clove , rose hips
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Notes on the hard-working character actor, who appears in the Mark Wahlberg detective movie Broken City
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Whoa , Film , James Ransone , Broken City , Starlet , Sinister , character actors , Allen Hughes , Mark Wahlberg , Dan Duryea , Robert Siodmak , film noir
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Top 5 CIFF Films
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Weekly Top Five , Film , Night Across the Street , Raul Ruiz , Like Someone in Love , Abbas Kiarostami , Certified Copy , Post Tenebras Lux , Carlos Reygadas , Leviathan , Lucien Castaing-Taylor , Verena Paravel , Sweetgrass , Holy Motors , Leos Carax , Tokyo! , Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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FOBAB showcases some of the most awesomely excessive beers in the world, which is pretty metal if you think about it
by Philip Montoro
Tags: Beer and Metal , Food Chain , Music , Food & Drink , Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer , FOBAB , Bridgeport Art Center , Skyline Loft , Illinois Craft Brewers Guild , Pete Crowley , Justin Maynard , Haymarket Pub and Brewery , Perennial Artisan Ales , Pipeworks Brewing , Spiteful Brewing , Goose Island , Firestone Walker , Sour Opal , Passion House , Solemn Oath , Sun King , Cigar City , Metropolitan Brewing , Lost Abbey
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At his funeral, the family of Internet genius and activist Aaron Swartz blames the government for his suicide.
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Comparing two historical epics to have recently screened in new DCP restorations
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Moviegoing , Film , Roman Polanski , Tess , DCP restoration , Lawrence of Arabia , David Lean , Gene Siskel Film Center , Music Box Theatre , skyscrapers , Panavision , Ben Sachs on Moviegoing
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A short review of The Last Stand , directed by Kim Jee-woon
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Opening , Film , The Last Stand , Arnold Schwarzenegger , Kim Jee-woon , Johnny Knoxville , I Saw the Devil , The Good the Bad the Weird , South Korean cinema , Rio Bravo , Howard Hawks
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A Cook County judge gives preservationists until February 15 to revise a lawsuit aimed at saving Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital from imminent destruction
by Deanna Isaacs
Tags: Arts , Architecture , News , Visual Art , Prentice Hospital , Bertrand Goldberg , Neil H. Cohen , National Trust for Historic Preservation , Landmarks Council of Illinois , Northwestern University , Commission on Chicago Landmarks
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Pipeworks Brewing finally bottles its Abduction Imperial Stout, and it's bitter, black, and bottomless
by Philip Montoro
Tags: Beer and Metal , Music , Food & Drink , Pipeworks , Pipeworks Brewing , Abduction , Abduction Imperial Stout , beer , metal , Beejay Oslon , Gerrit Lewis , Ninja vs. Unicorn , Triptykon , The Prolonging , Eparistera Daimones , Video
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Thinking about the 1.37:1 aspect ratio after attending a revival of Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Moviegoing , Film , Academy ratio , aspect ratios , Gus Van Sant , Paranoid Park , close-ups , Winter Light , Ingmar Bergman , Ingrid Thulin , The Artist , Ben Sachs on moviegoing
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Haleem, the Hot Doug's book, the Harold's Chicken sports bar, and more
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D.C. trio Imperial China takes its postpunk sound in an eerie direction on "Creative License."
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In honor of Stephen Adly Guirgis
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Observations on the first Chicago screening of Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's Paradise: Love
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Scott Jacobs, proof the journalist of the future can actually exist
by Michael Miner
Tags: Media , News , Scott Jacobs , Chicago Sun-Times , Chicago Daily News , Wheel of Fortune , Lou Grant , Stuart Gordon , Organic Theater , Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur , Kurtis Productions , Len Aronson , The Week Behind , Apple
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Weekly Top Five: Reagan-era actioners
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Canadian hardcore act Single Mothers have been selling point-and-shoot cameras they used to document their tour with Quicksand; here's their experience in Detroit and Chicago in photo form.
by Leor Galil
Tags: Arts , Music , Visual Art , Single Mothers , Quicksand , merch , photo slideshow , Metro , Kickstarter , Hot Charity , Kodak , Walgreens , Slideshow
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The Ungnomes, fronted by Jon Langford's son Jimmy, play at Martyrs' this weekend
by Luca Cimarusti
Tags: Things I Love , Music , The Ungnomes , Twin Peaks , Rubber , Martyrs' , Jon Langford , Jimmy Langford , punk rock , live , high school , music
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Two important videos to get your day going
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A zingy, fruity double IPA, Ravaged by Vikings, from Naperville's tap-only brewery Solemn Oath
by Philip Montoro
Tags: Beer and Metal , Music , Food & Drink , Beer and Metal , beer , metal , Solemn Oath , Ravaged by Vikings , Jourdon Gullett , Naperville , Acre , Martin Langrall , Kidnapped by Vikings , Bathory , Enslaved , Amon Amarth , Ragnarok , Video
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Top five Shaw Brothers films
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Film , Chang Cheh , Lau Kar-Leung , King Hu , Yuen Chor , The 36th Chamber of Shaolin , The New One-Armed Swordsman , Death Duel , Come Drink with Me , Five Deadly Venoms , Doc Films , The One-Armed Swordsman , Eight Diagram Pole Fighter , Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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Revisiting the 1976 drama Mado in light of the current release of Sautet's Max et les Ferrailleurs (1971)
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Foreign , On Video , Film , Claude Sautet , Michel Piccoli , Max et les Ferrailleurs , Gene Siskel Film Center , Claude Chabrol , The Unfaithful Wife , La Femme Infidele , Une Partie de Plaisir , Mado , Ottavia Piccolo , Jacques Dutronc , Dave Kehr
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Our correspondent discovers a new favorite hoppy beer from Chicago, and also that the word "ninja" is not the best sign when it comes to metal
by Philip Montoro
Tags: Beer and Metal , Music , Food & Drink , Beer and Metal , beer , metal , Pipeworks , Pipeworks Brewing , Beejay Oslon , Citra Ninja , Abduction , Ninja vs. Unicorn , Zombie Dust , Vallejo , Half Acre , Three Floyds , Video
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The Chicago Public Library unveils Steve Musgrave's portrait of President Barack Obama, with a key to his friends.
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Emanuel names an advisory board to advise the Infrastructure Trust to do whatever he tells them
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Also American Airlines, Tavi Gevinson, and a CVS manager strangling a shoplifter to death?
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The best shows to see Monday through Wednesday are Slut River, Child Bite, and Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten
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Why I appreciate the 15-minute walk between Stony Island Avenue and Ida Noyes Hall
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A young rapper and a veteran DJ team up to make vintage boom-bap
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Revisiting the pioneering effects of Disney's 1982 sci-fi film
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This weekend Tomorrow Never Knows has all kinds of great shows, and other great choices include Magic Trick, Meek Mill, and Underoath
by Philip Montoro
Tags: Do This , Music , Tomorrow Never Knows , Merchandise , Hundred Waters , Black Madonna , Underoath , Magic Trick , Meek Mill , live music , concert listings , Soundboard
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Three Floyds' double rye IPA and Dio's "Holy Diver"
by Philip Montoro
Tags: Beer and Metal , Music , Food & Drink , Beer and Metal , Three Floyds , rye , Rye da Tiger , Dio , Ronnie James Dio , Holy Diver , ride the tiger , IPA , DIPA , beer , metal , Video
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"Hall of Fame" sticks to the script
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Top five Wong Kar-wai films
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Foreign , Weekly Top Five , Film , Wong Kar-wai , Gene Siskel Film Center , In the Mood For Love , Happy Together , The Hand , Eros , Days of Being Wild , Chungking Express , Ashes of Time Redux , Vulgaria , Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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This week's gig poster was designed by Michigan-based artist Shawn K. Knight.
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The humble banh mi sandwich extends its reach.
by Kate Schmidt
Tags: Food Chain , Food & Drink , banh mi , Mike Sula , Nhu Lan Bakery , Argyle Street , Ba La Sandwich Shop , Banh Mi & Company , Nhu Lan Bakery , Lincoln Square , Saigon Subs #2 , bho ko , pho , Saigon Sisters , Chicago French Market , Big Jones , Paul Fehribach , banh mi po'boy , Red Boat fish sauce
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is Glenn Jones's "Show Me," from his 1984 album Finesse
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Top five horror films from the aughts
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Weekly Top Five , Film , The Devil's Backbone , The Devil's Rejects , Trick 'r Treat , House of the Devil , Frontiere(s) , Halloween , Doc Films , Xavier Gens , Ti West , Rob Zombie , Guillermo del Toro , Michael Dougherty , Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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Also the Kichwa, "wearable computers," and disabling Java?
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Bolt Cutter, Founders' 15th-anniversary barleywine, doesn't have anything to do with Bolt Thrower except that they're both great
by Philip Montoro
Tags: Booze , Beer and Metal , Music , Food & Drink , Beer and Metal , beer , metal , Founders , Founders Brewing , Bolt Cutter , barleywine , anniversary , Nemesis , Bolt Thrower , Those Once Loyal , Maryland Deathfest , Chaos in Tejas , Jo Bench , Karl Willetts , Video
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The best of the controversial Polish director, whose 1979 film Tess screens in a digital print at the Siskel Center this week
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Things I Love , Weekly Top Five , Film , Roman Polanski , Rosemary's Baby , The Ghost Writer , Chinatown , The Pianist , The Tenant , Dave Kehr , Franz Kafka , William Castle , Knife in the Water , National Film School in Łódź , Repulsion , Carnage , Harold Pinter , Samuel Becket , Freud , Frantic , Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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For our Valentine's Day issue, we're asking for your least romantic stories.
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Who described Beijing in such airpocalyptic terms?
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The new Neurosis album, Honor Found in Decay , might be the closest the band ever gets to a country record
by Philip Montoro
Tags: Beer and Metal , Music , Neurosis , Honor Found in Decay , metal , Scott Kelly , Neurot , We All Rage in Gold , At the Well , Steve Albini , Times of Grace , Given to the Rising , Enemy of the Sun , Catal Huyuk , Harvey's Club Deluxe , Billy Anderson , Through Silver in Blood , The Eye of Every Storm , Bleeding the Pigs , My Heart for Deliverance , Casting of the Ages , Video
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How unexpected odors can enhance our experience of a film
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Gross , Poverty , Moviegoing , Film , Ben Sachs on Moviegoing , Gene Siskel Film Center , School of the Art Institute , Happy Together , Wong Kar-wai , The New World , Terrence Malick , sense of smell , memory , homelessness , Wedding Crashers
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A buoyant track from the debut album of former Chicagoan Dylan Ryan's new trio, Sand
by Peter Margasak
Tags: 12 O'Clock Track , Music , Post No Bills , Dylan Ryan , Sand , 12 O'Clock Track , White Nights , Herculaneum , jazz , Devin Hoff , Tim Young , Audio
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Cofounder Dave Beltran talks about the label and how it transformed into a multipurpose space
by Leor Galil
Tags: Neighborhoods , Music , FeelTrip , Yawn , David Beltran , music , Starfoxxx , Pitchfork Music Festival , Dirty Beaches , Twin Peaks , DJ Earl , Sepalcure , Machinedrum , Orwells , Daniel Perzan , Adam Gil , video , Video
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Saturday, January 19, 2013
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Also David Carr, a chart of emotions, and the gender-equality shortcomings of the Obama administration?
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How an anatomy lesson from Grandma helped me appreciate two current releases
by Ben Sachs
Tags: Things I Love , Arts , Moviegoing , Film , The Master , Smashed , Joaquin Phoenix , Philip Seymour Hoffman , Smashed , Mary Elizabeth Winstead , Days of Wine and Roses , Lee Remick , Jack Lemmon , anatomy lessons , life drawing , Ben Sachs on moviegoing
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Top five Christmas horror films
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An apple cider made with cinnamon-roasted pecans and vanilla is pricey but worth it.
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Ruben Fleischer's new gangster epic is gonna get even with you
by J.R. Jones
Tags: Gross , This Will Kill You , Moviegoing , Film , Politics , Ruben Fleischer , Gangster Squad , Sandy Hook shooting , Aurora Colorado shooting , Production Code Administration , Motion Picture Association of America , Django Unchained , Patrick Arden , Chicago Reader , gun violence , movies
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Sunday, January 20, 2013
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Do This , Arts , Vintage Garage , Metro , screamo , Underoath , Anthology: 1999-2013 , Leor Galil , Margi Cole , Dance COLEctive , Free/Bound , In Orderly Fashion , Leaving and Wanting , Laura Molzahn
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Top five Ozploitation films
by Drew Hunt
Tags: Weekly Top Five , Film , The Man From Hong Kong , Patrick , Thirst , Long Weekend , Mad Max , Walkabout , Nicolas Roeg , Brian Trencahrd-Smith , BMX Bandits , Richard Franklin , Roadgames , Rear Window , Mad Max 2 , Psycho II , Craig Eggleston , George Miller , Ozploitation , The Devil's Playground , Picnic at Hanging Rock , Wake in Fright , Gene Siskel Film Center , Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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What's on the Reader 's Agenda for Wedneday, January 16, 2013
by Katie Kather
Tags: Do This , Arts , Tomorrow Never Knows , Schubas , Lincoln Hall , Smart Bar , indie hip-hop , dance , Bear in Heaven , Born Ruffians , Supreme Cuts , Jane Addams Hull-House Museum , Conservative Vice Lords , Jason Reblando , God vs. Hall and Oates , The Drinking and Writing Theatre at Haymarket Pub & Brewery
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Ravenswood's Spiteful Brewing debuts with the roasty, chocolatey G.F.Y. Stout, which arrived in Chicago stores five days ago
by Philip Montoro
Tags: Beer and Metal , Music , Food & Drink , Beer and Metal , beer , metal , Spiteful Brewing , Brad Shaffer , Jason Klein , Ravenswood , G.F.Y. Stout , FOBAB , Pipeworks Brewing , Thrones , Joe Preston , Oso Malo , Anguish of Bears , Black Bear , Hulk Smash , Video
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What the Outkast member's Frank Ocean remix and the response to it says about our growing desire to see our wildest musical dreams come true
by Leor Galil
Tags: Narcissism , Music , Big Boi , Frank Ocean , Pink Matter , Antwan Patton , Andre 3000 , Andre Benjamin , Channel Orange , Soundcloud , Spin magazine , T.I. , Sorry , Idlewild
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Laura Amico, founder of Homicide Watch, discusses the database-driven program's expansion to Chicago
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Philip Ghantous, actor and owner of Cafecito, is opening a second location in the Loop.
