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NoMi Kitchen's Ryan LaRoche uses the "humble vegetable" in a supporting role.
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Restaurant Reviews
Wicker Park's Oiistar goes to Changian lengths in the pursuit of ramen and bao.
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Book Review
The lightweights in Zak Mucha's Heavyweight Champion of Nothing, can't take a punch.
- by Jerome Ludwig
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Tags: Book Review, Heavyweight Champion of Nothing, Zak Mucha, Shake Rattle & Read, Reading Under the Influence, Sheffield’s, Emotional Self-Defense workshop, Open Books, The Beggar's Shore, Andrew Vachss, Frank Caruso, Heart Transplant, Ten Angry Pitbulls, Edgewater, Recommended
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A real-life Medieval Times in Hyde Park, or something
- by Hannah Gold
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Tags: Zoom in, Hyde Park, University of Chicago, Arley D. Cathey Learning Center, Rockefeller Chapel, the Shire of Gray Gargoyle, ociety for Creative Anachronism, Middle Ages, Ida Noyes Hall, Monty Python, Midway, Midlands, Midlands of Illinois, Middle Earth
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Windy City Roller Moby Nipps is the type to roll with the punches
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My belated countdown of my 40 favorite albums of the year
- by Peter Margasak
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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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A legendary relic from dance-music history turns up for free.
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Do This, Music, Tom Moulton, R_co, SoundCloud, Frankie Knuckles, Ron Hardy, Larry Levan, disco, dance music, house music
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More chains, smoked kimchi, strange flavor eggplant, and more
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Top Five Alfred Hitchcock films
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Weekly Top Five, Sabotage, Lifeboat, Marnie, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, Sight and Sound Magazine, North by Northwest, The Birds, Psycho, The Lady Vanishes, Spellbound
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A local entrepreneur is marketing Yemeni coffee cherry tea
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Catching up on a stack of Hans Fallada novels
- by Jerome Ludwig
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Tags: Books, Foreign, Arts, Hans Fallada, Alone in Berlin, Otto Hampel, Elise Hampel, Book Cellar, Uncharted Books, Melville House, Stolpersteine, stumbling blocks, The Drinker, Penguin
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A great day for Mayor Rahm: TIF handouts for rich developers and more campaign contributions from his friends.
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Part three of my favorite albums of 2012 countdown
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Year in Review, Music, Post No Bills, Sharon Van Etten, Wadada Leo Smith, Jeremiah Cymerman, Angel Olsen, Mariel Roberts, Holly Herndon, Fatoumata Diawara, Jeremy Denk, Deep Timer, Mary Halvorson, favorite records of 2012, Year in Review 2012, Variations on a Theme
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Absecon Isle," the opening track from Sannhet's upcoming Known Flood.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Sannhet, Saint Vitus, Absecon Isle, metal, Mogwai, instrumental, post-rock, Brooklyn, Tolkein
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Central Waters first brewed Kosmyk Charlie's barleywine for Y2K, but luckily they kept going.
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Central Waters, barleywine, Kosmyk Charlie's Y2K Catastrophe Ale, Y2K, Wisconsin, Amherst, Local Option, La Petite Mort, Al Capone, Miasmal, Twilight, Behemoth, regrets, I've had a few, Video
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You know what else is cool about tapes? Magic, that's what.
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RIP Stan Musial: 1920-2013
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, January 21, 2013
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Louisville, Freakwater, Hideout, Feels Like the Third Time, Janet Bean, Catherine Irwin, relatively coarse, Peter Margasak, The Inconvenience, Fresh Meat, Cleave, Saki, Delicious Design League, Yuck
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In which I cure a turkey breast with Pakistani hunter-beef spices.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Cooking, Food Chain, Food & Drink, hunter beef, corned beef, Pakistani food, Devon Avenue, Ghareeb Nawaz, turkey, Spinzer Restaurant, Pista House, LTHForum, hunter-beef pastrami
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"A Little Messed Up" is 80s-inspired new wave from Yacht Club, which is fronted by Canadian hardcore vet Ben Cook.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Yacht Club, Ben Cook, Fucked Up, No Warning, Matt DeLonge, A Little Messed Up, video, synth-pop, 80s, new wave, stalker, Video
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Also more Manti Te'o, Joseph Stiglitz on inequality, and being the only black guy at the indie-rock show?
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Earlier Thursday Chief Keef was sentenced to 60 days in jail for violating his probation; here's what it was like in the courtroom.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Whoa, Music, News, Chief Keef, probation, sentencing, Keith Cozart, Pitchfork, Judge Carl Anthony Walker, Bang Part 2, Finally Rich, Video
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The president's speech was rich in platitudes, but at least many were aimed in one direction.
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Shows to see over the next few days include Freakwater, Michael Vallera, Femi Kuti, Castle, and the NRG Ensemble
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Do This, Music, Freakwater, Michael Vallera, Femi Kuti, Jeff Parker, Rob Mazurek, Ryley Walker, Bitchin Bajas, Castle, NRG Ensemble, Soundboard, live music, concert listings
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But it doesn't matter: they aren't offering them any longer.
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Shots Fired, Technology, News, Groupon, guns, gun range, clay shooting, concealed handgun training, Garden & Gun, Sandy Hook, Andrew Mason, Tal Rosenberg on technology
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About Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar-nominated film
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Film, Politics, Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow, Argo, torture, David Denby, the New Yorker, Jonathan Kim, Mark Boal, James Stockdale, Academy Awards, Golden Globe awards, Osama bin Laden
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Flawed encryption and "deduplication" are among the new service's weaknesses.
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: The Internet, Technology, Film, Music, News, Megaupload, Mega, Kim Dotcom, the Internet, piracy, One Direction
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Also Paul Krugman on the budget deficit, inaugural Bibles, and Adam Mansbach's book tour?
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The text of Richard Blanco's inaugural poem
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Talking with some of Chicago's most esteemed documentarians about the great French ethnographer and filmmaker
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Foreign, Film, Jean Rouch, Gene Siskel Film Center, Kartemquin Films, Gordon Quinn, Judy Hoffman, documentary films, anthropology, ethnography, The Mad Masters, Les Maitres Fous, Chronicle of a Summer, The Lion Hunters, Moi un Noir, cinema verite, direct cinema, hauka religion, provocation, Wise Fool's Pub, Margaret Mead, University of Illinois at Chicago, Cahiers du cinema, Edgar Morin, Bix Beiderbecke, Mike Shea, Maxwell Street, ...And This Is Free, Jerry Tamener, Stan Karter, Niger, handheld camerawork
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The first-time meeting of singular saxophonists Colin Stetson and Mats Gustafsson has been released as Stones.
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Is David Cronenberg's latest a different movie on DVD than it is in the cinema?
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: On Video, Transportation, Moviegoing, Film, Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, Don DeLillo, Robert Pattinson, Doc Films, Ida Noyes Hall, DVD, moviegoing, mise-en-scene, stretch limo
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Riccardo Muti will miss the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Asian tour.
