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This Issue
Mike Sula's feature story investigates whether a new business can increase the amount of local food we eat; elsewhere in Food & Drink, Sula recommends Lincoln Square Thai takeout joint Rainbow Cuisine and this week's Key Ingredient finds Maude Liquor Bar's Tony Diaz working with cactus. In their columns, Ben Joravsky explains how the mayor prepares to close schools while spending millions on an arena for DePaul, Deanna Isaacs reports on Richard Cotovsky's recently announced Jeff Award after four decades in Chicago theater, and Michael Miner wonders if laid-off journalists should sue. In Arts & Culture, Janet Potter examines StoryCorps' new booth in the Cultural Center; Claudine Isé reviews "AfriCOBRA: Prologue—The 1960s and the Black Arts Movement," currently on display at the South Side Community Art Center; Tony Adler reviews Charles Nowell's production of The Misanthrope, now playing at Court Theatre; and J.R. Jones looks back on Shirley Clarke's classic documentary, Portrait of Jason. And on the B Side, Leor Galil chronicles the return of Dance Mania Records.
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