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Mildly interesting.. RT @Chicago_Reader: Rick Morrissey is moving from the Trib to the Sun-Times http://is.gd/5driB
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Apple to Buy the Music Start-Up Lala
nytimes.com
The Blog
Mick Dumke
The City Releases the "Shadow Budget"
The Reader acquires a copy of the city's proposed tax increment financing budget.
Film / Music / Free Shit 12/6 — Free Screening of "Wesley Willis's Joyrides"
Posted by Robyn Chang on Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Chicagoland / Food Chain / Music / Food & Drink / Performing Arts Dinner and a Show: Saturday 12/5
Posted by Whet Moser on Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:14 PM
Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants, including the The Happy Family Series and Cuban sandwiches.
Media / News Bites Rick Morrissey Moves Across the Street and Down the River
Posted by Michael Miner on Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 3:22 PM
Rick Morrissey just did the unthinkable, jumping from the Tribune to the Sun-Times because the opposition felt to him like a more exciting place to be. That used to happen in the late 60s and early 70s, when both papers prospered but the Sun-Times was the young, hard-charging one. But since Rupert Murdoch took over the Sun-Times in 1984 the traffic's been almost all the other way — the Tribune was the more respectable paper, the more prosperous and secure paper, and lately, when the Sun-Times and Tribune both found themselves bankrupt, the paper more likely to go under last because the water would take longer to reach the rail.
RE Gift / Chicagoland / Visual Art Holiday Sales and Fairs Roundup
Posted by Whet Moser on Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 3:02 PM
This weekend brings a ton of sales and fairs in time for holiday shopping, including a special holiday Do-Division event and the International Small Print Show and Holiday Sale at Chicago Printmakers.
I was happy to learn that my favorite local rock poster artist/ornithology-oriented painter/half of local gig poster power couple with Jay Ryan*/volunteer taxidermist, Diana Sudyka, has a booth at the Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Sale. She's also got an Etsy site; I love her new Darwin's Rhea print, which would make a nice gift for the biologist in your life.
*Who is also awesome, for instance, and.
Music / Free Shit 12/5 — Free the Dutchess & the Duke Performance
Posted by Robyn Chang on Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:21 AM
The Dutchess & the Duke, who Reader critic Brian Costello says "combine male-female harmonies, acoustic and 12-string guitars, keyboards, strings, and percussion into brooding, introspective songs—stripped-down and vulnerable but still complex," will perform for free at Reckless Records (1532 N. Milwaukee) today at 5 PM. They'll also play tonight at 10 PM at the Empty Bottle ($10; Greg Ashley and Love of Everything open).
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