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Crickets / Music / Free Shit More Chi Sounds from Face Melt
Posted by Miles Raymer on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:24 PM
Ground Lift will present another event slightly sooner: Saturday, February 18, is the latest Chicago installment of the annual Dre Day celebration, which with every passing year comes ever closer to federal recognition. Or at least I hope that's the case.
Film Movie life in Chicago: managing the New 400
Posted by Ben Sachs on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:42 PM
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Food Chain / Food & Drink Jerked: Heron Valley Jerk Chicken
Posted by Mike Sula on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:11 PM
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- Heron Valley's whole jerk chicken
Jerk shacks come and go on the south side, but Heron Valley's been infusing allspice and chile-rubbed chicken, catfish, and shrimp with a righteous smoke for about four years on a stretch of 103rd Street temptingly close to Old Fashioned Donuts. Inside, a bulletproof barrier protects a chuffing barrel smoker that produces a tender, juicy bird, hacked and heaped in clamshell with a couple slices of dense hard-dough bread to mop the tangy jerk sauce—for a mere $10.
Mudville / Sports The NFL: It's fantastic—for the final two minutes
Posted by Ted Cox on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:32 PM
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- Tom Brady: Save it for the last two minutes.
All right, it's not quite that bad. Teams do prod each other and parry and thrust on offense and defense throughout the game. Yet, when Bob Costas asked New England quarterback Tom Brady before the Super Bowl if he'd rather have a three-point lead and his New York Giants counterpart Eli Manning with the ball in the final minute, or have the ball and be trailing by three, and that indeed is the dynamic that developed, that shows just how predictably unpredictable things have gotten.
Music / Post No Bills Discovering the groovy sounds of Calvin Keys
Posted by Peter Margasak on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:03 PM
Chicagoans / Lit & Lectures Today's Chicagoan: Anne Ford
Posted by Jerome Ludwig on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:12 PM
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"I got asked to write Peaceful Places Chicago for a few reasons—I used to be a travel editor at Rand McNally, I still do travel writing in addition to other things like Chicagoans, and I’ve lived in the Chicago area for 15 years. But my secret qualification is that I really hate loud noise. Fortunately, I mostly work at home, but a girl has to leave the house sometimes. So, this book.
Bicycling / Chicagoans / Paranormal I can't believe people bike through blizzards
Posted by Joey Jachowski on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:31 PM
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About a week later, I was browsing ads, looking for a part-time job, and stumbled upon a post from the Chicago Messenger Service looking for bike messengers. “Large downtown courier service adding to biker fleet,” the ad read, leaving out the “in the dead of winter” part. Although the weather has been nice the past couple of days, I doubt I would be up for delivering packages and letters at breakneck pace, when the weather could deteriorate at the change of a traffic signal.
Film Oscar-nominated live-action shorts: The Shore
Posted by J.R. Jones on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:00 PM
The best picture competition may be dominated by American movies (the only "foreign" titles nominated this year are Midnight in Paris, a Woody Allen movie, and The Artist, a silent movie set in Hollywood), but the race for best live-action short is decidedly more international, with entries from Ireland, Germany, and Norway. Directed by Terry George (Hotel Rwanda), the touching and funny drama The Shore follows an Irish expatriate (Ciaran Hinds) as he returns with his grown daughter (Kerry Condon) after 25 years in the United States; the visit unexpectedly reunites him with the woman he might have wed had he stayed (Maggie Cronin), who's now married to his best friend from the old days (Conleth Hill). This may sound like a staid premise, but the story is beautifully written and played, and George manages to capture the feel of an Irish folk tale not through narration or some other pointer but through his deft balancing of heartache and comedy (the sharpest scene is a hilarious misunderstanding by the sea as the two men finally meet again). A trailer follows the jump.
Music / Post No Bills 12 O'Clock Track: Ane Brun, "Do You Remember"
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