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I Saw You I saw you respond to an I Saw You
Posted by Kevin Warwick on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:15 PM
Or maybe you're not even searching for Internet love but simply playing the voyeur and dreaming up responses to side-pocket attempts at romance. Either way, I bet you've clicked through posts that are set in your neighborhood.
Paranormal / Food Chain / Food & Drink The Asparamancer
Posted by Mike Sula on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:07 PM
This was shot last month. Take it with a grain of salt. Everybody knows you don't consult an oracle that uses out of season produce. Video after the jump.
The Reefer / Politics Memo to Mayor Rahm: You won!
Posted by Ben Joravsky on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:26 PM
I won't reveal his/her name 'cause if I do, Mayor Emanuel will have a fit and send him/her a dead fish for even talking to me.
I'm not sure what the mayor has against me. It couldn't have been anything I wrote—or over the fact that I went to Evanston while he went to New Trier. Those old high school rivalries last forever!
Music This week's featured gig poster
Posted by Luca Cimarusti on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:43 PM
SHOW: Tortoise and Dent-de-Lion at Empty Bottle on 1/24
MORE ONLINE: dangrzeca.com
Architecture Irrational exuberance, institutional scale
Posted by Deanna Isaacs on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:01 PM
- Karla Kaulfuss
Flotsam and Jetsam / Lit & Lectures / Visual Art Saturday is Fluxus Day!
Posted by Sam Worley on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:13 PM
- Patrick Hoesly
Film Gene Siskel Film Center announces schedule for the 15th annual European Union Film Festival
Posted by Ben Sachs on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 1:30 PM
Film Oscar-nominated live-action shorts: Time Freak
Posted by J.R. Jones on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 1:00 PM
At ten minutes, Andrew Bowler's Time Freak plays like a pitch film for a feature-length concept comedy, though not a particularly original one. Evan (John Conor Brooke), a young slacker, visits his neurotic inventor friend, Stillman (Michael Nathansan, who has the balefully sad eyes of Zero Mostel), and discovers that he's finally perfected his time machine. In testing it out, however, Stillman has fallen into the habit of continually and self-consciously revising his encounters from the previous day, one with a querulous cashier and the other with a young woman he fancies. "So you haven't made it to ancient Rome?" asks Evan. "Dude," Stillman replies, "I haven't made it past 2:30." Actually the best course of action might have been traveling back to 1992 to forestall production of Groundhog Day. A trailer follows the jump.
Crickets / Music 12 O'Clock Track: Beauty Pill, "Afrikaner Barista"
Posted by Leor Galil on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:00 PM
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Valentine's Day: Why bother? An unlikely ode to the most odious of holidays
Roosevelt University's towering ambition With its 32-story "vertical campus"—the second-tallest academic building in the country—RU takes a chance. Big time.
Why lie about sending pictures of your cock in a chastity belt? Plus: Can there be dominance without degradation? That goes double for disapproving moms
The RIAA's most wanted Did the feds shut down Megaupload at big content's bidding—to keep the site from launching an iTunes competitor?
Drummer Tim Daisy writes for dance troupe the Seldoms Plus: New releases from young MCs Rockie Fresh and Calez, and a benefit celebrating the late Mat Arluck of Sweet Cobra
Gossip Wolf: Must be the burritos Lindsay Powell of Fielded and Rand Sevilla of Sich Mang join the exodus to LA. Plus: Eternals front man Damon Locks launches an interstellar tribute to Sun Ra
Soldier of misfortune Ralph Fiennes revives Shakespeare's military tragedy Coriolanus
Digging for drama The autobiographical films of Bill Douglas unearth a boyhood in a Scottish mining town
One marriage, under Allah The superb new Iranian drama A Separation looks at family life in a theocracy
Goosefoot: Occupy Lawrence Avenue Les Nomades vet Chris Nugent needs to loosen his collar at his new fine-dining spot in Lincoln Square
A new high at Yusho Artful plates and audacious cocktails from a team of Trotter's vets
This week's Key Ingredient: a chef-to-chef challenge to cook with Asian carp Blackbird pastry chef Bryce Caron makes a fishy dessert
Beethoven and Quasimodo at an academic conference Two famous figures pursue an impossible sound in Theater Oobleck's The Hunchback Variations Opera
The Age of Arrogance Timeline Theatre brings back the ugliness of it all with Enron
This Is Not a Dance Concert is . . . well, what? The Seldoms perform promenade style at the Harris Theater
Fiction Issue 2012 Five reader-submitted stories selected by guest curator Goldie Goldbloom, plus a few of our editors' favorites
Fiction Issue 2012: "Sky Boys" Lunch is served 69 stories above Manhattan
Fiction Issue 2012: "Thank God for Facebook!" Postings from the grave
Beaver anal sacs and you Rebecca Beachy's 'Ground' explores the connection
Grim reapings A collector's "paean to death" displayed in "Morbid Curiosity"
A beautiful underbelly "Turnin' the Tip" plays with the carny aesthetic
This week's Chicagoan: Stephanie Kuhr, retro-lingerie maker 'Most of the high-waisted panties I make are very sheer, so it's not like your grandma's panties.'
Show us your . . . postcard museum Each week, we ask you to show us something. This week it's a digital Chicago postcard museum
Zoom in: Lake View Schubas is a Chicago landmark for its old ties to Schlitz brewing
Space: A brewmaster's bar Intelligentsia's Charlie Habegger refashions a kitchen nook as a shrine to the art of coffee making
New Year's resolution: redecorate 2012 is the perfect time to freshen up your dated decor
Don’t buy it—build it! Whitney Gaylord's Logan Square graystone is filled with custom-designed furniture from her shop, Maker
