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Blogs, Bleader Jun 11, 2018
Could Dems survive without Michael Madigan at the top?

Those worried about what might happen to the Dems without the boss on top can look to California for inspiration.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Clout City, Politics, News, Michael Madigan, Democrats, Illinois, Bruce Rauner, Donald Trump, California, jungle primary, Marty Quinn, Kevin Quinn, Alaina Hampton, 13th Ward, Republicans, Frank Olivo, Rahm Emanuel, Richard Daley, Bensenville

Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2018
Chinese billionaire puts the Vista Tower up for sale, and other Chicago news

Also, Afghan war veteran Miguel Perez Jr. could be deported this week.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Vista Tower, Beverly Hills, California, Wang Jianlin, Dalian Wanda Group Company, immigration issues, army veterans, Afghanistan, deportation, Chicago Police Department, Rahm Emanuel, McDonald's, Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's, Richard Roeper, Twitter, Grimes Sisters, unsolved murders, Babara Grimes, Patty Grimes, Elvis Presley

Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2017
Video
On ‘Lay Down,’ rising rapper OMB Peezy balances his native Alabama with his adopted home in California

Recent 300 signee OMB Peezy, who plays Reggie's on Thursday, is being hailed as a new avatar of regional rap—and his breakout single shows how distinctive he can be.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Hip-Hop, Music, OMB Peezy, Lay Down, 12 O'Clock Track, 300, Sacramento, California, Mobile, Alabama, Reggie's Rock Club, Video

Best of Chicago, Reasons to love Chicago Jun 23, 2016
Critics' Picks
Tastee-Freez makes friendships better than its food

Logan Square is gentrifying fast, but everybody’s still welcome at the Freeze.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Reasons to love Chicago, Tastee-Freez, Logan Square, Armitage, California, Logan Square, The Freeze, milk shake, burger, corn dog, soft-serve, ice cream, community, Tastee Freez, Critics' Picks

Blogs, Bleader Jun 9, 2016
Willie Wilson came in a distant third in the California Democratic presidential primary, and other Chicago news

Also, Illinois owes $3 million in unpaid bills to the FBI.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Willie Wilson, mayoral race, Democratic presidential primary, California, North Dakota, Rahm Emanuel, City Colleges of Chicago, state of Illinois, budget impasse, FBI, U.S. Treasury Department, Cheryl Hyman, City Colleges of Chicago, Chicago Police Department, University of Chicago

Blogs, Bleader Nov 9, 2015
The craziness didn't end with Salem

Satanic hysteria persists in America.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Paranormal, Stacy Schiff, Aimee Levitt, "The Witches: Salem, 1692, " "Satanic Panic, " Jeffrey Victor, "Innocence Lost: The Verdict, " Little Rascals day care center, Edenton, North Carolina, McMcartin preschool, Manhattan Beach, California, Paul Ingram, Lawrence Wright, "Remembering Satan, " the New Yorker, Ericka Ingram, Olympia, Washington, Upton Sinclair, Sally Jessy Raphael, Debbie Nathan

Blogs, Bleader Feb 4, 2015
This mysterious 'Who is John Galt?' billboard raises more than just one question

A mysterious, Ayn Rand-inspired billboard on the north side asks, "Who is John Galt?"
- By Jake Malooley
- Tags: You Are Here, Zoom in, Neighborhoods, News, Ayn Rand, John Galt, Anne Omrod, John Galt Solutions, Rayco Sign Supply, John Italia, Home Care Plus, Dawn Portokalis, Sauganash, Ted Turner, Goddess of the Market, Jennifer Louise Burns, Martin Connor Jeffers, Loyola Student Objectivist Society, Don Watkins, Ayn Rand Institute, Irvine, California, objectivism

Blogs, Bleader Jun 23, 2014
An early look at the finally-about-to-open Lagunitas tap room

A photographic tour of a long-awaited addition to Chicago's craft-beer landscape
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Lagunitas, tap room, Lagunitas Brewing Company, Fusion, North Lawndale, Pink Line, Washtenaw, California, Western, Tony Magee, Karen Hamilton, Brian Fadden, John Primer, Joel Paterson, Rick Sherry, Panopticon, Kentucky

News & Politics, Feature May 6, 2014
The trials of a neighborhood high school

Wells Community Academy in West Town has disadvantaged students, many unhelpful parents, a bad reputation, charters nibbling at its enrollment—and some rare successes. Can it survive?
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, poverty and segregation in Chicago schools, Wells Community Academy, neighborhood schools, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, Rituparna Raichoudhuri, Conchita Castro, Brighton Park, public transportation, Kelly High School, Juarez High School, Chavez Elemetary High School, desegregation, prejudices, race, teachers, ACTs, East Village, West Town, minorities, poverty, Cabrini-Green, Carmen Martinez, Austin High School, school closings, standardized tests, principals, school buildings, California, gangs, Hispanics, African-Americans, Irving Zucker, suspension, violence, teen pregnancy, anger-mangement, conflict resolution, Samantha Kyme, Edwin Caraballo, social workers, Humboldt Park, Clemente High School, Latia Lane, interns, University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC, Facebook, Darius Calhoun, dating, Smyth Elementary School, Back of the Yards, Vashti Taylor, Kenwood, Liberia, ESL, English as a Second Language, college admissions, expulsion rates, graduation rates, sports, athletics

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 16, 2014
Recommended
Laugh along with Job in The Way West

Steppenwolf satirizes (and sings about) manifest destiny and the American dream.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, The Way West, Steppenwolf Theatre, Head of Passes, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Mona Mansour, American dream, satire, The Right Stuff, California, Deirdre O'Connell, Caroline Neff, Zoe Perry, Laurie Metcalf, Ira Amyx, Gabriel Ruiz, Martha Lavey, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Book Review Dec 16, 2013
Gay marriage by the headlines

In a new book, Leigh Moscowitz looks at how gay activists harnessed the power of the press.
- By Yasmin Nair
- Tags: Book Review, gay marriage, right-wing fundamentalists, AIDS crisis, LGBTQ community, Leigh Moscowitz, The Battle Over Marriage, College of Charleston, Freedom to Marry, Evan Wolfson, Human Rights Campaign, Proposition 8, California, People for the American Way, Kathryn Kolbert, African-American

News & Politics, Feature Jul 24, 2013
In the weeds of the state's medical marijuana law

Illinois's new cannabis program will help some ill patients, but its many rules, restrictions, and uncertainties are a real buzz kill.
- By Mick Dumke
- Tags: Feature, medical marijuana, Illinois Department of Public Health, pain, Wall Street Journal, Colorado, New Hampshire, California, documentation, Julie Falco, stress, drug reform, crime, patients, driving records, background checks, registration, dispensing organizations, dispensaries, marijuana, FAQ, frequently asked questions, q&a, questions and answers, dialogues, drugs, drug policy, Al Sharp, Community Renewal Society, cancer, debilitating medical conditions, glaucoma, HIV, AIDS, MS, Parkinson's, Crohn's, lupus, traumatic brain injuries, cannabis, Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Dan Linn, NORML, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Illinois state law, zero tolerance, Alaska, Oregon, Illinois Senate, marijuana cultivation, growing marijuana, cultivation centers, Illinois Department of Agriculture, police districts, Illinois State Police, licensing fees, Massachusetts, Michigan, federal law, Illinois House, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. attorneys, Montana, Gabriel Plotkin, Illinois General Assembly, MedMen, Adam Bierman, banks, lending, Miller Shakman & Beem, political contributions, political campaigns, Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program, Pat Quinn, drug legalization, regulation, Lou Lang, pilot programs, Eric Berlin, decriminalization, patients' rights

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 17, 2013
Friends recall old crimes in Simpatico

Michael Shannon stars in a death struggle disguised as a comedy.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Honore de Balzac, Simpatico, Sam Shepard, southern California, Kentucky, bluegrass, Rancho Cucamonga, California, Guy Van Swearingen, A Red Orchid Theatre, Geography of a Horse Dreamer, D.H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner, Horse Dreamer, Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty, the Bible, Genesis, Jacob, Esau, True West, Michael Shannon, Kate Arrington, Belleville, Boardwalk Empire, Premium Rush, Doug Vickers, Jennifer Engstrom

Blogs, Bleader Jun 14, 2013
Reader's Agenda Fri 6/14: Fiestas Puertorriquenas, Spring Awakening, and a musical-comedy game show

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, June 14
- By Tosten Burks
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Fiestas Puertorriquenas, Humboldt Park, Spring Awakening, Division, California, Soldier Field, Shame That Tune, Hideout

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Apr 18, 2013
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I could always sniff out my mother's tea cakes

Until now.
- By Rose Doyle (aka Puddin)
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, tea cakes, Mississippi, Lexington, California, aluminum foil, sugar, butter, flour, lemon, vanilla, orange, aluminum foil

Arts & Culture, Art Feature Apr 1, 2013
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Return of the Armory Show: Artistic murder! Pictorial arson! Total degeneracy!

Maybe the critics'll be a little kinder this time around.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Art Feature, The International Exhibit of Modern Art, the Armory Show, the Art Institute of Chicago, William French, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, California, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, H. Effa Webster, Chicago Examiner, Henri Matisse, Hennery O'Hair Mattress, Jerome Eddy, Louise Lincoln, DePaul Art Museum, For and Against Modern Art: The Armory Show + 100, Mark Pohlad, Albert Henry Krehbiel, Robert Henri, Figure in Motion, Harlem Shake, Olga Szold, Odilon Redon, Constantin Brancusi, Madame Pogany

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Mar 21, 2013
The Secret History of Chicago Music: Jim Cuomo

This saxophonist and composer played experimental psych with Spoils of War and acid folk with Mormos, and now writes for a brass band in Australia.
- By Plastic Crimewave
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, saxophonists, The Secret History of Chicago Music, composers, Mormos, Jim Cuomo, Spoils of War, Rantoul, Illinois, opera, Paul Desmond, Stockhausen, Boulez, Japan, California, San Antonio, Texas, Samuel Adler, North Texas State University, University of Illinois, computer music, musique concrete, Herbert Brun, Kenneth Gaburo, Al Ierardi, Roger Francisco, Frank Garvey, James Stroud, Annie Hat, Steve Beck, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Paris, brass bands, Moreland City BRass

News & Politics, Savage Love Mar 21, 2013
Has anybody ever stuffed a gerbil up his ass?

A selection from the Savage Love archives
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, gerbiling, gerbils, Richard Gere, gay men, CNN, Gerbil stuffing, Howard Stern, paper towel roll, gay stereotypes, Broadway, cognitive dissonance, pliers, lube, tubes, string, fisting, God, angels, horse, urban legend, pet stores, California, San Francisco, Castro, Petpourri, Animal Farm, West Hollywood, Marshall Meyers, Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, Washington, D.C.

Arts & Culture, Book Review Mar 15, 2013
Recommended
Aleksandar Hemon writes the story of his lives

Sarajevo and Chicago are the poles at each end of Hemon's new collection, The Book of My Lives.
- By Rayyan Al-Shawaf
- Tags: Book Review, Aleksandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives, Love and Obstacles, Yugoslavia, Chicago, the New Yorker, The Lives of Others, The Lives of a Flaneur, Sarajevo, Ukrainian Village, Edgewater, Reasons Why I Do Not Wish to Leave Chicago, Studs Terkel, Hyde Park, The Lives of Grandmasters, Bosnian Muslims, Maronites, Serbs, Alawites, Ottoman Turkish, Ratko Mladic, The Kauders Case, Radovan Karadzic, Let There Be What Cannot Be, The Aquarium, California, Tribune Tower, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Jan 10, 2013
Coming soon to the Reader movie listings . . .

Reporting the opening of two new movie theaters in Chicago
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, ArcLight Cinemas, Cinema Dome, California, Harper Theater, New City, North/Clybourn, revival screenings, New 400, Hyde Park, Rogers Park, Old Town, Pipers Alley, the Village Theater

Blogs, Bleader Dec 15, 2011
Big hitter fights for medical marijuana
- By Mick Dumke
- Tags: Crime, The Reefer, Politics, Clout City, News, marijuana, Jesus, medical marijuana, pot, cannabis, cannabis caravan, Jason Christ, Jean-Claude Brizard, Montana, California, Michigan

Blogs, Bleader Apr 28, 2011
Going Back to Cali...By Way of Bridgeport
- By Dean Fisher
- Tags: Space, Style, Space, Bridgeport, California, India McQuoid, Chris Neeley, Bertoia, Brown Elephant, Salvation Army, Mode Carpentry, BoConcept

Blogs, Bleader Feb 3, 2011
This Week's Food and Drink Events

A dark beer tasting, a Nutella party, a pig dinner, and more.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Stone Brewing, Stone Smoked Porter, Green Flash, Double Stout, Allagash, Allagash Fluxus, dark beer, Jerry's, beer tasting, Multilingual Chicago, Nutella, Nutella Day, La Boulangerie, Cafe Mustache, Italian classes, Garfield Park Conservatory, Sweet Saturdays, DMK Burger Bar, Super Bowl, keg party, Petterino's, the Bristol, Chris Pandel, Pig and Pinot Dinner, Copain Wines, California, American Institute of Food and Wine, butchering

Blogs, Bleader Jan 21, 2010
Never the Twain Shall Meet

Every day he asks five bigots, picked at random, a leading question
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, racism, race, immigration, exclusion, Asians, Japan, ethnocentrism, California, nativism

Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2009
The Illinois Emissions Battle

President Obama 's first major environmental initiative will probably yield tougher auto emissions standards in Illinois.
- By Mick Dumke
- Tags: News, Clout City, Global Warming, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gases, Julie Hamos, air pollution, California, President Obama, Illinois General Assembly, auto emissions, Elaine Nekritz, car emissions

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