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Key Ingredient
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Challenged to make a dish with quince, the fine dining chef crafts a simple panna cotta.
- by Julia Thiel
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Lit Feature
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The 25-year-old author of the wildly popular Divergent trilogy—which comes to an end this week with the release of Allegiant—talks to us about success, fear, and which faction she'll join after society falls apart.
- by Janet Potter
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Tags: Lit Feature, books, Veronica Roth, Northwestern University, HarperCollins, best sellers, New York Times, YA, young adult, movies, Kate Winslet, Theo James, Shailene Woodley, Edgewater, authors, Barrington, speculative fiction, fiction, anxiety
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Theater Review
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Rinne Groff's Compulsion tells the tale of Meyer Levin, the writer whose evangelical zeal for Anne Frank turned to bitter infatuation.
- by Albert Williams
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Tags: Theater Review, Anne Frank, Nazis, Amsterdam, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, The Thin Man, Father of the Bride, Pulitzer Prize, Doubleday, Meyer Levin, Otto Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, New York Times Book Review, The Obsession, Compulsion, Rinne Groff, Nathan Leopold, Richard Loeb, Next Theatre, University of Chicago, Mick Weber, Jenny Avery, Barbara Epstein, John Byrnes, Lillian Hellman, Elia Kazan, Carson McCullers
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Theater Review
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Noah Haidle's new play goes beyond cute all the way to a vision.
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Theater Review, Noah Haidle, Christopher Durang, Rag and Bone, Vigils, Mr. Marmalade, Kerry Reid, American Theatre, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin, South Coast Repertory, Smokefall, The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder, Anne Kauffman, Katherine Keberlein, Eric Slater, Guy Massey, Catherine Combs, Mike Nussbaum, Kevin Depinet, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Cyrano de Bergerac, Recommended
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Art Review
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The final stop on CAM's tour of Chicago neighborhoods features a wind chime exhibit, an art walk, and a late-night dance party.
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Art Review, Edra Soto, Franklin Boulevard, East Garfield Park, Matt Nichols, Chicago Artists Month, Franklin Boulevard, Carroll Avenue, DJ Mr. Voice, Andrea Jablonski, Chicago Center for Green Technology, Albany Carroll Arts Building, Inspiration Kitchens, Adds Donna, the Golden Dome, Switching Station Artists, Garfield Park Conservatory, Debris, Catie Olson, Tree-rings, Recommended
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Book Review
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His oenocentric new novel suffers from sloppy writing and boring protagonists.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Book Review, Charles Blackstone, Vintage Attraction, Bookslut, Alpana Singh, the Boarding House, Greece, White Sox, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, BlackBerry
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Calendar
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Haunted houses, pumpkin-carving parties, costume contests featuring dogs dressed as bumblebees—we've got it covered.
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Comedy Critic's Choice
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At Double Feature, short comic films are presented alongside live stand-up comics.
- by Molly Adams
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Tags: Comedy Critic's Choice, Double Feature, Ian Abramson, Tim Barnes, Melody Kamali, Marlena Rodriguez, Lincoln Lodge, Miller Genuine Draft, New York, Los Angeles, Calvin Evans, Jokes and Notes, Laugh Factory, CJ Toledano, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, CJ Sullivan, Comedy Central, Recommended
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On Media
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Akbar Ahmed's new book, The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam, exposes a subtlety and complexity that ought to matter more.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Michael Miner on Media, Tea Party, Ted Cruz, U.S. Congress, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Paul Krugman, common sense, freedom, John Kass, pundits, Steve Chapman, books, Akbar Ahmed, Malise Ruthven, New York Review of Books, war on terror, war, Barack Obama, tribal societies, Islam, David Halberstam, Frances Fitzgerald, Vietnam, drones, drone warfare
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On Politics
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Council independents could force a vote on proposals the mayor wants buried.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: On Politics, activists, aldermen, Chicago Public Schools, City Council, city jobs, Civic Lab, committees, cost-effectiveness studies, CPS, Emma Mitts, James Balcer, jobs, Joe Moreno, legislation, Lona Lane, Marty Quinn, NTT Data, outsourcing, parking meter deal, parking meter lease deal, privatization, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, Richard Mell, Robert Fioretti, Roderick Sawyer, Rule 41, rules committee, Scott Waguespack, south side, tax increment financing, taxes, TIF surplus, TIFs, Tom Tresser, UIC, University of Illinois at Chicago, water department, west side
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Savage Love
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And it gets the cold shoulder again, anyway. Plus: an unstable ex and a porn-jealous girlfriend.
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, sex, bras, thongs, lotion, horny, voice mail, texting, e-mail, suicide, Jill Harkavy-Friedman, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, porn, BBW, overweight, Values Voter Summit, homophobia, Bible, Christians, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, socialism
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Chicagoans
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"There is no occasion wherein I am outside of the presence of God. This interview is a God experience."
- by Anne Ford
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Zoom in
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Now a nondescript purveyor of handsaws, Meyers Ace Hardware was formerly a local jazz mecca visited by the likes of Louis Armstrong and Count Basie.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Zoom in, Meyers Ace Hardware, David Meyers, Drew Nugent, Bronzeville, Philadelphia, Grand Terrace, Sunset Cafe, Chicago Messenger, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Earl Hines, Al Capone, Ed Fox
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Movie Review
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A new documentary looks at third-trimester abortion
- by Hannah Gold
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Tags: Movie Review, Roe v. Wade, abortion, Martha Shane, Lana Wilson, Music Box, Shelley Sella, Albuquerque, rape, Graham Greene, The End of the Affair, George Tiller, Wichita, Kansas, LeRoy Carhart, Warren Hern, Boulder, Colorado, Recommended
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Movie Review
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Guerrilla filmmaking comes to the Magic Kingdom.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Movie Review, Randy Moore, Lake Bluff, Escape From Tomorrow, Walt Disney Pictures, Roy Abramsohn, Elena Schuber, Jack Dalton, Village of the Damned, Epcot Center, Sundance Film Festival, Saving Mr. Banks, Mary Poppins, Tom Hanks
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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: New music from Circuit des Yeux, a new label for Mount Salem, and more
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Chief Keef, Almighty So, Finally Rich, DNAinfo, Nielsen Soundscan, Haley Fohr, Circuit des Yeux, Overdue, Ba Da Bing!, Cave's Cooper Crain, Little Village, Hegira, Mount Salem, Endless, Charles Manson, Emily Kopplin, Metal Blade, Uzala, Yob, Mike Scheidt, seapunk, Ultrademon, Seapunk, Bahrain, Omega Point, Mainframe
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In Rotation
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Plus: The Reader's Kevin Warwick on Tweens' "nasty doo-wop" and artist Amanda Joy Calobrisi on Mazzy Star's consoling strength
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: In Rotation, Kevin Warwick, artists, Heather Gabel, Amanda Joy Calobrisi, Giuda, glam rock, TKO Records, reissues, Tweens, BB Tween, John Reis, guitarists, Riot Fest, Hot Snakes, Rocket From the Crypt, Saturnalia Temple, Reggies Rock Club, Lungfish, demos, albums, Daniel Higgs, artwork, Rudimentary Peni, Nick Blinko, Rowland S. Howard, Nikki Sudden, Mazzy Star, Hope Sandoval, David Roback, Mick Harvey, artists' vocabularies, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Tim Buckley, Roy Orbison, Serge Gainsbourg, Anita Lane, Nick Cave
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Record Roundup
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Nine Reader writers tackle 16 albums, including Omar Souleyman’s proper studio debut and the Dismemberment Plan's unembarrassing reunion record.
- by Peter Margasak, Leor Galil, Miles Raymer, Kevin Warwick, Monica Kendrick, Bill Meyer, Luca Cimarusti, Tosten Burks and Philip Montoro
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A breezy gem from the singer's first American release
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, Mallu Magalhães, Velha e Louca, Highly Sensitive, Brazilian music, 12 O'Clock Track, Kassin, Mario Caldato Jr. Marcelo Camelo, Pitanga, Video
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Altman
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Robert Altman, The Long Goodbye, Thieves Like Us, Gene Siskel Film Center, Patio, Clint Eastwood, John Cassavettes, Francis Ford Coppola, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Short Cuts, Secret Honor, Nashville, A Wedding, Philip Baker Hall, 3 Women
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A Northwestern researcher has discovered a protein that may stop production of HIV.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Science, Whoa, News, Richard D'Aquila, HIV, AIDS, A3G, proteins, immunology, killer T-cells, controllers, Berlin patient, Northwestern, HIV Translational Research Center
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The art of "the ask" assumes a new form.
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: Theater, Arts, Music, Visual Art, Dance, 3Arts, Lisa Yun Lee, 3Arts 2013 Awards, Marta Garcia, Mierka Girten, Lisa Kaplan, Irena Knezevic, Ronnie Kuller, Michael Rodriguez, Vershawn Sanders-Ward, Robert Schleifer, Kelli Simpkins, Cauleen Smith, fund-raising
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Lyric Opera nails a Butterfly, while Kelli Harrington does Callas at Theo Ubique.
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: Theater, Arts, Music, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Giacomo Puccini, James Valenti, Amanda Echalaz, Madama Butterfly, Christopher Purves, Michael Grandage, Marco Armiliato, Theo Ubique, Master Class, Terrance McNally, Kelli Harrington, Maria Callas
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Republicans humiliated themselves, but it's hardly a big win for liberals.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Politics, News, budget deal, default, government shutdown, President Obama, New York Times, White House, Jay Carney, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, sequester, Peter Beinart, Daily Beast, state of the union address, universal preschool, minimum wage
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Ten favorites from the festival lineup, plus stray thoughts on a few other features
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Art House, Foreign, Film, Chicago International Film Festival, La Jaula de Oro, Mexican cinema, Diego Quemada-Diez, Heli, Workers, Purgatorio, Tanta Agua, Uruguayan cinema, Leticia Jorge, Ana Guevara, At Berkeley, Stray Dogs, The Mass Is Over, Nanni Moretti, Closed Curtain, Jafar Panahi, Stranger by the Lake, Like Father Like Son, The Missing Picture, Grigris, The Immigrant, James Gray, The Purge
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This week's poster was designed and printed by local artist Ryan Duggan.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Gig Posters, Arts, Music, Visual Art, gig posters, gig poster, gig poster of the week, Ryan Duggan, Hideout, Fake Limbs, Jack Buck, Cell Phones, Mickey Mouse
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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Let the Fire Burn, Jason Osder, MOVE, Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave, Chiwetel Ejiofor, After Tiller, Jacques Becker, Antoine and Antoinette, Gene Siskel Film Center, Escape Plan, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenneger, The Fifth Estate, WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, Top of the Heap, Christopher St. John, Richard Linklater, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, University of Chicago Doc Films, Jacques Tourneur, Curse of the Demon, Phil Morehart, Facets Fright School, Terence Davies Distant Voices Still Lives, David Fincher, Fight Club, D.W. Griffith Intolerance, Gene Siskel Film Center, Olivier Assayas, Late August Early September, Robert Altman, The Long Goodbye, Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux, Todd Haynes Safe, Victor Erice, The Spirit of the Beehive, Roberto Rossellini, Voyage to Italy, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Nosferatu, Carl Schurz Slocum Hall, Chicago Film Archives, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Chicago History Museum, Music Box, Werner Herzog, Music Box of Horrors, Sound Opinions, High Fidelity, film festivals, movies, Video
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Proco "Joe" Moreno bashes Rahm, Will Burns gets booed, Toni Preckwinkle is a no-show, and other observations from the big anyone-but-Rahm rally.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Politics, News, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Alderman Proco Joe Moreno, Alderman Will Burns, Alderman Bob Fioretti, Alderman Will Burns, Governor Pat Quinn, Jay Travis, State Rep. Christian Mitchell, Alderman Scott Waguespack, Alderman Toni Foulkes, Grassroots Collaborative, Chicago Teachers Union, Amisha Patel, UIC, Harold Washington, Freaky Friday, Lindsay Lohan, Isaac Hayes
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, October 17
- by Jillian Sandler
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Aoife O'Donovan, Schubas, Fossils, Kristin Andreassen, Clark Sommers, Dana Hall, Geof Bradfield, Constellation, Cute Is What We Aim For, Bottom Lounge, Turnover, Tallhart
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, October 23
- by Jillian Sandler
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Tags: Do This, Arts, The Brewprints Part One: 40 Scenes on Hops, Haymarket Pub & Brewery's Drinking & Writing Theater, Beth Stelling, Conan O'Brien, Zanies, King Khan & the Shrines, Bottom Lounge, Hell Shovel, Heavy Times
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In the fight for school funding in Mayor Rahm's Chicago, it's hard for the charters not to stretch the truth.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Education, News, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Public Schools, Noble charter schools, Prosser high school, Illinois Network of Charter Schools, ACT scores, President Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, October 19
- by Jillian Sandler
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Janeane Garafalo, Mayne Stage, Empty Bottle, Salonathon, Jane Beachy, Fall Ball, Logan Square Auditorium, Mucca Pazza, Erin Kilmurray, Fly Honeys, Swaguerrilla DJs, Home Movie Day, Chicago History Museum
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After success in other American cities, a forum that sits documentary filmmakers down with potential backers comes to the Chicago Cultural Center.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Film, News, Good Pitch Chicago, Danny Alpert, Steve Cohen, The Dreamcatchers, Lisa Stevens, The Homestretch, Anne de Mare, Kirsten Kelly, The Message: The (R)evolutionary Power of Climate Change, Avi Lewis, Private Violence, Cynthia Hill, Sister, Rebecca Parrish, Strong Island, Yance Ford, Facing History and Ourselves, Bully, Lee Hirsch, Cynthia Lowen, The Interrupters, Kartemquin Films, Steve James, Alex Kotlowitz, MacArthur Foundation
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What do you do when an author with a despicable persona writes a really great book?
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Books, Arts, Women's Issues, Elizabeth Gilbert, Steve Almond, Eat Pray Love, The Signature of All Things, GQ, Coyote Ugly Saloon, Alma Whittaker, yoga, botany
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Also Japan's celibacy crisis, Condé Nast's internship program, the entrance to hell, a bizarre slavery joke, Omar Souleyman, Tom Carson on Errol Morris, and TJ Webster?
- by Reader staff
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What's going down in visual arts this weekend
- by Jillian Sandler
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Chicago Is, Greenhouse Loft, Violence and Virtue: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes, Art Institute of Chicago, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Artemisia Gentileschi, Cup Freaketh, Kasia Kay Gallery, Diane Christiansen, Too Young to Die, Chicago Photography Center, Carlos Javier Ortiz, U.S., Mexico, Guatemala, Cheap $kin$, Zg Gallery, Amanda Elizabeth Joseph, Will You Step Into My Parlour?, Lillistreet Art Center, Nicole Hollander, Sylvia
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Notes on a dark fairy tale from the Netherlands screening in this year's Chicago International Film Festival
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Art House, Foreign, Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Borgman, Alex van Warmerdam, Alain Guiraudie, Stranger by the Lake, Grimm, fairy tales, The Dress, surrealism, exquisite corpse, Neil Jordan, Teorema, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Edward Gorey
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First impressions of the troubling Mexican art film, which won the best director prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Art House, Foreign, Film, Heli, Amat Escalante, Mexican cinema, Steven Spielberg, Cannes Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, La Jaula de Oro, Diego Quemada-Diez, Gerardo Naranjo, Miss Bala, Carlos Reygadas, Battle in Heaven, Steven Spielberg, Larry Clark
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Waxing nostalgic as an exercise in pain management: "Black Sabbath" from Black Milk's new album, No Poison, No Paradise.
- by Tosten Burks
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Black Milk, No Poison No Paradise, video, hip-hop, Black Sabbath, Subterranean, Tone Trezure
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, October 21
- by Jillian Sandler
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Janelle Monae, The Electric Lady, Music Box, Malty Matinee, Hey Bartender, Douglas Tirola, New York, Aperiodic, Michael Pisaro, Constellation
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Absolut's Chicago vodka—with flavors of rosemary and olive, not Chicago-style hot dog—isn't terrible.
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Booze, Food & Drink, Absolut Chicago, Absolut vodka, Absolut Chicago vodka, rosemary, olive, thyme, martini, vodka lemonade, vodka tonic
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Ty Segall's newest band, Fuzz, is playing Logan Square Auditorium tomorrow—prepare for the show by listening to "Sleigh Ride," which is one fast-paced shot of adrenaline.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Ty Segall, Fuzz, Logan Square Auditorium, Sleigh Ride, Video
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is a cut from Fever Hunting, the midwest hardcore band's first album in six years.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Modern Life Is War, Cobra Lounge, 12 O'Clock Track, Chitown Futbol, Jeffrey Eaton, Marshalltown, hardcore, Video
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, October 22
- by Jillian Sandler
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Valerie June, Schubas, Dads, Beat Kitchen, American Radass (This Is Important), Drug Church, Mountains for Clouds, Droughts, Mount Kimbie, Lincoln Hall, Jonwayne, D33J
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Was Anthony Porter guilty all along? Anita Alvarez says she'll look into it.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Crime, Media, News, Andrew Wilson, Anthony Porter, Jon Burge, David Protess, Medill, James Sotos, Alstory Simon, Governor George Ryan, death penalty, Martin Preib, William Crawford, Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune, Jerry Hillard, Marilyn Green, John Lavine, Cook County state's attorney Anita Alvarez, Anthony McKinney, Celeste Stack
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Linda Lutton, Becky Vevea win national awards for education coverage at WBEZ.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Education, Media, News, Linda Lutton, Becky Vevea, WBEZ, Chicago Public Media, This American Life, Harper High School, Third Coast International Audio Festival, Boston University, Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize
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Notes on another unfortunate cliche of contemporary global art cinema—and one film that avoids mediocrity by being flat-out bad
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Art House, Foreign, Seriously?, Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Of Good Report, South African cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky, festival films, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, We Are What We Are, Jim Mickle, Wild Duck, ambiguity, Michelangelo Antonioni, L'Avventura, Mothusi Magano, Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, Petronella Tshuma, censorship
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Would it spell the end of a fifth-floor monarchy?
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Politics, News, All Things Considered, NPR, WBEZ, Rahm Emanuel, John Kass, Harold Washington, Richard J. and Richard M. Daley, Chicago mayoralty, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama's race against Bobby Rush
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, October 18
- by Jillian Sandler
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Queer Chicago, Poland, Suka Off, Brazil, Croatia, U.S., Keijaun R. Thomas, Defibrillator, The Roots, ?uestlove, Ephelon Trio, J-Dilla, Donuts, Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs, Bare Knuckle Productions
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The queer formerly local MC just dropped his first full-length mixtape, and it's quite raunchy.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Big Dipper, Thick Life, They Ain't Ready, Drip Drop, Roy Kinsey, Sade, Bambi, Video
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, October 24
- by Jillian Sandler
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Tags: Do This, Arts, West Town Bikes, Bikecitement, Revolution Brewing, Joey Bada$$, Pro Era, Metro, the Underachievers, Ab-Soul, Chevy Woods, Statik Selektah, Disclosure, House of Blues, T. Williams
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Democrats won another battle last week but continue to lose the war.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Politics, News, sequester, government shutdown, President Obama, George Packer, New Yorker, Fred Barnes, Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, Fox News, universal pre-K, Bob Woodward, Washington Post, Harry Reid, Budget Control Act, Bush tax cuts, Ted Cruz, Warren Buffet
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Vintage Attraction cannot possibly be that bad unless it was intentional. Can it?
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Books, Dim the Lights, Arts, Booze, Charles Blackstone, Vintage Attraction, Time Out Chicago, bad writing, Literary Review, Bad Sex in Fiction Award, Esquire, Kris Vire, Alpana Singh, Lifeline Theater, drinking game
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The iconoclastic trio puts its spin on the iconic ballet at the Logan Center for the Arts.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, The Bad Plus, Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Ethan Iverson, David King, Reid Anderson, jazz, On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Video
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Local powerviolence band Weekend Nachos release new songs from their insanely heavy new LP, Still.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Do This, Music, Weekend Nachos, Still, Cobra Lounge, Relapse Records, powerviolence, hardcore, doom, heavy metal, metal, exteme metal
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Jamie Oliver and 50 Cent’s star-studded school for at-risk kids skips the basics.
- by Danette Chavez
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Tags: Arts, Television, Small Screen, Jamie Oliver, 50 Cent, Sundance Channel, Dream School, Dangerous Minds, Jesse Jackson, Soledad O'Brien, Oliver Stone, David Arquette, Peter Kuznick, Jeff Corwin
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The prolific Chicago cornetist and composer gives the Chicago debut of two new suites.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Jazz, Music, Post No Bills, Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra, Roscoe Mitchell, Exploding Star Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, the Space Between, Matter Anti-Matter, Ganymede and the Ice Parade, Chicago Cultural Center, Marianne M. Kim, Galactic Parables, Audio
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The bail and jail system may be a mess, but at least Timothy Evans understands the separation of powers.
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Crime, Politics, News, Cook County, bond court, Timothy Evans, chief judge, Cook County Circuit Court, Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County board, Tom Dart, sheriff, Illinois Supreme Court, Cook County jail, bonds, bail
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On seeing Frederick Wiseman's latest long-form documentary with an audience
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Education, Moviegoing, Film, Frederick Wiseman, At Berkeley, Chicago International Film Festival, Closed Curtain, Jafar Panahi, The Mass Is Over, Nanni Moretti, University of California, long movies, public education
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, October 20
- by Jillian Sandler
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Cremeria La Ordeña, To Master The Art, Julia Child, Karen Janes Woditsch, Craig Spidle, Clash of the Pie-Tins, Holstein Park, Bucktown Apple Pie Contest, Video
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Submissions to our annual Pure Fiction issue are due November 15.
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Books, Arts, Pure Fiction, fiction issue, Gina Frangello, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Bayo Ojikutu, Adam Langer, Rennie Sparks, Handsome Family, Barrie Jean Borich
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Four years after its debut as Scully, Goose Island's award-winning barrel-aged saison Gillian finally gets bottled.
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Goose Island, Three Sisters, Juliet, Halia, Madame Rose, Lolita, Gillian, Scully, Gillian Anderson, X-Files, Keith Gabbett, John Laffler, Holy Dragons, Thunder in the Night, Dorsal Atlantica, Pelagodiscus Atlanticus, Video
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How did the Cardinals become so hard to take?
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Sports, News, Saint Louis, St. Louis Cardinals, Jonathan Mahler, Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg, Drew Magary, Deadspin, Meet Me in St. Louis, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Bernie Miklasz, University of Nebraska football team, Ndamukong Suh, Domic Raiola, Tim McCarver, Joe Buck, Bob Costas, Buzz Bissinger
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The dynamic English folk-rock band makes its Chicago debut on Monday.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Wolf People, Fain, Steeple, Tidings, When the Fire Is Dead in the Grate, Jack Sharp, British folk, prog-rock, Jethro Tull, Unknown Mortal Orchestra
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Fact-checking Mayor Emanuel's budget speech
- by Mick Dumke
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