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Politics
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Recognizing some of the most unforgettable deeds by our local elected leaders in 2013
- by Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke
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Tags: Politics, Rahm Emanuel, CPS, Chicago Public Schools, Board of Education, school closings, Richard M. Daley, Chicago Sun-Times, Park Grill, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, Jean-Claude Brizard, South Loop, DePaul University, TIFs, tax increment financing, Mark Kirk, Gangster Disciples, Toni Preckwinkle, Thomson Correctional Facility, 4th Ward, Tim Evans, Pat Quinn, Rod Blagojevich, Bill Daley, Bruce Rauner, Paul Douglas Alliance, Richard Mell, Deb Mell, City Council, Barack Obama, Chicago White Sox, Jerry Reinsdorf, Ricketts family, Chicago Cubs, baseball
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Music Feature
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Six Reader writers, 12 months, 30 picks—and not one list that just rearranges the same records you'll see everywhere else
- by Peter Margasak, Miles Raymer, Philip Montoro, Leor Galil, Kevin Warwick and Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Music Feature, Spektral Quartet, Ryan Muncy, Third Coast Percussion, Olivia Block, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, M.I.A., peak minimalism, Lorde, Drake, Pusha T, Kelela, Kanye, industrial, Gesaffelstein, The Haxan Cloak, Kvelertak, Bolt Thrower, Carcass, Obituary, Arkona, Martin Sky, Netherfriends, Lungz, S.B.E., Black A.G. & Quicksilver Cooley, Fuck Buttons, Bill Orcut, Tim Hecker, Hair Police, Demdike Stare, Disappears, Mines, Bill Satek, Oozing Wound, Earring, Corrections House
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Performing Arts Feature
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The Building Stage said good-bye, Jamil Khoury said a lot, and other notable moments from the year in theater.
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Jamil Khoury, Silk Road Rising, Mary Zimmerman, Goodman Theatre, The Jungle Book, Sun-Times, Hedy Weiss, Invasion!, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker, Belarus Free Theatre, Ulysses in Nighttown, Inner Voices, Blind Summit, The Table, Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo, Latino Theatre Festival, Chicago Commercial Collective, Timeline Theatre, To Master the Art, Julia Child, Court Theatre, Timothy Edward Kane, An Illiad, Neo-Futurists, Burning Bluebeard, Dawn, Quixote, Blake Montgomery, Building Stage, Cyrano de Bergerac, Penny Metropulos, Henry Groener, The Madness of George III, Noah Haidle, Port Authority, The Whale
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Comedy Critic's Choice
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The Skokie native offers incisive commentary with a stoner-sweetheart affect.
- by Molly Adams
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Tags: Comedy Critic's Choice, Liza Treyger, Adam Devine, Adam Devine's House Party, Workaholics, Comedy Central, Comedy Bar, Megan Galley, Marty DeRosa, Wrestling With Depression, The Comedy Bar
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Movie Feature
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J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs each pick their top ten.
- by J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
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Tags: Movie Feature, Year in Review 2013, Joshua Oppenheimer, Michael Haneke, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Jia Zhang-ke, Steve McQueen, Michael Fassbender, Jason Osder, Wilson Goode, Jeremy Scahill, Rithy Panh, David O. Russell, Frederick Wiseman, Ulrich Seidl, Paradise trilogy, Edward Lachman, Wolfgang Thaler, Andrew Bujalski, Pedro Almodovar, Tsai Ming-liang, Miguel Gomes, Johnnie To, Alfonso Cuaron, Alain Resnais, Video
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Cocktail Challenge
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The third year of the Reader's Cocktail Challenge brought nonfoodstuffs and the nastiest ingredient yet.
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Cocktail Challenge, All Hallows' Eve, Rachael Smith, Bar DeVille, Cocktail Challenge, Mike Ryan, Sable, Jay Schroeder, Red Door, Rick Bayless, Alex Renshaw, Drumbar, Mary Rose Braun, Blackbird, Lone Wolf, Austin Skiles, the Aviary, Grant Achatz, Nick Kokonas, Micah Melton, Jason Cevallos, The Office, GEB, Dave Michalowski
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Key Ingredient
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The past year of our chef-to-chef challenge has included lobster guts, durian, sun-dried tomatoes, and pig uterus (some of it a little burned).
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Key Ingredient, Julia Thiel, Chicago Reader, 2013, writing, Key Ingredient, Phillip Foss, David Posey, Thomas Raquel, Dana Cree, chefs, pastry chefs, Matthew Kirkley, Dave Beran, Ryan LaRoche, Lee Wolen, Aaron Arnett, Peter Coenen, Andres Padilla, John Asbaty, Abraham Conlon
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Food & Drink Feature
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From suburban ramen to west-side barbecue to tiki time in River North
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Tumblr, Characteristically Unimpressed Mike Sula, new restaurants, criticism, Mike Sula, Sam Worley, Mara Shalhoup, Chicago Reader, Matthias Merges, A10, Paul Kahan, Nico Osteria, The Radler, Lincoln Square, Rainbow Cuisine, Wanpen Phosawang, Pramote Rukprueksachart, Spoon Thai, Ramen Misoya, Gene Kato, Mount Prospect, Sumi Robata Bar, River North, Japonais, Gastón Acurio, Tanta, Three Dots and a Dash, Paul McGee, Lettuce Entertain You, bars, restaurants, Dillman's, Brendan Sodikoff, The Berkshire Room, Benjamin Schiller, cocktails, Reno, Katie Wyer, Rickshaw Republic, Homestyle Taste, Chinatown, Bridgeport, Sze Chuan Cuisine, Ben's Bar-Be-Cue, Smalls Smoke Shack, Takito Kitchen, Carnivale, David Dworshak, Ajoomah's Apron, Billy Sunday, Blackwood BBQ, Chop Shop, Dusek's, Gogi, Johnny Casserole, The Little Goat, Milt's Barbecue for the Perplexed, Oon, Parson's Chicken & Fish, Sofi, Ward Eight, Yan Bang Cai, Ahjoomah's Apron, The Chop Shop, Dusek's Board & Beer, Little Goat Diner, Sofi Restaurant, Berkshire Room, dining in 2013
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Bleader
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, December 24
- by Brianna Wellen
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Porn and Chicken, 12 Days of Porn and Chicken, Double Door, Trap House, Delilah's, Rockin Christmas Eve Party, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Andy Kaufman, holiday shopping, Roy Boyd Gallery, art
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Drug dealing hasn't always been done in the open—but it has been going on for generations.
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Crime, News, drugs, heroin, narcotics, west side, Charles "Lucky" Luciano, the Outfit, organized crime, cocaine, cartels, John Hagedorn, drug trafficking, drug cartels, Mexican drug cartels, gang violence, drug dealers, Black Souls, gangs, crime, drug use, West Garfield Park, crack, West Humboldt Park, East Garfield Park, murders, homicides, poverty, jobs, unemployment, Parris Fultz
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A federal judge allows Ron Dorfman and Ken Ilio to get married
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: LGBT, Media, News, Ron Dorfman, Ken Ilio, Chicago Journalism Review, Chicago's American, 1968 Democratic Convention coverage, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Judge Sharon Coleman, the Reverend Barbara Zeman, Allan Katz, Dr. Robert Murphy, David Orr
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, December 26
- by Brianna Wellen
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Kid Sister, hip-hop, Berlin, The Normal Heart, Stage 773, Larry Kramer, Merry Kwanzaa, Gloria Bond Clunie, Kwanzaa, Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center
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Also commuter benefits, Obama's commutation, gangs, a secret FBI interrogation manual, Seattle, teaching jobs, pulchrinomics, Harvard, falling ceilings in London, and Thee Oh Sees?
- by Reader staff
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Tags: Did You Read __________?, News, Did you read?
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The best shows to see on Thu 12/26 through Sun 12/29.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Do This, Music, best shows to see, Macabre, Ashtray Boy, Making Ghosts, Ted Sirota's Heavyweight Dub, Kid Sister, Poi Dog Pondering, Waco Brothers, Al Scorch
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The first in a multipart series on notable movies to first appear in Chicago this past year
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Year in Review, Film, Year in Review, favorite movies of 2013, From Up on Poppy Hill, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, Jodie Mack, Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project, Conversations at the Edge, La Camioneta, Mark Kendall, The Missing Picture, Rithy Panh, documentary films, experimental films, This Is Martin Bonner, Chad Hartigan, Paul Eenhoorn, Charles Fairbanks, Tender Muscles, Nightingale Cinema, Morning of St. Anthony's Day, Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Onion City Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Like Father Like Son, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2013 Chicago International Film Festival, The Spectacular Now, James Ponsoldt, To the Wonder, Terrence Malick
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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, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, American Hustle, Inside Llewyn Davis, Faust Alexander Sokurov, Russian Ark, Mother and Son, Following the Ninth, Some Velvet Morning, Neil LaBute, In the Company of Men, Walking With Dinosaurs, Gene Siskel Film Center, Antonio Gaudi, Preston Sturges, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Blake Edwards, Peter Sellers, The Party, A Shot in the Dark, Music Box, The Great Escape, Doctor Zhivago, The Bridge on the River Kwai, movies, Video
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The first in a three-part series on Chicago's best repertory film screenings of 2013
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Year in Review, Film, Repertory film programming, Jacques Becker, Gene Siskel Film Center, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Antoine and Antoinette, Casque d'Or, Altered States, John Corigliano, Ken Russell, Harris Theater, Hitchcock 9, Music Box Theatre, Champagne, The Manxman, Alfred Hitchcock, Coming Out, East German cinema, The Driver, Walter Hill, Bruce Dern, Doc Films, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Terence Davies, Dust in the Wind, L.A. Rebellion, Emma Mae, Jamaa Fanaka, Film Studies Center, Far From Vietnam, Block Cinema, documentary filmmaking, The Flying Ace, race films, Portage Theater, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, silent film, Goldstein, Chicago Film Archives, Patio Theater, Second City
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CPS and city officials seem resigned to their apartheid school district.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Education, Poverty, Segregation, Year in Review, News, Chicago Public Schools, school segregation, Brown v. Board, poverty, Bradwell Elementary, Angie Ray, Sun-Times, interdistrict magnet schools, school closings
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Drew Hunt's favorite films of 2013
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Year in Review, Film, Leviathan, Computer Chess, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, The Unspeakable Act, Dan Sallitt, The Lords of Salem, Rob Zombie, Viola, Matías Piñeiro, The Bling Ring, Sofia Coppola, I Used to Be Darker, Matt Porterfield, Pavilion, Tim Sutton, Alexander Payne, Laurence Anyways, Xavier Dolan, Beyond the Hills, Christian Mungiu, Drug War, Johnnie To, Her, Spike Jonze, Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Last Time I Saw Macao, João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata, Post Tenebras Lux, Carlos Reygadas, Side Effects, Steven Soderbergh, Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine, 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen, The World's End, Edgar Wright, Stranger by the Lake, Alain Guiraudie, Stray Dogs, Tsai Ming-liang, Ape, Joel Potrykus, Closed Curtain, Jafar Panah, Kambuzia Partovi, The Battle of Tabato, João Viana, Concrete Parlay, Fern Silva, Solar Sight III, Lawrence Jordan, By Pain and Rhyme and Arabesque Foraging, David Gatten, Dusty Stacks of Mom, Jodie Mack, The Day of Two Noons, Mike Gibisser
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A 25-pound treasure trove of early jazz and blues
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Jazz, Music, Post No Bills, Revenant Records, Third Man Records, Paramount Records, jazz, blues, ragtime, gospel, The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Fletcher Henderson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters, Pickett-Parham Syncopaters, Audio
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, December 21
- by Brianna Wellen
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Christine Sneed, Little Known Facts, City Lit Books, Sappho's Salon, Women and Children First, Winter Solstice, drinking, bar guide
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The second in a multipart series on my favorite new movies of the year
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Year in Review, Film, Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, Sebastian Silva, Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann, Magic Magic, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, year in review, 2013 movies, Chicago International Film Festival, The Immigrant, James Gray, Frank Borzage, The Butler, Lee Daniels, Oprah Winfrey, Prince Avalanche, David Gordon Green, The Taste of Money, Im Sang-soo, The President's Last Bang, See You Next Tuesday, Drew Tobia, La Jaula de Oro, Diego Quemada-Diez, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, The World's End, Bastards, Claire Denis, The Unspeakable Act, Dan Sallitt
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A year in the life of someone pulled out of the churn of the music business, plus ten albums not appearing on many year-end lists.
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Year in Review, Music, social media, exhaustion, Olivier Assayas, Something in the Air, John Martyn, DJ Sprinkles, When Dancefloors Stand Still, Queerifications & Ruins, Yo La Tengo, Fade, John McEntire, Clinic, Free Reign II, Oneohtrix Point Never, Daniel Lopatin, Dawn Richard, Goldenheart, Matmos, The Marriage of True Minds, Colin Stetson, New History Warfare Vol 3: To See More Light, Touche Amore, Is Survived By, Black Dog, Tranklements, Todd Terje, Four Tet, Beautiful Rewind
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A list of some of the most memorable books of 2013
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Books, Year in Review, Miklos Banffy, Transylvanian Trilogy, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Between the Woods and the Water, Ian Mortimer, Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England, The River of No Return, Bee Ridgway, The Middlesteins, Jami Attenberg, Adelle Waldman, Love Affairs of Nathaniel P, Janet Malcolm, Forty-One False Starts, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, Megan Marshall, The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, Jill Lepore, Sandalwood Death, Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt, Vintage Attraction, Charles Blackstone, Time Out Chicago, drinking games
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Some recommended movies from Old Movies to Watch Now, in which Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- by Reader staff
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Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Hot Fuzz, How Green Was My Valley, The Road Warrior, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Jacque Demy, A Woman Under the Influence, Broken Flowers, Mr. Arkadin
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There's no Christmas like a Jamaican Christmas.
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: The Reefer, 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Jackie Mittoo, Bagga, Pablove Black, After Christmas, Christmas eve, irie, Video
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Parris Fultz was a self-described independent operator in a business—drug dealing—dominated by larger-scale players.
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Crime, News, drugs, heroin, narcotics, west side, drug trafficking, drug cartels, Mexican drug cartels, gang violence, drug dealers, New Breeds, gangs, crime, drug use, West Garfield Park, crack, West Humboldt Park, murders, homicides, poverty, jobs, unemployment, Eddie Valentino, Parris Fultz, Heroin LLC, Back of the Yards
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It's been a fantastic year for Chicago hip-hop, and there are more ways to remember it than simply listing great albums; these are five details that, in some small way, helped make 2013 such an outstanding year in local rap.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Chicago rap, Best of 2013, Lil Kemo, Dlow, bopping, Kemo Step, The Dlow Shuffle, ShowYouSuck, XXX (Straight Edge), Serengeti, Kenny Dennis, Directions, Kanye West, Yeezus, Chief Keef, Minor Threat, harDCore, Che Smith, Rhymefest, Video
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A tender gem from the singer-songwriter's forthcoming album Strong Feelings
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Doug Paisley, Strong Feelings, Song My Love Can Sing, Emmett Kelly, Garth Hudson, 12 O'Clock Track, Colin Stetson, Mary Margaret O'Hara, folk-rock, No Quarter Records
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, December 25
- by Brianna Wellen
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Christmas, movies, restaurants, Mary Wilson, Four Tops, Motown, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Music Box, The Great Escape, On an Epic Scale
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Your guide to locally produced red Nutella
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, nduja, Italian food, La Quercia, Nduja Artisans, Publican Quality Meats, J.P. Graziano, Eataly, ciaosculo, Antonio "Tony" Fiasche, red Nutella
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, December 23
- by Brianna Wellen
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Double Door, Bad Santa, Die Hard, double feature, Hamid Drake, Michael Zerang, Links Hall, winter solstice, Wigshift, Empty Bottle, rock, circus punk
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It's been a good year for drinking.
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Booze, Food & Drink, Pipeworks, Hey Careful Man There's a Beverage Here, Ten Ninety, Imperial Witbier, Imperial Porter, Furthermore, Knot Stock, New Belgium, coconut curry hefeweizen, Deschutes, Inversion IPA, Del Maguey Mezcal, Pinckney Bend Distillery gin, Pinckney Bend tonic, Robert Haynes, Henry Prendergast, Analogue, People's Old-Fashioned, Ada St., Fistful of Dollars, Virtue Cider, the Mitten, Vander Mill, Totally Roasted Cider
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, December 20
- by Brianna Wellen
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Andersonville, Late-er Night, Swedish, LivingSocial, beer, craft beer, Union Station, Evil Twin Brewing, Emmett's Brewing Company, Speakeasy Ales & Lagers, Taylor Bennett, Chance the Rapper, Reggie's Rock Club, rap
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The second in a three-part series on the year's best repertory screenings
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Year in Review, Film, Revival screenings, Music Box Theatre, Happy Birthday Wanda June, Kurt Vonnegut, Nightingale Cinema, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Harry Smith, Heaven and Earth Magic, An Inn in Tokyo, Yasujiro Ozu, Second Saturday Silent Cinema, Gene Siskel Film Center, Shohei Imamura, Karayuki-san: The Making of a Prostitute, Doc Films, L.A. Plays Itself, Fred Halsted, White Light Cinema, Nanni Moretti, The Mass Is Over, Chicago International Film Festival, We Have a Pope, Max et les Ferailleurs, Claude Sautet, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Mestizo, African Diaspora Film Festival, Facets Multimedia, Mario Handler, Venezuela, Guillermo Meneses, Moi un Noir, Jean Rouch, ethnography, Ivory Coast, No Fear No Die, Claire Denis, Isaach de Bankole, Alex Descas, No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger, Film Studies Center, South Side Projections
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Noting a few fine performances by younger actors of older people in light of teenager Adèle Exarchopoulos's performance in Blue Is the Warmest Color
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: We're Old, Film, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Color, Lola Creton, Goodbye First Love, Sandrine Bonnaire, A Nos Amours, John Wayne, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Insider, Russell Crowe, Bugsy Maone, Lita Grey, Charlie Chaplin
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, December 22
- by Brianna Wellen
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Bitter Betty Bazaar Holiday Pop-Up Shop, holiday shopping, Innertown Pub, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Preston Sturges, Lifetime, Dave Kehr, Gene Siskel Film Center, Winter Pageant, Redmoon Theater
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Naperville's finest just started bottling two beers per month, and the very first is this ludicrously hoppy double stout.
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Solemn Oath, Naperville, Combat Marshmallow, double stout, Ravaged by Vikings, Death by Viking, IPA, double IPA, imperial IPA, Butterfly Flashmob, Interrobang, tripel, John Barley, Joe Barley, Tim Marshall, Jourdon Gullett, Erin Lowder, Hail of Bullets, Martin van Drunen, On Divine Winds, Leeches of Lore, Video
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You watch, Chicago—before it's all over Mayor Rahm will be doling out some TIF money to ADM.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Politics, News, ADM, Archer Daniels Midland Co, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, House Speaker Michael Madigan, DePaul basketball arena, Marriott Hotel, University of Chicago, Decatur
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The underground emo scene began moving in on the mainstream in a big way this year, and to cap it all off one Reader writer looks back on some of his favorite albums.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Year in Review, Music, Year in Review 2013, favorite emo albums, 1994!, Balance & Composure, Bonjour Machines, Crash of Rhinos, Football Etc., Foxing, Into It. Over It., Lemuria, Touche Amore, The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, Video
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The local rapper-singer draws upon 90s R&B, Miami bass, and that time an ex messed up his clothes with bleach for the sensual, sparkling "Bleach Pool."
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, the GTW, Bleach Pool, My Boo, Jody, new wavey
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Employees of Chicago Public Media vote overwhelmingly to join SAG-AFTRA.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Chicago Public Media, SAG-AFTRA, WBEZ, Vocalo, Sound Opinions, Derek John, Cate Cahan, Aurora Aguilar, Lynette Kalsnes, National Labor Relations Board, Bob Wildeboer, Alison Scholly
