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What the hell is this place?
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Rogers Park’s leopard-print house has been the talk of the neighborhood for more than a decade.
- by Web Behrens
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Tags: What the hell is this place?, Rogers Park, Michael O'Reilly, Matt Gleeman Long, LGBTQ, Roger Spark Presents Wes Testes's Faerie Castle: Asbestos-on-Estes, the Castle, The Nate Berkus Show, Halloween, Pride, April Fools' Day, Burberry, What the hell is this place?
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On Culture
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The owners of Wicker Park gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey are being sued as a result of a 2012 exhibit of works by the photographer.
- by Deanna Isaacs
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On Politics
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A new poll is the latest sign that Mayor Emanuel could be in trouble.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Sun-Times, elections, polls, Toni Preckwinkle, Chicago Teachers Union, CTU, Karen Lewis, City Council, Robert Fioretti, Robert Shaw, Richard M. Daley, parking meters, taxes, infrastructure, potholes, development, black voters, Barack Obama, Miguel del Valle, Gery Chico, south side, west side, mental health clinics, city workers, water bills, school closings, Barack Obama College Prep, Gold Coast, TIFs, tax incremement financing, Leslie Hairston, Roderick Sawyer, Toni Foulkes, Hispanic voters, Jim Oberweis, UNO, United Neighborhood Organization, Luis Gutierrez
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Savage Love
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Also this just in! Ten years without sex is an unbearably long time without sex (particularly in marriage).
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, Dan Savage, Savage Love, autism, hooking up, drunk, rape, consent, intoxication, Dexedrine, Recon, ADHD, libido
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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: Two Houses drop a seven-inch, and Chicago Singles Club commits its first year to vinyl.
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Record Roundup
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Nine Reader writers sift through a musical farrago that includes Ben Frost's defibrillating body music, Dawn Golden's alchemical electro-pop, and Sleaford Mods' grimly minimalist postpunk.
- by Peter Margasak, Leor Galil, Miles Raymer, Bill Meyer, Kevin Warwick, Luca Cimarusti, Kim Kelly, Tal Rosenberg and David Whiteis
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Summer Guide
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Three road trips, dozens of farmer's markets, an avalanche of festivals, our favorite restaurant patios, and 110 things to do every day from now till Labor Day
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Summer Guide
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Click on any day to find Chicago's best summer events!
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Summer Guide
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Eden Springs, built by dying religious sect the House of David, is coming back to life in Benton Harbor.
- by Gwynedd Stuart
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Summer Guide
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The northeastern Wisconsin peninsula has something for everyone—including some solitude.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Summer Guide
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Hiking trails, bluegrass jams, baseball, and ice cream—and a midwestern destination through and through.
- by Kate Schmidt
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Theater Review
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American Theater Company revitalizes the 1967 "American tribal love-rock musical."
- by Tony Adler
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Art Review
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In a new MCA installation, Leslie Hewitt and Bradford Young re-create the quieter moments of history.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Performing Arts Review
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Chris Lemmon plays his famous dad in a one-man, one-ghost show.
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, Jack Lemmon Returns, Chris Lemmon, Jack Lemmon, Royal George Theatre Center, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Walter Matthau, Jean-Louis Barrault, Orphans, Lyle Kessler
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Artist on Artist
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"I've lived long enough to see what first was an abject failure become an important thing to a lot of people's lives."
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Movie Review
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A new documentary revisits the art and times of the Chicago imagists.
- by J.R. Jones
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Movie Review
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A mainstream filmmaker tries to go back to his indie roots with a dumb comedy about a renegade cook.
- by Ben Sachs
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Key Ingredient
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Challenged to make a dish with kudzu starch, the MK chef uses it five ways.
- by Julia Thiel
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Summer Guide
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Eleven days of beer events featuring more snifters than one human should ever have to handle.
- by Philip Montoro and Julia Thiel
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Restaurant Review
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The new Randolph Row restaurant is a lot more than just a temple to our culture's insatiable flesh lust.
- by Mike Sula
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Bleader
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The Boston psych rocker plays in Chicago this Sunday.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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This week's gig poster was designed by local illustrator and musician Joe Schorgl.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Highlights from the filmography of Pier Paolo Pasolini
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gene Siskel Film Center, David Lynch, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, The Canterbury Tales, The Hawks and the Sparrows, Bertolt Brecht, Charlie Chaplin, Luis Bunuel, Oedipus Rex, Sophocles, Mamma Roma, Mantegna, Lamentation over the Dead Christ
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, May 12
- by Taylor Tolbert
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Tags: Do This, Arts, MV Abegweit, Columbia Yacht Club, Chicago Architecture Foundation, City Winery, Wilco, Glenn Kotche, Kathy Hart, Marc Grapey, Peter Coenen, The Gage, Elysabeth Alfano, Truckfighters, Reggie's Rock Club, Marmora, Taken by the Sun, Universe
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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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Chicago's hottest restaurant designer on how she plans your dining experience for you
- by Michael Gebert
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Winemakers from Codorniu Raventos properties across half the globe were lined up on a panel at the Blackstone Hotel
- by Michael Gebert
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, May 9
- by Osita Nwanevu
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Blackbird, Dana Cree, Fat Rice, Abraham Conlon, Takashi, Courtney Joseph, Key Ingredient Cook-Off, Studs Terkel, Let's Get Working, Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago Tribune, Rick Kogan, Old Town School of Folk Music, Mark Dvorak, Young Fathers, Dead, Leor Galil, Baths
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A collaboration between the French accordionist and the local string quartet
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, Julien Labro, Spektral Quartet, From This Point Forward, Miguel Zenon, Astor Piazzolla, Dino Salluzi, Miguito, City Winery, 12 O'Clock Track
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Western Horn," one of three tracks from the Sunn O))) and Ulver collaborative album, Terrestrials.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock, Sunn O))), Ulver, Southern Lord, Kristoffer Rygg, Terrestrials, Stephen O'Malley
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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, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leslie Buchbinder, Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Ben Sachs, Jon Favreau Chef, Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton, For No Good Reason, Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman, Godzilla, Music Box Chicago, Million Dollar Arm, Jon Hamm, Palo Alto, Gia Coppola, James Franco, Sepideh, Young & Beautiful, Francois Ozon, Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In, University of Chicago Doc Films, Ernst Lubitsch, Nintochka, Asghar Farhadi The Past, Ratatouille movie, Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window, Krzysztof Kieslowski, A Short Film About Killing, Gene Siskel Film Center, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, movies, Video
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Love her or hate her, Karen Lewis's worldview is more like the average Chicagoan's than Mayor Rahm's Romney-like policies.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Politics, News, Hideout, Mick Dumke, Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant, Karen Lewis, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Mitt Romney, Utah, Rock and Roll, Channel 7, Ben Bradley, Video
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The restaurant designer explains her work at some of Chicago's top restaurants.
- by Michael Gebert
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Karen Herold, Studio K, Balena, Embeya, Boka Group, Rob Katz, Kevin Boehm, Maple & Ash, GT Prime, Wood
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University of Chicago's radio station hosts another exciting lineup for its annual summer concert.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Do This, Music, WHPK, Summer Breeze, Oozing Wound, Immortal Bird, Krill, Animal Lover, Bigcolour, the Funs, free, concert, University of Chicago
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Noting free screenings of Ernst Lubitsch's silent feature Three Women and the recent Chinese opera adaptation The Inspector and the Prince
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Do This, Film, Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, Tom Gunning, David Drazin, Chinese opera films, The Inspector and the Prince, Zheng Dasheng, Ernst Lubitsch, Three Women
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, May 10
- by Taylor Tolbert
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Tags: Do This, Arts, zombies, Andersonville, Zombie Pub Crawl, Chicago Costume, pH Comedy Theater, Simon's Tavern, the Brixton, SoFo Tap, Schubas, Schubas Gear Swap, Chicago Music Exchange, Alchemy Audio, Seahaven, Beat Kitchen, Adventures, Foxing
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NBA refs made the right calls, even if they weren't exactly right.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Sports, News, NBA playoffs, Brooklyn Nets, Miami Heat, Oklahoma City Thunder, Los Angeles Clippers, justice, Reggie Jackson, Paul Pierce, Matt Barnes, LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, Chris Paul, Doc Rivers
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Two hours in, and an entire gestational period to go.
- by Gwynedd Stuart
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Tags: Arts, Television, Small Screen, rosemary's baby, nbc, miniseries, sunday, part one, zoe saldana, jason isaacs, roman polanski, mia farrow, ruth gordon, horror, movies
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Also 911 calls, sectarian prayers, the Horween Leather Company, Jennifer Weiner, the 2002 NBA Western Conference Finals, the U. of C. Scavenger Hunt, and Rich Homie Quan?
- by Reader staff
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Tony Hu is harboring a great pastry chef in Chinatown.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: One Bite, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Lao Yu Ju, dim sum, Tony Hu, Cantonese food, pastry, Hong Kong, Macau, Fat Rice, Yum Cha, Cai, Minghin, Phoenix, CHinese food, Chinatown
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, May 16
- by Osita Nwanevu
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Manifest Urban Arts Festival, Hood Internet, Youngblood Hawke, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Film Studies Center, The Inspector and the Prince, Zheng Dasheng, Paola Iovene, opera, Owls, Cap'n Jazz, Mike Kinsella, Tim Kinsella, Victor Villareal, Sam Zurick, TWO, Subterranean
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Reform in Chicago—a lovely idea
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Politics, News, Chicago, political corruption, political reform, Albert Camus, Sisyphus, journalism, WBEZ, "Afternoon Shift, " Joel Reese, Time Out Chicago, Tim Novak, Chris Fusco, Chicago Sun-Times, John Kass, Rahm Emanuel, "Grand Illusion, " James Merriner, Goo goos, "Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago, "
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is off of Floor's first record since 2004.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Floor, Steve Brooks, Oblation, Sister Sophia, Miami, Florida, Torch, metal, pop, reunion, Video
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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, Misan Sagay, Belle movie, Landmark's Century Centre, Showplace ICON, Dido Elizabeth Belle, Ben Sachs, Bright Days Ahead, Fanny Ardant, Afternoon of a Faun, Tanaquil Le Clercq, Beneath the Harvest Sky, Films by Shellie Fleming, School of the Art Institute, Honey movie, Davis Theater Chicago, The Kill Team, Neighbors Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Andrzej Wajda, Ashes and Diamonds, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ishiro Honda, Godzilla, Music Box Chicago, Sergei Eisenstein, Potemkin, Dennis Scott, Alain Resnais, Same Old Song, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chan-wook Park, Stoker, Chicago Film Critics Association, David Wain, Wet Hot American Summer, Role Models, They Came Together, Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Bob Goldthwait, Shakes the Clown, God Bless America, Willow Creek, film festivals, movies, Video
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Cheaping it out in the upper deck with the Illinois chief exec.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Politics, Sports, News, Pat Quinn, White Sox, Cubs, U.S. Cellular Field, Galewood, Bruce Rauner, Illinois governor's race, Adam Dunn, Welington Castillo, Maikel Cleto, Mike Olt, Dunkin' Donuts
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Garage rock legends further tarnish their reputation.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Standells, Dirty Water, garage rock, Larry Tamblyn, Boston, Bump, Boston's Badass, Medication, Mayne Stage, Video
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American roots music pushed this way and that, with mixed results.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Secret Sisters, T-Bone Burnett, Americana, Put Your Needle Down, Everly Brothers, Nickel Creek, PJ Harvey, Lonely Island, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Dan Auerbach, Make My Head Sing..., Oblivious, Video
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A Chicago grade school principal has let Mayor Emanuel have it.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Education, Media, News, Blaine Elementary School, Chicago Public Schools, Troy LaRaviere, Rahm Emanuel, Gulf of Sidra, Chicago Sun-Times, education reform, charter schools, Moammar Gadhafi, Libya
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Catching up with the goings-on at Off Color, using the pretext of reviewing their sought-after DinoSmores Russian Imperial Stout
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Off Color, Off Color Brewing, John Laffler, Dave Bleitner, DinoSmores, 12 Percent Imports, DinoSmores Russian Imperial Stout, Tim Breen, Nikki Jarecki, Fierce, Apex Predator, Troublesome, Scurry, Boris, Dyna-Soar, Heavy Rocks, Masonna, Video
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South-side workers account for three of every four jobs cut by the city since Mayor Rahm Emanuel took office in 2011.
- by Mick Dumke
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Noting several experimental screenings in the next week
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Film, George Kuchar, Empire of Evil, James Broughton, Big Joy, Flat Space Chicago, Nelson Carvajal, Michael Snow, Logan Square Comfort Station, Jennifer Reeder, Museum of Contemporary Photoraphy
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A spring rampage leads to a flaky, buttery burek.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Cooking, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Albanian food, ramps, peta, burek, Jim Samata, Trotters, Maywood Park
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So much about so little—covering the NFL draft
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Sports, News, NFL draft, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Bears, Stanley Cup, Chicago Blackhawks, Phil Emery, ESPN
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, May 15
- by Lisa Schulz
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Craft Beer Week, Little Goat, Emporium, Three Floyds, Owen & Engine, Pipeworks, Farmers Market, Daley Plaza, HoZac Blackout Fest, Empty Bottle, punk, garage, rock'n'roll, Boys and the Dictators NYC, Hein Coetzee, Brian Shanley, Rubin, Times New Viking, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Counter Intuits, Nones, Toupee
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The Cure, Jane's Addiction, Slayer, Weezer, Wu-Tang Clan, the Offspring, and Patti Smith are among dozens of acts slated to play this tenth annual Riot Fest in September.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Riot Fest, Whoa, Music, The Cure, Jane's Addiction, Slayer, Weezer, Wu-Tang Clan, The Offspring, Patti Smith, Riot Fest, Humboldt Park, Pussy Riot, Gwar, Mineral, fourth-wave emo, Buzzcocks
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, May 11
- by Taylor Tolbert
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Mother's Day, brunch, Lula Cafe, M. Henry, Chicago Critics Film Festival, Music Box, Michel Gondry, Mood Indigo, That Guy, Dick Miller, Mike Weis, Constellation, Alejandro T. Acierto
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, May 14
- by Lisa Schulz
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Creative Crossings, Chicago Artist Resource, Hideout, iO Theater, T.J. Jagodowski, Dave Pasquesi, Young Widows, Subterranean, Easy Pain
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The Israeli expat maker her Chicago debut as a bandleader on Tuesday
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Jazz, Music, Post No Bills, Israeli Jazz & World Music Festival, Avishai Cohen, Anat Cohen, Reut Regev, R*time, Exploring the Vibe, Ok Oj, Jean-Paul Bourelly, Igal Foni, Mark Peterson, Chicago Cultural Center, jazz, Audio
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As long as we're reviving Friedkin's Sorcerer, currently touring the country in a new digital restoration, maybe it's time to revisit this 1978 film.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Crime, Film, William Friedkin, The Brink's Job, Peter Falk, Sorcerer, Dean Tavoularis, Rampage, Big Deal on Madonna Street
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A demographic analysis of the area around the proposed Barack Obama high—the mayor's latest selective enrollment school—shows that it's in one of the wealthiest areas in town.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Broken, Education, Politics, News, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, selective enrollment high schools, Rob Paral, Chicago Data Guy, Cabrini-Green, Walter Payton College Prep, Alderman Will Burns, Barack Obama College Prep, Alderman Walter Burnett
