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Feature
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A few things you should know about Pat Quinn and Bruce Rauner
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Feature, Governor Pat Quinn, Bruce Rauner, Rod Blagojevich, George Ryan, Stuart Levine, gubernatorial race 2014, CompBenefits, The United Neighborhood Organization, Juan Rangel, Richard M. Daley, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, GTCR, SBC Communications, Koch brothers, Americans for Prosperity, Charles Koch, David Koch, Judicial Correction Services, Illinois Republican Party, Iris Martinez, Neighborhood Recovery Initiative, UNO, Jesse Jackson, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Black Ensemble Theater, Westside Ministers Conference, Saint Pius V Church, Martin Sheen, Reverend James Meeks, Michael Madigan, Lisa Madigan, William Daley, Olive Garden, Uber, Bill Brady, Rick Perry, Governor Scott Walker, Illinois Freedom PAC, Cesar Chavez
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What the hell is this place?
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Owner Chris Doolin wants everyone to get one thing straight: her business is not an Irish pub.
- by Megan Thielking
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Tags: What the hell is this place?, Doolin's, River West, Guiness, Chris Doolin, Emmit's, Halloween, New Year's Eve, Pride Parade, Saint Patrick's Day, Irish pub, What the hell is this place?
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Space
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Salvaged work by Marc Chagall, James Sessions, and other artists is on display in Janice Gordon's town house.
- by Andrea Bauer
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Tags: Space, space, Janice Gordon, Lincoln Park, James Sessions, Brigitte Coudrain, Marc Chagall, James Hagen, Video
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Cocktail Challenge
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Marta Jean Evans of Longman & Eagle makes a historically inspired cocktail with a centuries-old spice blend.
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Cocktail Challenge, za'atar, Marta Jean Evans, Longman & Eagle, Stephen Andrews, Billy Sunday, While My Za'atar Gently Weeps, Hanna Mutsch, Kuma's Corner, miso, cocktail challenge, Video
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Restaurant Review
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The food—inspired by Mexico City, the Caribbean, Colombia, and Peru—is wonderful. But waiting for it to arrive is a real adventure.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Bar Takito, Latin American cuisine, Takito Kitchen, West Loop, David Dworshak, Mexico City, Colombia, Peru, Ruth Reichl, Recommended
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Savage Love
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A poly partner who now wants monogamy, an accidental triad, and more
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, Dan Savage, Savage Love, threesomes, D/s relationship, affairs, monogamy, dominance and submission, polyamory
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Theater Review
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But this intimate production adds pathos to the horror in Sondheim's masterpiece.
- by Albert Williams
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Tags: Theater Review, Sweeney Todd, Theater 773, Steven Sondheim, Christopher Bond, Len Cariou, Angela Lansbury, Michael Weber, Porchlight Music Theatre, David Girolmo, Rebecca Finnegan, Edward J. MacLennan, Stephanie Stockstill, Brian Acker, Kevin Webb, Bill Morey, Jeffrey D. Kmiec, Greg Hofmann, Jess Goings, Jenna Moran
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Lit Critic's Choice
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The indie imprint celebrates the release of new books—and its first cassingle—at the Empty Bottle.
- by Megan Thielking
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Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Words + Music #6, Empty Bottle, Curbside Splendor, Victor David Giron, U. of I. at Urbana-Champaign, Tim Kinsella, Brian Costello, Kill Manual, Susan Lanier, The Game We Play, James Tadd Adcox, Does Not Love, Western Illinois University, Erika T. Wurth, Crazy Horse's Girlfriend, Cassandra Troyan, Joe Meno, Office Girl, Jim Ruland, Forest of Fortune, Fashion Brigade, the Peekaboos, Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, Elia Einhorn
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Artist on Artist
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"It's not fair to me, as a musician and as a person who has a lot of interests, to be chained to my past work."
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Artist on Artist, Artist on Artist, Zola Jesus, Daniel Knox, Nika Roza Danilova, Taiga, J.G. Thirlwell, Mivos Quartet, John Atwood, The Poisoner, Chris Hefner, Dean Hurley, Native Instruments, Moog Voyager, Sequential Circuits Prophet-5
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Movie Sidebar
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Which movies to see—and which to skip—in the festival's second week
- by Drew Hunt, J.R. Jones, Tal Rosenberg and Ben Sachs
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Tags: Movie Sidebar, The Babadook, Black Panther—The Story of Emilie and Jacob, Breaking the Waves, Clouds of Sils Maria, Concrete Night, A Girl at My Door, El Gort, Joy of Man's Desiring, The Kindergarten Teacher, La Tirisia, Maestro, Next to Her, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1001 Grams, Roger & Me, Seven Little Killers, Speed Walking, Two Days, One Night, The Well, Xenia, The Young Kieslowski, 50th Chicago International Film Festival
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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: The debut album from hardcore miscreants Rat Hammer and a compilation of rare Chicago house from Kstarke
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Brighter Death Now, Bongripper, Final Grin, Rectal Hygenics, Permanent Records, Joliet, Rat Hammer, Flowershop, Dead Kennedys, Baby Carrots, Empty Bottle, Swimsuit Addition, Absolutely Not, Still Music, Jerome Derradji, Kevin Starke, Kstarke Records, Kstarke Records: The House That Jackmaster Hater Built, Ron Hardy, Dance Mania, Traxmen
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Bleader
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Boka Group's Momotaro is going to bring a lot of Japanese dining to Chicago.
- by Michael Gebert
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Momotaro, Mark Hellyar, Jeff Ramsey, Kevin Boehm, Rob Katz, Boka Group, izakaya, Lee Wolen, Boka
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Bleader
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Free Fall and Gone Girl: New adventures in hi-def
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Moviegoing, Technology, Film, Moviegoing, Free Fall, Gyorgy Palfi, Chicago International Film Festival, David Fincher, digital video, Gone Girl, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Ben Affleck
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Bleader
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A classic, decades-old south-side barbecue joint keeps on keeping on.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Alice's Bar-B-Q, barbecue, Bronzeville, rib tips, Maraca, Lem's, Barbara Ann's, Gregory Johnson
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Bleader
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Here's hoping that Karen Lewis comes back stronger than ever!
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Politics, News, Karen Lewis, Mayor Harold Washington, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Muhammad Ali, Sonny Liston, Ernie Terrell, Brian London, Cleveland Williams, Floyd Patterson, Chicago Teachers Union, 2015 Chicago mayoral election, Jesse Sharkey
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Bleader
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The city is full of avant-garde film screenings over the next six days.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Film, Dance, Experimental film, John Smith, The Girl Chewing Gum, Jocelyn Pook, Gene Siskel Film Center, Block Cinema, Logan Center for the Arts, Nightingale Cinema, Charles Atlas, Michael Clark, dance films, Merce Cunningham, Douglas Dunn, Museum of Contemporary Art, Steve Wertzel, Constellation, Dragonslayer, Video
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Bleader
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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, Music Box of Horrors, Chicago International Film Festival, Alexander Oliver Stone, Natural Born Killers, Art and Craft movie, Mark Landis, Kill the Messenger, Jeremy Renner, No No: A Dockumentary, Dock Ellis, Pittsburgh Pirates, I Am Ali, Muhammad Ali, The Judge movie, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Pride movie, John Smith filmmaker, Tim Burton, Beetlejuice, Logan Theater Chicago, Nagisa Oshima Boy, Gene Siskel Film Center, Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Music Box, Sandra Nettelbeck, Mostly Martha, Akira Kurosawa, Rashomon, University of Chicago Doc Films, Victor Erice, The Spirit of the Beehive, Errol Morris Tabloid, Roberto Rosselini, Voyage to Italy, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, John McNaughton, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, The Borrowers, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Portage Theater Chicago, Jay Warren, The Hands of Orlac, Phantom of the Opera, Lon Chaney, Lon Chaney The Monster, film festivals, horror movies, movies, Video
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Bleader
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'RACE: Are We So Different?' opens at Illinois Holocaust Museum
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Science, Arts, Education, Segregation, History, RACE: Are We So Different?, race, Illinois Holocaust Museum, YWCA Evanston/North Shore, Science Museum of Minnesota, Eileen Heineman, Kathy Slaughter, Arielle Weininger
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Bleader
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Highlights from the popular horror genre
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Zombie films, Music Box Massacre, Zombie 4: After Death, Zombi, Logan, Music Box, Cemetery Man, Zombi 2, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, Shaun of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead
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Bleader
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The second single from 1989 flips the script on the typical heartbreak song to create a simmering tension that never resolves.
- by Sasha Geffen
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Tags: On the Charts, Music, taylor swift, out of the woods, 1989, big machine, pop, sky ferreira, miley cyrus, wrecking ball, Video
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Bleader
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Also a cocktail class at CH Distillery, a home-brewer competition, and the history of French dining in Chicago.
- by Michael Gebert
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Rick Bayless, Fred Despres, Lisa Despres, Arami, Frontera Grill, Topolobampo, CH Distillery, Culinary Historians of Chicago, Louis Glunz, Hirter Bier, The Fountainhead, Two, Tom Van Lente, Brewery Vivant, Tete Charcuterie, Scott Walton, Zoe Nathan, Floriole Cafe, Grant Achatz, Sean Brock, David Burke Primehouse, Morsel, Scott Worsham, Mfk, Elizabeth, Between Bites
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Bleader
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Single-malt scotches and upper-crust gentlemen dominate the Scotch Malt Whisky Society's Whisky Extravaganza.
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Booze, Food & Drink, Whisky Extravaganza, Scotch Malt Whisky Society, Union League Club, Ladyburn 41-year, Talisker Storm, Clyde May's Conecuh Ridge Whiskey, Auchentoshan Three Wood, Few Rye Whiskey, Glenfiddich Age of Discovery, Nikka Miyagikyo Single Malt, Usquaebach Old Rare Blended Whisky, Westland American Single Malt
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Bleader
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Awwwwwwww
- by Gwynedd Stuart
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Tags: Arts, Television, Small Screen, the walking dead, season five, premiere, recap, then, now, rick grimes, zombies, carol, tyrese, friendship
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A locally released split-seven inch by bands from Beijing and Taiwan inadvertently comments on the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong.
- by Robyn Chang
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Tags: It's Complicated, Music, Politics, gary records, umbrella revolution, occupy hong kong, umbrella movement, occupy hk, hong kong protests, occupy central with peace and love, hot and cold, skip skip ben ben
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Open House Chicago is a great chance to go inside buildings—and a great excuse to go inside nearby restaurants.
- by Michael Gebert
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Open House Chicago, Chicago Architecture Foundation, bridgeport, back of the yards, bronzeville, edgewater, garfield park, north lawndaale, power house high, goose island, hyde park, yusho, zeleski & horvath, pilsen, beurrage, carnitas urapan, goose island shrimp house, prairie avenue, nepal house, flo & santos, pullman, south shore, hotel florence, soul vegetarian east, frank lloyd wright, emil bach house, khan bbq, udupi palace, uptown, banh mi, sun wah, nha hang
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, October 9
- by Brianna Wellen
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Supernatural Chicago, Neil Tobin, Castle, Toby MaGee, Lagunitas, City Lit Books, Matt Ulery, Eighth Blackbird, Constellation
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"Natty Natty," one of a dozen nuggets on a previously unissued album produced by Yabby You
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, Willi Williams, Yabby You, Unification: From Channel One to King Tubby's, "Natty Natty, " reggae, 12 O'Clock Track, "Armagideon Time", Audio
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People are packing it in at the chain's new location on Addison.
- by Gwynedd Stuart
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Tags: 90s Nostalgia, Food Chain, Food & Drink, olive garden, chicago, avondale, tour of italy, marilyn hagerty, breadsticks, pat quinn, bruce rauner, election, italian food, chicago italian, chain restaurants
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A ray of sunshine for Chicagoans contemplating the likelihood of another term for Mayor Rahm
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Politics, News, Mayor Jane M. Byrne, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Fighting Jane, Bill Granger, Lori Granger, Chicago Sun Times, Karen Lewis, Chicago City Council, Alderman Ed Burke, Alderman Howard Brookins, Rodney Dangerfield, 2015 mayoral election, Alderman Robert Fioretti, Bruce Rauner, gambling casino, Governor Pat Quinn
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Webster's Wine Bar has moved into the former Telegraph space in Logan Square, taking on most of Telegraph's chefs.
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Webster's Wine Bar, Logan Square, Aaron Mooney, Telegraph Wine Bar, salt cod croquettes, cacciocavallo arancini, scallops, octopus, pork rinds, dulce de leche ebelskiver
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Bleader
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Half Acre wins its first GABF medal in the most competitive category in the festival's history.
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Half Acre, Heyoka, Heyoka IPA, Great American Beer Festival, GABF, silver, medal, medalist, Gabriel Magliaro, Phineas X. Jones, Gatecrasher, Temperance, Lakota Thunder, Way of Life, Six Dead Horses, Video
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Comedian and former Conan writer Brian McCann imparts his astute knowledge concerning the fine art of leisure during Brian McCann's Leisure Hour.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Comedy, Brian McCann's Leisure Hour, Brian McCann, Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show, Preparation H Raymond, FedEx Pope, comedy, iO, leisure, wine, silk pajamas
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Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- by Reader staff
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Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Le Grand Amour, Nobody Knows, The Leopard, The Dark Knight, Rope, Yojimbo, Mary Poppins
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Bleader
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... aka today's 12 O'Clock Track, "Balls of Steel."
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Beau Wanzer, Balls of Steel, 12 O'Clock Track, Streetwalker, Mutant Beat Dance, Long Island Electrical Systems, L.I.E.S., Video
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A new track from the heavy metal team.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Old Man Gloom, The Ape of God, Predators, Isis, Converge, Doomriders, Cave In, Aaron Turner, Nate Newton, Caleb Scofield, metal, hardcord
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The Chicago Tribune and the race for governor
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Politics, News, Chicago Tribune, gubernatorial, fecund, Mark Jacob, Eric Zorn, Bruce Rauner, Governor Pat Quinn, Illinois race for governor, Chicago Sun-Times, Stephan Benzkofer
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An ode to the better parts of emo's lingering third wave focused on Philadelphia's Mewithoutyou.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Do This, Music, Mewithoutyou, Bottom Lounge, emo, fourth-wave emo, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Pedro the Lion, Thursday, Video
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Bleader
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Pat Quinn campaigns for reelection with the help of a little star power.
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Politics, News, Pat Quinn, governor, Illinois, Martin Sheen, Houby Day, parade, Cicero, Berwyn, minimum wage, political campaign, 2014 elections, patronage, Neighborhood Recovery Initiative, death penalty
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Bleader
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Big changes are ahead for two of the city's most venerable bookstores.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Books, Arts, Neighborhoods, Women & Children First, Seminary Co-op, 57th Street Books, Sarah Hollenbeck, Lynn Mooney, Jeff Deutsch, bookstores, bookselling, local businesses
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The new northside bar hosts music and comedy.
- by Brianna Wellen
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Tags: Comedy, High Hat Club, Natalie Jose, The Green Mill, Michael Polino, Julia Weiss, Kate James, Brian Babylon, Ian Abramson, Faces for Radio, Bill Larkin, Mutts
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With a new record on Trouble in Mind, the duo arrive in Chicago and line up some shows.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Do This, Music, Ultimate Painting, Trouble in Mind Records, Veronica Falls, Mazes, Permanent Records, in-store, free, all ages, garage rock, indie rock, punk, tour, Radar Eyes, CMJ
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After constantly reshaping his homage to the great pianist, singer, and composer, Moran finally takes his project into the studio.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Jazz, Music, Post No Bills, Jason Moran, Fats Waller, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy for Fats Waller, Meshell Ndegeocello, the Bandwagon, Tarus Mateen, Nasheet Waits, Charles Haynes, Bob Power, "Ain't Misbehavin', " jazz
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The saxophonit joins the Chicago Underground Duo at the Promontory for his first appearance in Chicago in more than a decade.
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Pharoah Sanders, Rob Mazurek, Chicago Underground Duo, Promontory, Thembi, Izipho Zam, Spiral Mercury, Video
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Robert Morris University leads the charge from the confines of its eSports arena.
- by Patrick Sisson
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Tags: Education, Technology, News, robert morris university, chicago, esports, league of legends, call of duty, hearthstone, destiny, collegiate starleague, world cup, sangam stadium, kurt melcher, ivy wall league of legends, north american collegiate championship
