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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: Swearwords celebrate an EP that grew into an LP, and the You Are Here festival sets up a maze beneath Thalia Hall.
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, James Swanberg, the Lemons, Today's Hits, the Whistler, Swearwords, Solar Vortex, Beat Kitchen, Sweet Graffiti, Empty Bottle Presents, Thalia Hall, Bruce Lamont, Corrections House, Bloodiest, Dan Bitney, LeRoy Bach, Anton Hatwich
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In Rotation
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Plus: Philip Lesicko of the Funs on the band that helped him survive megachurch country, the Reader's Kevin Warwick on classic rock for the modern basement dweller, and more
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: In Rotation, The Counts, Funk Pump, Andy Summers & Robert Fripp, Sheer Mag, Miranda Winters, Melkbelly, Sparks, Kimono My House, Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band, Kate Bush, "Suspended in Gaffa", Philip Lesicko, the Funs, Manic Static Records, The Whines, William Keihn, Sic Alps
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Music Feature
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He went to more shows than most folks half his age, and the people he supported and befriended honor his memory this month at the Empty Bottle.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Music Feature, Ray Ellingsen, John Yingling, Kevin Cribbin, Gabe Holcombe, Grateful Dead, Kurt Sheffer, Nathan Gregory, Sarah Marie Coogan, Ray Ellingsen Tribute Band, Kelsey Gullett, Karen Gullett, Carrie Vinarsky, Paul Erschen, The Hecks, Unmanned Ship, Empty Bottle, Mayor Daley band, R.C. Ellingsen Photography, Wall of Sound, John R. Dwork, Deadheads Taping Compendium, Bob Johnson, Albert Schatz, Wume, Bird Names, Jake Acosta, Open Portfolio Walk, I Am Logan Square, Logan Hardware, John Ciba, Steve Krakow, David "Rock" Nelson, Theo Katsaounis, Dave "Rotten Milk" Pecoraro, Video
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The Secret History of Chicago Music
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Marty Grebb's long career has included sessions with Bonnie Raitt and Leon Russell, a stint in the band Chicago, and soundtrack work for a Steven Seagal movie.
- by Steve Krakow
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Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music, Marty Grebb, Exceptions, Peter Cetera, Buckinghams, Fabulous Rhinestones, Kal David, Illinois Speed Press, Nick Fortuna, Carl Giammarese, Dennis Tufano, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Bonnie Raitt, Leon Russell
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Feature
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As the politics of pot shift, questions of justice remain.
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Feature, Anita Alvarez, Bruce Rauner, cannabis, Christian Mitchell, grass gap, Kelly Cassidy, marijuana, marijuana decriminalization, Marty Maloney, politics of pot, the reefer
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On Culture
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Visitors are scarce and the vast archives aren't digitized, but founder Bruce DuMont hopes a new exhibit will help get people tuned in.
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Bruce DuMont, Museum of Broadcast Communications, Chicago Cultural Center, Mad Men, Beyond the Beltway, Paul M. Lisnek Gallery, Hillel Levin, Chicago magazine, Assassination Theater
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On Politics
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Governor Rauner hauls in millions of dollars to advance his agenda.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Governor Bruce Rauner, John Garrido, Kenneth Griffin, super PACs, Alderman John Arena, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Alderman Pat O'Connor, SEIU, Illinoisans for Growth and Opportunity, Matthew Hulsizer
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Lit Feature
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The author of The Book of My Lives talks about bringing together horror movies, the Iraq war, Jewish culture, and a peculiar kind of writer's block in his latest novel.
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Lit Feature, Aleksandar Hemon, The Making of Zombie Wars, The Book of My Lives, Judaism, Passover, Haggadah, Iraq War, zombies, zombie movies
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Theater Review
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Paul Gordon's adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, making its world premiere at Chicago Shakespeare, wants more sensibility, less sense.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Theater Review, Sense and Sensibility, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Love and Freindship, Paul Gordon, Jane Eyre, Barbara Gaines, Marianne Dashwood, Sharon Rietkerk, Megan McGinnis, Emma Thompson, Wayne Wilcox, Sean Allan Krill, Peter Saide, Kevin Depinet, usan E. Mickey, Recommended
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Theater Review
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Aguijón Theater gives Federico García Lorca's masterpiece a dreamlike staging that's worth the trek.
- by Chloe Riley
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Tags: Theater Review, La Casa de Bernarda Alba, Aguijón Theater, Federico García Lorca, The House of Bernarda Alba, PBS, Wolf Hall, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, Belmont Cragin, Marcela Muñoz, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Recommended
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Book Review
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Music courses through the new anthology Breakbeat Poets
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Book Review, KRS-One, The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Nate Marshall, Haymarket Books, hip-hop, Mick Jenkins, Noname Gypsy, Saba, Chance the Rapper, Louder than a Bomb, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Franny Choi, Lil Wayne, Michael Cirelli, Recommended
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Movie Review
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Director Thomas Vinterberg and writer David Nicholls successfully take on Far From the Madding Crowd by not being so faithful to the novel.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Movie Review, Thomas Vinterberg, Far From the Madding Crowd, Cary Mulligan, Thomas Hardy, David Nicholls, Ralph Pite, A Pair of Blue Eyes, Matthias Schoenaerts, Tom Sturridge, Recommended, Video
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Movie Review
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A high school loser masterminds the ultimate class reunion in this throwback to Britain's beloved Ealing comedies.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Movie Review, Andrew Mogel, Jarrad Paul, The D Train, Jack Black, James Marsden, Ealing Studios, Whisky Galore!, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Ladykillers, Jeffrey Tambor
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Restaurant Review
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There's no cioppino or sourdough on the menu at the loungy new spot.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Presidio, Bucktown, Dogma Group, Clint Rogers, San Francisco, the Dawson, Alex Renshaw, Drumbar, Brian Sturgulewski, Bordel, Shaun Connolly, Moto, Chicago Cut Steakhouse, Nightwood
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Bleader
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A look at the maze that will host You Are Here Festival
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Do This, Music, You Are Here Festival, Thalia Hall, maze, Sam Hillmer, Laura Paris, Lawrence Mesich, Brent Heyl, Experimental Sound Studio, Hausu Mountain, AdHoc, Zs, Greg Fox, Chris Crack, New Deal Crew, Mic Terror, DJ Phil, Ono, Mind Over Mirrors, Potions, TALSounds
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Talking Chicago hot dog history over a couple of Hoppin' Hots with Rich Bowen, author of Hot Dog Chicago
- by Michael Gebert
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Rich Bowen, Dick Fay, Hot Dog Chicago, Hoppin' Hots, Chicago magazine, Allen Kelson, Superdawg, Maurie Berman, Jack Drexler, Fluky's, Wolfy's, Gene's and Jude's, McDonald's, Francesca on Chestnut
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Chicago Parking Meters LLC collected $131 million in revenues from city drivers in 2014.
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: $$$, Politics, News, Alyx Pattison, Brian Hopkins, Chicago Parking Meters LLC, City Council, parking meter deal, parking meter lease deal, parking meters, privatization, profits, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley
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Also police unions, the UK's upcoming election, diversity versus desegregation, Amanda Hess, interrupting, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune's latest purchase, and a savvy PhD student?
- by Reader staff
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Tags: Did You Read __________?, News, Did you read?
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Highlights from the filmography of Abel Ferrara
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Abel Ferrara, Welcome to New York, Gene Siskel Film Center, J. Hoberman, Nicole Brenez, Cat Chaser, New Rose Hotel, the Driller Killer, Body Snatchers, Dangerous Game
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Or how Rodgers and Hammerstein made something so ugly into something so pretty
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Theater, Arts, Gender Issues, Carousel, Lyric Opera, Rodgers and Hammerstein, musicals, Liliom, Albert Williams, Roger Pines, domestic abuse, Ferenc Molnar
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If you can't fall in love with these guys, you need to find Jesus.
- by Gwynedd Stuart
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Tags: Arts, Television, Small Screen, the prancing elites project, oxygen, the prancing elites, mobile, alabama, j-settes, j-setting, beyonce, single ladies
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The 50th anniversary of Chicago's AACM gets the spotlight
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Jazz, Music, Post No Bills, Chicago Jazz Festival, Muhal Richard Abrams Experimental Band, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Bobby Hutcherson, Jose James, Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, George Lewis, Craig Taborn, Mark Turner, Wadada Leo Smith
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Chicago dance label Stripped & Chewed reissue the underground record from house veteran Merwyn Sanders this month.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Music, History, Stripped & Chewed, Merwyn Sanders, 2000 (And We're Still Here), Fannie Likes 2 Dance, Trax Records, M.E., Virgo Four, Ace & the Sandman, Saber Records, Ron Hardy, Kickstarter, Christabel Records, Mimi Likes 2 Dance, Joy Orbison, Video
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An early reggae classic that went unreleased until 1990
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, Clancy Eccles, Don't Brag Don't Boast, reggae, Jamaican music, 12 O'Clock Track, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Clement Coxsonne Dodd, Video
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The two-piece debuts a music video from their upcoming Ehse Records LP.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Wume, Baltimore, Chicago, Al Schatz, April Camlin, synthesizer, Krautrock, psychedelic, Maintain, Ostinaut, Ehse Records, Video
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Smithsonian Journeys publishes issue one.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Smithsonian Journeys magazine, Smithsonian Enterprises, Victoria Pope, Barbara Rehm, Paris, print journalism, Illinois Times, Quincy, U.S. News & World Report, National Geographic, DoubleTake, Showtime, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio News
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The Chicago-France improvised music partnership brings its latest collaborations to town.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Jazz, Music, Post No Bills, The Bridge, Jean-Luc Cappozza, Bernard Santacruz, Joëlle Léandre, Nicole Mitchell, Renée Baker, Museum of Contemporary Art, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Sisters Where, "Sisters on Mars, " jazz, improvised music, Audio
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The James Beard Foundation Awards are this weekend, and things are happening all over town.
- by Michael Gebert
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, James Beard awards, James Beard Foundation, Acadia, RPM Steak, Eataly, Hotel Lincoln, Steve Dolinsky, The Feed, Rick Bayless, Gravy, La Sirena Clandestina, Culinary Historians of Chicago, Susan Ungaro, Broken Shaker
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This week's featured gig poster was created by the design team Hand Carved Graphics.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Gig Posters, Arts, Music, Visual Art, gig poster, gig posters, gig poster of the week, Hand Carved Graphics, the Replacements, Smoking Popes, Riviera Theatre
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Illuminated Brew Works developed the Belgian-style farmhouse table beer Pareidolia with Parachute beverage director Matty Colston.
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Illuminated Brew Works, Parachute, Pareidolia, Brian Buckman, Matt Shirley, James Beard Foundation Awards, Beard awards, Matty Colston, Beverly Kim, Johnny Clark, Demon Lung
