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Letters
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"Now almost three years later, I have a wonderful (heated!!) studio space in the Bubbly Dynamics building, complete with a community garden plot out back."
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Media
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Sun-Times sportswriter Lacy Banks fights death with one hand and his recently bankrupt employer with the other.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media
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Politics
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The sales tax went down, but did your favorite restaurant get the memo?
- by Sarah Louise Klose
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Tags: Politics
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Food & Drink Column
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Plus: Chikurin's buck-the-trend pan-Asian, another change for Pensiero
- by Mike Sula, Anne Spiselman and Heather Kenny
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Tags: Food & Drink Column, Girl and the Goat, Girl & the Goat, Stephanie Izard, Top Chef, Pensiero Ristorante, Chikurin Sushi & Asian Cuisine, Boka, Perennial, Recommended
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Restaurant Review
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Randolph Row and Fulton Market
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Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Avec, Blackbird, Carnivale, De Cero, Dragonfly Mandarin, Jaipur, La Mediterranee, Moto, Nia, Otom, Pasha, The Publican, Red Light, Veerasway, Vivo, Ing
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Book Review
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Or: How to simultaneously condescend to the masses and sneer at the elitists.
- by Noah Berlatsky
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Tags: Book Review
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Gossip Wolf
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Geoff Farina moves in, a Ladyfest pioneer passes on, a Lupe disciple finds Jesus, and more
- by Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson
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Tags: Gossip Wolf
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Music Feature
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With a radical left turn of a solo album on the way, the Sea and Cake front man draws nine Xs on his musical map.
- by Jessica Hopper
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Tags: Music Feature
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Music Column
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The relaunch of early indie mp3 site Epitonic has the blogs buzzing—but what will make it stand out now?
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music Column
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Soundboard
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Critics' choices and other notable shows: Johnny Rawls, the God Bullies, Wye Oak, Memoryhouse, Elizabeth Cook, and more
- by David Whiteis, Peter Margasak, Jessica Hopper, Miles Raymer, Kevin Warwick, Monica Kendrick, Brian Costello, Peter Margasak and Barbara Yaross
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Tags: Soundboard
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Bleader
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Kronos offers Chicagoans free gyros on Tue 8/31.
- by Robin Peterson
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Tags: Food Chain, Free Shit, Food & Drink, Swag, Kronos Foods, gyros, Off the Tracks Grill, Original Maxwell Street, Bread Basket, Jeff's Red Hots, Fisher House, Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital
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Bleader
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A vintage fashion show, the Bucktown Arts Fest, and more this weekend.
- by Heather Kenny
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Tags: Style, vintage, Maximalism, the Sometimes Store, Sisterman, the Gaudy God, Tel Aviv Couture, Mo Rockin Fashion Fest, M Go Fashion, Bucktown Arts Fest
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Bleader
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A spirits dinner, a pig roast, a beer party, and more.
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, ChicaGourmets, Argentine Steak and Wine Dinner, La Nina, Tango Sur, Uncommon Ground, Death's Door Spirits, The American Family Farm, family farms, Jon Hoek, pig roast, Belstra Milling, Belstra Farm, Kennedy-King College, Revolution Brewing, Half Acre, Three Floyds, Goose Island, Belgian Fest, Purple Asparagus, Corks & Crayons, Uncommon Ground on Devon, Chicago Gourmet, Dine Around
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Bleader
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Landsharks ahoy!
- by Cliff Doerksen
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Tags: Film, Horror, comedy, John Carpenter, The Thing, Jack Sholder, The Hidden, Kathryn Bigelow, Near Dark, Greydon Clark, Without Warning, Adam Simon, Brain Dead, Stuart Gordon, From Beyond, Joe Dante, Ed Wood, Ron Underwood, Tremors, Kevin Bacon, Jaws, Nevada, Fred Ward, Dune, Frank Herbert
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Bleader
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The local indie creature comedy "The Moleman of Belmont Avenue" has a preview screening Saturday at the Music Box Theatre.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
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Tags: Film, The Moleman of Belmont Avenue, Music Box Theatre, Nightmare on Elm Street, Robert Englund, Freddy Krueger, David Pasquesi, TJ Jagodoswki, Tim Kazurinsky, Xzanthia, Pete Kokonis, Brad Morris, Cat Bernier, V, Willie, vegetarian, Susan Messing, John LaFlamboy, Mike Bradecich, Video
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An indie folkster, hip-hop's Queen of Weird, and the biggest tween-pop star in the world walk into a bar . . .
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, Bon Iver, Justin Bieber, Raekwon, Wu-Tang Clan, Chicago, hip-hop, indie rock, WTF
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Local guitarist Bill MacKay plays the Charleston on Friday with his band Darts & Arrows, which blends jazz, folk, and rock.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Free Shit, Post No Bills, Swag, Bill MacKay, Darts & Arrows, Chicago jazz, the Charleston, Video
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Bleader
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New releases and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Music, Film, Music Box, Rafa Alcantara, Decade of Disturbed, Cursed Bird, Del Rey, Head of Femur, A Page of Madness, Facets Cinematheque, Facets Night School, Lebanon Samuel Maoz, Mesrine Killer Instinct, Jacques Mesrine, Vengeance Johnnie To, Flipped, Rob Reiner, The Last Exorcism, Eli Roth, Inglorious Bastards, Hostel, Making Plans for Lena, Chiara Mastroianni, A Christmas Tale, Piranha, Roger Corman Alexandre Aja, The Hills Have Eyes, Gene Siskel Film Center, Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video, Blues March Soldier Jon Hendricks, On the Frontline Taking Back Our Streets, Val Lewton, Cat People, Brett Morgen, Chicago 10, Transistor, Frank Borzage, Moonrise, Bank of America Cinema, Video
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Bleader
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New reviews of Girl & the Goat, Chikurin, and the revamped Pensiero Ristorante, plus a roundup of 15 restaurants on Randolph Row and Fulton Market and an inquiry into restaurant tabs, post Cook County tax decrease.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Girl & the Goat, Chikurin Sushi & Asian Cuisine, Pensiero Ristorante, Stephanie Izard, Alan Lake, Randolph Row, Fulton Market
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Pianist Ahmad Jamal, who broke out as a jazz star while living in Chicago in the 50s, celebrates his 80th birthday with a blowout concert in Millennium Park following the opening day of this year's Chicago Jazz Festival.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Free Shit, Post No Bills, Swag, Ahmad Jamal, Chicago Jazz Festival, Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz, Chicago jazz, Jeff Lindberg, Chicago Jazz Orchestra, Millennium Park, A Quiet Time, At the Pershing: But Not for Me
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The One-Minute Film Festival plays in the Modern Wing during the Art Institute's free night tonight.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
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Tags: Film, Free Shit, Swag, Jason Simon, One-Minute FIlm Festival, Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Wing, Staten Island, New York, David Jude Greene, 59 Seconds, Video
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Application periods are open for Sketchfest and Obama portraits.
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Onstage, Visual Art, Other Stuff, Performing Arts, Comedy, Arts, Apropos of Nothing, Neo-Futurists, Neo-Obama Portrait-O-Rama, Hall of Presidents, portrait contest, Chicago SketchFest 2011, sketch comedy, early-bird special, YouTube
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Chris Hefner's surreal Super 8 tribute to early talkies "The Pink Hotel" screens tonight in a free DVD release party at Lincoln Hall.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
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Tags: Film, Free Shit, Swag, Pink Hotel, Chris Hefner, Tony Fitzpatrick, Lilli Carre, Night Mayor, Head Garden, Guy Maddin, Video
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Epitonic 2.0, Sam Prekop listens to music, Karate's front man moves to town, and more
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Sharp Darts, Chicago Reader, Gossip Wolf, Photo Pit, Mad Decent, Karate, Geoff Farina, Sam Prekop, Epitonic, Wye Oak, Fruit Bats, Coliseum
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Experimental Sound Studio hosts Flux Bikes, a musical bike ride Sun 8/29 at 2 PM.
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Bicycling, Chicagoland, Music, Visual Art, Free Shit, Cycling, Swag, Fluxus, Flux Bikes, anti-art, intermedia, art movements, Dick Higgins, happenings, Experimental Sound Studio, Rob Frye, Alfred Caldwell Lily Pond, Lincoln Park, Democratic National Convention, 1968, Boat House Pavilion, Humboldt Park
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Dyana Gaye's Senegalese musical "Saint Louis Blues" and Alla Kovgan and David Hinton's "Nora" about Zimbabwean dancer-choreographer Nora Chipaumire screen tonight in the Black Harvest Film Festival.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
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Tags: Film, Dance, Dyana Gaye, Ousmene, Senegal, Jacques Demy, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Alla Kovgan, David Hinton, Nora, Zimbabwe, Nora Chipaumire, dance, Black Harvest, film festival, Gene Siskel, Film Center, Sundance, Un Transport En Commun, Video
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A draft shared-kitchen ordinance has dropped.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Politics, Food & Drink, Clout City, shared kitchens, kitchen incubators, Alexis Leverenz. Kitchen Chicago, Zina Murray, Logan Square Kitchen, Splice Kitchen, Tonia Ojuluwayo, Walter Burnett
