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Politics
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A federal appeals court revisits the suit of an Indiana teacher who says she was fired for being gay.
- by Robin Amer
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Tags: Politics, Kim Hively, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, Greg Nevins, Lambda Legal, LGBTQ, gay, lesbian, transgender, employment, Title VII, 1964 Civil Rights Act, discrimination, Donald Trump, Antonin Scalia, William Pryor
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On Politics
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Gutierrez plans to boycott Trump’s inauguration and fight any efforts at mass deportation.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, News, Luis Gutierrez, Donald Trump, Chicago, immigration reform, Mexico, the wall, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, 2016 elections, inauguration
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Savage Love
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Uncle Dan offers quick-hit advice for penis diddlers, dry humpers, and more.
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, aphrodisiac, blow job, cannabis, dry humping, IOIYAR, marijuana, neo-Nazis, poly marriage, pot
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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: Weirdo dance night Hot on the Heels celebrates ten years at Danny’s, and hip-hop writer Ben Westhoff talks west-coast rap at Volumes.
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Rash, Skinner Box, High Fashion Industries, Torture Love, Bruges, Droids Blood, Broken Prayer, Beau Wanzer, Danny’s, Hot on the Heels, Confused House, Traxx, tenth anniversary, Steve Summers, Ben Westhoff, Original Gangstas, Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap, Volumes Bookcafe, Kevin Coval, Louder Than a Bomb, Tara Mahadevan
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In Rotation
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Plus: SAIC assistant professor Seth Kim-Cohen on why it’s not time for pretty songs, Reader writer Peter Margasak on the epitome of Memphis roots music, and more
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: In Rotation, Andrew Cyrille, The Declaration of Musical Independence, ECM, Coltrane Time, drummer, Bill Frisell, Richard Teitelbaum, Ben Street, James Luther Dickinson, Jim Dickinson, Dixie Fried, Memphis, Mac Rebennack, Dr. John, Dixie Flyers, reissue, Laurence Crane, Asamisimasa, Sound of Horse, Hubro, Paul Robeson, Donald Trump, Joanna Newsom, Divers, Sapokanikan, Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly, The Blacker the Berry, Clover Hope, Igor Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps, Video
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Art Feature
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Snapshots of basketball courts in Chicago’s overlooked communities offer a plea for investment in the city’s youth.
- by Adam Jason Cohen
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Tags: Art Feature, basketball, photo essay, south side, west side, hoop dreams, wealth gap, youth, teens, children, books, art, Adam Jason Cohen, photography
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Lit Feature
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The Brooklyn author’s North Shore adolescence was a different kind of teen movie.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Lit Feature, Jason Diamond, Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know About Life I Learned From Watching 80s Movies, John Hughes, North Shore, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Home Alone, Rolling Stone, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Shermer Illinois, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, H.H. Holmes, Rich Cohen, McHenry County, Lake Forest, Chicago Cubs
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Performing Arts Feature
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A resonant period piece and a musical that does it better than the movie are among this week's best bets.
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Tags: Performing Arts Feature, The Hypocrites, Cinderella at the Theater of Potatoes, Andra Velis Simon, Pauline Viardot-García, Cendrillon, Sean Graney, Amanda Martinez, Cinderella, Finding Neverland, J.M. Barrie, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, Peter Pan, Gary Barlow, Eliot Kennedy, Broadway musicals, Broadway in Chicago, Kevin Kern, Christine Dwyer, Equity touring shows, Diane Paulus, Mia Michaels, Calamity West, Sideshow Theatre Company, Rolling, Jackalope Theatre, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, Give It All Back, Bob Dylan, Marti Lyons, Mary Williamson, R. Crumb, Allen Ginsberg, Mr. Natural, ShawChicago, Jeeves Intervenes, Margaret Raether', P.G. Wodehouse, Bertie Wooster, Eustace Bassington-Bassington, Robert Scogin, Winterset, Sacco and Vanzetti, Griffin Theatre Company, Jonathan Berry, Maxwell Anderson, Maurice Demus, Larry Baldacci
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Performing Arts Feature
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The Goodman's A Christmas Carol leads the seasonal onslaught.
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Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Eric Schaeffer, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charlie Brown, Peanuts, Emerald City Theatre, children's theater, holiday shows, Ann Filmer, Goodman Theatre, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Larry Yando, Scrooge, Henry Wishcamper, Annoyance Theatre, It's Christmas, Goddamnit!, American Blues Theater, It's a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago, Gwendolyn Whiteside, Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Northlight Theatre, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet, Mary Bennet, Emily Berman, Erik Hellman, Arthur de Bourgh, The Rip Nelson Holiday Spectacular, David Cerda, Hell in a Handbag Productions, Steve Love, David Lipschutz, Ed Jones, Bruce Jenner, Doug Henning, Piccolo Theatre, The Snow Queen, Hans Christian Andersen, Jessica Puller, Arne Parrott, Under the Gun Theater, holiday improv, Hanukkah, dreidels
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Book Review
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Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout is the Against Me! singer’s engrossing chronicle of her turbulent life: as a musician, as an anarchist, and as a transgender human being.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Book Review, Laura Jane Grace, Against Me!, Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout, Heather Gabel, Dan Ozzi, Thomas James Gabel, Rolling Stone magazine, anarchy, anarcho-punk, Poison Girls, Crass, Profane Existence, Alkaline Trio, LGBTQ issues
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Movie Review
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The latest feature from the makers of Winged Migration spans 20,000 years of natural history.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Movie Review, Seasons movie, Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, March of the Penguins, Winged Migration, Sony Classics, Oceans movie, Walt Disney Studios, Music Box Films, Stephane Durand, nature documentaries, environmental issues, movies, Recommended
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Bleader
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Also, Illinois Supreme Court justice Anne Burke wants to add a fifth star to the Chicago flag—for a charity she cofounded.
- by Kate Shepherd
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Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Ameya Pawar, 47th Ward, 2018 gubernatorial election, Bruce Rauner, Chicago City Council, Progressive Reform Caucus, Illinois Supreme Court, Anne Burke, Ed Burke, Special Olympics, Rahm Emanuel, Illinois Supreme Court, nepotism, Large Lots Program, Chicago history, GLBTQ issues, interracial marriage, Jack Johnson, the Mann Act, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, MCA, Jason Hammel, Lula Cafe, Chris Ofili, Madeline Grynsztejn, Pedro y Juana, MCA renovation
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Bleader
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This week's featured gig poster was designed by local artist Andy Burkholder.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Gig Posters, Music, Visual Art, Arts, gig poster, gig posters, gig poster of the week, Andy Burkholder, Hideout, Ultimate Painting, EZTV, Deeper
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Bleader
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Seth Engel's solo project Options released a full-length of emo-tinged power pop two months ago, and he follows it up with an EP of B sides to help fight the Dakota Access Pipeline.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Options, Maxed Out, Besides, Milk, Seth Engel, Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council, 12 O'Clock Track, Grandpa Bay
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Bleader
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Trump passes on the bouquet to Ricketts scion Todd, bids him to say hello to the folks.
- by Kate Shepherd
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Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Donald Trump, Todd Ricketts, Chicago Cubs, Joe Ricketts, Bruce Rauner, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois Republicans, Richard M. Daley, Jon Burge, police torture, Off Color Brewing, craft beer
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Bleader
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Lakeview's tiny empanada emporium goes for big flavor in Hot Doug’s former digs.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Cafe Tola, Looncheria y tacos, Hot Doug's, empanadas, Tacos, tortas, burritos, Mexican food, Big Star, Doug Sohn, Frida Kahlo
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Bleader
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Chicago rapper L.A. VanGogh pulls in collaborators from different cliques, and it works to everyone's benefit.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, L.A. VanGogh, Friends First, hip-hop, Chicago hip-hop, Femdot, UG Vavy, Fight Me, Sean Deaux, ThemPeople, Calez, 2008ighties, Joseph Chilliams, Pivot Gang, Via Rosa, Ahead of the Count, H.O.T. (Heads or Tails), SafeNSound, Video
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Bleader
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Every Monday at the Promontory, Sam Brown and Sasha Tycko nurture a democratic, welcoming creative community.
- by Julia Dratel
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Tags: Do This, Music, The Corner, Hyde Park, the Promontory, Sam Brown, Sasha Tycko, Add-2, Haven Studio, Michelle Janayea, Elliven, Participatory Music Coalition, Mother Nature, Alex Palma, DJ Cut Cuz, Jamila Woods, Rhymefest, Kweku Collins, Akenya, DJ Cqqchifruit, Trqpiteca, ChurchDontStop, DJ Lisa Decibel, Tiff Beatty, Black & Pink
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Bleader
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Let's not shame Mitt Romney out of the State Department.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Politics, Mitt Romney, New Yorker, John Cassidy, Donald Trump, State Department, Rudy, Giuliani, Chris Cillizza, Washington Post
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Bleader
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Jared Rouben’s new Pilsen tasting room for his culinary brewing is carefully designed to be the bar where he'd most like to drink.
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Booze, Food & Drink, Moody Tongue, tasting room, Jared Rouben, culinary brewing, German chocolate cake, oysters, Smoked Applewood Gold, Steeped Emperor's Lemon Saison, bourbon barrel aged barleywine, bourbon barrel aged gingerbread imperial stout
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Bleader
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Also, there have been more than 700 murders in the city so far this year.
- by Kate Shepherd
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Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, real estate, Chicago real estate, economy, unemployment, Chicago, gun violence, Chicago Police Department, Eddie Johnson, Colin Kaepernick, NFL, San Francisco, Black Youth Project, Black Youth Project 100, Soldier Field, Chicago Bears, racial inequality, Tom Dart, Cook County Sheriff's Office, hate crimes, Elske, restaurants, Fulton Market, David Posey, Anna Posey, Blackbird, The Publican
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Bleader
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The Nutcracker, Krampusfest, and other happenings from December 2-4
- by Brianna Wellen
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Tags: Arts, Do This, Mark Bazer, The Interview Show, Hideout, Laura Jane Grace, Women & Children First, Honey, Same Planet Different World Dance Theatre, Dovetail Studios, Renegade Holiday Craft Fair, Bridgeport Art Center, Krampusfest, Martyrs, Michael Lenehan, Book Cellar, Marc Maron, the Vic, Reindeer Crawl, D.S. Tequila, Moscow Ballet, The Nutcracker, Rosemont Theater, Stephanie Izard, Daniel Biss, Patrick Klepek, Vice
