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Feature
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"Honorably terminated" teachers—some nationally recognized—say they can't get so much as a callback about jobs in the Chicago Public Schools. One colleague's bureaucratic nightmare has given them reason to fear the worst.
- by Ben Joravsky and Dave Glowacz
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Tags: Feature, Mike Quigley, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, Ron Huberman, Chicago Teachers Union, Megan Ruthaivilavan, Peace and Education Coalition Alternative High School, education, Lourdes Guerrero, Von Steuben high school, Nancy Kirby, Cesar Chavez, teacher ratings, DNH list, DNH, do-not-hire designation, Sara Echevarria, Joseph Moriarty, bureaucracy, principals, Sunny Neater-DuBow, Multicultural Arts High School, redefinition, Brigitte Swenson, Richard M. Daley, Mayor Daley, Arne Duncan, Pedro Alonso, John Kugler, Monique Bond, David Coar, Chicago Tribune
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Our Town
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The prosecutor who nailed him left behind some fascinating papers. The Chicago History Museum has them. The National Archives wants them.
- by Sarah Louise Klose
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Politics
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A gay Chicago filmmaker arrives at a Missouri film fest to find the state has pulled its funding under pressure from "patriots." Was it the subject matter?
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Politics, film festivals, film, movies, documentaries, Missouri, federal stimulus funds, grants, Show Me Social Justice International Film Festival, Warrensburg, Missouri, Missouri Valley Community Action Agency, Peter Kinder, United for Missouri, Johnson County Patriots of the Republic, Jefferson City, Missouri, Missouri Department of Social Services, Pam LaFrenz, Ky Dickens, Denny Hoskins, University of Central Missouri, "Fish Out of Water", Kristen Kaza, homosexuality, The Bible, Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal, Jeff Merrick, funding, ARRA, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Rotary Club, Carl Bearden, Jeremy Mikolajczak, grass-roots conservatism, Michael Bersin, Jack Miles, public expenditures, social service funding, Tour of Missouri, recession
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On Culture
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Courting arrest to protest street-art laws, Chris Drew stumbled into a more serious fight.
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: On Culture, Chris Drew, Illinois Eavesdropping Act, Wally Dudycz, People v. Beardsley, eavesdropping, Illinois Law, First Amendment, peddling law, peddler's license, video, photography, Champaign County, Illinois, Crawford County, Illinois, DeKalb County, Illinois, Mark Weinberg, Stanley Sacks, Joshua Kutnick, Anita Alvarez, Cook County State's Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, Adam Schwartz, Independent Police Review Authority, IPRA, T-Shirt Art Harvest Festival, American Indian Center, Video
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Savage Love
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We can help gay teens, whether their parents like it or not.
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, threesomes, secrets, relationships, sex, Masturbate to Christine O'Donnell Day, Tea Party, Christine O'Donnell, Sarah Palin, masturbation, gay teenagers, Billy Lucas, homophobia, Tony Perkins, bullying, harassment, suicide, YouTube, itgetsbetterproject, Harvey Milk, teenagers, Trevor Project, GLEN
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Gossip Wolf
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Kid Sister in the studio, plus a Maps & Atlases LP, new dollies by Archer Prewitt, good-bye to Graeme Gibson, and more
- by Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Travis Barker, Kid Sister, Cool Kids, Maps & Atlases, Dave Davison, Del Ray, Archer Prewitt, Press Pop Gallery, Great People, dolls, Bob Moog, Raymond Scott, Allen Ginsberg, Psalm One, MCADaD, Pugz Atomz, Jon Langford, Jim Elkington, Alan Doughty, Joe Camarillo, Andre Williams & the Gold Stars, Sally Timms, Bloodshot, Graeme Gibson, Disappears, Fruit Bats, Box of Baby Birds, Gary Calhoun James, Video
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Music Feature
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- by Peter Margasak and Monica Kendrick
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Tags: Music Feature, Chicago Cultural Center, G.A.R. Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, Garland Room, Chicago Cultural Center, Andy's Music, Martyrs', Instituto Cervantes, Chicago Tourism Center, Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, G.A.R. Rotunda
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Music Feature
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- by Peter Margasak and Monica Kendrick
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Tags: Music Feature, Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, Randolph Cafe, Chicago Cultural Center, Navy Pier, Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, Old Town School of Folk Music, Martyrs', Saint Josaphat Church, Darkroom, Green Dolphin Street, Hideout, Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater, Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music
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Music Feature
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- by Peter Margasak and Monica Kendrick
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Tags: Music Feature, Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, The GRalley, Navy Pier, Humboldt Park Boathouse, Clarke House Museum, Whole Foods Market, Second Presbyterian Church, Martyrs', Museum of Contemporary Art, Old Town School of Folk Music, International House, University of Chicago, Empty Bottle, Smart Bar, Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music
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Music Feature
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- by Peter Margasak and Monica Kendrick
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Tags: Music Feature, Old Town School of Folk Music, Navy Pier, Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, South Shore Cultural Center, Martyrs, Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, DePaul University Concert Hall, Reggie's Music Joint, Reggie's Rock Club, Logan Square Auditorium, Mayne Stage, Martyrs', Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music
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Music Feature
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- by Peter Margasak and Monica Kendrick
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Tags: Music Feature, Instituto Cervantes, Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, Schubas, Mayne Stage, Old Town School of Folk Music, Martyrs, Hideout, Martyrs', Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music
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Music Sidebar
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Saturday's jazz marathon features an impressive cast of local players, including Ernest Dawkins, Nicole Mitchell, Willie Pickens, Dana Hall, Robert Irving III, and Dee Alexander.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Music Sidebar, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Dee Alexander, Dana Hall, Ernest Dawkins, Nicole Mitchell, Hyde Park, Willie Pickens, Orbert Davis, University of Chicago, International House, University of Chicago, Experimental Station, DuSable Museum of African American History, Robie House, Hyde Park Art Center, Hyde Park Bank, Hyde Park Union Church, Little Black Pearl Workshop, Oriental Institute Museum, Quadrangle Club, University of Chicago, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Smart Museum of Art, Midway Plaisance Park, Little Black Pearl
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Soundboard
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Critics' Choices and other notable shows
- by Peter Margasak, Liz Armstrong, Miles Raymer, Brian Costello, Bill Meyer and Steve Langendorf
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Tags: Soundboard
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Movie Review
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What's missing from the new Kazuo Ishiguro adaptation; speculation on a French master's unfinished psychedelic experiment
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Movie Review
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Food & Drink Column
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Arami focuses on the fundamentals. Plus: a Levy vet comes late to the burger-and-pizza party, and ten more recent openings
- by Kristina Meyer and Mike Sula
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Tags: Food & Drink Column, Arami, Sono Wood Fired, Burger Bar, Mia Figlia, Nano Sushi, Stax Cafe, D.S. Tequila Company, Gunner's Bar, Mac and Min's, Benny's Grill, The Boiler Room, Don Diablo
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Matches blog
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Back and forth and then back and then forth again. Circles kinda make me dizzy and I can't think clearly when I'm dizzy.
- by Heartbroker
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Tags: Mismatched: Bad Dates, Great Stories, Chicago, O'Hare Airport, Pinhead Gunpowder, Cometbus, LTR, relationship, lecture, smiley, airport, make out, drifting, casual sex, Mary Tyler Moore, Frank Sinatra, Derek Hess, Husker Du, pill, juice, Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca, Ingrid Bergman, story time, travel, travels, friends, family, boyfriend, girlfriend, regret, Easy Rider, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Suck City, U.S.A., resolve, prison, jail, inmates, realization, weekend, safe travels, Video
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Bleader
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- by Jerome Ludwig
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Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, Chicago Reader, fiction, writing submissions, Guild Complex, Rhino magazine, Prose Awards, Founders' Prize, Susan Messer, Bayo Ojikutu
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Bleader
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Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science presents free performances of Peter Parnell's QED through October 10.
- by Robin Peterson
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Tags: Free Shit, Performing Arts, Arts, Swag, Northwestern University, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Richard Feynman, ETOPiA, theater, free plays, science, technology, Engineering Transdisciplinary Outreach Project in the Arts
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Bleader
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The excellent free-jazz blog Destination: Out is selling downloads of select releases from the mighty FMP catalog, including a classic by trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and drummer Günter "Baby" Sommer, who will perform together at this year's Umbrella Music Festival on November 7.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Destination: Out, music blogs, free jazz, FMP Records, Schlippenbach Trio, Vision Festival, Umbrella Music Festival, Wadada Leo Smith, Peter Kowald, Gunter "Baby" Sommer, Touch the Earth
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Bleader
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In this week's Food & Drink: Arami, Burger Bar, Sono Wood Fired, and ten more recent openings.
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Arami, B.K. Park, Small Bar, Troy Fujimura, Ty Fugimura, John McLean, Burger Bar, Sono Wood Fired, Gunner's, Don Diablo, the Boiler Room, new restaurants
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Bleader
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Pumpkin beer, burgers, ribs, and more.
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Pumpkin beer, Oktoberfest, Delilah's, beer tasting, Hacker-Pschorr, Goose Island Brewing Co., Summit Brewing Co., Dogfish Head, Chicago Gourmet, Hamburger Hop, Stephanie Izard, Girl & the Goat, John Coletta, Quartino, Eddie Lakin, Edzo's Burger Shop, WXRT, Lin Brehmer, Thomas Keller, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Grace Young, Stir Frying to the Sky's Edge, wok cooking, Chinese diaspora, Rib-A-Que Smoke-Out, Moonshine Brewing Company, The Carpetbaggers, The Hoyle Brothers, ribs, National Wine Week, Smith & Wollensky
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Bleader
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Pop metal, cult metal, world music, and more
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Chicago, Chicago Reader, Sharp Darts, Gossip Wolf, the Photo Pit, the List, Secret History of Chicago Music, Enuff Z'nuff, Dawnbringer, World Music Festival Chicago, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Video
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Bleader
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The obsessions of three Mexico City residents intertwine in Carlos Enderle's dark comedy "Cronicas Chilangas," screening after a wine and hors d'oeuvres reception tonight at 676 Media Center.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
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Tags: Film, Food & Drink, Mexico, Mexico City, Carlos Enderle, Cronicas Chilangas, 676 Media Center, Latino Cultural Center, Reel Film Club, schizophrenic, aliens, porn, Video
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Bleader
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The Music Box hosts a free screening of the pro-choice drama If These Walls Could Talk.
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Film, Politics, Free Shit, Swag, Clout City, Personal PAC, If These Walls Could Talk, HBO, Music Box Theatre, Cher, Sissy Spacek, Demi Moore, abortion, documentary
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Bleader
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Recommended entertainment paired with nearby restaurants.
- by John V. Santore
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Tags: Chicagoland, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro, The Counter, Landmark's Century Centre, jack goes boating, renaissance place, colin, Facets Cinematheque, Lincoln Park's Noodle House, catfish, river east 21, dao, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, International House, University of Chicago, Hyde Park Union Church, Experimental Station, Hyde Park Art Center, Medici on 57th, Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet, jazz showcase, Hackney’s Printers’ Row, world music festival, Barbara Furtuna, Second Presbyterian Church, La Cantina Grill, Kings Go Forth, Edgewater Gralley, Banadir, Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, theater wit, harmony grill, menorca, freddy's pizza, chelsea handler, chicago theatre, emerald loop bar and grill, emerald loop bar & grill
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How best to enjoy bottarga di muggine, salted, cured gray mullet roe—and where to get it locally for less.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, bottarga, pasta, J.P. Graziano, From Belly to Bacon, The Oxford Companion to Italian Food, Sardinia, mullet roe, fish eggs, uni, caviar
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Bleader
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Singular Milwaukee instrument inventor and improviser Hal Rammel has two new releases on his Penumbra Music label, and he celebrates them with a free Saturday-afternoon duo set with Jason Roebke at Corbett vs. Dempsey.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Free Shit, Post No Bills, Swag, Hal Rammel, Midwest Disquiet, Song of the Interocyter, Penumbra Music, amplified palette, Hugh Davies, instrument inventors, improvisation, Corbett vs. Dempsey, experimental music, Jason Roebke
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Bleader
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A genuine Right Nation conversation piece.
- by Lauri Apple
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Tags: Chicagoland, Politics, Clout City, Glenn Beck, Right Nation 2010, tea party, conservatives, right-wing, Chalk Norris, chalkboard, Fox News, eBay, Video
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This week's Early Warnings include Califone, the Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival, the Dismemberment Plan, Nitzer Ebb, Raekwon, the Roots, Mavis Staples, and Tricky.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Early Warnings, Dismemberment Plan, Edwarde Sharpe, Raekwon, Mavis Staples, Raekwon, Metro, Tricky, Vincent Gallo, Yeasayer
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Recommended entertainment paired with nearby restaurants.
- by John V. Santore
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Tags: Chicagoland, Film, Food & Drink, Henri-George Clouzot's Inferno, Gene Siskel Film Center, Roof, Catfish, River East 21, Atrium Wine Bar, devil, big bowl, detroit, Landmark Grill and Lounge, This Lady's Not for Burning, Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, No Exit Cafe, Menorca, 16th Street Theater, Berwyn Cultural Center, Freddy's Pizzeria, 1001, Chopin Theatre, Podhalanka Polksa Restauracja, World Music Festival, Red Baraat, Canceled Skaidi, Navy Pier, Randolph Cafe, Cimarron, Old Town School of Folk Music, Mahala Rai Banda, Balkan Beats DJ Robert Soko, Martyrs, Sonny & The Sunsets, sonny and the sunsets, Beat Kitchen, Village Tap, Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet, Hackney's Printers'Row, Jazz Showcase, Kate Zambreno, Women & Children First, Andies Restaurant, 600 N. Michigan, Steppenwolf Theatre Company Downstairs Theater, Chopin Theatre, Charlie's Ale House, Park Grill, Bad Dog Tavern, Sola
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Bleader
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Notes on this year's Hamburger Hop and Chicago Gourmet
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Chicago Gourmet, Chicago Gourmet 2010, Hamburger Hop, Illinois Restaurant Association, Sola, Palmer Place, English, NoMi, Edzo's, Seasons, 437 Rush
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Other notable shows this weekend include Birds of Avalon at Ronny's, the Vibrators at Reggie's Music Joint, Of Montreal with Janelle Monae at the Riviera Theatre, and Caribou with Emeralds at Metro.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Crickets, Music, World Music Festival, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Caribou, Birds of Avalon, Ronny's, Bradford Cox, Deerhunter, Of Montreal, Riviera Theatre, Hideout, Subterranean, Janelle Monae, Vibrators, Metro
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Documentarian George Motz and chef Harry Hawk bring New York's Food Film Festival to Chicago for the first time this Friday and Saturday.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
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Tags: Food Chain, Film, Food & Drink, Mark Irving, Eat Your Fill, Meredith Arthur, Eric Slatkin, Obsessive: Soda Pop, TG Herrington, Mr. Okra, Craig Noble, Perfect Oyster, John D. Reilly, Celeriac, Michael Gebert, Pie as a Lifestyle, Orrin Zucker, Death and Life of Ice Cream, Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA Warehouse, George Motz, Hamburger America, Joe York, CUD, Food Film Festival, NYC, Heaven Hill Distilleries, Ultimate Elixirs, Lush Wine & Spirits, DMK Burger Bar, Stone Brewing, Two Brothers Brewing, Half Acre, Telegraph Brewing, Carol's Cookies, Joe York, CUD, Harry Hawk, Schnack, Water Taxi Beach, Video
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Bleader
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A flash sale from a local jewelry designer, last weekend for the Randolph Street Market, and more this weekend.
- by Heather Kenny
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Tags: Style, Objets d'Envy, Tel Aviv Couture, Randolph Street Market, Virtu, Dahlia Kanner, Akira, Karen Millen, 3 Hearts Boutique
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With three recent releases, "Bloody War: Songs 1924-1939," "I Wasn't Born to Rock'n Roll," and "Unheard Ofs & Forgotten Abouts," New York's Tompkins Square Records keeps following twists and turns in the history of American music.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Tompkins Square Records, Josh Rosenthal, Christopher King, American music, old-timey, bluegrass, country, Bloody War: Songs 1924-1939, People Take Warning, Roland White, Zeke Morris, Jimmy Yates's Boll Weevils, Wade Mainer, Red Patterson's Piedmont Log Rollers, William & Versey Smith, I Wasn't Born to Rock'n Roll, Kentucky Colonels, Clarence White, Frank Fairfield, Unheard Ofs & Forgotten Abouts
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John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet performs music from its latest album, "Royal Toast," in Palos Park Wednesday night.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Claudia Quintet, John Hollenbeck, Gary Versace, Royal Toast, Moraine Valley Community College, jazz, minimalism, new music, Matt Mitchell
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"Tapestries of Hope," a documentary about human rights activists combating Zimbabwe's devastating "virgin myth," screens Tuesday at Landmark Century Centre and the Lake Theater.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
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Tags: Film, Tapestries of Hope, Betty Makoni, Zimbabwe, virgin myth, rape, HIV, AIDS, human rights, Girl Child Network, Freshwater Haven, International Violence Against Woman Act, Michealene Cristini Risley, Africa, Video
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General admission to some Chicagoland museums is free tomorrow to guests who present a Museum Day pass.
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Visual Art, Free Shit, Swag, Museum Day, Museum Day pass, Smithsonian magazine, Adler Planetarium, Intuit, Loyola University Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, free museum admission
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Three notable documentary profiles of painters screen this week.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Visual Art, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Jean-Michael Basquiat The Radiant Child, Gene Siskel Film Center, Henri-Georges Clouzot, The Mystery of Picasso, Pablo Picasso, Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn, Leon Golub, painters, visual art, movies., Video
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Bleader
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New reviews and notable releases in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Carey Mulligan, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro, Mark Romanek, One Hour Photo, Wall Street Money Never Sleeps, Oliver Stone, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Henri-Georges Clouzot Inferno, Clouzot The Raven, The Wages of Fear, Diabolique, La Verite, Enter the Void, Gaspar Noe, I Stand Alone, Gaspar Noe Irreversible, Chicago Architecture in Motion, Chicago Filmmakers, Buried Ryan Reynolds, Catfish movie, Centurion Neil Marshall, Neil Marshall The Descent, Colin movie, Devil M. Night Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense, I'm Still Here, Cliff Doerksen, Jack Goes Boating, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Egon Schiele, Keith Dukavicius, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Fearmakers, Music Box, Jacques Tourneur, Golub, Kartemquin Films, Leon Golub, Block Museum Northwestern, Killer's Kiss, Stanley Kubrick, Little Women, Gillian Armstrong, Louisa May Alcott, Whirlpool, Otto Preminger, movies, Video
