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Savage Love
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A cuckolding take-back, a screaming girlfriend, and why you'll find Dan Savage's picture if you look up T-shirt on Wikipedia
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love
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Gossip Wolf
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The retro-boogie throwdown of 2010, half of Flosstradamus departs for Brooklyn, GLC makes a proper record, 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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Perpetually underrated Chicago hardcore vets Articles of Faith and a rash of other undead Chicago punk acts at Riot Fest
- by Sam McPheeters
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Tags: Music Feature, Metro, Video
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Music Sidebar
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The city's expansive punk beatdown returns with a lineup that includes the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Articles of Faith, Circle Jerks, Propagandhi, Negative Approach, Bad Religion, Naked Raygun, the Zero Boys, the Bronx, and others.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Music Sidebar, Riot Fest, punk, ska, hardcore, Metro, Subterranean, Double Door, Congress Theater, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Articles of Faith, Circle Jerks, Busted at Oz, Cap'n Jazz, Propagandhi, Bad Religion, Corrosion of Conformity, pop-punk, Kylesa, House of Blues, Cobra Lounge, Exit, Bleeding Heart Bakery
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Music Sidebar
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Now located in Millennium Park, this year's edition features performances by Jewel, Jake Owen, Love & Theft, Clint Black, Gretchen Wilson, Truth & Salvage Co., the Giving Tree Band, and others.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Music Sidebar, Chicago Country Music Festival, Millennium Park, Jewel, Clint Black, Jake Owen, honky-tonk, roots rock, Gretchen Wilson
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Music Column
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Chicago's most famous recording engineer responds to his fans' campaign to pay his mortgage.
- 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: Belle & Sebastian, Dungen, Tim Sparks, Burton Greene, Faun Fables, Kylesa, Chucho Valdes, and other notable shows
- by Miles Raymer, Liz Armstrong, Peter Margasak, Bill Meyer, Deanna Isaacs and Jessica Hopper
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Tags: Soundboard, Lincoln Hall, Berlin, Mayne Stage, Civic Opera House, Hungry Brain, Schubas, Metro, Symphony Center, Chicago Theatre, Schubas, Bottom Lounge, Subterranean, Hideout
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Movie Feature
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Noteworthy films by Chicagoans—and former Chicagoans—featured in CIFF's Illinois[e]makers series.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
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Tags: Movie Feature
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Movie Sidebar
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Well on the way to becoming a Chicago institution, the Music Box Massacre is an annual 24-hour marathon of classic horror movies.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Movie Sidebar, Music Box
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Restaurant Review
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Arya Bhavan, Hyderabad House, Mysore Woodlands, and more
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Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Arya Bhavan, Chopal Kabab and Steak, Ghareeb Nawaz, Hema's Kitchen, Hyderabad House, Khan BBQ, Mysore Woodlands, Sabri Nihari, Tiffin, Udupi Palace, Uru-Swati
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Bleader
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Alderman Bob Fioretti is losing his voice for a few days, but you can still hear him on YouTube.
- by Lauri Apple
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Tags: Chicagoland, Politics, Clout City, News, Bob Fioretti, Berny Stone, Ed Burke, Richard Mell, alderman, mayoral election, Richard Daley, Marty Levinson, North Town News Magazine, Video
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Berlin Film Festival winner Shinobu Terajima plays as a woman whose husband returns from his bloodthirsty deployment in China a decorated, disfigured quadruple amputee with a ravenous sexual appetite, in Koji Wakamatsu's "Caterpillar," screening this weekend in the Chicago International Film Festival.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
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Tags: Film, Caterpillar, Japan, China, World War II, United Red Army, Riding Alone for Thousands of MIles, Shinobu Terajima, Koji Wakamatsu, Berlin Film Festival, banned, Shima Onishi, Edogawa Rampo, Chicago International Film Festival, AMC, River East, Video
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New York trombonist Steve Swell and Polish reedist Mikolaj Trzaska play duets and improvise with some Chicagoans at the Velvet Lounge on Wednesday night.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Steve Swell, Mikolaj Trzaska, free jazz, improvised music, Velvet Lounge, Rob Brown, Daniel Levin, Planet Dream, Nadir & Mahora, Kilogram Records, Ken Vandermark, Resonance Project
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This week's Early Warnings include Bob Dylan, Weezer, Young Jeezy, Dashboard Confessional, Badly Drawn Boy, the Skatalites, Glasser, and Holly Golighty & the Brokeoffs.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Early Warnings, Weezer, Pinkerton, Blue Album, Bob Dylan, Lincoln Hall, Young Jeezy, Badly Drawn Boy, Dashboard Confessional, Gamma Ray, Video
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Veteran Austin rocker Alejandro Escovedo plays in support of "Street Songs of Love" at Lincoln Hall on Tuesday night.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Alejandro Escovedo, Street Songs of Love, classic rock, Bruce Springsteen, Ian Hunter, punk rock, Lincoln Hall, Nuns, Rank and File, True Believers
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Whitey Morgan, who plays a free show at Reggie's Music Joint on Wednesday night, digs into the rough-and-tumble sounds of 70s country.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Free Shit, Post No Bills, Swag, Whitey Morgan and the 78's, Bloodshot records, Flint, Michigan, outlaw movement, Waylon Jennings, Billy Joe Shaver, Dale Watson, Reggie's Music Joint, Larry Campbell
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Inspired by two cookbooks from local authors, Mike Sula attempts to make Indian recipes designed for a slow cooker in Roger Ebert's beloved Pot, i.e., a rice cooker.
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Roger Ebert, The Pot and How to Use It, Anupy Singla, The Indian Slow Cooker, rice cooker, slow cooker, Indian food, Pakistani food, nihari, Devon Street restaurants
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Phillip Foss, former chef at Lockwood now running the food truck Meatyballs Mobile, has a new shtick: bull's ball sandwiches, available today outside the Tribune Tower.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Meatyballs Mobile, Foss Food Truck, bull's balls, testicles, food trucks, prairie oysters, offal, Tribune Tower, John Kass
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Sam Zell and Randy Michaels get thwacked in David Carr's immediately infamous NYT piece... but what about everyone else?
- by Whet Moser
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Tags: Chicagoland, Media, Sam Zell, Randy Michaels, Mark Willes, Chandler Bigelow, Don Grenesko, Donald Grenesko, Tribune Company, Los Angeles Times, Times Mirror, Chicago Tribune, David Carr, New York Times, Clear Channell, Eric Boehlert
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Tim Midgett brings an end to his fund-raising campaign to pay off the studio's mortgage.
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Tim Midgett, mortgage, Steve Albini, Electrical Audio, Silkworm, Bottomless Pit, Chicago, Joan of Arc, indie rock
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Local designers team up in Pilsen, Roscoe Village retailers band together to help local schools, and more through Sunday.
- by Heather Kenny
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Tags: Style, Cinnamon, A Pied, Kickin' Maternity, Shop for Schools, Pretty in Pilsen, Kate Boggiano, Objets d'Envy, Anna Hovet, Jess Audey, ColeHaddon Showroom, Abigail Glaum-Lathbury, Vintage Heaven, Rock Candy by Helen, Le Dress, Tula
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This week's Early Warnings include Cursive, Deicide, Cloud Cult, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Cheap Time, Warpaint, and Matt Skiba.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Early Warnings, New Year's Eve, Cursive, Deicide, Cloud Cult, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Matt Skiba, Reggie's Rock Club, metal, Warpaint
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John Pick wins Mamet prize and empathizes with unrecognized terrorists hiding in remote caves
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Onstage, Media, News Bites, Performing Arts, Comedy, Arts, John Pick, David Mamet, Race, Grant Pick, Kathy Richland, Chicago Reader, "The Dog, " "Up and Coming Terrorists"
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Experimental animator Bruce Bickford appears at the Gene Siskel Film Center tonight for a screening of his work with improvised accompaniment by Jeff Parker and Frank Rosaly.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Film, Music, Post No Bills, Bruce Bickford, animation, Gene Siskel Film Center, Conversations at the Edge, Frank Zappa, Prometheus' Garden, Jeff Parker, Frank Rosaly, 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: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, Ed Koziarski, Illinois[e]makers, It's Kind of a Funny Story, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Zach Galifianakis, Aasiv Mandvi, Jim Gaffigan, I Spit on Your Grave, Internal Systems Coleen Fitzgibbon, Life As We Know It, Katherine Heigl, War Don Don, Sierra Leone, The White Meadows, Mohammad Rasoulof, Iron Island, Music Box Massacre, Delmer Daves Dark Passage, Northbrook Public Library, Howard Hawk, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Gene Siskel Film Center, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, Raoul Walsh, High Sierra, Charles Burnett, Killer of Sheep, Northwestern University Block Films, Stanley Kubrick Lolita, University of Chicago Doc Films, Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali, Anthony Mann, Reign of Terror, film festivals, movies., Video
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The Business of Fashion paints a picture of an industry that knows it has to evolve, but isn't sure how.
- by Heather Kenny
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Tags: Style, Business of Fashion
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A dispatch from the inaugural TEDx Windy City talks.
- by Martha Bayne
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Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Environment, Eco, TED Talks, TEDx Windy City, Museum of Science and Industry, Dickson Despommier, vertical farming, Mari Gallagher, food deserts, Homaro Cantu, Ben Roche, Future Food, miracle berry, North Atlantic Garbage Patch
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The Stone River Boys, the latest band of Texas roots-rock veteran Dave Gonzalez, plays FitzGerald's on Friday night.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Stone River Boys, Dave Gonzalez, Hacienda Brothers, Chris Gaffney, Mike Barfield, Dan Penn, Love on the Dial, FitzGerald's
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Trib columnist John Kass warns about crying, femininity, and other tragic consequences of forfeiting your man-chair rights.
- by Lauri Apple
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Tags: Chicagoland, Media, John Kass, man chair, furniture, gender, Chicago Tribune, Bed Bath & Beyond, Randy Michaels
