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Restaurant Review
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Longman & Eagle, Lula Cafe, Cocina Boricua, and more
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Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Accanto, Bonsoiree Cafe & Delicacies, La Boulangerie, The Brown Sack, Cocina Boricua, Gloria's Cafe, Lula Cafe, Revolution Brewing Company, Bonsoiree
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On Culture
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What Trib Co. tried to accomplish with Chicago Live! is happening across town at Christopher Piatt's Paper Machete.
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: On Culture
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Savage Love
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Fat husband, anorexic wife; how to improve sex with a selfish foot fetishist, and more
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love
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Letters
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"Forty thousand dollars a year for an entry-level journalism job?"
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Media
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The Sun-Times Media layoffs: as good an example as any of what decent people do to decent people in a bad economy.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media
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Politics
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If housing prices are in the tank, and property taxes are based on property values, why are my property taxes going up?
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Politics, taxes, property taxes, Barb Head, Cook County, Forrest Claypool, John Daley, Dana Marberry, Tax Reform Action Coalition, property values, Cook County assessor, Jim Houlihan
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Gossip Wolf
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The Waiting for Lasers book club, monsters of garage at the Bottom Lounge, poster art at the Empty Bottle, 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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In a bad economy for musicians and everybody else, emo troubadour Evan Thomas Weiss finds salvation in collaboration.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Music Feature, Schubas
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Music Column
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Witch house refined, Million Dollar Mano's million-dollar moment, Tyler Jon Tyler's new-wave power pop, and more
- 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: Richie Hawtin, Syl Johnson, Bruno Mars, Blind Guardian, Jenny Scheinman's Mischief & Mayhem, and more
- by Miles Raymer, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, Kevin Warwick and Barbara Yaross
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Tags: Soundboard, Spy Bar, Empty Bottle, Chicago Theatre, Subterranean, Old Town School of Folk Music, Bottom Lounge, Civic Opera House, Green Mill, Park West, Bottom Lounge, SPACE, Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music
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Matches blog
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Get a system and stick to it or maybe just inject your system with some music and cheap beer
- by Heartbroker
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Tags: Mismatched: Bad Dates, Great Stories, break-up, brain, Charlie Bird Parker, the Muffs, Lookout Records, Jawbreaker, margaritas, high life, playlist, bathroom, salt and pepper, Humpty Dumpty, re-birth, introduction, credit card, fire plug, boatless booze cruise, Ashland, Lakeview, relationship, date, Chicago
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Bleader
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J.R. Jones reviews Welcome to the Rileys
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Welcome to the Rileys, James Gandolfini, New Orleans, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo, Jake Scott, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Ken Hixon, City by the Sea, Inventing the Abbotts, Pipers Alley, movies, Video
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Bleader
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Gillion Carrara talks about Nick Cave's Soundsuits, get 25 percent off everything at Robin Richman, and more through the weekend.
- by Heather Kenny
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Tags: Style, Robin Richman, Gillion Carrara, Nick Cave, Soundsuits, Katrin Schnabl, Chicago fashion designers, Sofia Vintage, KLIK KLIK, C/FAN, Damen + Division, Le Dress, Affordable Vintage Fair
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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, Jake Gyllenhaal, Pfizer, Anne Hathaway, Love and Other Drugs, Jamie Reidy, Hard Sell The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman, Jake Whitney, Burlesque movie, Cher, Christine Aguilera, Doghouse movie, Faster, Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Made in Dagenham, Sally Hawkins, Happy Go Lucky movie, Ford Motor Company, 7 Days in Slow Motion, Sing The Music of Sesame Street, Stigmata movie, Sundance Institute 2010 Shorts Program, Sundance Film Festival, Tangled movie, Rapunzel, Three Days With the Family, Terrence Malick, Badlands movie, Music Box, D.W. Griffith, Broken Blossoms, Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut, Georges Franju, Eyes Without a Face, Museum of Contemporary Art, Alfred Hitchcock, Frenzy (1972), Saturday and Sunday at Music Box; the full-length cut of Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life, Pritzker Park, movies, Video
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Bleader
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Free chiropractic exams and massages in exchange for donations at Atlas Chiropractic.
- by John V. Santore
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Tags: Free Shit, Other Stuff, Apropos of Nothing, Swag, Atlas Chiropractic, Lakeview Pantry, Broadway Youth Center, massage, chiropractic, donations, health
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Bleader
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Spider-Man has a bad day on Broadway.
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Performing Arts, Arts, U2, Mat Devine, Kill Hannah, Grim Hunter, Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, Chicago, Broadway
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Bleader
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Free global soul music series at Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar.
- by John V. Santore
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Tags: Music, Free Shit, Swag, Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar, Tony Sarabia, DJ Joe Bryl, soul music, WBEZ, Radio M, Sonotheque, Now Again Records, Rikki Ililonga and Musi-O-Tunya
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Bleader
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Illinois House defeats the medical marijuana bill, but the sponsor isn't giving up.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Politics, News Bites, News, The Reefer, Clout City, Medical Marijuana bill, Representative Lou Lang, Illinois civil unions legislation, Claire Thompson, Chicago Reader
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Bleader
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Hollywood producer and Chicago native Michael Shamberg joins his comrades from the Vietnam-era radical video collective Raindance Corporation for their first-ever reunion Tuesday, Nov. 30 at Loyola University.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
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Tags: Lit & Lectures, Film, Free Shit, Swag, Books, Michael Shamberg, Raindance, corporation, reunion, Elizabeth Coffman, Loyola University, radical software, media activism, Republican, democrat, national, convention, City News Bureau, Time Magazine, Steven Soderbergh, Matt Damon, Contagion, Pulp Fiction, Erin Brockovich, New York, San Francisco, TVTV, Veins in the Gulf, Louisiana, wetlands
