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Feature
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Chicago painter Calvin Jones stored work at the South Side Community Arts Center for a decade. Now that he's getting a memorial show there, they can't show any of it.
- by Jeff Huebner
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Tags: Feature, Calvin Jones, South Side Community Art Center, Nelson Jones, AfriCOBRA, Faheem Majeed, Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, AFAM Gallery Studio and Cultural Center, Army & Lou's, Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, San Francisco
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Letters
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Plus: Anger at Columbia College, and memories of George Carlin
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Tags: Letters, Ads from the Past, Cheech Marin, Chicago Reader at 40, Columbia College, George Carlin, Helen Thomas, labor, labor unions, Northeastern Illinois University, Society of Professional Journalists, Tommy Chong, unions
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Media
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It is not illegal to cross state lines to commit an act of journalism.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Chicago Tribune, Dick Longworth, Gov. Scott Walker, Jim O'Shea, journalism, labor unions, media criticism, New York Times, unions, Wisconsin
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Politics
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But wheeling and dealing for the resignee state senator's office has already started.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Politics, Ricky Hendon, Illinois, General Assembly, Chicago, Secretary of State Jesse White, Alderman Sharon Denise Dixon, Alderman Bob Fioretti, Miguel del Valle, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, Mayor Daley, Scott Lee Cohen, Commissioner John Daley, Alderman Ed Smith, politics, Alderman Walter Burnett, Patricia Watkins, Rep. Annazette Collins
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On Culture
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And the science, too: The Pritzker Military Library and Lyric's latest are all about battle.
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: The Arts, Prtizker Military Library, Lyric Opera, military, Hercules, Neptune's Inferno, The Tales of Hoffman, Showboat, post-traumatic stress disorder, Iraq, Afghanistan, James Pritzker, WYCC TV, Medal of Honor
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Savage Love
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Plus: His lack of enthusiasm may have a deeper root, and this guy's guy is cheating through a fake e-mail account
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, Dan Savage, cheating, advice, boyfriend, girlfriend, premature ejaculation, couples counseling, J. Michael Bailey, Northwestern University, Sam Arora, Rev. Grant Storms, It Gets Better
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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: Lost Chicago house sounds come back around, Indie Parlour celebrates the ladies, and more
- by Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, South by Southwest, SXSW, Chicago is Bigger Than Texas, The Orphanage, Patrick Thunder, We Repel Each Other, The Krunchies, Grandfather Clock, Bag of Balls, Disrobe, Gene Hunt, Mr. Fingers, Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, No I.D., Den, Pissed Jeans, Sightings, Divine Right, Narrow Mind, Risk, White Guilt, Erik Roldan, Indie Parlour, Parlour on Clark, Nightschool, DJ Ang Garcia, Northern Lights Go-Go Gothic Dancers, Seth Sher, Zath, Memiffer, Androgynous Mustache
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The Secret History of Chicago Music
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Groundbreaking blues artist recorded with legends
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Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music, Papa Charlie Jackson, blues, jazz, Freddie Keppard & His Jazz Cardinals, Tiny Parnham, Ma Rainey, Ida Cox, Hattie McDaniel, Blind Blake
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Photo Pit
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The Parting Gifts play the Empty Bottle on March 4.
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Music Column
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A local startup has a plan to outlast conventional labels: serve more artists by giving them only what they ask for.
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music Column, Audiotree, record label, Adam Thurston, Chelsea McGrath, Kellen & Me, Michael Johnston, Ira Antelis, Christopher Watkins, Chris "Evil Vince" May, Jon LeClerc
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Soundboard
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Music Critics' Choices and other notable shows: Bok Bok, Birth, Diplo, Forced Collapse, the Get Up Kids, Afel Bocoum, Dark Time Sunshine, and more
- by Miles Raymer, Peter Margasak, Deanna Isaacs, Jessica Hopper, Kevin Warwick, Steve Langendorf, Leor Galil and Bill Meyer
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Tags: Soundboard
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Lit Feature
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- by Jerome Ludwig
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Tags: Lit Sidebar, Stpry Week Festival of Writers, Columbia College, Jennifer Egan, Joe Meno, Audrey Niffenegger, Gerard Woodward, Karen Tei Yamashita, Regina Taylor, Tanya Saracho, Johnny Temple, Dan Sinker, @mayoremanuel, Literary Rock & Roll, Irvine Welsh, Gina Frangello, Chicag Classics, Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, Lincoln Hall, Film Row Cinema, Columbia College, Harold Washington Library Center, auditorium, Metro
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Calendar
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Where to don the green
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Tags: Calendar, St. Patrick's Day, Chicago, Abbey Pub, Atwood Cafe, Blokes & Birds, Dunlays on Clark, E. Leaven, Emerald Loop, Fado, Navy Pier, The Gage, Kit Kat Supper Club, Chicago's Historic Irish Pubs, Mike Danahey, Allison Hantschel, Mayne Stage, Garfield Park Conservatory, Mrs. Murphy & Sons Irish Bistro, Hideout, She-Nannigans House of Beer, Symphony Center, Beverly Arts Center, Temple Bar, parade, Irish American Heritage Center, Mahoney's Pub & Grille, Vie, Morton's the Steakhouse, E. Leaven Food Company, Emerald Loop Bar & Grill, Fado Irish Pub, Kit Kat Lounge & Supper Club, The Mayne Stage Theater
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Performing Arts Sidebar
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A new crop of Chicago-based playwrights get a chance in Evanston
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, What's Next Lab, Justin D.M. Palmer, As Fat as You Can, Sarah Gubbins, In Loco Parentis, Tanya Saracho, Quita Mitos, Aaron Carter, Start Fair in the Common Race, Next Theatre Company
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Movie Sidebar
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The 14th European Union Film Festival continues Friday, March 11, through Thursday, March 31.
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Tags: Movie Sidebar, European Union Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Cristi Puiu, Aurora, Change Nothing, Pedro Costa, Illegal, Olivier Masset-Depasse, Kawasaki's Rose, Jan Hrebejk, To Die Like a Man, Joao Pedro Rodriguez, Two in the Wave, Emmanuel Laurent, The Clash Live in Italy 1978 & Japan 1982, The Clash, Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, Martin Landau, Richard Burton, Jospeh L. Mankiewicz, Cold Weather, Video
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Morsels
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Plus: Lolita girls at Lure Izakaya Pub, Kee Chan's new Chinatown restaurant and lounge.
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Morsels, Tuesday Night Dinner Club, Derek Phillips, Jeremy Leven, Michael Palmer, Organic Valley and Chefs Collaboration, Lure Izakaya Pub, Kee Chan, Mulan, Eric Aubriot, Aubriot and Tournesol
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Food & Drink News
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Tags: Food & Drink News, soul food, Ace's Soul Food Cafe, Captain's Hard Time Dining and Josephine's Cooking, Ethel's Soul Food, Daley's Restaurant, Macarthur's, Miss Lee's Good Food, Pearl's Place, St. Restaurant #2 Country Cooking, Turner's Family Soul Food, Captain's Hard Time Dining & Josephine's Cooking, St. Restaurant #2 Country Kitchens
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Food & Drink Column
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With Ruby's, a legendary west-side soul-food place is revived.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food & Drink Column, Edna's, Ruby's, soul food, William "Dock" Walls, Rahm Emanuel, Soul Queen, Izola's, Army & Lou's, Garfield Park, Edna Stewart, Henry Henderson, Gloria Henderson, Ruby's Restaurant
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Bleader
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Brian Springer's family searches for an anarchist diary and buried treasure on their Missouri farm in his documentary "The Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulity," screening Thursday 3/17 at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
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Tags: Film, Brian Springer, disappointment, force of credulity, Ohio, Missouri, gold, silver, Spanish, buried, treasure, dig, artifact, Civil War, anarchist, Kate Austin, spin, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Pat Robertson, documentary, satellite, Video
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Bleader
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This week in Food & Drink: Ruby's Restaurant and other soul food spots, two new "urban" taquerias, Key Ingredient fish eyeballs, underground dining society Tuesday Night Dinner, Fireston Walker Double Jack Double IPA, and more.
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Edna's Restaurant, Edna Stewart, soul food, Ruby's Restaurant, Lillie Joiner, Barrio Urban Taqueria, Taco Joint Taqueria and Cantina, Key Ingredient, Cary Taylor, the Southern, the Southern Mac and Cheese Truck, fish eyeballs, Low Country oyster stew, Mindy Segal, Hot Chocolate, Tuesday Night Dinner, Earth Dinner, Fireston Walker Double Jack Double IPA, Night of the Living Ales, Chicago Beer Society, the Golden Tut, cask beer, Daley's, Ethel's Soul Food, Miss Lee's Good Food
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Bleader
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- by Alex Parker
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Tags: Politics, Clout City, City Council, Rahm Emanuel, Mayor Daley, Dick Simpson, UIC, Politics, Tom Allen, Patrick Levar, Helen Shiller, Mary Ann Smith, Bob Fioretti, Toni Preckwinkle, Shirley Newsome, Sandi Jackson, Ricardo Munoz, Scott Waguespack, Brian Doherty, Joe Moore, John Pope, Frank Olivo, Ariel Reyboras, Ed Burke, Virginia Rugai
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Bleader
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Three Floyds announces a new development for Dark Lord Day this year.
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Three Floyds, Dark Lord, Dark Lord Day, Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout, tickets, Dark Lord Day tickets, admission tickets, Dark Lord Day 2011, Dark Lord Day 2011 tickets
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Bleader
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You won't see the swan boats at Lincoln Park Zoo this summer, but they could eventually return to the former cemetery.
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Chicagoland, swan boats, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago Tribune, Lincoln Park, swans, Donald L. Miller, Central Park, City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America, George Ade, cemetery, John H. Rauch, National Sanitary Commission, public park, Chicago Park District, Forever Open, Clear, and Free: The Struggle for Chicago's Lakefront, Lois Wille
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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, Philip K. Dick, The Adjustment Bureau, Of Gods and Men, Scheherazade Tell Me a Story, Battle: Los Angeles, Cold Weather, Aaron Katz, HappyThankYouMorePlease, Happy Thank You More Please, Red Riding Hood, European Union Film Festival, Change Nothing, Pedro Costa; Illegal movie, Kawasaki's Rose, The Red Chapel, Two in the Wave, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Elia Kazan, Baby Doll, Music Box, D.W. Griffith, Broken Blossoms, Dennis Scott, Sam Fuller, I Shot Jesse James, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Alex Cox, Repo Man, Doc Films, Todd Haynes Safe, Gene Siskel Film Center, film festivals, movies, Video
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Bleader
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- by Vera Videnovich
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Tags: Inside the Reader, Ads From the Past, Behind Our Scenes, Chicago Reader @ Forty, 1970s, Victory Gardens, St Nicholas Theater Company, Organic Theater, Stuart Gordon, David Mamet, Cookie Gluck, Paul Sills, Mac McGinnes, Roberta Maquire, Penelope Court
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Bleader
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Spirits from Mexico, cuisine from Peru, a foodie documentary from Wisconsin, and more.
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Lincoln Square Chamber of Commerce, Square Kegs, home brewing, DIY, Red Lion Lincoln Square, Zocalo, Riazul, Will's Northwoods Inn, Wisconsin, Old Fashioned: The Story of the Wisconsin Supper Club, Greg Sorrell, Tenuta di Trinoro, Vietti, Allegrini, wine tasting, D.O.C. Wine Bar, ChicaGourmets, Peruvian cuisine, Peruvian dinner, Ay Ay Picante, Piedmont, Italy, Travaglini Winery, Piccolo Sogno, Tony Priolo
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Bleader
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- by Vera Videnovich
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Tags: Inside the Reader, Behind Our Scenes, Ads From the Past, Chicago Reader @ Forty, 1970s, Washington Park, Gordon Lightfoot, Maria Muldaur, James Taylor, Phoebe Snow, Bee Gees, Roberta Flack, Blood Sweat & Tears, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Hoyt Axton, Seals & Crofts, WLS
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Bleader
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The Hideout throws a South by Southwest sendoff party with Outer Minds, Tiger Bones, Mickey, Radar Eyes, Rabble Rabble, the Waco Brothers, Joan of Arc, and more.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Crickets, Music, South by Southwest, Hideout, Joan of Arc, Tiger Bones, Outer Minds, Mickey, Austin, Radar Eyes, Rabble Rabble, Waco Brothers
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Bleader
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- by Vera Videnovich
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Tags: Inside the Reader, Ads From the Past, Behind Our Scenes, Chicago Reader @ Forty, 1970s, Supertramp, Chris DeBurgh, Kraftwerk, Pavlov's Dog, Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, Mott the Hoople, Bonaroo, Aragon Ballroom, Riviera Theatre
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Bleader
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Audiotree tries out a new music-business model, Gossip Wolf gossips about noise rock and a local anti-SXSW fest, Peter Margasak reviews A Hawk and a Hacksaw, 3/4HadBeenEliminated, and the Moritz von Oswald Trio, and more.
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Chicago, Chicago Reader, Sharp Darts, Gossip Wolf, the Secret History of Chicago Music, Audiotree, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, 3/4HadBeenEliminated, the Moritz von Oswald Trio, Papa Charlie Jackson, Diplo, Birth, Forced Collapse, Afel Bocoum, Photo Pit, the Parting Gifts
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Bleader
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After more than seven years of legal limbo, just one last hurdle remains between the rock documentary "MC5: A True Testimonial" and its commercial release—and you can help.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Film, Music, Post No Bills, MC5: A True Testimonial, David Thomas, Laurel Legler, MC5, documentary film, Freddie Brooks, Warner/Chappell Publishing, Wayne Kramer, Kickstarter
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Bleader
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Reader contributor Andrea Gronvall lectures on contemporary Scandinavian films at University of Chicago's Graham School of General Studies.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Andrea Gronvall, Scandinavian filmmakers, University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies, Scandinavian Film Beyond Bergman: Dragon Tattoos and Midnight Suns, Erik Skjoldbjaerg, Insomnia, Roy Andersson, Songs From the Second Floor, Thomas Vinterberg, The Celebration, Aki Kaurismaki, The Man Without a Past, Bent Hamer, O'Horten, Niels Arden Oplev, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Baltasar Kormakur, Jar City, Susanne Bier, After the Wedding, Lukas Moodysson Together, Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In, continung education, film studies, movies
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Bleader
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- by Alex Parker
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Tags: News, Morning Newsfeed, Japan, earthquake, nuclear, Chicago Bears, Marni Yang, Charlie Sheen, Jonathan Toews, Donald Trump, The Situation, Rahm Emanuel
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Bleader
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- by Vera Videnovich
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Tags: Inside the Reader, Ads From the Past, Behind Our Scenes, Chicago Reader @ Forty, 1970s, The Quiet Night, Chuck Mangione, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Martin Mull, Muddy Waters, Corky Siegel
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Bleader
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Behold: Your morning news round up, links from around the city, nation, and world.
- by Alex Parker
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Tags: Chicagoland, News, news, Chicago Bears, George Ryan, Pat Quinn, death penalty, Japan, tsunami, earthquake, Charlie Sheen, Julian Assange, Michael Moore, Lady Gaga, Cook County, Carla Oglesby
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Bleader
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- by Vera Videnovich
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Tags: Inside the Reader, Ads From the Past, Behind Our Scenes, Chicago Reader @ Forty, 1970s, T-Rex, KISS, Rory Gallagher, Rush, Steppenwolf, Quatermass, Wet Willie, Hydra, U.F.O.
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Bleader
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Willie Nelson comes to town for a Friday concert at the Chicago Theatre.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Willie Nelson, Country Music, T Bone Burnett, Buddy Miller, Jim Lauderdale, Stuart Duncan, Ronnie McCoury, Texas outlaw, classic country, Stardust
