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Savage Love
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Amp from Watts the Safeword and two other experts advise. Plus: "I'm straight. Can I still be a bear?" and more
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, gay bdsm bottom scene, Amp, Watts the Safeword, Recon.com, FetLife, MetalbondnNYC.com, IML, MAL, CLAW, New York Bondage Club, Ruff's Stuff, nonmonogamy, open relationships, fuck buddies, bi-curious, nonmonogamous relationships, spanking, fetishes, bears, Brendan Mack, XL Bears, Matt Bee, Bearracuda Worldwide
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On Transportation
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Benefits of increased cooperation could include fare integration and an alternative to the costly Red Line expansion.
- by John Greenfield
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Tags: Transportation, CTA, Metra, RTA, Susan Massel, Catherine Hosinski, Michael Gillis, Ron Burke, Scott Bernstein, Active Transportation Alliance, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Audrey Wennick, Metropolitan Planning Council, Red Line extension, Metra Electric District,
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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: John Walt’s arts mentorship foundation hosts a fund-raising dinner on the anniversary of the rapper’s death, and fashion crew Crystal Gravy throw a runway show at Punk Rock Prom.
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, James Dewitt Yancey, J Dilla, Donuts, Charlie Coffeen, Sidewalk Chalk, Thalia Hall, Sam Trump, David Ben-Porat, Robert “Sput” Searight, Walter Long Jr., Pivot Gang, Dinner With John, John Walt, Chicago’s Pizza, John Walt Foundation, fund-raiser, benefit, Crystal Gravy, Sara Fagala, Eliza Epstein, Heather McCall, Benji Morino, Disco Fantasy, Punk Rock Prom, Lizzies, Easy Habits, Slushy, Stuyedeyed, Video
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In Rotation
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Plus: Music critic Jim Kopeny (aka Tankboy) on bar rock that raises the bar, the Reader’s Jamie Ludwig on Insect Ark’s mind-expanding doom, and more
- by Jamie Ludwig
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Tags: In Rotation, Insect Ark, Marrow Hymns, Dana Schechter, Ashley Spungin, Messthetics, Fugazi, Joe Lally, Brendan Canty, Anthony Pirog, Utro, Motorama, Russia, Rostov-on-Don, The Sun, Third Album, Heather West, Riot Fest, Western Publicity, Jim Kopeny, Tankboy, Wolfmanhattan Project, Kid Congo Powers, the Gun Club, Cramps, Dirtbombs, Mick Collins, Gories, Bob Bert, Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Habibi, Green Fuz, Cardamom Garden, Farsi, Ron Gallo, Why Do You Have Kids?, the Kickback, Weddings & Funerals, Billy Yost, Sonny Falls, Unlikely Friends, Crooked Numbers, Video
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Music Feature
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The Chicago metal monarchs imagine a cosmic criminal cabal that’s depressingly easy to recognize in the real world.
- by Monica Kendrick
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Tags: Music Feature, The Atlas Moth, Atlas Moth, Coma Noir, The Old Believer, Stravros Giannopoulos, David Kush, Andrew Ragin, Alex Klein, Mike Miczek, Sanford Parker, Ryan Oliver, Deathblow Productions, Kuma’s Corner, Burger of the Month, Brimming Horn Meadery, Dark Matter, Last Transmission From the Late, Great Planet Earth, Hal Lindsey, Galactic Brain, Smiling Knife, Actual Human Blood, The Frozen Crown, The Streets of Bombay, Mirrors for Psychic Warfare, Scott Kelly, Neurosis, Royal Thunder, Empty Bottle, KEN Mode, Prosthetic Records, Video
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Art Feature
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His Instagram feed @whatwasbreakfast gets Chicagoans talking about bacon, eggs, and life.
- by Rosamund Lannin
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Tags: Art Feature, What Was Breakfast, whatwasbreakfast, instagram, alan epstein, photography, street photography, Humans of New York, Bill Cunningham
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Theater Review
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Gaping conceptual hole aside, the Goodman Theatre staging is entertaining.
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Theater Review, Blind Date, Goodman, Reagan, Gorbachev, cold war, Rogelio Martinez, Robert Falls, George Shultz, Eduard Shevardnadze, evil empire, Edmund Morris, Thomas J. Cox, Jim Ortlieb, Steve Pickering, Deanna Dunagan, Mary Beth Fisher, William Dick, Rob Riley, Soviet Union, former Soviet Union
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Movie Review
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Digitally altered scenes of animals, weather, and natural landscapes reveal the hidden complexity behind simple images.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Movie Review, Abbas Kiarostami, 24 Frames, Taste of Cherry, Five Dedicated to Ozu, Brian Eno, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Hunters in the Snow, The Wind Will Carry Us, Eiffel Tower, Iranian cinema, movies, Recommended
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Movie Review
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Reed Van Dyk leads the pack with his tense school-shooter drama DeKalb Elementary.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Movie Review, Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018 Live Action, Martin McDonagh, Six Shooter, Landmark’s Century Centre, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Kevin Wilson Jr., My Nephew Emmett, Emmett Till, Chris Overton, The Silent Child, Derin Seale, Jos
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Movie Review
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Adult-oriented fare occasionally makes the cut, but not this year.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Movie Review, Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018 Animation, Walt Disney, Don Hertzfeldt, Rejected, Daniel Sousa, Feral, Landmark’s Century Centre, Glen Keane, Dear Basketball, Kobe Bryant, John Williams, Dave Mullins Lou, Pixar Animation Studios, Jakob Schuh
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Restaurant Review
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If you go: Get the Dante, the nine-layer sandwich that will live on to eternity.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Restaurant Review, Tempesta Market, 'Nduja Artisans, njuja, salame, Calabrian sausage, Agostino Fiasche, Tony Fiasche, Ristorante Agostino Gustofino, Harlem Avenue, Franklin Park, Chicago Italian restaurants, Little Italy, Bari, Vinnie's Sub Shop, D'Amato's Bakery, Grand Avenue, West Town, deli, Italian deli, bresaola, mortadella, finocchiona, Calabrian paté, Mike Rivera, Publican Quality Meats, Philadelphia roast pork sandwich, Arize kombucha, Chinotto, Recommended
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Food & Drink Feature
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At Back of the Yards Coffee Co., two entrepreneurs serve the neighborhood where they grew up.
- by Maureen Kelleher
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Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Back of the Yards Coffee Co., Jesse Iñiguez, Mayra Hernandez, Back of the Yards, coffeehouse, coffee roaster, Ricardo Cervantes, Sister Angie Kolacinski, CumbiaSazo!, Eduardo Rodriguez, 47th Street Blend, Peace and Education Coalition of Back of the Yards, LISC Chicago
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Bleader
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Filmstruck presents a series of films dealing with Hard Times.
- by Patrick Friel
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Tags: Film, Television, Small Screen, Filmstruck, Greed, Erich von Stroheim, MGM, Frank Norris, McTeague, Gibson Gowland, ZaSu Pitts, Death Valley, Citizen Kane, Jean Renoir, Jean Hersholt, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Oliver Twist, Alec Guinness, Fagin, David Lean, Charles Dickens, Oliver!, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh, Anthony Newley, Artful Dodger, Don Druker, Pather Panchali, Satyajit Ray, Cannes, Francois Truffaut, Aparajito, The World of Apu, Bibhutibhusan Banerjee, Ravi Shankar, Pixote, Hector Babenco, Marilia Pera, Jorge Juliano, Dave Kehr, A Time for Drunken Horses, Bahman Ghobadi Camera d'Or, Djomeh, Alissa Simon
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Bleader
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Brodsky/Baryshnikov at Harris Theater and more goings-on February 2-4
- by Rachel Yang
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Tags: Arts, Do This, Colin Quinn, Myq Kaplan, Mac Blackout, Sick Fisher, Moon Man Walk, James Ijames, Urban Livestock Expo, We Still Like You, Puppy Bowl Viewing Party, Joseph Brodsky, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Philippe Van Leeuw, In Syria, thalia hall, harris theater, park & field, collaboraction
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Bleader
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Also, Tinley Park police release a new image of the Lane Bryant shooting suspect ten years after the tragedy.
- by Kate Shepherd
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Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Paul Vallas, Chicago State University, Rahm Emanuel, Pat Quinn, Illinois General Assembly, Election 2019, unsolved murders, gun violence, mass shootings, Tinley Park, Lane Bryant, DACA, Dreamers, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Cook County, sanctuary cities, ICE, immigration issues, Amandla Charter School, Chicago Public Schools, school closings, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, football, Chicago Bears, Mike Adamle, Au Cheval, Katz's Deli, pastrami
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Bleader
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The Japanese master's episodic 1970 feature about life in the Tokyo slums screens Sunday at Doc Films on 35-millimeter.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Film, Foreign, Poverty, Akira Kurosawa, Dodes'ka-den, Doc Films, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Red Desert, Red Beard, color filmmaking, Video
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Last year Emil Strandberg added British violinist Philipp Wachsmann to his working trio to make an impressively delicate and economical improvised album.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Jazz, Music, Post No Bills, Emil Strandberg, Philipp Wachsmann, Patric Thorman, Sten Sandell, TVÅ, A Trust in the Uncertain and a Willingness to be Exposed, free improvisation, jazz, Seval, Video
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Bleader
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Also, attorney general candidate Scott Drury believes Madigan thought he was wearing a wire during a meeting.
- by Kate Shepherd
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Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Jeanne Ives, Bruce Rauner, Chicago Teachers Union, LGBT issues, immigration issues, abortion, Erika Harold, Arthur Jones, Holocaust, Nazis, Neo Nazis, Dan Lipinski, Scott Drury, Mike Madigan, Election 2018, Union League Club, Super Bowl, Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles, Alshon Jeffery, Avec, Blackbird
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ClickHole Live at the Hideout and more goings-on February 5-8
- by Rachel Yang
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Tags: Arts, Do This, Taneshia Rice, Marilee Williams, Manic Mondays, Frances Cocktail Lounge, Woodie's Flat, Mean Girls Trivia, Mean Girls, Triibe Tuesdays, Refuge Live, Threewalls, In-Session, God Sex and Death Variety Hour, Schubas, Clickhole, Clickhole Live: A Good Auction, Hideout
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Bleader
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With her newest single, Tasha Viets-VanLear proves herself a perfect match for Saturday's community-focused Winter Block Party at Metro.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Do This, Hip-Hop, Music, Do the Winter Block Party Thing, WBEZ, Tasha, Tasha Viets-VanLear, Lullaby, BYP100, Young Chicago Authors
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Bleader
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Chicago-born stand-up John Mulaney shows an angrier side at last week's Chicago Theatre shows.
- by Steve Heisler
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Tags: Arts, Comedy, earthquake, john mulaney, chicago theatre, def jam, jimmy stewart, richard m daley, georgetown, russell simmons, spalding gray, rock and roll hall of fame, kid gorgeous, Video
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Bleader
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Also, it's so cold that even the Navy Pier Ferris wheel closed.
- by Kate Shepherd
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Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, bond rating, Bruce Rauner, cannabis, Chicago, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Theatre, Donald Trump, drug-related arrests, Election 2016, Election 2018, food festivals, halal food, Henry County, Hillary Clinton, I Heart Halal Festival, Illinois, marijuana, Navy Pier, Navy Pier Ferris wheel, neo-Nazis, pension crisis, pot, State of the Union address, winter weather
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Grant Pick wrote a brilliant 1994 profile that's free of easy outrage.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Archive Dive, News, Politics, Religion, Art Jones, Grant Pick, Nazi, white supremacist, 2018 election, Geraldo Rivera, Jerry Springer
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“He was absolutely impossible not to love, absolutely impossible not to respect,” says Steppenwolf artistic director Anna D. Shapiro.
- by Chicago Sun Times
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Tags: Arts, Theater, John Mahoney, Frasier, Steppenwolf, You Got Older, The Rembrandt, Anna D. Shapiro, Chicago Sun-Times
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The Illinois gubernatorial candidate talks about the arc of progressive politics and what's required to bring change to the state capitol.
- by Maya Dukmasova
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Tags: News, Politics, Daniel Biss, Illinois primary, Democratic primary, Illinois governor, gubernatorial election, Mike Madigan, Abu Ghraib, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Howard Dean, Daily Kos, netroots, campaigns, campaigning, Iraq War, DSA, Democratic Socialists of America, socialism, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, BDS, Fritz Kaegi, Joseph Berrios, Joe Berrios, Cook County Assessor, property taxes, pensions, pension crisis, Illinois State House, Illinois State Senate
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Bleader
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The Spierig brothers' latest is a major disappointment after Predestination
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Film, Paranormal, Winchester, Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig, Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Curse of the Demon, Night of the Demon, Jacques Tourneur, Sarah Winchester
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Bleader
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This week's featured gig poster was created by local artist Brad Rohloff of Bred Press.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Gig Posters, Music, Visual Art, gig poster, gig posters, gig poster of the week, Brad Rohloff, Bred Press, Empty Bottle, Chili Synthesizer Cookoff, Mike Broers, Whitney Johnson, Jordan Zawideh, Tim Nordberg, chili, synthesizer
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Bleader
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Also, Jeanne Ives is "a little bit surprised at some of the hysteria" over controversial campaign ad.
- by Kate Shepherd
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Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, Election 2018, Rod Blagojevich, FBI, Barack Obama, Jesse White, Daniel Biss, Chris Kennedy, Jeanne Ives, Bruce Rauner, City Club of Chicago, University of Chicago, immigration issues, Steve Bannon, The Peninsula Chicago, The Langham Chicago, hotels, Won Now, Chinatown, Al Capone, restaurant closings, Video
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Five very long film masterpieces.
- by Patrick Friel
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Tags: Film, Foreign, History, On Video, Politics, University of Chicago, Lav Diaz, The Woman Who Left, Logan Center for the Arts, Wang Bing, documentary, Crude Oil, Gray Center for the Arts and Inquiry, Star Spangled to Death, Ken Jacobs, Jerry Sims, Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith, George Bush, Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Al Jolson, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Les Vampires, Louis Feuillade, Irma Vep, Musidora, Judex, D.W. Griffith, Fritz Lang, Luis Buñuel, Satantango, Bela Tarr, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Shoah, Claude Lanzmann, Holocaust, Out 1, Out 1: Noli Me Tangere, Jacques Rivette, Honré de Balzac, History of the Thirteen, Juliet Berto, Francoise Fabian, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Michel Lonsdale, Bulle Ogier
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Taped during a 1969 Los Angeles engagement, Tim Buckley's Venice Mating Call and Greetings From West Hollywood showcase his gift for spontaneous experimentation.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Tim Buckley, Venice Mating Call, Greetings From West Hollywood, Live at the Troubadour 1969, Miles Davis, Lee Underwood, Carter C.C. Collins, Art Tripp, John Balkin, Gypsy Woman
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Boylan and Pranas's "Pick It Up" samples the latest smash single from lightning-rod Chicago rapper Famous Dex.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Do This, Hip-Hop, Music, Nate Boylan, Boylan, Teklife, Erik Voit, Pranas, Mucho Culo, Exit, footwork, DJ Deeon, ghetto house, Jana Rush, Pick It Up, Whitney Houston, Cissy Houston, Elvis, Beyonce, Aretha, Famous Dex, Asap Rocky, No Jumper, Nothing Can Stop Me
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Former students and employees who worked with Klein on the Medill Justice Project come forward with allegations stretching back a decade
- by Maya Dukmasova
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Tags: News, Education, #MeToo, Alec Klein, sexual harassment, Northwestern University, Medill, Medill School of Journalism, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, Medill Justice Project, #metoo, sexual assault, sexual violence, workplace sexual harassment, sexual harassment in academia, sexual misconduct
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His mouth-watering lyrics will make you change your dinner plans.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Food & Drink, Hip-Hop, Music, Lupe Fiasco, Harold's Chicken, Drogas Light, Twitter, Chance the Rapper, First Mixtape Based Freestyle, Free (Based Freestyles Mixtape), Can I Borrow a Dollar?, Twilite Tone, No I.D., hip-hop, rap, Uncle Remus, Video
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Bleader
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Also, a homeless couple is suing the city for removing their tents.
- by Kate Shepherd
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Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, Toni Preckwinkle, Rod Blagojevich, Election 2018, Elon Musk, O'Hare International Airport, the Boring Company, Dennis Edwards, the Temptations, Chicago Police Department, homelessness, Winter Olympics, PyeongChang, South Korea, ice skating, figure skating, Bradie Tennell, United Airlines
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As we head toward the primary, the Democrats find their inner FDR.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: News, Politics, Daniel Biss, J.B. Pritzker, Rahm Emanuel, Pat Quinn, Michael Madigan, Democratic Party, Chicago firefighters, pensions, pension crisis, Video