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Eight of the staffers who helped launch the Reader revist the inaugural issue and the early days
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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: Descendents fill the pit and Danzig is the pits at Riot Fest, and former Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh dies in Chicago
- by Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson
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Performing Arts Feature
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Tom Boeker: 'This is a fungus that's festered in the back of the refrigerator for 20 years'
- by Tom Boeker
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Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Tom Boeker, Macondo, Dreiske Performance Company at the Ivanhoe Theater, Theatre critic, Four Portraits of Mothers, Fusion Theatre Group at Raven Theatre, Medea, Black Ensemble, Alagazam . . . After the Dog Wars, New Criminals at Blind Parrot Theater, Candyland, Live Bait Theater, Beirut, New Lincoln Theater, Hughie, Before Breakfast, Gare St. Lazare Players, Royal-George Theatre
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Scraps
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As we look back on 40 years, we shout out some of the best food the city has to offer
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In Food & Drink for the Reader's 40th-anniversary issue: a chefs' family tree revisited after five years, 16 longtime restaurants still alive and kicking
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Elizabeth M. Tamny, Chicago chefs, fine dining, Mike Sula, chefs' family trees, Chicago restaurants, Daley's Restaurant, Ruby's Restaurant, Greek Islands, R.J. Grunts, Ira Glass, Italian Village, the Village
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An all-star cast flounders in Dennis Lee's debut feature.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Fireflies in the Garden, Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Julia Roberts, Dennis Lee, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hayden Panetierre, Ioan Gruffud, Landmark's Century Centre, movies
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White Sox designated hitter Adam Dunn on the trials of a one percenter.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Adam Dunn K Watch, Politics, Sports, News, Clout City, Adam Dunn, White Sox, one percent, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Wall Street, Bush tax cuts, student debt, corporate personhood, Buffet rule, major league baseball, Big Breeze, strikeouts
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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Jonathan Rosenbaum, List-o-Mania, Cinema Borealis, Pedro Costa, Change Nothing, Chicago International Film Festival, Alexander Payne, Election movie, About Schmidt, Sideways movie, Mia Hansen-Love, Father of My Children movie, Lynne Ramsay, Ratcatcher movie, Movern Callar, Beloved Sky, From No. 37, Gene Siskel Film Center, Festival of Films From Iran, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Blackthorn movie, Butch Cassidy, Sam Shepard, Footloose movie, Happy Happy, Limelight movie, Peter Gatien, Lowlands movie, Johannes Vermeer, Peter Thompson, Shut Up Little Man!, Jan Svankmajer, Alice movie, Comfort Station, Tod Browning, Dracula, University of Chicago Doc Films, John Carpenter, Halloween movie, Valery Todorovsky, Hipsters movie, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Jacques Tourneur, I Walked With a Zombie, Facets Night School, Kelly Reichardt, Meek's Cutoff, Mark Robson, The Seventh Victim, Kimberly Peirce, Boys Don't Cry, Stop-Loss movie, Music Box, The Film That Changed My Life, The Godfather, Music Box Massacre, Waxworks, Herschell Gordon Lewis, The Wizard of Gore, Burn Witch Burn, Hour of the Wolf, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Poltergeist, film festivals, movies, Video
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The evolving relationship between humans and exotic fauna, plus foxes and coyotes, Asian carp, and white-tailed deer.
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Paranormal, Science, Flotsam and Jetsam, Food & Drink, Zanesville, Ohio, New York Times, exotic animals, Ryan Chew, coyotes, foxes, canids, Asian carp, Mike Sula, Philip Fodd, Deer Scouter, deer season, deer hunting, Upper Peninsula
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Looking back at 40 years of the Reader's music writing, plus gossip and live music must-sees
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music, Reader, Chicago, Von Freeman, Neil Tesser, Disappears, Dam-Funk, Dum Dum Girls, Goran Bregovic & His Wedding and Funeral Orchestra, Double Dagger, Glenn Jones
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How Craigslist brought me out of the cold and into the Reader office.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Flotsam and Jetsam, Inside the Reader, Behind Our Scenes, Chicago Reader, Reader's 40th birthday, office work, Craigslist, Cecil Adams, John Conroy, Tori Marlan, Harold Henderson, Kiki Yablon, Tribune Tower
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Pedro Costa's documentary on actress-singer Jeanne Balibar screens Saturday at Cinema Borealis.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Music, Christy LeMaster, Nightingale Theater, Pedro Costa, Change Nothing, Cinema Borealis, Gabe Klinger, Jonathan Rosenbaum, In Vanda’s Room, Colossal Youth, Ben Sachs, Jeanne Balibar, Jacques Rivette, Olivier Assayas, movies
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Local critic and Reader contributor Ben Sachs teaches a class on Resnais beginning next month at Facets Multimedia.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Ben Sachs, Alain Resnais, Facets Multimedia, Facets Film School, La guerre est finie, The War is Over, Providence Resnais, Love Unto Death, Melo Resnais, I Want to Go Home Resnais, Wild Grass Resnais, movies
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Six new Chicago designers present their work to the city.
- by Heather Kenny
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Tags: Style, Chicago Fashion Incubator, Fashion Focus, CFI, Modahnik, Gidi, Eric Kipp, Cettina, Crystal B. Designs, Shavonne Dorsey, Miriam Ceclia
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Local soul legend's taking Jay-Z and Kanye to court
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music, Syl Johnson, Numero Group, Peter Margasak, the Reader, hip-hop, Jay-Z, Kanye West, sampling, lawsuits, Big K.R.I.T., Curren$y
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The New York Times columnist pens a love letter to Rahm.
- by Mark Bergen
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Tags: Chicagoland, Media, Clout City, Mayor Emanuel, New York Times, media, budget, City Hall, TIFs, schools, education, Chicago Police Department
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On Mayor Emanuel, razors, and other sharp objects.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Money, Media, Politics, Clout City, $$$, Chicago Tribune, Rahm Emanuel, Occupy Chicago, investment banking, political fundraising, Richard M. Daley, Bill Clinton, Wall Street, Zeke Emanuel, Fortune magazine, President Obama, chief of staff, New York Times, Thomas Friedman, progressives, budget cuts, education, infrastructure, taxes, mayors, governors, presidents, cops, longer school days, subway stations, politics, Jon Stewart
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On Medill, David Protess, Mary Nesbitt, and Eric Ferkenhoff
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News Bites, Medill School of Journalism, David Protess, Bryan Smith, Chicago magazine, Mary Nesbitt, Eric Ferkenhoff, Quotegate, Dean John Lavine, David Spett, Chicago Tribune, Daily Northwestern, Medill Innocence Project, Sheldon Zenner
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Street protesters' complaints are falling on friendlier ears than they used to.
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Media, Politics, Clout City, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Wall Street, protests, Anne Applebaum, Slate, New York Times, Bernard E. Harcourt, Michael Kimmelman, political disobedience, civil disobedience, the democratic process, Seattle, Miami, globalization, antiglobalization, Cold War
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The excellent, expansive Portuguese fado singer António Zambujo makes his Chicago debut this evening at the Chicago Cultural Center.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Antonio Zambujo, fado, Portugal, Mariza, Ana Moura, Christina Branco, Helder Moutinho, Chicago Cultural Center, Guia, Por Meu Cante, Barroco Tropical, Amalia Rodrigues
