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Feature
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Are our politicians too paranoid to decriminalize marijuana?
- by Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Feature, cannabis, Chicago Police Departmnet, Cook County, Danny Solis, Grass Gap, John Fritchey, La Shawn Ford, legalize and tax marijuana, Lou Lang, marijuana, marijuana arrests, marijuana tax, marjauna legalization, medical marijuana, police work, pot, Rahm Emanuel
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On Media
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The press goes easy as a Nebraska volleyball star gets a sweet deal
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Michael Miner on Media, journalism, Penn State, University of Nebraska, NCAA, college sports, college volleyball, Lauren Cook, hit and run, John Cook, discipline
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Three Beats
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Plus: ICE talks nonjazz improvisation, and Chicago hip-hop meets a Swedish doc about the American black power movement
- by Peter Margasak and Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Three Beats, International Contemporary Ensemble, George Lewis, Peter Evans, Steve Lehman, Tyshawn Sorey, Ian Schneller, Specimen Projects, Andrew Bird, Shrimp Boat, Sonic Arboretum, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Black Panthers, Video
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Music Review
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Multidisc sets Opika Pende and This May Be My Last Time Singing
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music Review, This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45 RPM, Opika Pende: Africa at 78, record collections, music canon, Excavated Shellac, Mike McGonigal, Hugh Tracey, Joseph Kabasele Tshamala, Le Grand Kalle, Cheikh El-Afrit, Analog Africa, Fantastic Angels, Brother Will Hairston, Reverend Lonnie FarrisReview: Opika Pende and This May Be My Last Time Singing
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Performing Arts Sidebar
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Nearly 40-year-old dance troupe combines traditional flavors
- by Laura Molzahn
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Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago, Idy Ciss, wolof, Amaniyea Payne, West Africa, Mali, lamba, bougarabou, jola, Senegal, Reggie Wilson, Diedre Dawkins, Kwame Opare
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Movie Review
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Steve McQueen's Shame is rated NC-17. Happy Holidays!
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Movie Review, Shame, Steve McQueen, arty sex, Sean Bobbitt, sloganeering, Last Tango in Paris, Michael Fassbenders, sex addiction, advertising, Video
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Restaurant Review
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With their third menu, Grant Achatz and Dave Beran revisit childhood
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Restaurant Review, Next Restaurant, Grant Achatz, childhood, Nick Kokonas, Michigan, Campbell's Soup, Alinea, Next, Recommended
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Bleader
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Word up for the American Cameo apple, on sale at the Green City Market for a few more weeks.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Cameo apple, Mick Klug Farm, The New Yorker, John Seabrook, SweeTango, Honeycrisp, Green City Market, Mick Klug, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Horticultural Research Center, University of Minnesota
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New York's Byron Westbrook, performing in his Corridors guise, joins Italy's Stefano Pilia on a bill of experimental music Wednesday evening at a local DIY space
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Corridors, Byron Westbrook, Stefano Pilia, 3/4 Had Been Eliminated, Mark Shippy, Michael Vallera, experimental music, Video
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Our best of 2011 countdown revisits Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Film, 13 Assassins, Takashi Miike, Best of 2011, Chicago, Dead or Alive 2: Birds, Izo, Ben Sachs, J.R. Jones, battle sequence, Music Box Theatre
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Bleader
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There's no such thing as marijuana overkill.
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: The Reefer, Weed Week, Architecture Week, Ben Joravsky, cannabis, decriminalization, Father Michael Pfleger, marijuana, Mick Dumke, politics, pot, The Reefer, The Reefer Reader, Variations on a Theme, Vegetarian Week
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Bleader
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Everyone talks about the weather. Chicago's mayor is doing something about it.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Flotsam and Jetsam, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago, snow, meteorology, AccuWeather.com, Josh Nagelberg, Tom Skilling, WGN-TV, La Nina, Rogers Park, Hegewisch, Richard J. Daley, Michael Bilandic, Jane Byrne, Harold Washington, Richard M. Daley, Chicago city council, Chicago budget, Chicago aldermen, el stops, streets and sanitation, workman's comp, slip and falls, triathalons, lumbago, tourism, city hall, snow removal, O'Hare, Midway, Strategic Defense Initiative, Reagan administration, sharpshooters, automatic weapons, Evanston, Lincolnwood, Elmwood Park, Oak Park, Cicero, Stickney, Oak Lawn, Evergreen Park, Riverdale, Burnham, cicadas
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Bleader
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In this week's Food & Drink: Next Childhood, Key Ingredient calves' liver, kid-friendly restaurants
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Next restaurant, Next: Childhood, Grant Achatz, Nick Kokonas, Dave Beran, Key Ingredient, Rodney Staton, the Ogden, calves' lliver, cod milt, Duncan Biddulph, Rootstock Wine & Beer Bar, kid-friendly Chicago restaurants, Edzo's Burger Shop, Glenn's Diner, Roots Handmade Pizza
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Bleader
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Spin says there's a new hip-hop underground shaking things up; it doesn't mention Chicago rapper Kembe X, but it should have.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Kembe X, Spin, hip-hop, Yelawolf, Danny Brown, Cities Aviv, Wale, Video
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Over the weekend soul singer Howard Tate and blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin passed away, at 72 and 80, respectively.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Howard Tate, Hubert Sumlin, soul, blues, Jerry Ragovoy, Howlin' Wolf, Chess Records, Jody Williams, Willie Johnson, Smokestack Lightning, Viagra, Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters 1951-1960
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Bleader
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You can listen to Saturday's Greg Kelley concert from anywhere thanks to a new Chicago Internet radio station called Numbers.FM.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Greg Kelley, Lampo, Numbers.FM, Jon Cates, Jake Elliott, Southbridge Slow Electronics, Olivia Block, experimental music, noise, Internet radio, WNUR
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Greg Borzo and John Greenfield read their contributions to On Bicycles: 50 Ways the New Bike Culture Can Change Your Life at Cole's bar.
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Bicycling, Lit & Lectures, Cycling, Books, Greg Borzo, John Greenfield, On Bicycles: 50 Ways the New Bike Culture Can Change Your Life, Amy Walker, West Town Bikes, bike sharing, freakbikes, Megulon 5, Deb Greco
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Local music videographer John Yingling releases a trailer for his year-end best-of movie.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Gonzo Chicago, John Yingling, Cave, Ty Segall, Running, Thee Oh Sees, video, 2011, Video
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A rundown of newly reviewed shows in the performing arts.
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Arts, A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Carol: The Silent Bah-humbug, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, The Christmas Schooner, Crime and Pun-ishment, It’s a Wonderful Life: Live at the Biograph, A Klingon Christmas Carol, Memphis, Orange Orbs, Pirates of Penzance, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Theo Ubique, Redmoon Winter Pageant, The Santaland Diaries, Tinsel: The Musical, The Santa Stories: The Naughty One, The Santa Stories: The Nice One, Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago
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Fritz Lang's French romantic fantasy Liliom gets a rare screening from Northwest Chicago Film Society.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage theater, Liliom, Fritz Lang, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Der Nibelungen movie, Metropolis Fritz Lang, M Fritz Lang, Fox Film Corporation, Ferenc Molnar, Frank Borzage, Carousel musical, Carousel movie, Patrick McGilligan, Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast, Erich Pommer, A Man Stolen, Max Ophuls, Letter From an Unknown Woman, La Ronde, The Earrings of Madame de..., Fury Fritz Lang, Ministry of Fear, Scarlet Street, The Big Heat, Charles Boyer, Lisa Rosenthal, Thea von Harbou, Karl Freund, American Film Institute, movies, Video
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A consideration of the relationship between opera and film.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Film, Opera, Cinema, Gene Siskel Film Center, Aida, Giuseppe Verdi, Eugene Onegin, Pushkin, Tchaikovsky, Tosca, Puccini, Citizen Kane, The Cotton Club, Magnolia, Luchino Visconti, Moses and Aaron, gesamtunstwerk, Richard Wagner, close-ups, long-shots, Tales of Hoffmann, The Magic Flute, La Ronde, In the Mood for Love, The New World, Melancholia
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Bleader
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Make your seasonal shopping merry.
- by Heather Kenny
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Tags: Style, Glitter, Kristin Hassan, Haute and Soul, Entourage Man, Abigail Glaum-Lathbury, Elmidae, Karen Millen, Style Block, Southport Stroll, Tula, Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Market, Dose Market, HoliDose, Agga B, Chalk, Fresh & Proper, Robin Richman
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Bleader
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The twisted tale behind the city's new lawsuit against Park Grill and the Chicago Park District
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Politics, Food & Drink, Clout City, Ben Joravsky, Park Grill, Millennium Park, Chicago Park District, Matthew O'Malley, Laura Foxgrover, Chicago Firehouse, James Horan, Fran Spielman, Chicago Sun-Times, Mayor Richard J. Daley, James Houlihan, Illinois Supreme Court, Levy Restaurants, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, cronyism, clout
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Bleader
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The historic Brand Brewing buildings on Elston may be demolished soon to make way for a Hhgregg store.
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Architecture Week, Architecture, Variations on a Theme, Brand Brewing, Key Development Partners LLC, Joe Moreno, Forgotten Chicago, Preservation Chicago, Logan Square Preservation, Northwest Chicago Historical Society, Revolution Brewing, Hhgregg, 2530 N. Elston, historic building, preservation, historic brewery, Chicago brewery, Chicago landmark, Chicago Landmarks Historic Resources Survey, Jacon Kaplan, demolition, vintage beer bottles
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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, Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, Shame movie, Shame Steve McQueen, hunger movie, Hunger Steve McQueen, Letters From the Big Man, Christopher Munch, The Hours and Times, The Sleepy Time Gal, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Bela Tarr, The Turin Horse, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments, Darryl Roberts, Answers to Nothing, Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within, Jose Padilha, Bus 174, Liliom movie, Liliom Fritz Lang, Passione movie, Passione John Turturro, Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy, Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, Tyrannosaur movie, Tyrannosaur Paddy Considine, Zielinski movie, John M. Zielinski, Edward L. Cahn, Afraid to Talk, Portage theater, Carol Reed, The Third Man, Music Box, Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, Facets Cinematheque, Sara Paretsky, James W. Anderson, Brian De Palma, Carrie movie, Carrie Sissy Spacek, Camp Midnight, Piper Laurie, movies
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Bleader
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Part one of the gradually disappearing transparency in the Emanuel administration.
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Politics, Clout City, News, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, mayor, Chicago, transparency, Chicago Tribune, Freedom of Information Act, FOIA
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Woe to be the snakebitten Bears.
- by Ted Cox
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Tags: Sports, Mudville, Chicago Bears, NFL, National Football League, NFC, National Football Conference, Jay Cutler, Johnny Knox, Caleb Hanie, Oakland Raiders, Matt Forte, Kansas City Chiefs, Marion Barber, Earl Bennett, Roy Williams, Jon McGraw, Tyler Palko, Brian Urlacher, Dexter McCluster, snake bites
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Our year-end review of favorite movies in 2011 begins with a reappraisal of And Everything Is Going Fine.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Film, And Everything Is Going Fine, Spalding Gray, Steven Soderbergh, Ben Sachs, J.R. Jones, 2011, Kafka, Schizopolis, The Limey, Point Blank, Richard Lester, Carol Reed, John Boorman
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What's in the December 8, 2011, issue of the Reader.
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Inside the Reader, News, Behind Our Scenes, Sam Worley, sex offenders, Ben Joravsky, TIFs, Uptown, Deanna Isaacs, You Are Here, Josh Garrett, sign language, Mercedes DiRenzo-Bolduc, plastic Santas, Fulton River District, Blommer Chocolate Factory, Savage Love, GGG, Christianity
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Local tenor heavies Edward Wilkerson Jr. and Ari Brown visit Hamilton Park for a free Friday show.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Free Shit, Post No Bills, Swag, Blowing in From Chicago, John Gilmore, Clifford Jordan, Captain Walter Dyett, DuSable High School, hard bop, tenor saxophone, Ari Brown, Edward Wilkerson Jr., Jazz Institute of Chicago
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What's in the December 1st, 2011 issue of the Reader
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Inside the Reader, News, Behind Our Scenes, Mick Dumke, Ben Joravsky, The Reefer, La Shawn Ford, James Gierach, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Reefer Reader, Deanna Isaacs, DeVry University, Jerry Harris, Michael Miner, Penn State, Joe Paterno, Nebraska University, Savage Love, lesbians, barf, Christians
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Brett Favre would talk to the Bears if they lost their damn minds and picked up the phone to call him.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Sports, Brett Favre, Tim Tebow, Chicago Bears, Deadspin, ESPN, Denver Broncos, God, football, black hole, we're all screwed
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Thinking about college football in light of the Big Ten title game this weekend.
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Sports, Big Ten, college football, Northwestern Wildcats, Wisconsin Badgers, Michigan State Spartans, Soldier Field, football championship, Indianapolis, Detroit, Chicago
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Upcoming food and drink events: free wine and cheese, free pizza, a truffle-making party, and three notable pop-up restaurants
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Free Shit, Food & Drink, Swag, Chief O'Neill's, Katherine Anne Confections, truffles, free pizza, Pizza Persona, Troy Graves, Cantina 46, cochinita pibil, the Rice Table, Bia for Mia, Indonesian food, rijsttafel, Balinese dance, gamelan music, the Gypsy Pop-up, Scott Jambrosek, Oliver Poilevey
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A talk with Jane Birkin, multidisc sets of vintage African and black gospel music, a sound-art installation at the MCA, a makeover for Pancho's, and more
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Jane Birkin, Janet Bean, Serge Gainsbourg, Eleventh Dream Day, ICE, Barrett Deems, Opika Pende, This May Be My Last Time Singing, gospel, African music, Andrew Bird, Parasol Records, Pancho's, Chicago, Kyuss Lives!, Greg Kelley, Rocket from the Tombs, Avey Tare
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Part two of transparency in the Emanuel administration: The labyrinthine and fruitless act of submitting FOIA requests.
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Politics, Clout City, News, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, mayor, Chicago, transparency, Chicago Tribune, Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, city payroll, city workers
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E-mailing and texting is phasing out face time.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Flotsam and Jetsam, E-mail, texting, shyness, conversation, New York Times, Dominique Browning, technology, voices, silence, Apple FaceTime
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J.R. Jones on Margin Call, his number 10 movie of 2011.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Margin Call, top ten films, top ten movies, 2011, J.C. Chandor, Demi Moore, Simon Baker, David Denby, Occupy Wall Street, finance, Video
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A shield law fails a blogger in Oregon, but what good are shield laws?
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News Bites, Crystal Cox, Washington shield law, Oregon shield law, Illinois shield law, Seattle Weekly, Obsidian Finance Group, Judge Marco Hernandez, Kevin Padrick, Curtis Cartier
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Ron Santo is finally inducted into the Hall of Fame.
- by Ted Cox
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Tags: Sports, Ron Santo, Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, baseball, MLB, Major League Baseball, Veterans Committee, Bill James, Sabermetrics, Joe Morgan, Gold Glove, The Baseball Encyclopedia, Pete Palmer, Gary Gillette, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron
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An interview with the proprietors of Popular Electronics on the northwest side of Chicago.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Film, Popular Electronics, Ahmed Maniar, Taha Maniar, Ben Sachs, Don, region-free DVD players, Orson Welles, Magnificent Ambersons, Chimes at Midnight, Don, eBay, top seller
