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On Culture
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The activist group Protect Our Parks claims that the city’s plan to turn 19 acres of Jackson Park over to the Obama Foundation is unconstitutional.
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: On Culture, Obama Presidential Center, Jackson Park, lawsuit, Protect Our Parks, Obama Foundation, Chicago Public Library, Tod Williams, Billie Tsien, presidential library, research library, National Archives and Records Administration, NARA, Congress, Charlotte Adelman, Herb Capl
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Savage Love
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A master and slave want to know. Plus: how to make your boyfriend break up with you, how not to out a future spouse
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, secret perving, ethical polyamory, Master/slave, Dom/sub, don’t ask don’t tell, DADT, sexy feet, foot fetishist, boot fetishist, outing
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On Transportation
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While dockless bike share is experiencing growing pains or worse in other cities, records show that DoBi providers LimeBike and Pace are doing decently.
- by John Greenfield
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Tags: Transportation, Transportation, dockless bike share, biking, far south side, LimeBike, Ofo, Pace, Jump Mobility, Jessie Lucci, Dave Reed, Beverly, Altgeld Gardens, Hegewisch, Linda Aloia, Trumbull Park, East Side, Alfonso Gomez, Nathaniel Terrell
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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: Rock iconoclasts Blizzard Babies, gnarly glam band Lollygagger, and brand-new boogie label Leisure Records all celebrate fresh releases.
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Big Dipper, Late Bloomer, Shea Couleé, ShowYouSuck, Steppenwolf, 1700 Theatre, Drip Drop, Blizzard Babies, Missing Time, Don Giovanni, Sleeping Village, Chicago Period Project, Lollygagger, Life on Terminus, Midwest Action, Cole’s, Andrew Joseph, Paid Time Off, Leisure Records, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Drinks, Casual Friday, Video
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Music Feature
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His long, hard journey from the Congo to DeKalb began when he was three, but he uses music to keep a connection to home alive.
- by Justin Kamp
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Tags: Music Feature, Ephraim Bugumba, Storyteller, Makobola, Congo, Makobola massacre, Sofar, Sofar Sounds, American Idol, refugee, DeKalb, Corn Fest, Bob Marley, South Africa, Carol Stream, Malawi, Tanzania, Lewis University, Romeoville, Wheaton North High School, Mobile, Alabama, Storyteller: The Prince, Storyteller: The Refugee, Storyteller: Tell Me You Love Me, War Machine, Lokua Kanza, Lucky Dube, Jimi Hendrix, Video
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The Secret History of Chicago Music
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Evanston native Kristin Lems has shared stages with John Prine and Gloria Steinem, and she's currently working on a play with songs about Jane Addams.
- by Steve Krakow
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Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Kristin Lems, Evanston, Champaign-Urbana, feminist, ERA, women's movement, folk, Women Walk More Determined, Mammary Glands, Dr. Demento, Tim Vear, Lynn Keller, Cherry Wolfarth, Oh Mama!, In the Out Door, Carolsdatter Productions, We Will Never Give Up, Jane Addams, John Prine, Dan Fogelberg, Gil Scott-Heron, Betty Ford, Lady Bird Johnson, Gloria Steinem, You Me and All of the Above, Video
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Art Feature
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The McKinley Park artist’s work will be on display at the Rainbo Club in September.
- by Dmitry Samarov
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Tags: Art Feature, Brian Wells, painter, McKinley Park, south side, Rainbo Club, University of Kentucky, oil painting, woodblocks, Barb Wells, World Tattoo Gallery, Miami University of Ohio
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Art Feature
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The culmination of his project will be a reconstruction of a slave ship in the museum’s basement.
- by Tyra Nicole Triche
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Tags: Art Feature, Perry Mansion Cultural Center, Sam Smith, Englewood, slave ship, Tortured Souls, The Slave Experience, slavery, middle passage, black history, African-American history, Flint water crisis, Mauritania
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Performing Arts Feature
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This year’s iteration promises 101 acts, plus a ceremony to honor Pigasus, the Youth International Party’s 1968 presidential nominee.
- by Jack Helbig
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Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Yippie Fest, Abbie Hoffman Died for Your Sins Festival, Abbie Fest, Prop Thtr, Abbie Hoffman, Frank Carr, Famous in the Future, Rush Pearson, Sandy Lee, Youth International Party, Yippies, Pigasus, off-off-Loop
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Theater Review
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There's sex-positivity, body-positivity, whooping, hollering, and convulsing, all loud and proud.
- by Irene Hsiao
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Tags: Theater Review, Fly Honey Show, Inconvenience, body-positivity, sex-positivity, Mary Williamson, Sydney Charles, Molly Brennan, Bea Cordelia, burlesque
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Theater Review
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Tommy Murphy's adaptation of Australian author Timothy Conigrave's coming-of-age memoir fails to question the sociopolitical forces that led to the AIDS crisis.
- by Justin Hayford
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Tags: Theater Review, Holding the Man, Pride Films and Plays, Timothy Conigrave, Tommy Murphy, Michael D. Graham, John Caleo, Micah Kronlokken, Jude Hansen, AIDS, Australia
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Art Review
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The result is an experiment in looking at the world through someone else’s eyes.
- by Kate Sierzputowski
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Tags: Art Review, Mika Horibuchi, oil paint, watercolor, MCA, trompe-l’oeil, Sayoko Yokoyama, School of the Art Institute, Trompe-l’Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain, Frans van Mieris the Elder, Adriaen van der Spelt, Chicago Works, Dan Rizzo-Orr
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Movie Review
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João Dumans and Affonso Uchoa’s film conjures up the vision of a working-class literary culture improbably thriving in the rootlessness of the 21st century.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Movie Review, Araby, João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa, Brazil, Brazilian film, Minas Gerais, Aristides de Sousa, workers, working class, intinerant laborer, factory work, James Joyce, Dubliners, picaresque, Great Depression
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Restaurant Review
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And that means $28 cheeseburgers cooked medium.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Restaurant Review, President Donald J. Trump, Trump International Hotel & Tower, Sixteen, Terrace 16, Mario Batali, John Besh, Paul Qui, rooftop bars, London House, Tribune Tower, Wrigley Building, Chicago River, Chicago skyline, Nick Dostal, $28 cheeseburger, Trump Derangement Syndrome
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Food & Drink Feature
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Goodbye natto, and balut, and durian.
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, julia thiel, ryan segedi, key ingredient, chefs, chicago eats, chicago chefs, Key Ingredient and Cocktail Challenge say goodbye, Video
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Bleader
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Crazy Rich Asians and more goings on 8/17-8/19.
- by Katie Powers
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Music, Film, Crazy Rich Asians, Jon M. Chu, Araby, Drake, United Center, Meet Juanito Doe, Sonny Falls, Empty Bottle, Queen Key, Summer Smash
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Bleader
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Dancers, DJs, and graffiti artists celebrated out in the open, not in train tunnels.
- by Matt Harvey
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Tags: Arts, Dance, Performing Arts, writers bench, matt harvey, graffiti, street art, breakdancing, poppin battle, logan square, Slideshow
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Bleader
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You can become the notorious R&B star's landlord, but it'll probably cost you almost $4.5 million.
- by Maya Dukmasova
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Tags: Housing, Music, News, R. Kelly, studio, allegations, harem, cult, Jim DeRogatis, 219 N. Justine, landlord, tenant, building, sale
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Bleader
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Josie Dunn at Lincoln Hall and more goings on 8/10-8/12
- by Tyra Nicole Triche
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Tags: Arts, Do This, Blackkklansman, Spike Lee, Den Theatre, Smart Bar, Luke Vibert, In the Harvest, The Lady Demands Satisfaction, City Lit Theater, Jonah Parzen-Johnson, Josie Dunn, Lincoln Hall
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Bleader
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Six months after former students accused him of sexual harassment and bullying, the award-winning journalist, a director at the Medill Justice Project, resigns.
- by Maya Dukmasova
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Tags: News, Media, #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, Alan Cubbage, Image
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Bleader
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The Sea and Cake at Pritzker Pavilion and more goings on 8/13-8/16
- by Katie Powers
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Film, Music, The Sea and Cake, Pritzker Pavillion, Millennium Park, The African Company Presents Richard III, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Confest 2018, Anatomy of Habit, Summer 1993, Scotty and the History of Hollywood
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Bleader
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The organizing principle seems to have been: what was a typical night at the movies like for the average American crime fiction fan in the late 40s and 50s?
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Crime, Film
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Bleader
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Hollywood stalwart William A. Wellman had a long, diverse career, but his 1930s pre-Code films remain his most vital.
- by Patrick Friel
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Tags: Crime, Film, Moviegoing, On Video, Small Screen, The Internet, William A. Wellman, Oscar, Wings, James Cagney, gangster, The Public Enemy, FilmStruck, Pre-Code, Jean Harlow, Mae Clarke, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Dave KehrNight Nurse, Warners, Manny Farber, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Safe in Hell, Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Reece Pendleton, Heroes for Sale, Richard Barthelmess, Ben Sachs, Wild Boys of the Road, Frankie Darro
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Bleader
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This week's featured gig poster was designed by local artist Bill Connors.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Gig Posters, Music, Visual Art, gig poster, gig posters, gig poster of the week, Empty Bottle, Bill Connors, Glyders, Flamingo Rodeo, Ruins, free Monday
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Bleader
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Police union spokesman says "motives" behind database are "perfectly transparent."
- by Maya Dukmasova
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Tags: News, Criminal Justice, criminal justice, police misconduct, Invisible Institute, Citizens Police Data Project, Jame Kalven, Chicago Police Department, CPD, FOP, Fraternal Order of Police, police union, Martin Preib, domestic violence, Andrew Fan, big data
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Bleader
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"I write, I act, and I try to do more with my photos than just capture moments."
- by Matt Harvey
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Tags: Poetry, Photography, Arts, ThoughtPoet, Kynology, The Breathing Room, LetUsBreathe Collective, Kristiana Rae Colón, Taylor Bennett, the Triibe, Tiffany Walden, Morgan Elise Johnson, Heart Melanin, Self-Heal, Najee Searcy, ThoughtPoetsOpinion, the BlockBeat, Kenwood
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Bleader
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Bump J at the Promontory and more goings on 8/20-8/24.
- by Katie Powers
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Film, Music, Bump J, Promontory, The Harvest, Den Theatre, McLuhan, Animator, Black Harvest Film Center, Scott Pilgrim V. The World, Gene Siskel Film Center, Perry Mansion Cultural Center, Sam Smith
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Bleader
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The husband-and-wife team have opened a new brick-and-mortal location in Bucktown.
- by Isa Giallorenzo
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Tags: Arts, Style, Meg Piercy, Joe Piercy, MegMade, Bucktown, furniture refinishing, furniture restoration, vintage furniture, sustainable furnishings, home decor, Loloi, Jaipur, Dash + Albert, Schumacher, Fabricut, Perennials, Arteriors, Noir