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Key Ingredient
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In this week's chef-to-chef challenge, Brandon Baltzley of Crux makes dessert with something he doesn't "fuck with that much"
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Key Ingredient, flour, Brandon Baltzley, kudzu starch, kudzu, salep dondurma, Turkish ice cream, Steve Newman, North Pond, Cocoa Pebbles, Video
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Culture Vultures
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Jane Addams's travel medicine kit and Tom Brown's Field Guide series
- by Joey Jachowski and Armando Salazar
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Tags: Culture Vultures, Julie Shapiro, Third Coast International Audio Festival, Jane Addams, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Terri Kapsalis, Weed Wolf, Tom Brown, nature, survivalism, Tom Brown's Field Guide, psychic death
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Art Critic's Choice
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"Teenie Harris, Photographer" turns up a lost world
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Art Critic's Choice, photography, photojournalism, Teenie Harris, Pittsburgh, Art Blakey, August Wilson, Carnegie Museum of Art, Eartha Kitt, John Patrick Leary, Detroit, Harold Washington Library Center
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Performing Arts Review
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A recovering Muslim struggles with enablers in Disgraced
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, Ayad Akhtar, Kimberly Senior, American Theater Company, interracial marriage, interfaith marriage, Islam, purdah, jihad, Usman Ally, Lee Stark, Benim Foster
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Performing Arts Review
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A former porn star wants her purity back in Hesperia
- by Zac Thompson
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, sex, sex education, Christian high school, innocene, Randall Coburn, Right Brain Project, evangelical, Erik Hellman, Nathan Hosner, Rebecca Buller
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Performing Arts Sidebar
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A new edition of MPAACT's late-night performance series
- by Sharon Lurye
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Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, MPAACT, solo shows, storytelling, Solo Jams, Chuck Smith, Timothy Douglas, Jocelyn Price, Tim'm T. West, Jonathan Kitt, Kristiana Rae Colón, Matteo Smith, Nicole Mitchell, Osiris Khepera, Wardell Clark, Coco Elysses, Elana Elyce, William Kurk
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On Media
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Right-wingers continue to link Barack Obama to community organizer Saul Alinsky. Proof? Obama attended a 1998 performance of The Love Song of Saul Alinsky
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Michael Miner on Media, Saul Alinsky, community organizer, radical left, radicalism, Barack Obama, Leon Despres, Studs Terkel, Jack Egan, Pam Dickler, Gary Houston, The Love Song of Saul Alinsky, David Horowitz, WorldNetDaily, Newt Gingrich, Liberty News Online
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Savage Love
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Plus: Self-outing in the Grindr era, and do I tell my GGG girlfriend that I kissed a guy?
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, Grindr, coming out, in the closet, outing your friend, bisexuality, cheating, pegging, exhibitionism, spanking, Catholic guilt, hotel sex, gay
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Feature
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A letter to first loves, cigarettes, and Chicago
- by Rose Tully
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Tags: Feature, Valentine's Day, cigarettes, coffee, bourbon, love, first love, radical queer, Longman & Eagle
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Mudville
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Even the excellent DePaul women’s basketball team stinks it up when I get behind them
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Mudville, DePaul University, sports, DePaul women's basketball team, Chicago Cubs, Northwestern University, NCAA, Derrick Rose, Keisha Hampton, Doug Bruno, Chicago Bulls, B.J. Armstrong, Rahm Emanuel, outdoor basketball courts
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Artist on Artist
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'It’s difficult to make a track when you’re in a hotel room, but there are always some songs that are in the works'
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Tags: Artist on Artist, A-Trak, Mike Perry, Supreme Cuts, Alain Macklovich, Fool's Gold, Kanye West, Crookers, Kid Cudi, Day 'n' Night, Slack Kevorkian, Whispers in the Dark, Logic software, The Mid, Sunglasses Is a Must, DMC DJ, hip-hop, R&B, turntablism, Artist on Artist, Video
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Movie Sidebar
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This year's nominees for best animated and live-action short films
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Movie Sidebar, Oscars, Academy Awards, best animated shorts, best live-action shorts, Patrick Doyone, Dimanche, Hallvar WitzWitzø, Tuba Atlantic, Terry George, The Shore, Willaim Joyce, Brandon Oldenberg, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
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Gossip Wolf
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"Beloved local punks Raw Nerve check out. Plus: Members of Vee Dee, Chisel, and Plastic Crimewave Sound team up, WBEZ launches an in-studio music series Nick Hornby would love, and more "
- by Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Raw Nerve, Ryan Lowry, punk, Nico Zaglaras, Lord Snow, Vee Dee, Chicago Stone Lighting Sound, Plastic Crimewave Sound, High Fidelity Music Series, WBEZ, Super Minotaur, Cold Slice Cassettes
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In Rotation
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Plus: Reader music editor Philip Montoro on Finnish black-metal psychonauts Oranssi Pazuzu and composer Charles Joseph Smith on Rockford piano prodigy Emily Bear
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Tags: In Rotation, Oransi Pazuzu, Kosmonument, Comsic Hearse, Aesop Dekker, Caspar Brötzmann Massaker, Michael Gira, Jail Flanagan, Forced Into Femininity, Xina Xurner, Die Tödliche Doris, Alabaster Choad, Charles Joseph Smith, Mr. Forefinger, Franz Liszt, Leslie Howard, Emily Bear, Rockford, Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody
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Music Feature
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Symphonies still prefer dead composers, but Clyne beat the odds to land a plum job with the CSO at the tender age of 30
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music Feature, classical music, Anna Clyne, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music composition, Riccardo Muti, Mason Bates, Manhattan School of Music, Julia Wolf, Hysterica Dance Company, John Zorn, Franz Schubert, Seamus Heaney, Robert Lowell, Gustave Doré, Video
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The Secret History of Chicago Music
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This Oak Park band's lone mid-80s EP is long gone, but Andy Mead and Steve Marcotte now play together in the Finnish Charts
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Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Andy Mead, Steve Marco, Ha!, Emerson Junior High School, Carl Ginsberg, Scott Kinsey, Killing Joke, Gil Burns, British Invasion, psychedelia, The Secret History of Chicago Music
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Music Column
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"We kind of noticed why everyone likes us. It was like, Oh shit, I have a gun and I didn’t know that I had a gun."
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music Column, Die Antwoord, South Africa, zef, Ninja, Yolanda Vi$$er, DJ Hi-Tek, Coachella, Ten$ion, $O$, Harmony Korine, Interscope, Video
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Bleader
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Northwestern professor Harvey Young lectures on the racist history of V-Day cards
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Regrets Week, Lit & Lectures, Books, Variations on a Theme, Harvey Young, Valentine's Day, racism, Northwestern University, Embodying Black Experience, Yo Is This Racist?, Evanston Public Library
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Bleader
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Scientific innovation may enhance reliability, but it can also ignore conventional wisdom.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Science, Media, News Bites, News, phenacetin, paracetamol, pharmaceuticals, Moneyball, sabermetrics, Oakland A's, conventional wisdom, science, New York Times, Laura Beil, evidence, DNA
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Bleader
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Was Ambrose Bierce right about love?
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Regrets Week, Lit & Lectures, Books, Variations on a Theme, Love, Ambrose Bierce, Second time around, The Devil's Dictionary, Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan, cynicism, The Wasp, A Cynic Looks at Life
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Bleader
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George Will compared Gingrich to whose horrid little girl?
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Lit & Lectures, Politics, News Bites, Books, Clout City, Newt Gingrich, George Will, This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Jake Tapper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Blanche Roosevelt Tucker, Edith Longfellow, Ernest Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Hiawatha, Evangeline, Eldorado
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Bleader
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The year's contenders open for a theatrical run at Landmark's Century Centre.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, 2012 Academy Awards, Landmark's Century Centre, National Film Board off Canada, Patrick Doyon, Dimanche movie, Dimanche Patrick Doyon, Luigi Allemano, animation, movies, Video
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Bleader
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Remember Lotion, Thomas Pynchon's favorite band? Who shoulda, coulda made it, like their 90s contemporaries Archers of Loaf?
- by Asher Klein
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Tags: Crickets, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Lotion, art rock, New York music, Village Voice, Thomas Pynchon, Full Isaac, Rock Chick, Nobody's Cool, Video
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Bleader
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Logan Square venue Pancho's changes its name (and lots of other things) to become Township
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Food & Drink, Township, Pancho's, MP Shows, Brian Peterson, Tamiz Ciccone, Logan Square, music, food, nightlife
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Bleader
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Dining in vintage rail cars, a preview of Nellcote, a crawfish-eating contest, and more
- by Daniel Gerzina
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Passion House Coffee Roasters, Rwanda Buf Cafe Red Bourbon, CityGrounds Coffee Bar, Cityscape Bar, Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza, Italiasia, Pullman Sleeping Car Company, Union Station, Dan Traynor, Prasino, Paddy Long's, Jacquy Pfeiffer, Culinary Historians of Chicago, The French Pastry School, The Red Canary, Mardi Gras, Rock Bottom Chicago, The Gage, The Southern, Hiran Patel-Klay, Klay Oven Kitchen, Chicago French Market, ChicaGourmet, Nellcote, Jared Van Camp, Beauty and Her Feast, Caipirinha, Texas De Brazil
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Bleader
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The age-old question: Why expose the bad things if the bad things never change?
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: The Reefer, Soul Week, Politics, Clout City, Variations on a Theme, Don Gordon, Alderman Joe Moore, Mick Dumke, Northwestern University, Johnny Depp, George Clooney, Bobby Womack, Across 110th Street, Rogers Park, 49th Ward
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Bleader
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A short preview of the experimental program from San Francisco playing this Thursday at the Gene Siskel Film Center
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Film, Radical Light, San Francisco experimental filmmaking, George Kuchar, Bruce Baille, Robert Nelson, Oh Dem Watermelons, Castro Street, Leslie Thornton, Edward Muybridge, Video
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Bleader
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A young face at the CSO, words with Die Antwoord's Ninja, music tips from locals, and much more
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Ninja, Die Antwoord, Anna Clyne, Riccardo Muti, Forced Into Femininity, Jail Flanagan, Charles Joseph Smith, In Rotation, Gossip Wolf, Secret History of Chicago Music, HA, A-Trak, Jacob Garchik Trio, Goatwhore, the Swan King, Heartless Bastards
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Bleader
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The year's contenders open for a theatrical run at Landmark's Century Centre.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, 2012 Academy Awards, Landmark's Century Centre, Pixar Studios, La Luna, Dimanche, A Morning Stroll, The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore, Enrico Casarosa, animation, short films, movies, Video
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Bleader
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In this week's Food & Drink: BLT American Brasserie and Cocktail Challenge muddled caviar
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Blt American Brasserie, Laurent Tourondel, Justin Anderson, caviar, Suntory Hakushu 12-year-old peated single malt whiskey, Steve Carrow, Naha, Potation Handbook, Kraft macaroni and cheese
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Bleader
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The year's contenders open Friday at Landmark's Century Centre.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, 2012 Academy Awards, Landmark's Century Centre, Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby, A Wild Life, National Film Board of Canada, Patrick Doyon, Dimanche, animation, movies, Video
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Bleader
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My bad 80s date with a workshopper
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Broken, Flotsam and Jetsam, Regrets Week, Variations on a Theme, University of Iowa, Iowa Writers' Workshop, ear wax, 'Round Midnight, Bernard Tavernier, Harpo Marx, bad dates
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Bleader
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A consideration of the new romantic drama The Vow
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Film, Yilmaz Guney, Bride of the Earth, The Hungry Wolves, The Vow, Channing Tatum, Rachel McAdams, Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving, CinemaScope, widescreen
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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, House of Pleasures, Bertrand Bonello, Gene Siskel Film Center, Walter Benjamin, Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012, Addiction Incorporated, Big Miracle, John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore, Chronicle movie, Leap Year, Roscoe Arbuckle, Fatty Arbuckle, Mr. Rogers & Me, The Owls movie, Cheryl Dunye, Splinters, Papua New Guinea, W.E. movie, Madonna, King Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson, Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthazar, Pickpocket movie, Otto Preminger, Fallen Angel, Northbrook Public Library, Todd Haynes, I'm Not There, Daniel Eisenberg, John Cassavetes, Love Streams, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Paul Thomas Anderson, Magnolia movie, University of Chicago Doc Films, Mikio Naruse, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, World on a Wire, movies, Video
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Bleader
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What's in the February 9, 2012 issue of the Reader: Valentine's Day
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Inside the Reader, Behind Our Scenes, Valentine's Day, Kevin Warwick, Julia Thiel, Sam Worley, I Saw You, Michael Miner, Barack Obama, Saul Alinsky, Mick Dumke, Savage Love
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Bleader
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The five worst versions of "The Tracks of My Tears"
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Soul Week, Music, Variations on a Theme, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Tracks of My Tears, Johnny Rivers, Gavin Degraw, Go West, La Toya Jackson, Peter Andre, Half Japanese, kill me, Video
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Bleader
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The Public League boys basketball playoffs come down to the semifinal and final
- by Ted Cox
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Tags: Mudville, Sports, Chicago, Public League, boys basketball, basketball, Simeon, Orr, Bogan, Curie, Jabari Parker
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Bleader
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Freaky jams for a freaky holiday
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Free Shit, Swag, Valentine's Day, Brenmar, Diplo, Chris Brown, Dirty South Joe, Flufftronix, Mad Decent, Luvstep, Before Dark, Climax, dance music
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Bleader
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In this week's Food & Drink: Acadia, Key Ingredient flour, Valentine's Day dining
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Acadia, Ryan McCaskey, Michael Simon, Key Ingredient, Brandon Baltzley, Crux, Iliana Regan, One Sister, dried limes, Frontier, Saigon Sisters
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Bleader
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You probably already know this, but if you shout out "Freebird!" at a packed show, you're kind of an asshole
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Paranormal, Crickets, Media, Music, Comedy, Freebird, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Lincoln Hall, Heartless Bastards, Erika Wennerstrom, Jason Fry, Bill Hicks, Kevin Matthews, Video
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Bleader
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This Sunday through Tuesday, Trenchermen, the forthcoming restaurant from Mike and Patrick Sheerin, pops up at Logan Square Kitchen
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Logan Square Kitchen, Trenchermen, Mike Sheerin, Patrick Sheerin, pop-up restaurants, Valentine's Day dining
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Bleader
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The year's contenders open for a theatrical run at Landmark's Century Centre.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, 2012 Academy Awards, Landmark's Century Centre, Germany, Max Zähle, Raju movie, Julia Richter, Wotan Wilke Mohring, Kolkata, India, Alfred Hitchcock, The Man Who Knew Too Much, movies, Video
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Bleader
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Wine dinners, wine making, truffle making, and other food and drink events this week.
- by Daniel Gerzina
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Kit Kat Club, Jerry's Wicker Park, Koval, North Shore Distillery, Few Spirits, Journeyman Distillery, Tankboy, The Hideout, Howard Area Community Center, Lawrence Peters, Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar, Katherine Duncan, Katherine Anne Confections, Chicago Marriott, Chicago French Market, Delilah's, ENO Wine Room, InterContinental Hotel, Margy Kaye, Sweet Margy Confection Diva, Sepia, Andrew Zimmerman, Act One Cafe, Carlo Basile, Telegraph Wine Bar
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Bleader
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The future of journalism is Twitter—gulp!
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: The Reefer, Politics, Clout City, Twitter, David Carr, the New York Times, Wilt Chamberlain, basketball, the Big Dipper, the Chicago Bulls, Roland Martin, CNN
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Bleader
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Kembe X, high school dropout turned rising rapper, drops a video for "Sawbuck"
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Kembe X, Sawbuck, Self Rule, the Village, Village of the Damned, Genesis Denton, Video
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Bleader
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Representing black urban life, then and now
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Media, Visual Art, Politics, Clout City, Charles "Teenie" Harris, Teenie Harris, Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Pittsburgh, Hill District, Detroit, Guernica, Detroitism, Carnegie Museum of Art, John Patrick Leary, Pittsburgh Courier
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Bleader
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An overview of the class I'll be teaching on French director Alain Resnais
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Film, Alain Resnais, Facets Multimedia, Ben Sachs, Melo, La guerre est finie, Providence, Love Unto Death, Wild Grass, I Want to Go Home, Jules Feiffer
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Bleader
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Killer Mike teams up with El-P and a bunch of heavies.
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Crickets, Music, Killer Mike, El-P, T.I., Bun B, Trouble, hip-hop, 12 O'Clock Track, Williams Street, Adult Swim
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Bleader
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What do you say to an alien?
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Paranormal, Science, Flotsam and Jetsam, Sports, Voyager, aliens, extraterrestrial intelligence, SETI, METI, Amoy, "Johnny B. Goode, " Chuck Berry, Baseball Prospectus, baseball statistics, ERA, SIERA
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Bleader
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Fresh theater and dance reviews and previews
- by Sharon Lurye
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Tags: Religion, Onstage, Performing Arts, Dance, Arts, Piety, Hesperia, Disgraced, Androcles and the Lion, George Bernard Shaw, Jeremy Menekseoglu, The Foreigner, Bachelorette, The Gog/Magog Project, Jack's Precious Moment, Letters/X, El Mari Chi Chi, burlesque, Peter Pan's Shadow, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Unnecessary Farce, Zastrozzi, Solo Jams, Bonedanse, RNDC, River North Chicago Dance Company
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Bleader
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During Soul Week, let's remember that soul music is still alive and well
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Soul Week, Music, Post No Bills, Variations on a Theme, Isley Brothers, Soul Train, Ronald Isley, Ernie Isley, Mr. I, No More, Anthony Hamilton, Back to Love, Woo, Video
