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Mudville
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Quenneville a master at deploying his netminders
- by Ted Cox
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Tags: Mudville, Blackhawks, hockey, playoffs, NHL, Ray Emery, Corey Crawford, Joel Quenneville, goaltending, netminder, goalie
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On Media
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What traditional media can learn from Betty White, Old Spice, and Joan of Arc
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Michael Miner on Media, new media, social media, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, marketing, advertising, Judy Ungar Franks, journalism
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Savage Love
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Anal insertion done right!
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, anal sex, safe sex, lubrication, gay sex, condoms, intercourse, frottage, butt plugs, sex toys, bottoming, topping, rimming, desensitizing anal wipes, California Exotic Novelites
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Gossip Wolf
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Permanent Records salutes the defunct punks with a retrospective LP. Plus: Brutish rock from Fake Limbs, and more.
- by Jessica Hopper and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Record Store Day, Record Store Day releases, the Pows, Permanent Records, Lance Barresui, Liz Tooley, Nick Zanka, Mister Lies, Different Sleep, Fake Limbs, Builder/Destroyer, Stephen Sowley
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Music Feature
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If comparing the Touré-Raichel Collective to Music From Saharan Cellphones proves anything, it’s that foreigners make better music when they aren’t making it for you
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Tags: Music Feature, African music, North Africa, Sahel, Ali Farka Toure, Mali, Vieux Farka Toure, Dave Matthews, Toure-Raichel Collective, Christopher Kirkley, DJ Rupture, WFMU
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Music Feature
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The day at a glance (OK, several glances)
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Tags: Music Feature, Record Store Day, vinyl, Odd Future, Numero Group, Alkaline Trio, Smoking Pipes, Reckless Records, 3 Floyds, Rye'd the Lightning, Sweet Cobra, pop-up store, the Misfits, Genesis, McClusky, Leonard Cohen, Bloodshot Records, Lydia Loveless, Trouble in Mind, Mikal Cronin, Apache Dropout, the Paperhead, Liminanas, Permanent Records, Pows, Thrill Jockey, Black Twig Pickers, Tortoise, Freakwater, Iggy & the Stooges
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Music Feature
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Record Store Day sales, promotions, giveaways, and in-store performances
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Tags: Music Feature, Record Store Day, vinyl, in-stores, Record Store Day sales, Record Store Day giveaways, Cafe Mustache, Cyclopx Records, Dusty Groove, Favorite Records, Gramaphone Records, Hyde Park Records, Hyde Park Records, Jazz Record Mart, Laurie's Planet of Sound, Logan Hardware, Old School Records, Permanent Records, Reckless Records, Reckless Records, Reckless Records, Record Breakers, Saki, Vintage Vinyl, Reckless Records, Forest Park
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Culture Vultures
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The White Feathered Octopus, Jonas Friddle and the Majority, and Gilt's basement
- by Kelsey Gee
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Tags: Culture Vultures, Robin Dluzen, Chicago Art Magazine, Jason Robert Bell, Naked Lunch, The White Feathered Octopus, Erica Elam, Jonas Friddle and the Majority, Revae Schneider, Femme du Coupe, Union Sushi & Barbeque, Curio, Gilt Bar
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Performing Arts Review
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Frank Galati fails to focus in his adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's The March
- by Kerry Reid
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, Civil War, E.L. Doctorow, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Frank Galati, General William Tecumseh Sherman, Confederate States of America, Harry Groener, Shannon Matesky, James Vincent Meredith, Alana Arenas, Phillip James Brannon
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Performing Arts Review
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Court Theatre's Angels in America revival doesn't feel reviving
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, Court Theater, Charles Newell, Tony Kushner, AIDS, Roy Cohn, Joe McCarthy, Ethel Rosenberg, Julius Rosenberg, Berlin Wall, Mary Beth Fisher, Michael Pogue, Geoff Packard, Eddie Bennett, Heidi Kettering, Hollis Resnick, Larry Yando
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Movie Sidebar
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Week two of the Chicago Latino Film Festival
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Tags: Movie Sidebar, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Sebastien Borensztein, Chinese tourists, Mexico City, gay families, Gustavo Loza, Guayaquil, Sebastian Cordero, shaggy dog, S&M, Ari Maniel Cruz
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Food & Drink Feature
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An Uzbek teahouse, pizza that's graced the cover of Saveur, and Exhibit A in the case that the best Korean no longer exists in the city
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Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Barnaby's Northbrook, Burt's Place, Chaihanna, Cho Jung, Chun Ju Restaurant, Edzo's Burger Shop, Evanston Chicken Shack, Inovasi, Pollo Vagabundo, Royal Malabar Catering, Tori Shin, Wiener and Still Champion, Ramen Misoya
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Food & Drink Feature
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Middle Eastern soul food, an artist at work in a rib house, and pierogies made by mom well into the wee hours
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Tags: Food & Drink Feature, suburban dining, suburban restaurants, Johnsen's Blue Top Drive-In, Almawal Restaurant, Cavalier Inn, Cunis Candies, Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket, George's Rib House, Exsenator's Bar-B-Que, Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery, Petey's Bungalow Lounge, Schoop's, Sheeba, Three Floyds Brewpub
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Food & Drink Feature
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Back-to-back Michelin stars, a hot dog like a Cezanne, and Bohemian cuisine consumed by the likes of Al Capone and George H.W. Bush
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Tags: Food & Drink Feature, suburban dining, suburban restaurants, Autre Monde, Fabulous Noodles, Gene & Jude's, Johnnie's Beef, Katy's Dumpling House, Klas, Marion Street Cheese Market Cafe, Priscilla's Ultimate Soulfood, La Quebrada, Sam's Rasoi, Vie, Xni-Pec
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Food & Drink Feature
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Where to shop for tsukemono, smoked Russian meats, Lyle's Black Treacle, and crayfish from Armenia's Lake Sevan
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food & Drink Feature, suburban dining, suburban restaurants, Fresh Farms International Market, Korean food, Japanese food, Russian food, cured meats, Lithuanian food, Irish food, Hmart, Mitsuwa Marketplace, Alef Sausage & Deli, Ream's Elburn Market, Grand Duke's Deli, Winston's Market
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Bleader
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Michael Czyzniejewski's Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions: funny, quirky, short ruminations told in the personas of famous Chicagoans
- by Jerome Ludwig
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Tags: Books, Arts, Michael Czyzniejewski, Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions, Curbside Splendor, Roger Ebert, Oprah Winfrey, Victor David Giron, Barack Obama, Ann Landers, Twitter, David Yow, Hilary Rodham Clinton, Rich Koz, Berwyn, H.H. Holmes, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Speck
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Bleader
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An Atlantic critic rips "The Art of Fielding," a book he's not interested in
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Books, Spring Books Week, Media, News, The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach, B.R. Myers, The Atlantic, Jonathan Franzen Freedom, Variations on a Theme
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Bleader
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We're natural-born killers, the NYT columnist says; research shows it.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Science, Media, News, David Brooks, New York Times, scientific research, Robert Bales, Afghanistan, massacres, David Buss, University of Texas, The Murderer Next Door, Joshua Duntley, The Social Animal, New York Review of Books, H. Allen Orr
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Bleader
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Barry Susman critiques Leak; Max Holland responds
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Watergate, Washington Post, Barry Sussman, "All the President's Men, " Deep Throat, Woodward and Bernstein, Max Holland, "Leak, " "The Great Coverup: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate, " David Halberstam, "The Powers That Be, " Thomas Mallon, "Watergate, "
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Bleader
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A delicious fungal soup at the region's greatest little Korean mom-and-pop
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: One Bite, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Cho Jung, Korean, food, Glenview, mushroom soup, LTHForum, soondubujigae, guk, tang, kimchi jigae
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Bleader
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Previewing Fake It So Real, an independent documentary opening this week at Facets
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Film, Fake It So Real, Robert Greene, Kati With an I, Jonathan Demme, Shyam Benegal, Citizen's Band (aka Handle With Care), Melvin and Howard, Millennium Wrestling Federation, Lincolnton, North Carolina
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Bleader
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Austria Uncorked, Hoops for Hunger, a truffle-making party, and more.
- by Daniel Gerzina
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Austrian Bakery and Deli, Porkchop, Vivo, Hacker-Pschorr, Cactus Bar and Grill, Hacker-Pschorr, 2 Sparrows, Few Spirits, E-Dogz Mobile Culinary Community Center, E 2 Tha Z 2, Eric May, Jonathan Zaragoza, Katherine Anne Confections, Priscila Satkoff, Salpicon, Greater Chicago Food Depository, West Town Tavern, Gale Gand, Chef Gale Gand's Brunch!: 100 Fantastic Recipes for the Weekend's Best Meal, Hearty, Bob Love, Sidney Green, Bill Wennington, Benny the Bull, Luvabulls, Roka Akor, Joakim Noah, Carlos Boozer, Derrick Rose, Marigold, 5 Rabbit, Spotlight Chef, Argent Restaurant and Raw Bar, Rodelio Aglibot, Jackie Chen, Francois-Xavier de Saint Exupery, Chateau de Tiregand, The Little Prince, House of Glunz.
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Bleader
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In his ongoing effort to learn new things about the city he runs, Mayor Emanuel learns about local school councils.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Education, Politics, Clout City, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Linda Lutton, WBEZ, Jean-Claude Brizard, Greg Gaynor, Madeleine Albright, Sam Hudzik, Colin Powell, Hillary Clinton
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Bleader
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Nine of the 2,548 wittiest things every said
- by Jerome Ludwig
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Tags: Books, Narcissism, The 2, 548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said, Robert Byrne, Touchstone, The 2, 548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, Homer Simpson, Jerome Mannheim, Mike Royko, Steven Wright, Adrienne Gusoff, Mark Twain, Gore Vidal, J.D. Salinger, Jackie Mason
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Bleader
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Our immense Record Store Day guide, new music from North Africa, and more
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music, Record Store Day, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Buck Owens, Music From Saharan Cellphones, Fake Limbs, Mister Lies, Pows, Cindy Mangsen, Racebannon, Tanlines, Bloodiest, Terry Malts, Pontiak
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Bleader
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David Lowery defends the major-label system.
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Shots Fired, Music, David Lowery, Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven, the biz, major labels, SF MusicTech Summit, the Internet, Google, Apple
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Bleader
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The African-American child poverty rate is severely high and climbing, but neither Romney nor Obama is talking about it
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Politics, News, poverty, presidential campaign, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, racial inequality, Newt Gingrich, food stamps, Bill Clinton, welfare reform, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, New York Times, Lyndon Johnson, War on Poverty, Los Angeles Times, Eric Sevareid, Barry Goldwater, Katherine S. Newman, Elisabeth S. Jacobs, Who Cares?
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Bleader
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A porky Indian sweet won this year's Golden Rasher for Most Creative Use of Bacon
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: One Bite, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Baconfest, bacon, Monica Sharma, Red Butter Catering, Inovasi, John des Rosiers, Big Jones, Paul Fehribach, Louisa Chu, Steve Dolinsky, David Hammond
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Deez Nuuuts" off by Dr. Dre, Nate Dogg's first official recorded appearance.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Nate Dogg, Deeez Nuuuts, The Chronic, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Coachella, Tupac, Hologram Tupac, video, 420, Video
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Bleader
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Previewing this weekend's midnight screening of the Japanese cult favorite
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: This Will Kill You, Film, Kinji Fukasaku, Battle Royale, The Hunger Games, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Graveyard of Honor, Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill, Takeshi Kitano, Chicago Cinema Society, Logan Theater
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Bleader
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On TV, breakup scenes don't beat around the bush
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Arts, Media, Visual Art, News, Mad Men, Smash, the Prado, Velasquez, Goya, Serra
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Bleader
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A report on my first 24 hours at the Wisconsin Film Festival
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Film, Wisconsin Film Festival, Mike King, Madison Wisconsin, Orpheum Theater, Goodbye First Love, Life Without Principle, Phil Solomon, Luther Price, Don Hertzfeldt, Andy Warhol
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Bleader
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Clever Alice returns, a jewelry import business launches, and more
- by Heather Kenny
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Tags: Style, Clever Alice, trunk show, pop-up shop, Lara Miller, Florodora, Brynn Capella, Anna Hovet, Crescendo, RBC Showroom, Joshe Gifts, C/fan, Sandpiper Imports, Shalini Sharma, Cushe, City Soles, Modern Vintage Chicago
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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, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Police Adjective, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, Aurora movie, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Patrick Wang, In the Family, Music Box, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Fake It So Real, The Lady movie, Luc Besson, Aung San Suu Kyi, Renaissance Place, The Lucky One, Nicholas Sparks, Marley movie, Bob Marley, Think Like a Man, Gabrielle Union, Michael Ealy, Meagan Good, Romany Falco, Terry Gilliam, Brazil movie, Doc Films, Michael Haneke, Cache movie, Daniel Eisenberg, Jean Rouch, Chronicle of a Summer, Block Museum of Art, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Bob Rafelson, Head movie, Head Monkees, Joel Wicklund, Bong Joon-ho, The Host movie, Andrei Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice, Alfred Hitchcock, The Trouble With Harry, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Nightingale, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Les Blank, Elise Auerbach, Amnesty International, Facets Cinematheque, Iranian Taboo, film festivals, movies, Video
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Bleader
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In the Romney family, the apple fell far from the tree.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Politics, News, Civil rights, African-Americans, George Romney, Geoffrey Kabaservice, Rule and Ruin, New York Times Book Review, Mitt Romney, American Motors Corporation, Michigan governor, The Real Romney, fiscal conservativism, civil liberties, Republican moderation, Housing and Urban Development, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Robert Weaver, desegregation, H.R. Haldeman, Federal Housing Administration, Richard Nixon
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Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost of A Hawk and a Hacksaw reissue rare recordings by pioneering Appalachian folksinger John Jacob Niles.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, John Jacob Niles, Appalachian folk, The Boone-Tolliver Recordings, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, L-M Dupli-cation, The Lass From the Low Country (Oh Sorrow), I'm Goin' Away, folk music, Video
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Bleader
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Greg Hall's new cider is reviewed, Eggy's opens, and tuna scrape replaces pink slime as the food bogeyman of the month
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Greg Hall, Red Streak, Eggy's, Custom House, pink slime, tuna scrape, Le Titi de Paris, Peter and Sue Kim-Drohomyrecky, Chicago Gluttons
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Bleader
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Matt Carlson (Golden Retriever, ex-Parenthetical Girls) makes his local solo debut at Lampo's spring season opener.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Matt Carlson, Golden Retriever, Parenthetical Girls, Lampo, Graham Foundation, Particle Language, Dissociative Synthesis, modular synthesizers, Video
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Fresh performing arts reviews
- by Rebecca Cohen
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Tags: Theater, Arts, Dance, The March, Angels in America, Jersey Boys, Court Theatre, Marriott Theatre, The Pirates of Penzance, The Improv Play, InFusion Theatre Company, The Receptionist, Butcher of Baraboo, Stage 773, Vanishing Points, Hedwig Dances, Little Shop of Horrors, Street Tempo Theatre, Motherhood the Musical, The Rainmake, Fish Men, Enfrascada, After the Revolution, Alex in Wonderland
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Bleader
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David Foster Wallace? Who's that?
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Books, Arts, Ann Patchett, Pulitzer Prize, New York Times, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, Denis Johnson, Train Dreams, Karen Russell, Swamplandia!, The Hunger Games, Fifty Shades of Grey, John Jeremiah Sullivan
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Bleader
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Spring Books means baseball books
- by Ted Cox
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Tags: Mudville, Spring Books Week, Sports, Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding, baseball, MLB, baseball books, Ball Four, Jim Bouton, Mark Harris, Henry Wiggen, The Glory of Their Times, Variations on a Theme
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The full schedule of free concerts this summer in Millennium Park includes Charles Bradley, Deerhoof, and Ana Tijoux—but no weekday lunchtime series.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Downtown Sound, Loops and Variations, Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz, Music Without Borders, Millennium Park, free music, summer
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New Chicago Beer Company is moving out of the Plant, the vertical farm where they'd planned to start their business.
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Science, Eco, Food Chain, Food & Drink, New Chicago Beer Company, New Chicago Brewing Company, the Plant, vertical farm, Jesse Evans, Samuel Evans, John Edel, anaerobic digester
