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On Culture
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Northwestern's demolition campaign stoops to conquer
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Rahm Emanuel, architectural preservation, Northwestern University, Bertrand Goldberg, landmarks, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Rafael M. Leon, Canon Design, duh, Prentice Women's Hospital
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Savage Love
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Plus: sweaty feet, dry spells, and coughing fits
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, dildos, sex toys, sex education, penetration, foot fetish, sweaty feet, blow jobs, Bo Duke, rest-stop blow jobs
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In Rotation
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Plus: Reader writer Peter Margasak on the English Beat, and engineer Ken Brown on MarioBataliVoice.blogspot.com
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: In Rotation, Huong Thanh, Trypes, the English Beat, Jeff Parker, Tortoise, Aki Tsuyuko, Billy Eckstine, Propellerhead Reason, Steve Albini, Cermakk, Red Red Meat
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Music Feature
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Already a wild ride—with dozens of acts, including Iggy & the Stooges, Elvis Costello, Andrew W.K., and NOFX—Riot Fest's new Humboldt Park incarnation is also an actual carnival
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Music Feature, Riot Fest, Mike Petryshyn, punk, Nobunny, Adicts, Andrew W.K., Descendents, the Promise Ring, NOFX, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Screaming Females, Elvis Costello, Alkaline Trio, Iggy Pop, Iggy & the Stooges
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Music Feature
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Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall, A$AP Rocky with Schoolboy Q and Danny Brown, the Umbrella Music Festival, and more
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Tags: Music Feature, fall arts, Carmina Burana, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, Adventures in Modern Music, A$AP Rocky, Schoolboy Q, Danny Brown, Keith Rowe, Vijay Iyer, The XX, Crystal Castles, Sqsuarepusher, Umbrella Music Festival
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Music Feature
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Prolific beat makers aim to get in on the conversation between mainstream R&B and underground dance music
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music Feature, fall arts, The-Drum, Clique Talk, Jeremiah Chrome, Brandon Boom, R&B, Terius Nash, The-Dream, Surpeme Cuts, Sich Mang, Jeremih
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Music Sidebar
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If you've got tickets already, you can see Wilco, Lee Fields, Kelly Hogan, and more
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Music Sidebar, Kelly Hogan, The Onion's A.V. Club, Iron & Wine, Glen Hansard, War on Drugs, Cave, Wilco, Lee FIelds & the Expressions, Wye Oak, Wild Belle, Corin Tucker Band, Kelly Hogan, Vision Celestial Guitarkestra, Plastic Crimewave
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Art Feature
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Expo Chicago and a look inside Studio Gang Architects highlight a busy season
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Tags: Art Feature, fall arts, Edra Soto, Imagists, Carl Baratta, Onsmith, Tony Karman, Danh Vo, Statue of Liberty, Jeanne Gang, Aqua Tower, Studio Gang Architects, Jimena Acosta, ukiyo-e, color printmaking
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Culture Vultures
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John Saturnall's Feast, Inferno (A Poet's Novel), and Sirène absinthe verte
- by Jordan Larson
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Tags: Culture Vultures, Diana Slickman, Theater Oobleck, BoyGirlBoyGirl, Lawrence Norfolk, Jac Jemc, Sheila Heti, Carrie Olivia Adams, Black Ocean press, North Shore Distillery, absinthe
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Lit Feature
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Ray Bradbury, Chris Ware, and Fran Lebowitz round out the page-turning season
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Tags: Lit Feature, Fall Arts, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, Chris Ware, Building Stories, Chicago Humanities Festival, Lilli Carre, Heads or Tails, Fran Lebowitz, Martha Lavey
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Lit Feature
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Leaving behind the longtime digs graced by Saul Bellow and the president of the Dominican Republic
- by Noah Berlatsky
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Tags: Lit Feature, fall arts, bookstores, academica, Spencer Turbine Company, Jack Cella, University of Chicago, Jasmine Kwong, Megan Doherty, Saul Bellow, Seminary Co-op Bookstore
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Performing Arts Feature
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Trainspotting: the play, 44 plays for 44 presidents, and more
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Tags: Performing Arts Feature, fall arts, The Artistic Home, David Cromer, Mary Zimmerman, Ovid, Randal Coburn, the Mammals, Handspring Puppet Company, William Kentridge, Neo-Futurists, Barack Obama, National Theatre of Scotland, George Burke, Irvine Welsh, Tom Mullen, Richard Pryor, James Murray Jackson Jr., Markus Zusak, Hallie Gordon, Will Kern, Profiles Theatre
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Performing Arts Feature
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Skeletons in Imperial Silence: Un Ópera Muerta, painted nudes in Gallim Dance, and Chagall's windows at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
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Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Day of the Dead, John Jota Leanos, Joel Valentin-Martinez, Gallim Dance, Andrea Miller, Ohad Naharin, Hubbard Street 2, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Alejandro Cerrudo, Marc Chagall
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Performing Arts Review
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In the House Theatre's The Iron Stag King, a magic hammer isn't enough
- by Keith Griffith
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, House Theatre of Chicago, Nathan Allen, fantasy, Brandon Ruiter, Joey Steakley, Chris Mathews, Dungeons and Dragons, Colette Pollard, Lee Keenan, Tracy Letts
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This year's Riot Fest owes its success to a Ferris wheel and Gwar
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Music, Riot Fest, Gwar, Iggy and the Stooges, Cursive, Tim Kasher, the Promise Ring, Screaming Females, punk, Humboldt Park, Andrew W.K., NOFX, Gogol Bordello, Jesus and Mary Chain, Rise Against, Dropkick Murphys, Elvis Costello and the Imposters, Hot Water Music, Descendents, Slideshow
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Reader website places high in local website judging
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Chicagoreader.com, Chicago Community Trust, Chicago Media Workshop, Thom Clarke, Rich Gordon, Zachary Johnson, Tracy Baim, chicagotribune.com, windycitymediagroup.com, Tracy Baim, Facebook
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New music from multiinstrumentalist Chris Cohen (Deerhoof, Cryptacize, and a million more)
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, 12 O'Clock Track, Chris Cohen, Deerhoof, Curtains, Cryptacize, Overgrown Path, Optimist High
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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, Tonight You're Mine, Maurice Pialat, We Won't Grow Old Together, Susan Morgan Cooper, Mulberry Child, Arbitrage movie, Richard Gere, The Cold Light of Day, Mabrouk El Mechri, JCVD, Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver, Family Portrait in Black and White, Honey movie, Magnificat: Films by Pat O'Neill, Mulberry Child, Polluting Paradise, Faith Akin, Head On, The Edge of Heaven, Side by Side, The Words, Bradley Cooper, Theresa Harris, Barbara Stanwyck, Baby Face, Alfred E. Green, Shirley Clarke, The Connection movie, Eran Riklis, The Human Resources Manager, Film Movement, Robert Aldrich, Kiss Me Deadly, Fred Camper, Jonathan Demme, Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense, David Byrne, Bettina Richards, Home Movies and the Avant-Garde, Cinema Borealis, Errol Magidson, The Making of a Documentary: Chicago's Only Castle, Terror in the Aisles 12, The Stuff movie, Larry Cohen, Frankenhooker, Patty Mullen, movies, Video
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The White Sox and Detroit Tigers face one last grudge match after the Tigers trim the Sox' lead to one game
- by Ted Cox
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Tags: Mudville, Sports, News, mudville, sports, White Sox, Detroit Tigers, baseball, MLB, Chris Sale, Justin Verlander
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Maybe the last trap-dance mixtape you need to download
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Boom!, Music, Munchi, Lex Luger, hip-hop, EDM, Flosstradamus, moombahton, Big Sean, Waka Flocka Flame, mixtapes
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What's on the Agenda for Tuesday, September 18, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope, Columbia College Conaway Center, Uri-Eichen Gallery, Pilsen, Peggy Lipshutz, Cleavland, Cloud Nothings, Attack On Memory, Lincoln Hall, Chomp, Joe Boyer, Jayson Gerycz, Cloud Nothings, Chris Brown, Total Babes
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The U.S. poverty rate remains high, but it didn't rise in 2011
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Election 2012, Poverty, Politics, News, poverty, Census Bureau, poverty rate, Democratic Party platform, Republican Party platform, President Obama, Mitt Romney, Tavis Smiley, Cornel West, poverty tour, The Root
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An interview with a veteran theater owner about the conversion to digital film projection
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Dim the Lights, Architecture, Film, Conversion conversations, Willis Johnson, Classic Cinemas, Tivoli Theater, DCP, digital projection, 35-millimeter projection, Gene Siskel Film Center, Side by Side
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Maitake mushrooms proved elusive, but we did find a foraging spot that yielded some good stuff
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Foraging Week, Food & Drink, Variations on a Theme, Iliana Regan, foraging, mushrooms, black walnuts, crab apples, maitake, honeycap
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Chicago public school teachers live in one world; the mayor and his friends live in another
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Education, Media, News, Chicago teachers strike, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Public Schools, Bruce Rauner, Diana Rauner, Chicago Tribune, Francis Parker School, Latin School of Chicago, Penny Pritzker, Ravenswood Elementary School, Jonah Edelman
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On Monday the Jazz Showcase hosts a tribute to the late Von Freeman that features his band from the New Apartment Lounge
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Von Freeman, New Apartment Lounge, Jazz Showcase, Chicago jazz, Mike Allemana, Michael Rayor, Matt Ferguson, Willie Pickens, Ari Brown, Art Hoyle, Dan Anderson, Christopher McBride, George Freeman, Video
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At Friday's Wrigley Field show, the Boss brought out Evanston native Eddie Vedder for a full-band rendition of this haunting classic
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, E Street Band, live, video, Wrigley Field, Nebraska, Atlantic City, Video
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Oktoberfest celebrations and ethical food sources are highlights this week, along with Mexican Independence day and puppy philanthropy
- by Meg Pier
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Berghoff Oktoberfest, 2 Sparrows, pig roast, Chipotle, Cultivate, Mexican Independence Day, Mercadito, bacon, Bacon Takedown, raw, vegan, potluck, Bistronomic, Chicago Animal Care, Jackie Shen, Sidney Garber
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There is more to school reform than churning test scores
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Education, Media, News, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Tribune, David Brooks, Eric Zorn, Tovia Smith, National Public Radio, Dan Goldhaber
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What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, September 12, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, Glue, Skagboys, Smart Bar, Wrigleyville, Lincoln Park Zoo, Wild at Heart, Heart Health Across Species, California Wives, Leor Galil, Lincoln Hall, Santah, Deserters
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Fresh performing arts reviews by Reader critics
- by Meg Pier
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Tags: Theater, Arts, Comedy, Dance, Iron Stag King, After, Profiles Theatre, Chopin Theatre, Annee Pocalypse, Mary's Attic, Blagojevich, A Class Act, Athenaeum Theatre, Theater Wit, Commedia King John, Den Theatre, Illegal Use of Hands, Victory Gardens Theater, Impenetrable, The Last Five Years, The North Star, Once Upon a Rom Com, Chemically Imbalanced Comedy, Gorilla Tango Theatre, Shakespeare's Female Women, Skokie Theatre, Six Dead Queens, Greenhouse Theater, Spirits to Enforce, Studio BE, Voices of Strength, Columbia College Dance Center
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If the incentives are right (and a little outlandish), Kickstarter is worth the few bucks—just ask Murder by Death's fans
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Seriously?, $$$, Music, Kickstarter, Murder by Death, Amanda Palmer, Pipeworks Brewing, Five Iron Frenzy, Cedar Point, bourbon, pledge, donate, Bitter Drink Bitter Moon, Christian ska, pizza
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What's on the Agenda for Friday, September 14, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Bob Mould, Hüsker Dü, Sugar, Copper Blue, Metro, Wrigleyville, All Eyes West, Gene Siskel Film Center, Shirley Clarke, The Connection, Joanne Kyger, Near North, Poetry Foundation, Harriet Reading Series
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What's on the Agenda for Saturday, September 15, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Riot Fest, Empty Bottle, Lighting Bolt, Oblivion Hunter, Kevin Warwick, Ree-Yees, Guzzlemug, Carmen Bugan, Burying the Typewriter, Romania, Nicolae Ceausescu, Book Cellar, Ravenswood, Chipotle, Cultivate Festival, G. Love & the Special Sauce, Allen Stone, LP, Paul Kahan, Richard Blais
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Stomping, shrieking, perversely hooky postpunk from Bad Bibles
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Bad Bibles, Nearsighted, postpunk, Ongakubaka, Milk Music, Car Seat Headrest
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Concerts by International Contemporary Ensemble and Ensemble Dal Niente highlight this season's contemporary classical calendar
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, International Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Dal Niente, Museum of Contemporary art, classical music, John Cage, Pierre Boulez, Chaya Czernowin, Georg Friederich Haas, Carla Kihlstedt, Phyllis Chen, Nuiko Wadden, Janus, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Video
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When will the presidential candidates notice?
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Election 2012, Poverty, Politics, News, poverty, census bureau, poverty rate, poverty line, Ronald Reagan, war on poverty, recession, President Obama, Mitt Romney, concentrated poverty, child poverty, segregation, deep poverty
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Questioning the moral foundation of King Vidor's silent classic
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Poverty, Film, Politics, The Crowd, King Vidor, silent cinema, Music Box Theatre, Second Saturday Silent Cinema, Dennis Scott, urban life, poverty, Eleanor Boardman, James Murray
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A season's worth of music to look out for—and more
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music, Fall Arts, Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The-Drum, Riot Fest, Tortoise, Jeff Parker, Hideout Block Party and A.V. Fest, Antibalas, Bob Mould, Lightning Bolt, D'Angelo, Obituary
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Blood sausage: it's not just for breakfast anymore.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Spencer's Jolly Posh Foods, back pudding, white pudding, back bacon, Nick Spencer, blood sausage, British food, Irish food, morcilla, sundae, Vera, Butcher & Larder, Publican Quality Meats
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In case you're not going to Riot Fest or the Hideout Block Party & A.V. Fest, here are some other live-music ideas
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Do This, Music, Antibalas, Pallbearer, Lightning Bolt, Odd Future, Hideout Block Party and A.V. Fest, Riot Fest, Englewood Jazz Festival, live music, concert listings, Soundboard
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Oakland-via-Cincinnati act Why? headlined a bill of great avant-garde hip-hop
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Music, Why?, Yoni Wolf, Doseone, Mumps Etc., Serengeti, G Is for Deep, C.A.R., Anticon, Lincoln Hall, Kitty Pryde
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Trying to disentangle the "what the fuck?" movie of 2012
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Seriously?, Film, Branded, Jamie Bradshaw, Alexander Dulerayn, Target, Aleksandr Zeldovich, Russian sci-fi, advertising, Ed Stoppard, Leelee Sobieski, Max von Sydow, Andrei Tarkovsky, Edward Artemyev, Rogier Stoffers, Robert Grasmere, Jeffrey Tambor, David Cronenberg, Cosmopolis, Richard Gere, Pretty Woman
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What's on the Agenda for Sunday, September 16, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Bacon Take Down, Lincoln Hall, Odd Future, the Vic, Lakeview, Odd Future Records, Trash Talk, Subterranean, Miles Raymer, ComedySportz Theatre, Stone Cold Jane Austen
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The national fungus of Japan is the new MSG
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, shio koji, Japanese food, miso, rice, sake, amazake, mold, David Chang, Alan Lake, Mitsuwa Marketplace, Aspergillus oryzae, MSG
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Soundboard picks from the next three days include several flavors of metal and whatever David Byrne & St. Vincent's collaboration is
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Do This, Music, Obituary, Devin Townsend, David Byrne and St. Vincent, Big Business, Bob Log III, Richard Thompson, GZA, Killer Mike, live music, concert listings
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One of the most popular samples of all time and the song it came from
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Things I Love, Music, The Mohawks, The Champ, hip-hop, EDM, WhoSampled.com, EPMD, Slick Rick, the Prodigy, A-Trak, Eric Harvey, Ken Douglas, funk, Video
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What's on the Agenda for Thursday, September 13, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Adam McOmber, Columbia College, Hotel Amerika, Booklist, The White Forest, Unabridged Bookstore, Lakeview, Lincoln Hall, afrobeat, Antibalas, Peter Margasak, Black Bear Combo, Chatham 14, Hoodwinked, Janks Morton
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This Austin-based antifolk artist recorded in an RV and shares the spirit of Willis Earl Beal
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Things I Love, Music, Lew Houston, Breatherholes, antifolk, Willis Earl Beal, Come Home, Austin, Wild America, Party Garbage, the Copyrights, Carbondale, Decoder Magazine
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The man behind Advisory Circle and D.D. Denham drops a dusky, tranquil, genre-blurring mix
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Paranormal, Foraging Week, Music, Variations on a Theme, mixes, mixtape, Ghost Box, Advisory Circle, Jon Brooks, D.D. Denham, Georges Vert, Cafe Kaput, Summer Triangles, Video
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In this week's Food & Drink: undistinguished bistro Two, Cocktail Challenge peanut butter, candy corn Oreos, and more
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Two restaurant, West Town, Yamandu Perez, Zak's Place, the Black Sheep, farm-to-table, Mike Freeman, the Palm, peanut butter, Brendan Smith, Spiaggia, yellow mustard, Homestead, La Fournette, Elizabeth restaurant, candy corn Oreos
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Warning" from Wye Oak's debut album, If Children
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Wye Oak, Hideout Block Party, A.V. Fest, Wilco, 12 O'Clock Track, Jeff Tweedy, Jenn Wasner, Andy Stack, Video
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Northwestern University Professor objects to Prentice Hospital destruction, calls for "serious community discussion"
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: Architecture, News, Northwestern University, Prentice Hospital, Prentice Women's Hospital, Bertrand Goldberg, Gary Alan Fine, Morton Schapiro, Eugene Sunshine, Eugene F. Lowe Jr.
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On the upside, there's lots of room for improvement in Big Ten football
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Mudville, News, Big Ten, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Michigan Wolverines, Alabama Crimson Tide, Michigan State Spartans, college football, NCAA football, Purdue Boilermakers, Ohio State Buckeyes, Penn State Nittany Lions, Minnesota Gophers, Indiana Hoosiers, Iowa Hawkeyes, Wisconsin Badgers, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Illinois Illini, Northwestern Wildcats, USC Trojans, Stanford Cardinal, Elmhurst College, University of Chicago, Monsters of the Midway, Pac-12
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Talking to a long-time Film Center employee about new projection technology
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: On Video, Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Brandon Doherty, DCP, Conversion conversations, film projection, planned obsolescence, Videodrome, VHS, European Union Film Festival, Clint Enns, Onion City Film Festival
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What's on the Agenda for Monday, September 17, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Eyeporium Gallery, Bernard Colbert, Getting Into Face, JoJo Baby, Sal-E, Loyola, George Anastaplo, The First Amendment and the U.S. Supreme Court, UIC Student Center East, Obituary, Reggie's Rock Club, Monica Kendrick, Broken Hope, Decrepit Birth, Jungle Rot, Encrust
