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Restaurant Review
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Don't spend valuable digestive real estate on the boeuf at Brendan Sodikoff's new restaurant when everything else is so good
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Restaurant Review, Brendan Sodikoff, steak, steak house, belle epoque, Maude's Liquor Bar, Au Cheval, Gilt Bar, Jeff Pikus, foie gras, Paris Club, Bavette's Bar & Boeuf, Doughnut Vault, Recommended
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Performing Arts Review
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Pulitzer winner David Lindsay-Abaire finally shows promise with Good People
- by Justin Hayford
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, Steppenwolf Theatre, Steppenwolf, David Lindsay-Abaire, Rabbit Hole, Pulitzer, Boston, K. Todd Freeman, recession, Walt Spangler, Mariann Mayberry
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Savage Love
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Are public displays of perversion bad for equality? Plus: equitable anal sex.
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, Folsom Street Fair, gay leather, fetish, BDSM, sadomasochism, civil rights, LGBT equality, pride parades, gay rights movement, Stonewall, butt plugs, anal sex, anal play, pegging, oral sex, first dates
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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: The inaugural Black Dot Music Festival brings together bands of color and Mountain Dew taps Chicago music-scene flavor
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Legs McNeil, punk, Illazium, Ed Perkins, Black Dot Music Festival, LeAnna Eden, Chance the Rapper, Andrew Barber, Lil Wayne, Hebru Brantley, Treated Crew
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Music Feature
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It might sound crazy, but the notorious, teenage, gun-waving rapper could be a solution for a city struggling with violence
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Music Feature, Chief Keef, Keith Cozart, I Don't Like, controversy, Lil Jojo, Joseph Coleman, GBE Crew, Twitter, MC Tree, Tremaine Johnson, drill rap, Englewood, Rhymefest, violence, crime
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Music Sidebar
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Miguel Zenon, Wycliffe Jordon, and dozens of other cats flood Hyde Park
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Music Sidebar, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Miguel Zenon, Jason Adasiewicz, Pharaz Whitted, Dee Alexander, Ari Brown, Eric Schneider, Wycliffe Gordan, Greg Spero
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Three Beats
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Plus: Joshua Abrams goes full guimbri, and Emperor finally introduce their amp heads
- by Leor Galil, Peter Margasak and Monica Kendrick
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Tags: Three Beats, WZRD, college radio, Tasha Neumeister, Peter Enger, Joshua Abrmas, Natural Information Society, trance music, guimbri, Morocco, Gnawa, Emperor Music, amp heads
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What's on the Agenda for Saturday, September 29, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Chicago Horror Film Festival, Portage Theatre, Mission of Burma, Lincoln Hall, Unsound, Bill Meyer, Chris Ware, Riverfront Theater, Building Stories, Printer's Row Live
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In this week's Food & Drink: Bavette's Bar & Boeuf, Cocktail Challenge yellow mustard, and new reviews of Bar Umbriago, Hash House A Go Go, Piccolo Sogno Due, and more
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, River North, Bavette's Bar & Boeuf, Brendan Sodikoff, Maude's Liquor Bar, Gilt Bar, Au Cheval, Doughnut Vault, Jeff Pikus, Alinea, downtown steak houses, Brendan Smith, Spiaggia, yellow mustard, Karl Fernandez, Old Town Pour House, Parmigiano Reggiano, Bar Umbriago, Hash House A Go Go, Piccolo Sogno Due
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As part of my Yom Kippur fast, I stuck my head in a book instead of a computer. Mensch, it had been a while
- by Asher Klein
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Tags: Broken, Books, Internet, the Internet, Web-related miserliness, reading, Luddites, Twitter, Yom Kippur, fasting, atoning, longreads
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What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, September 26, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Webster's Wine Bar, Lincoln Park, Orange Wine, The Chicago Artists Coalition, Art. Business. Create., Tony Macaluso, Sounds of Chicago's Lakefront: A Celebration of the Grant Park Music Festival, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lunch Talk, Secret Spaces Atop Chicago: A Cultural History of the Urge to Climb Above the City
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The Sox and Tigers continue their cold pursuit of the AL Central
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Adam Dunn K Watch, Mudville, Adam Dunn HR Watch, Sports, White Sox, Detroit Tigers, AL Central, magic number, Adam Dunn, Mark Reynolds, strikeouts
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What's on the Agenda for Tuesday, October 2, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Peter, Bjorn, and John, "Young Folks, " Victoria Bergsman, Taken By Trees, Other Worlds, Lincoln Hall, Jens Lekman, Chicago Craft Spirit Week, In attempt to deconstruct stereotypes surrounding race and gender, Signal Ensemble Theatre presents the Against Type Project, in which notable scenes from classic plays are performed with actors that diverge from the original roles.
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Why Chief Keef might be good for Chicago, hip-hoppers enjoying Mountain Dew, and more
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music, Chief Keef, WZRD, Josh Abrams, Emperor Music, Legs McNeil, Natural Child, Ravi Coltrane, Grizzly Bear, ZZ Top
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First impressions of the hit Bollywood comedy currently playing in town
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Foreign, Film, Barfi!, Ranbin Kapoor, Bollywood, Anurag Basu, Oscars, Foreign-Language film, Saurbh Shukla, silent comedy, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Disney, UTV Motion Pictures, Priyanka Chopra
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As the White Sox fade, so do some season-opening baseball predictions
- by Ted Cox
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Tags: Mudville, Adam Dunn HR Watch, Recycling Week, Sports, Chicago Cubs, White Sox, Adam Dunn, Prince Fielder, MLB, baseball, predictions, Variations on a Theme
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An anecdotal new documentary lets you meet the Beatles, over and over again
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Television, Film, Music, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Seth Swirsky, Beatles Stories, Fred Seaman, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Rams, Fred Seaman, Richard Nixon, Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, Rubber Soul, Davy Jones, Monkees, The Ed Sullivan Show, Mitch Weissman, Beatlemania, Susanna Hoffs, Bangles, Ringo Starr, Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy, George Martin, Norman Smith, Klaus Voorman, George Harrison, May Pang, rock music, DVD releases, Video
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Sun Araw brings its spacey head music to the Empty Bottle Tuesday night
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Sun Araw, Cameron Stallones, Congos, Icon Give Thank, Sunshine, M. Geddes Gengras, The Inner Treaty, Like Wine, Lincoln Hall, dub, weed, Royal Trux
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Chicago VeganMania includes chef demos and workshops and a Whole Foods worth of vegan nosh
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Cooking, Things I Love, Food & Drink, Chicago VeganMania, Broadway Armory, vegan, Chicago Diner, Upton's Naturals, Hug a Vegetarian Day, Tofurkey, Chicago Vegan Foods, Vegan Black Metal Chef
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Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen and Chatham County Line descend on Evanston Friday night
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, bluegrass, Chris Hillman, Herb Pedersen, Chatham County Line, SPACE, American Legion Hall, Wheels, At Edwards Barn, Audio, Video
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A new video barely scratches the surface of surreal animator Bill Plympton
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Arts, Television, Film, Adventures in Plymptoons, Cinema Libre Studio, Alexia Anastasio, Bill Plympton, Hair High, Idiots and Angels, Dave Fleischer, Chuck Jones, Nick Park, Don Hertzfeldt, Al Goldstein, Screw magazine, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Silverman, Ralph Bakshi, Ed Begley Jr., Jonathan Caouette, Keith Carradine, Terry Gilliam, Ron Jeremy, Lloyd Kaufman, Moby, Matthew Modine, Martha, Weird Al Yankovic, R. Crumb, Terry Zwigoff, cartoonists, animation, art documentaries, movies, Video
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Adam Dunn attempts to end his streak as the active player who's played the most games without appearing in the postseason
- by Ted Cox
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Tags: Adam Dunn K Watch, Mudville, Adam Dunn HR Watch, Sports, White Sox, MLB, baseball, Adam Dunn, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Ernie Banks, Luke Appling
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Portugal's Deolinda and Romania's Fanfare Ciocarlia play at City Winery this week, but they're not part of World Music Festival
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, World Music Festival, City Winery, Deolinda, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Boban Markovic, Balkan brass, fado, Um Contra o Outro, Video
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What's on the Agenda for Monday, October 1, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Mark Kozelek, Leor Galil, Red House Painters, Sun Kill Moon, Lincoln Hall, Advance Base, Erik Larson's, Devil in the White City, Athenaeum Theater, Lakeview, The Chicago Loop Alliancem, the Poetry Foundation, Downtown Poetry
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The first part of an interview with the creator of many famous album covers—including most of Pink Floyd's catalog
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Whoa, Arts, Music, Visual Art, Storm Thorgerson, Hipgnosis, Computers Have a Lot to Answer For, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Syd Barrett, David Gilmour, Paul McCartney, Aubrey Powell, Atom Heart Mother, Ummagumma, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Slip Stitch and Pass, Phish, Band on the Run, photography, album covers, Public Works, Chris Eichenseer, Video
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A revisit of Miles Raymer's post about the laughable punk compilation Punk and its sad attempt to cash in on the genre before the Internet became a real thing
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: On Video, Recycling Week, Music, Punk, Miles Raymer, Recylcing Week, Crowded House, Huey Lewis & the News, compilation albums, zine, Guns n' Roses, posers, Variations on a Theme, Video
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What's on the Agenda for Thursday, September 27, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Ray Bradbury, Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, John McNally, Bayo Ojikutu, Bradbury, Sam Weller, Mort Castle, McNally, Ojikutu, Book Cellar, Ravenswood, Cult, Berlin Nightclub, l DJ Teen Witch, Oakland, Chippy Nonstop, Leor Galil, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potte, Open Books, Growing Up With Harry Potter
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More live music options for your Thursday evening: Melody's Echo Chamber, Houndmouth, and Robert Glasper Experiment
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Melody's Echo Chamber, I Follow You, Lincoln Hall, Houndmouth, Penitentiary, Robert Glasper Experiment, House of Blues, SPACE, live music, Soundboard, Video, Audio
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Talking to a couple of Rogers Park theater managers as their cinema converts to digital projection
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Dim the Lights, Film, The New 400, Rogers Park, Tom Klein, Jenny Shapiro, David Bordwell, DCP, digital cinema, blockbuster movies, Hollywood studios, virtual print fee
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The sixth annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival opens up its artistic parameters
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Miguel Zenón, Kate Dumbleton, Wycliffe Gordon, jazz, Greg Ward, Sun Rooms, Dee Alexander, Dana Hall, Tomeka Reid, Zach Brock, Laurent Coq, La Muerte de Rocamadour, Rayuela, Audio
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Will new owner Erineo "Eddie" Carranza evict the historic theater's current management?
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Boom!, Film, News, Portage Theater, Erineo "Eddie" Carranza, Tom Raines, Alderman John Arena, Owen Brugh, Northwest Chicago Film Society, The Great Gabbo, Dennis Wolkowicz, Dave Dziedzic
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When words just aren't enough
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Grammar, Recycling Week, Media, TK, lorem ipsum, Cicero, fake Latin, Cecil Adams, Straight Dope, New York Times, Valentine's Day, big mistakes, Dave Weigel, Variations on a Theme
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Internet pop stars, reunited doom-metal godfathers, and more
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Do This, Music, Chippy Nonstop, Ravi Coltrane, Laurel Halo, Ital, Saint Vitus, Soundboard, live music, concert listings
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On the restaurant scene: updates on Elizabeth Restaurant, Dragon Ranch, and La Sirena Clandestina; Graham Elliot promotes the Combivore lifestyle
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Elizabeth Restaurant, Iliana Regan, Billy Dec, Dragon Ranch Moonshine & BBQ, La Sirena Clandestina, John Manion, Combos snacks, Combivorism, Graham Elliot, NASCAR, Graham Elliot Bistro, g.e.b., Graham Elliot, Andrew Brochu, Bryce Caron, Graham Elliot Day, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Devin Hester, Robbie Gould, The Combos Files
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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Can movie, Gene Siskel Film Center, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Vogue, Music Box, Head Games, Steve James, Hoop Dreams, Stevie movie, At the Death House Door, Hotel Transylvania, Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Cee-Lo Green, House at the End of the Street, Elisabeth Shue, Jennifer Lawrence, How I Ended This Summer, Gold Hugo, Chicago International Film Festival, Looper, Rian Johnson, Brick movie, The Brothers Bloom, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Lou Harrison: A World of Music, Love Likes Coincidences, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Logan Lerman, Pitch Perfect, Anna Kendrick, Elizabeth Banks, Rebel Wilson, Snowman's Land, Harold Pinter, The Dumb Waiter, Vulgaria, Bernardo Bertolucci, Before the Revolution, Block Museum of Art, John Carpenter, Dark Star, University of Chicago Doc Films, Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Facets Cinematheque, James W. Anderson, Northwestern University, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Fred Camper, Robert Bresson, Pickpocket, Jack Conway, Red-Headed Woman, Chicago Horror Film Festival, Audre Lord's Cultural Legacy, Audre Lord: The Berlin Years 1984-1992, The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lord, movies, Video
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This week's Variations on a Theme: recycling. Also, Kevin Warwick's "Death by smartphone: the Pitchfork edition"
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Behind Our Scenes, Eco, Recycling Week, Variations on a Theme, recycling, Recycling Week, The floating forest, Sam Worley, Kevin Warwick, Pitchfork Music Festival, smartphones, social media, conflict
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Hello, Chicago writers. Send in your best short stories for a chance to be published in our next Pure Fiction issue
- by Jerome Ludwig
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Tags: Books, Arts, Pure Fiction, Goldie Goldbloom, Gina Frangello, Keir Graff, James Kennedy, Adam Langer, James McManus, Whet Moser, Zak Mucha, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Bayo Ojikutu, Zoe Zolbrod, Zach Dodson, Featherproof Books
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What's on the Agenda for Friday, September 28, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, The Rubloff Paperweight Exhibit, Art Institute of Chicago, Gorilla Tango Theatre, That Was It: The Tragic Tale of Our King Michael Jackson, Jack Helbig, Psychedelic, Moon Duo, Portland, Leor Galil, Empty Bottle, Circles, Redgrave, Verma
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Watch the video for "Time" by Tampa postpunk group Merchandise, who play in Chicago on Friday
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Merchandise, Time, Children of Desire, Carson Cox, the Smiths, Moz, Video
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The artist behind numerous famous album covers discusses real versus unreal, distinctions between artistic genres, and some of his most recognized works
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Whoa, Arts, Music, Visual Art, Storm Thorgerson, Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here, Animals, Led Zeppelin, Presence, In Through the Out Door, The Plea (band), Dreamers Stadium, Pendulum (band), The Island (album), Mars Volta, Frances the Mute, Hipgnosis, Chris Eichenseer, Public Works, Computers Have a Lot to Answer For
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Previewing a screening of the experimental German film Studies for the Decay of the West, screening this Sunday at the Nightingale
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Foreign, Film, New German Cinema, Klaus Wyborny, Studies for the Decay of the West, Nightingale Theater, Patrick Friel, Dan Eisenberg, Alexander Kluge, Oberhausen Mainfesto, Oswald Spengler
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Scalia and Posner continue to disagree disagreeably
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Justice Antonin Scalia, Judge Richard Posner, Bryan Garner, textual originalism, legislative history, The New Republic, Reuters, Second Amendment, District of Columbia v. Heller
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Mooncakes, the bacon shortage, food desert extortion, and more
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Jimmy John's, Jimmy Liautaud, Chizakaya, Pete's Fresh Market, Chef Pardus, Rob Levitt, Michael Ruhlman, Louisa Chu, Israel Idonije, Alain's, bacon
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Bummed-out folk, boundary-pushing blues rock, groovy psych-soul, and more
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Do This, Music, Mark Kozelek, ZZ Top, Taken by Trees, Chain & the Gang, Jack White, Death Grips, Justin Bieber
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Fall-themed events like Apple Fest and Oktoberfest usher in the new season, while artisan wines, cheeses, and spirits abound in the city this week
- by Meg Pier
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Foodease Market, Stock Your Cellar, Water Tower Place, Apple Fest, Long Grove, Chicago Gourmet, Bon Appétit, Hamburger Hop, St. Alphonsus, Oktoberfest, Kinderfest, VeganMania, Vegan Black Metal Chef, Russ Faulk, Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet, Chopping Block, grilled cheese, beer, Wicker Park, Bucktown, Dinner Crawl, The Bedford, Silver Cloud, Club Lucky, Jackson Junge, Chicago Independent Spirits Expo, Carmichael's Courtyard, spirits, cigars, BevX.com, Ultimate Spirits Challenge, Glencairn
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Journeyman Dan Johnson made Adam Dunn's heroics possible
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Mudville, Sports, White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Adam Dunn, Dan Johnson, Bull Durham, Crash Davis, Vinnie Pestano, Tampa Bay Rays, Boston Red Sox, Tropicana Field
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"I Fall Easy" from the Catheters' 2002 album Static Delusions and Stone-Still Days
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Catheters, Sub Pop, Reno, Tahoe, Rye Coalition, trucker hat, Murder City Devils, gambling, Video
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From "pointless" to "devastatingly beautiful"
- by Meg Pier
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Tags: Theater, Arts, Comedy, Dance, Good People, Steppenwolf, Sweet Bird of Youth, Goodman, Armageddon Pie, Avenue Q, Seascape, The Big Knife, Remy Bumppo, NightBlue, Stage 773, Greenhouse, Raven, Don't Give That Beast a Name, Mammals, Zoo Studio, The Call Me Mister Fry, School Teacher Productions, Busted City, Prop Thtr, Dirty, Gift, Dearly Departed, Circle, The Skriker, Red Tape, Geography of a Horse Dreamer, Mary Arrchie, I Love Lucy, Broadway Playhouse, Godspell, Brown Paper Box, Collaboraction, A Very Terrible Father, Dream, Woody Sez, Northlight, Woyzeck on the Highveld, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ground Effect, Links Hall, David Lindsay-Abaire, David Cromer, Jonathan Berry, Jack Fry
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The terrorist mind—a look back at a 1972 plot to poison Chicago
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Recycling Week, Media, News, Variations on a Theme, Allan Schwandner, Stephen Pera, terrorism, plot to poison Chicago's water, Adel Daoud, "Toxic Terror, " W. Seth Carus
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Revisiting the forgotten German expressionist melodrama, once a staple of film studies courses
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: On Video, Film, Variety, E.A. Dupont, German expressionism, Emil Jannings, Warwick Ward, Lya De Putti, James Whale, Piccadilly, silent cinema, Karl Freund, The Kiss Before the Mirror, Waterloo Bridge, Facets Film School, Facets Multimedia, Ben Sachs
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Alejandro De Aza hadn't grounded into a double play all year, but then a blogger blabbed about it
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Adam Dunn K Watch, Mudville, Sports, Alejandro De Aza, White Sox, streaks, Kevin Kaduk, Yahoo! Sports, Big League Stew, double plays, Craig Biggio, Rob Deer, Dick McAuliffe, Pete Reiser, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cubs, Wrigleyworld, Gordon Beckham, Kevin Youkilis, Adam Dunn
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Relay Recordings, a label founded by drummer Tim Daisy, steps up with a new Vox Arcana album
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Tim Daisy, jazz, Relay Recordings, Jeb Bishop, Old Shoulders, Vox Arcana, Soft Focus, Elastic, James Falzone, Fred Lonberg-Holm, De Grote Olifant
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This week's roundup of college football in the Big Ten and beyond
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Mudville, Sports, News, Michigan State Spartans, college football, NCAA football, Ohio State Buckeyes, Penn State Nittany Lions, Big Ten, Minnesota Gophers, Iowa Hawkeyes, Floyd of Rosedale, Wisconsin Badgers, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Illinois Illini, Northwestern Wildcats, Chicago Maroons, West Virginia Mountaineers, Baylor Bears, Purdue Boilermakers, Indiana Hoosiers, Northern Illinois Huskies, North Central Cardinals, Elmhurst Bluejays