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Restaurant Review
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This tiny Streeterville sushi spot has big ambitions it might just realize
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Restaurant Reviews, sushi, omakase, Japan, Mauro Mafrici, Kimberly Mafrici, Jiro Ono, Jinwoo Han, Blue Ocean, raw fish, Katsu, Arami, Masaki, Recommended, Video
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Culture Vultures
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Letherbee Gin, A Universe From Nothing, and How to Be a Woman
- by Meg Pier
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Tags: Culture Vultures, Cyndi Fecher, Brian J. Solem, Graze magazine, Letherbee Gin, Brent Engel, Miriam Matasar, Keith Ecker, Essay Fiesta, Guts & Glory, Lawrence Krauss, Mare Swallow, Chicago Writers Conference, Caitlin Moran, Lula Cafe
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Performing Arts Review
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The National Theatre of Scotland boisterously updates a medieval ballad
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, David Greig, National Theatre of Scotland, Tam Lin, fairy tales, Scotland, Satan, Melody Grove, Andy Clark, David McKay, Alasdair Macrae, Annie Grace
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Performing Arts Review
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Mary Zimmerman's 1998 masterpiece is warmer in revival
- by Albert Williams
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Mary Zimmerman, Ovid, myth, King Midas, Raymond Fox, Orpheus, Eurydice, Myrrha, Anjali Bhimani, Aphrodite, Anne Fogarty, Phaeton, allegories, Psyche, Eros, Douglas Hara
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Performing Arts Sidebar
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A celebration of Chicago-style comedy at Navy Pier
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, comedy, Chicago School of Comedy, Ben Capraro, Jimmy Carrane, comedy workshops, Annoyance Theatre, ComedySportz, iO, Actors Training Centre, Tim Kazurinsky, Charna Halpern, Baby Wants Candy, Cook County Social Club, Uncle Brother's
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On Media
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An act of satire in the Madison County Crier led to an advertiser exodus—and a principled stand by a publisher who took a risk on hyperlocal journalism
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Michael Miner on Media, Madison County Crier, Frances Madeson, Fredericktown, Missouri, Karen Whitener, journalism, hyperlocal journalism, Eugene McCarthy, New Democratic Coalition, Caleb Killian, the Marines, USMC, ROTC
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On Politics
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Confronting the anti-teachers' union myth with, you know, facts
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: On Politics, Chicago Public Schools, Karen Lewis, Chicago Teachers Union, charter schools, education, UNO, Rahm Emanuel, Bruce Rauner, union schools, Juan Rangel, standardized testing, ISAT
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Savage Love
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And other questions from tomorrow's leaders
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, sneeze coming, dry humping, douchebags, AIDS, STIs, necrophilia, baby daddies, orgasms, closeted gays, yeast infections, threesomes, blow jobs
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Feature
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How one vacant lot became a battleground between the politically powerful pawnshop industry and the outspoken residents of a middle-class Chicago neighborhood—and what that says about the future of development in the city
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Feature, pawnshops, poverty, urban planning, zoning, Cash America, Marie Tyse, Lona Lane, Auburn-Gresham, Wrightwood, job creation, TIFs, investment, Leonard DeVille, Howard Brookins Jr., Big Pawn, EZ Pawn, Ed Burke
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In Rotation
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Plus: Reader writer Leor Galil on UNDRCRWN's Derrick Rozay T-shirt, and Mayor Daley bassist Emily Elhaj on "the go-to guy for underground album art"
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: In Rotation, Plant Parenthood, UNDRCRWN, Derrick Rose, Emily Elhaj, Mayor Daley, Implodes, Holy Other, 4AD, Pale Saints, Robert Beatty, Brett Naucke, Catholic Tapes, Swans, Coil, Zath, Video
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Music Feature
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Outsider musicians like David Liebe Hart are a sort of litmus test for fans of the bizarre
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music Feature, outsider musicians, David Liebe Hart, Willis Earl Beal, Tim and Eric, viral videos, The Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Program, James Quall, Adam Papagan, Wild Man Fischer, Moondog, Jandek, Daniel Johnston, Wesley Willis
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Music Sidebar
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Five diverse lineups that include black metal, juke, experimental R&B, sound art, spiritual jazz, and ambient electronics
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Music Sidebar, Nguzunguzu, R. Stevie Moore, Sao Paolo Underground, Demdike Stare, Vattnet Viskar, Joshua Abrams, Natural Information Society, Supreme Cuts, Shit & Shine, Duane Pitre, Traxman, Sylvain Chavaneau, Micachu & the Shapes, Holy Other, Lee Noble
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Bleader
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A killer one-off reunion of Sam Rivers's trio with Dave Holland and Barry Altschul has been released on CD
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, jazz, Sam Rivers, Dave Holland, Barry Altschul, Tony Williams, Miles Davis, loft jazz, Reunion: Live in New York, Pi Recordings, Audio
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Bleader
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The Three Oaks, Michigan, distillery just launched its first bourbon
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: One Sip, Booze, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Journeyman Distillery, Featherbone Bourbon, Bill Welter, Craft Spirit Week, INdependent Spirits Expo, E.K. Warren, Ravenswood Rye, whiskey, bourbon
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Bleader
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What's on the Agenda for Sunday, October 7, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Cole's, Logan Square, Cinema Minima, Cinema Culture, Celebration of the Grotesque & Morbid, Theater Wit, Lakeview, A Class Act, Edward Kleban, Albert Williams, Linda Kline, Lonny Price
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What's on the Agenda for Friday, October 5, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Chicago Artists Month, Bridgeport Arts Center, Reggie's Rock Club, Smoke Dza, Mr. Muthafuckin' Exquire, Flatbush Zombies, Leor Galil, Cashius Green with Pheo, Nakim, Kembe X & Alex Wiley, the Hideout, Wicker Park, Mark Brazer, The Interview Show, Curtis Duffy, Michael Muser, Lil' Rel, Frank Catalan
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Marathons, John Bingham, and the pleasures of not winning
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Marathon Week, Sports, Variations on a Theme, marathon, running, losing, field hockey, swimming, swim team
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Bleader
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In football, the numbers don't lie, except when they do
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Mudville, Sports, News, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan State Spartans, college football, NCAA football, AP poll, AP rankings, Ohio State Buckeyes, Penn State Nittany Lions, Big Ten, Wisconsin Badgers, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Illinois Illini, Northwestern Wildcats, Chicago Maroons, West Virginia Mountaineers, Baylor Bears, Purdue Boilermakers, Indiana Hoosiers, Northern Illinois Huskies, Chicago Maroons, USC Trojans, Washington Huskies, Utah Utes, Oregon Ducks, Georgia Bulldogs, South Carolina Gamecocks, LSU Tigers, Florida Gators
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Bleader
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On the local restaurant scene this week: La Sirena Clandestina, Brazilian brunch, and the closing of the area's only Uzbek restaurant
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Justin Anderson, the Bedford, John Manion, La Sirena Clandestina, Brazilian food, smelt, Sushisamba Rio, Chaihanna, Uzbek cuisine, LTHForum
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The Scottish writer talks about his latest novel, a new theatrical adaption of Trainspotting, and life in the Sunshine State.
- by Jerome Ludwig
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Tags: Books, Arts, Irvine Welsh, Skagboys, Trainspotting, books, Norton, Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs, Theater Wit, Video
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Bleader
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A short review of a restaurant that's closing
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Bonsoiree, Beverly Kim, Johnny Clark, Shin Thompson, Matty Colston, Michelin Guide, seolleongtang, Korean food, Korean food
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Always be well-prepared to run a marathon, but also always be well-prepared to dodge cannon fire
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Shots Fired, Marathon Week, Sports, Marathon Week, marathon, Sis Daley, ankle sprain, shin splint, Sarah Phillips, Guardian, Steve Bogira, running, race, finish line, puking, Variations on a Theme
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Christina Vantzou and R. Stevie Moore are among the highlights at Wednesday's kickoff show for this year's Adventures in Modern Music festival
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Sao Paulo Underground, Empty Bottle, Adventures in Modern Music, The Wire, Christina Vantzou, No. 1, Homemade Mountains, R. Stevie Moore, Hearing Aid, Audio
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Chicago police are busting fewer people for marijuana offenses—but only in certain neighborhoods
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Crime, The Reefer, Politics, News, cannabis, drug bust, drug war, Ed Burke, Garry McCarthy, grass gap, marijauna decriminalization, marijuana, pot politics, Rahm Emanuel, The Reefer, the Reefer Reader, violent crime
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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, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Schroeter, Goethe-Institut, Facets Cinematheque, The Paperboy movie, Lee Daniels, Precious movie, Shadowboxer movie, About Cherry, James Franco, Dev Patel, Lili Taylor, Heather Graham, The Ambassador movie, Mads Brugger, The Red Chapel, Escape Fire The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, Frankenweenie, Tim Burton, The Last Step, Leila Hatami, A Separation movie, The Oranges movie, Hugh Laurie, Allison Janney, Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Three Films: Straub and Huillet, Twenty Days Without War, Aleksei Guerman, V/H/S, Ti West, Joe Swanberg, The Well-Digger's Daughter, Marcel Pagnol, Daniel Auteuil, Won't Back Down, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Holly Hunter, Stanley Donen, Charade movie, Northbrook Public Library, King Hu, Come Drink With Me, University of Chicago Doc Films, Vera Chytilova, Daisies, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Alexander Payne, Election movie, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Frank Tashlin, The Girl Can't Help It, Fred Camper, Joe Dante, Gremlins, Jean-Luc Godard, Pierrot le Fou, Ken Jacobs, Tom Tom the Piper's Son, Greek Film Fest Chicago, National Hellenic Museum, Pickwick Theater, film festivals, movies, Video
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Don't ask
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Paranormal, Grammar, News, butt chugging, James P. Broughton, University of Tennessee, alcohol enemas, The Wizard of Oz, friends of Dorothy, Mary Norris, New Yorker, hyphens, Earl Sweatshirt
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What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, October 3, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Wrigleyville, Metro, Brother Ali, Blank Tape Beloved, Homeboy Sandman, DJ Sosa, the Reminders, Chain & the Gang, The Burlington, Logan Square, In Cold Blood, Miles Raymer, Outer Minds, The Grove, Kelly Denato, Teagan White, Tiny Kitten Teeth, OhNo! Doom Gallery, Wicker Park
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What's on the Agenda for Monday, October 8, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Karl Marx, Harold Washington Library Center, Lincoln Hall, Beth Orton, Sugaring Season, Peter Margasak, Sam Amidon, Music Box, The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour
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David Liebe Hart, crusty black metal, and a nice Bulls/Rick Ross mashup
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music, David Liebe Hart, Chicago Bulls, Rick Ross, Catholic Tapes, Mayor Daley, Von Freeman, George Freeman, Adventures in Modern Music, Empty Bottle, Flatbush Zombies, Micachu and the Shapes, Beth Orton, Ssion
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As an alternative paper in Fredericktown, Missouri, stumbles, old media perform badly
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Frances Madeson, Karen Whitener, KFVS, Caleb Whitener, Tom Tumminia, Fredericktown Democrat News, Madison County Crier
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A new graphic work, in pictures
- by Jerome Ludwig
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Tags: Books, Do This, Things I Love, Whoa, Visual Art, Chris Ware, Building Stories, Pantheon, Publishers Weekly, Quimby's. Sheila Sachs, Chicago Reader, comics, cartoonisits
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The White Sox gave out in the marathon that is the baseball season
- by Ted Cox
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Tags: Mudville, Marathon Week, Sports, White Sox, Detroit Tigers, Jake Peavy, Justin Verlander, MLB, baseball, Chicago Cubs, Variations on a Theme
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What's on the Agenda for Saturday, October 6, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Lakeview, Sidetrack, Concert For Vital Bridges, AIDS, Chicago Artists' Coalition, The Four-Star Comedy Festival, Saturday Night Live, Tim Meadows.
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Shows to see this Thursday through Sunday include Demdike Stare, Flatbush Zombies, and Micachu & the Shapes
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Do This, Music, Adventures in Modern Music, Demdike Stare, Empty Bottle, Flatbush Zomies, black metal, Vattnet Viskar, International Contemporary Ensemble, Micachu & the Shapes
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A tribute to Barry Commoner, the great scientist, activist, ecologist and one-time presidential candidate
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: RIP, Politics, Clout City, Barry Commoner, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, President Ronald Reagan, U.S. Post Office, President Jimmy Carter
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What's on the Agenda for Thursday, October 4, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Poetry, Don Share, Christian Wiman, The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine, Poetry Foundation, The Seven, the Viaduct Theater, Roscoe Village, Maria Bamford, Louie, Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule, Up Comedy Club, Old Town
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Previewing the Siskel Center's retrospective of the great Russian director, which begins tomorrow with My Friend Ivan Lapshin and Twenty Days Without War
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Foreign, Transportation, Film, Aleksei Guerman, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Twenty Days Without War, Gene Siskel Film Center, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master, time travel, Soviet history, Stalinist purges, Scientology, NKVD, secret police, Yuri Nikulin, Kevin B Lee
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What's on the Agenda for Tuesday, October 9, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, R. Kelly, Hungry Brain, Roscoe Village, R. Kelly 101, Trapped in the Closet, Kansas City, Ssion, Empty Bottle, Bent, Miles Raymer House of LaDosha, Big Dipper, DJ Teen Witch Fan Club, Newberry Library, The Big Draw
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Graziano vs. Reggiano, new barbecue, A.A. Gill kills, and more
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Hugh Amano, A.A. Gill, Michelin Guide, Dat Donut, Leon's, barbecue, Will Douillet, Sixteen, food trucks, J.P Graziano, Jim Graziano
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Craft Spirits Week takes over Chicago's food and drink event scene, with still more Oktoberfests, beer festivals, wine festivals, and dinners paired with spirits and ciders
- by Meg Pier
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Absinthe, Deidra Hay, Great Lakes, North Shore, St. George, Oktoberfest, Mash Tun, Duck N' Roll, Brand BBQ, Michael Kiser, Flesh for Food, Red Line Coffee Crawl, Intelligentsia, Ch'ava, Metropolis 2 Sparrows, Craft Spirits Week, Gregory Ellis, Argus Brewery, Golf Open, Pullman State Historic Site, Chicago Beer Festival, Metropolitan Brewing Company, Shock Top, Union Station, Mokena, Greg Hall, cider, Virtue, Harmony Grill, The Savoy
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A track from the dazzling debut of Living by Lanterns, aka Mike Reed's Sun Ra group from the 2011 Chicago Jazz Festival
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, 12 O'Clock Track, Chicago Jazz Festival, Mike Reed, Living by Lanterns, New Myth/Old Science, Forget B, Experimental Sound Studio, Sun Ra, Jason Adasiewicz, Myth/Science Assembly
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My record in the Chicago marathon didn't last
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Mudville, Marathon Week, Sports, Variations on a Theme, marathons, Chicago marathon, Pan-American marathon, Mayor Daley Marathon, Chicago Motor Club, Richard J. Daley, Daley Center, Paul Ryan, Gold Coast, Lincoln Park Zoo, Lake Shore Drive, Grant Park, Field Museum, Soldier Field, Promontory Point, Buckingham Fountain, Boston Marathon, Heartbreak Hill, New York City marathon, Tribune, Dan Cloeter.
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Composer George Flynn performs music from his strong new album at Katerina's on Saturday
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, George Flynn, classical music, Southport Records, String Fever, Winter Landscape, Christopher Costanza, Relevant Tones, Katerina's, Audio
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In this week's Food & Drink: ultra-high-end Japanese at Streeterville's Masaki, Key Ingredient smelt, cheap eats at Joong Boo Market
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Masaki, Streeterville, Pelago Ristorante, Masa, Urusawa, omakase, Sukiyabashi Jiro, Key Ingredient, John Manion, Smelt, La Sirena Clandestina, Brazilian food, Joong Boo Market, cheap eats
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Thoughts on the late German director, the subject of an upcoming partial retrospective at Facets
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Art House, Foreign, Film, Werner Schroeter, Facets Multimedia, Palermo or Wolfsburg, Magdalena Montezuma, The Kingdom of Naples, The Smiling Star, The Black Angel, New German Cinema, opera, Bertolt Brecht, Argila, Neurasia, Olaf Moller, Cinema Scope
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Pulverized" from the Cincinnati-based Wussy
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Wussy, 12 O'Clock Track, Ass Ponys, Shake It Records, the Comet, Whet Moser, Chuck Cleaver, Lisa Walker, Buckeye, Strawberry
