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Gossip Wolf
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The furry supergroup finally plays its first show. Plus: New albums from Shiloh and Dark Fog
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Chic-a-Go-Go, Ratso, Jake Austen, Ratso & the Rabbits, Nobunny, Rhythm Chicken, punk, Shiloh, Rick Riggs, Ryan Ensley, Dark Fog, psych
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Music Feature
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Does music born of Dirty South drug wars have any place in squeaky-clean dance clubs?
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music Feature, trap rap, trap music, Roland 808, Lex Luger, Rick Ross, EDM, David Drake, So Many Shrimp, Complex Magazine, acid trap, trap-ah-ton, trapstep, Flosstradamus, SoundCloud, Diplo, Jeffree's, Mad Decent, Trap Shit 6/9, UZ, Million Dollar Mano, Tumblr, Rihanna, Calvin Harris
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Three Beats
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Plus: Disappears play Rainbo for a bartender shot in the face, and Dusty Groove returns to the reissue biz with Real Gone
- by Leor Galil, Luca Cimarusti and Peter Margasak
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Tags: Three Beats, Chance the Rapper, Donald Pullen, Rockie Fresh, Rick Ross, Childish Gambino, LSD, Disappears, Danny Zaretsky, reissues, Gordon Anderson, Real Gone Music, record labels, Rainbo Club, Dusty Groove
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On Culture
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Prentice's reprieve from the wrecking ball allows a look at NU's tear-down rationale—and the alternatives
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Prentice Women's Hospital, Chicago Architectural Club, Bertrand Goldberg, Neil Cohen, Northwestern University, architecture, preservationism, Martin Felsen, Chicago Architecture Foundation, medical research, Lurie Medical Research Center, Jonah Lehrer, Isaac Kohane, groupthink
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On Politics
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Mayor Emanuel praises company's "corporate citizenship" after it fails to fulfill its TIF agreement with the city
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Chicago Tribune, United Airlines, Mayor Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel, TIF, Richard M. Daley, Mayor Daley, Mayor Richard M. Daley, Rod Blagojevich, City Hall, Republic Windows and Doors, Willis Tower, Roseland, 77 W. Wacker, State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio, Christen David
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Theater Review
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Court Theatre's musical doesn't get to the subtle, transcendent heart of Joyce's short story
- by Zac Thompson
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Tags: Theater Review, James Joyce, James Joyce's "The Dead", The Dead short story, Dubliners, Richard Nelson, Shaun Davey, Gabriel Conroy, Philip Earl Johnson, Court Theatre, Susie McMonagle, Rob Lindley, Doug Peck
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Movie Review
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Pang Ho-cheung's Vulgaria raises the dirty joke to the level of art
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Movie Review, Hong Kong, Vulgaria, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pang Ho-cheung, Johnnie To, Wai Ka-fai, Fulltime Killer, Trivial Matters, Love in a Puff, dirty joke
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Restaurant Review
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Homestyle Taste delivers the undersung food of northeast China
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Northeastern Chinese food, Bridgeport, Chinatown, Chinatown Square mall, Dongbei, Northern City, Homestyle Taste, Shenyang, Ed's Potsticker House, Cheng Hai Wang, Nancy Wu, Aiken Zhou, Dragon King, Manchuria, liang jang pi, Shandong Province, da la pi, colorful wide cold noodle, chilied whole-fish hot pots, stupid chicken, di san xian, Tony Hu, Lao Dongbei, Recommended
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Bleader
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Let's talk about something more pleasant than the No. 1 ranked Irish. Please.
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Mudville, Sports, News, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan State Spartans, college football, NCAA football, Purdue Boilermakers, Ohio State Buckeyes, Penn State Nittany Lions, Big Ten, Minnesota Gophers, Indiana Hoosiers, Iowa Hawkeyes, Wisconsin Badgers, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Illinois Illini, Northwestern Wildcats, USC Trojans
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Dongbei style meat and potatoes at Bridgeport's second northeasten Chinese restaurant
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: One Bite, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Northern City, Dongbei, Homestyle Taste, Ed's Potsticker House, meat and potatoes, baby potatoes with soy sauce, Bridgeport, Chinese food
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Sometimes, one generation's turkey is the next generation's feast
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Books, Arts, Turkey Week, Film, Turkey Week, Variations on a Theme, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Vincent Van Gogh, Resident Evil, The Rules of the Game
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What's on the Agenda for Thursday, November 22, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, The Chicago Photography Collective, 5x7, Mary Rafferty, Charles Steele, Chopin Theatre, Ukrainian Village, House Theatre of Chicago, The Nutcracker, Dan Jakes, The Chicago Blues All-Stars, Lincoln Park, Kingston Mines
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Notes on the latest Bollywood feature to play at the River East 21
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Foreign, Film, Son of Sardaar, River East 21, Bollywood, Sanjay Dutt, Arjan Bajwa, Buster Keaton, Our Hospitality, Bugs Bunny, Madlib, Beat Konducta in India
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Manic Japanese progressive thrash from Doom's 1986 EP Go Mad Yourself! is just the thing for Black Friday
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Doom, Why!?, Go Mad Yourself!, Complicated Mind, Public Collectors, Marc Fischer, Temporary Services, thrash, prog, metal, Japan, Taka, Pirarucu, Joe, Audio
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The bike race/food drive showcases the generous side of the bike-messenger subculture
- by Nyki Salinas-Duda
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Tags: Poverty, Two Wheels, Food & Drink, Adrian Gonzalez, Cranksgiving, Nico Deportago-Cabrera, Four Star Courier Collective, Devin Dizzle, Taylor Garbin, Adam Walsh, Marie Snyder, Greater Chicago Food Depository, Chicago Cuttin' Crew, cycling, food drive
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Bleader
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The city of Chicago has shelled out nearly $417 million in lawsuits since 2005
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Crime, Politics, Clout City, News, Chicago, law, lawsuits, settlements, judgments, police, misconduct, Anthony Abbate, Karolina Obrycka, Chicago Police Department, code of silence, Angela Caputo, Chicago Reporter, Robert Fioretti, outside counsel, budget
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Pressured by consumers' near-infinite selection of news to read, newspapers and other media companies need to consider summaries as the best way to earn clicks
- by Asher Klein
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Tags: Condiments, The Internet, news, TL;DR, the Web, summaries, Pulse, Flipbook, summaries, summarized web
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What's on the Agenda for Friday, November 23, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Leonard Cohen, Akoo Theater, Rosemont, Chicago Theater, Miles Raymer, Loom, Nothing Without a Company, Ike Holter, Timber Lanes, North Center, Tony Adler, Queer Thoughts, Pilsen, Homosapien 2, Pia Howell
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What's on the Agenda for Saturday, November 24, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Club Foot, Ukrainian Village, Tim McAtee, The Hipsters, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Bucktown Bazaar, Holstein Park, Kids These Days, the Vic, Traphouse Rock, Miles Raymer, Mathian
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Garry Wills lets Mitt Romney have it
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Politics, News, Mitt Romney, Garry Wills, Neil Steinberg, New York Review of Books, Chicago Sun-Times, David Speer, Michael Ferro, New York Times
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A Wired article gives some insight into how technology's role in the Israel-Hamas conflict
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Boom!, The Internet, News, Israel, Palestine, Hamas, social media, technology, Fajr-5 rockets, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Noah Shachtman, Robert Beckhusen, Wired magazine, Danger Room blog
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The underrated trumpeter Russ Johnson leads a terrific Chicago band through a set of his music at the Hideout on Wednesday
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Russ Johnson, jazz, Jason Stein, University of Wisconsin--Parkside, Co Streiff, In Circles, The Loper, Hideout, Audio
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Facts are fairly inflexible, but reporters can have their way with contexts
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Chicago Humanities Festival, Mother Jones, Monika Bauerlein, Adam Hochschild, Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Katrina, Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic, George Will, context
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Am I the only one who thinks you could switch a few nationalities in the new Red Dawn and have a documentary of America's invasion of Afghanistan?
- by Asher Klein
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Tags: Crime, Shots Fired, Film, war, Red Dawn, invasions, America, Afghanistan, Drew Hunt, insurgency, Red Army, protest films
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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Vulgaria, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ben Sachs, Pang Ho-Cheung, The Comedy movie, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Neil Hamburger, It's Such a Beautiful Day, Don Hertzfeldt, Hitchcock movie, Psycho Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Hopkins, Scarlet Johansson, Janet Leigh, Life of Pi, Ang Lee, Yann Martel, Red Dawn, John Milius, Tales of the Night, Michel Ochelot, Azur & Asmar, Kirikou and the Sorceress, Zu Warriors, Tsui Hark, Zu Warriors of the Magic Mountain, Don Siegel, The Beguiled, Clint Eastwood, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven, Logan Theater Chicago, Tsui Hark, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Gene Siskel Film Center, John Huston, The Man Who Would Be King, Northbrook Public Library, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Music Box Chicago, Wes Anderson, Rushmore movie, Douglas Sirk, Written on the Wind, Fred Camper, Madea's Big Scholarly Roundtable, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Peter Neville, Richard Knight Jr., Scrooge and Marley, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions, The Blues Brothers, The Sound of Music Sing-Along Event, Chicago movies, Video
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Tortoise Club, Fat Rice, and other recent restaurant openings
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Tortoise Club, Keene Addington III, lobster Thermidor, John Barleycorn, Bel 50, the Big Cheese, macaroni and cheese grilled cheese, Ing, OON, Pl-zen, MorseL, X-Marx, Abraham Conlon, Andrienne Lo, Rare Tea Cellar, Hugh Amano, Food on the Dole, Fat Rice
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A special exhibit displays some of the exquisite items in the Newberry's vast collection, on the occasion of the library's 125th anniversary
- by Jerome Ludwig
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Tags: Books, Do This, Arts, Newberry Library, University of Chicago Press, Kelly McGrath, Walter Newberry, Bughouse Square, Nelson Algren, Man With the Golden Arm, Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, Montaigne, Shakespeare, first folio, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Dill Pickle Club, baseball cards, American Tobacco Company, Jay Ryan, Bird Machine
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NU's new research building won't be much like MIT's legendary Building 20
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: Arts, Architecture, MIT, Building 20, Northwestern University, Noam Chomsky, Morris Halle, Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn, Jonah Lehrer, Groupthink, New Yorker
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Observing the crowd dynamics of a weekday afternoon multiplex screening
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Broken, Dim the Lights, Film, Cloud Atlas, Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, River East 21, moviegoing, Clifford Odets, Paradise Lost, universal values, why DCP sucks
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The Bulls owner doesn't need a subsidy for the United Center any more than the Ricketts need one at Wrigley Field
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Mudville, Politics, Sports, News, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Cubs, Joe Ricketts, President Obama, Jerry Reinsdorf, Michael Jordan, Phil Jackson, Jerry Krause, Wrigley Field
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Take a listen to the sinister and melancholic "666" by Olympia duo Ragana
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Ragana, 666, Olympia, black metal, doom metal, emo, All's Lost, Anti-Gravity Bunny, Justin Snow
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Turkey mousseline, Obama's green beef curry, Trotter's millions dollar wine auction and other food news bites
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Alpana Singh, Charles Blackstone, SheSimmers, Charlie Trotter, Anthony Bourdain, The Layover, Mark Steuer, Carriage House
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In a fake Facebook contest. Also: Honey Boo Boo.
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Election 2012, Segregation, Turkey Week, Food & Drink, News, White House, Barack Obama, Honey Boo Boo, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, Jesus H. Christ, turkeys, Thanksgiving, Turkey Week, Variations on a Theme, Glitzy, pageant gay pigs
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The ten biggest turkeys I've reviewed
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Gross, This Will Kill You, Turkey Week, Film, Variations on a Theme, George Carlin, Doctor Benny, Nolan H. Lebovitz, Timothy Dowling, Josh Holloway, Jennifer Jostyn, Mark Binder, Eight Crazy Nights, Punch-Drunk Love, Adam Sandler, The Hills Have Eyes, Wes Craven, Alexandre Aja, High Tension, Rondo Hatton, Operation Iraqi Freedom, I Hate Valentine's Day, Nia Vardalos, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, John Corbett, Mike Starr, Stephen Guarino, Amir Arison, Rachel Dratch, Judah Friedlander, Jason Mantzoukas, Land of the Lost, Will Ferrell, Universal Pictures, Brad Silberling, Anna Friel, Danny McBride, Sid and Marty Krofft, H.R. Pufnstuff, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, The Life of David Gale, Alan Parker, Mississippi Burning, Kevin Spacey, Laura Linney, Jimmy Stewart, Call Northside 777, Kate Winslet, Love Ranch, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro, The Good Shepherd, Helen Mirren, Taylor Hackford, Ray movie, Boogie Nights, Rocky movie, Play the Game, Paul Campbell, Andy Griffith, Marla Sokoloff, Northwestern University, Marc Fienberg, SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2, Bob Clark, Porky’s, Baby Geniuses, Look Who's Talking, Spy Kids, Jon Voight, Untraceable movie, Diane Lane, Rube Goldberg, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, The Back-up Plan, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, Boat Trip, Broken Bridges, Darkness Falls, Detention, Feardotcom, How Much Do You Love Me?, Killer Elite, Mercy, Miss March, New Year's Eve, Paper Heart, Rambo, The Real Cancun, Spun, The Trip, Young @ Heart, Your Highness, bad movies, turkeys
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A heavy, hypnotic jam from the new album by British guitarist Justin Adams and Gambian griot Juldeh Camara
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, JuJu, Justin Adams, Juldeh Camara, In Trance, Nightwalk, 12 O'Clock Track, African music, riti, Audio
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What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, November 21, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, City Winery, Danny Barnes, Waco Brothers, Al Scorch Country Soul Ensemble, Heaven Hill Distillery, Hito Steyerl, Art Institute of Chicago, Comedians You Should Know, Timothy O'Toole's in Streeterville, Marty DeRosa, Danny Kallas, Bob Palos, Joe Kilgallon, Ricky Gonzalez
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A wealth of newly released interview footage gives a kaleidoscopic sense of the Beat Generation's legacy
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Books, Television, Film, Gregory Corso, What Happened to Kerouac?, Richard Lerner, Lewis MacAdams, Shout! Factory, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, On the Road, Walter Salles, Cannes Film Festival, John Krokides, Kill Your Darlings, Jack Huston, Ben Foster, Daniel Radcliffe, The Steve Allen Show, William F. Buckley, Firing Line, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, John Clellon Holmes, Edie Parker Kerouac, Carolyn Cassaday, Herbert Huncke, Jan Kerouac, The Beverly Hillbillies, Political Fallout of the Beat Generation, Naropa Institute, Paul Krassner, The Realist, Abbie Hoffman, Timothy Leary, Howl, Naked Lunch, Beat Generation, documentaries, counterculture, movies, Video
