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Performing Arts Review
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Philip Dawkins's new play needs more than a coy approach
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, Victory Gardens Theater, Philip Dawkins, Chicago River, Eastland, Seth Bockley, Sarah Ruhl, coups de theatre, death, Guy Massey, Emjoy Gavino, Baize Buzan, Michael Salinas, Janet Ulrich Brooks
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Performing Arts Sidebar
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Writers' Theatre production confronts life under Stalin
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Joseph Stalin, USSR, Russia, despotism, John Lowell, Kate Fry, Mark Montgomery, Kimberly Senior, Rachel Anne Healy, Writers' Theatre
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Holiday Gift Guide
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Presents people might actually want, based on what we actually want
- by Reader staff
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Tags: Holiday Gift Guide, gifts, gift guide, gift guides, doughnuts, The Donut Shop, John Robinson, Fresh Goods, Terrell Jones, Vita Morte, streetwear, Broadway in Chicago, Olive Films, irony, Steve Gadlin, cats, Thumbtack Press, Letherbee Distillers, absinthe, RX Made, Archer Air Spray, Slightly Insulting Chicago Posters, Tru Blooms chicago, perfume, Monte Beauchamp, Blab! anthology, Owly Shaddow Puppets, Laura Prieto-Velasco
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On Culture
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The city's playwright-driven theater weeds out the old
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: On Culture, Dennis Zacek, Chay Yew, playwright-centered theater, Sandy Shinner, theater, Actors' Equity, Douglas Post, playwrights' ensemble, Marcelle McVay, Tanya Saracho, Philip Dawkins, Charles Smith, Victory Gardens Theater
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On Politics
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The three-tower project at Wolf Point looks like the latest big real estate deal shepherded through City Hall
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Wolf Point Development, City Hall, Hines Interests LP, Mayor Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel, Jack George, Michael Daley, 42nd Ward, Brendan Reilly, River North Residents Association, Fulton River District Association, Friends of Wolf Point, Ellen Barry, Plan Commission, City Council, Reuben Hedlund, Larry Gage, David Roeder, Chicago Sun-Times, Derrick Smith, Bill Griffin
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Movie Review
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A new documentary revisits the Central Park rape that sent five innocent men to jail
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Movie Review, The Central Park Five, Sarah Burns, David McMahon, Ken Burns, Ed Koch, Trisha Meili, Matias Reyes, Music Box Theatre, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Jim Dwyer, Natalie Byfield, Humbert Arroyo, Carlos Gonzalez, John Hartigan
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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: Matt Walker's new band, Stuttgart, and the third annual Gli.tc/h festival
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Coffin Pricks, Chris Thomson, Matt Walker, Plustapes, 1000 Faces, Gli.tc/h, Gli.tc/h fest, DIY, TriTriangle
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Music Feature
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The cream of the year-end crop of box sets and reissues: Coleman Hawkins, Bessie Smith, Tunji Oyelana, Bill Withers, and more
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music Feature, Arizona Dranes, He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Drane, Tompkins Square, Church of God in Christ, Michael Corcoran, Jan Garbarek I Dansere, ECM, Bobo Stenson, Sart, Terje Rypdal, Afric Pepperbird, Jon Christensen, Arild Andersen, Witchi-Tai-To, Palle Danielsson, Coleman Hawkins, Classic Coleman Hawkins Sessions 1922-1947, Mosaic music label, Mamie Smith, Fletcher Henderson, Tunji Oyelana, A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79, Soundway, Wole Soyinka, AndrƩs Schiff, Johann Sebastian Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Clavier, ECM, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Paul Griffiths, Bessie Smith, The Complete Columbia Recordings, Columbia/Legacy, Louis Armstrong, James P. Johnson, Diablos del Ritmo: The Colombian Melting Pot 1960-1985, Analog Africa, Samy Ben Redjeb, Felito, Machuca, Discos Tropical, Wganda Kenya, Sonora Dinamita, Alejandro Duran, Sound Art @ Het Apollohuis, Wergo, Paul Panhuysen, Helene Panhuysen, Het Apollohuis, Jackson MacLow, Z'ev, Mark Trayle, Hugh Davies, Phill Niblock, Arnold Dreyblatt, Alvin Lucier, Music for Solo Performer, Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, and End Time Music 1923-1936, Nathan Salsburg, Don Wahle, Gid Tanner, The Allen Brothers, Dixon Brothers, Susan Archie, Bill Withers, The Complete Sussex and Columbia Albums, Michael Eric Dyson
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Bleader
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What's on the Agenda for Monday, December 3, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Arts, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, MusicNOW, Labyrinth, Sofia Gubaidulina, Peter Margasak, Re-Animate, Peter Drake, Linda Warren Gallery, West Town, Jami Sailor, Copy Code, Uncharted Books, Logan Square
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But we don't know what it is, either
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Grammar, Piety, News, irony, Alanis Morrissette, Christy Wampole, New York Times, the Awl, Maria Bustillos, Barack Obama, Glenn Beck, Clint Eastwood, Jerry Saltz, Bill O'Reilly, Elif Batuman, sincerity
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Buy Trotify to make your bike go clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Cycling, DUH!, Two Wheels, News, Trotify, cycling, Two Wheels, Monty Python, holidays, gifts, coconuts, clip clop, horse, bike lights, Original Content London, Video
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Lungfish, Kreayshawn, and Kid Koala all play Saturday night
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Do This, Music, Daniel Higgs, Michael Zerang, Kid Koala, Adventure Time, Kreayshawn, Rye Rye, Honey Cocaine, Chippy Nonstop, Tumblr, Video
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What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, December 5, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Arts, Jordan Cook, Reignwolf, Schuba's, Lakeview, Kevin Warwick, Sons of the West, Haymarket Pub & Brewery, Drinking and Writing Theater, A Beer Carol, ComedySportz, The Two-Dollar Bill
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My aunt recounts her more memorable Black Fridays at the Walmart in Harlan, Kentucky
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Seriously?, This Will Kill You, Consumerism Week, News, Variations on a Theme, Walmart, Black Friday, Harlan, Kentucky, Fisher-Price, Cabbage Patch, Thanksgiving, Consumerism Week
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New on the restaurant scene: Johnny Anderes's Reno
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Reno, Telegraph Wine Bar, Johnny Anderes, Jeremy Quinn, Luke LeFiles, Malort, kimchi, craft spirits, craft beers, Logan Square, Katie Wyer, Stumptown Coffee
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Knafeh style, Pappy poo poo, the Feds' beef with grassfed beef, and more
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Baconfest, Jaafer Sweets, Grant Achatz, knafeh, Tallgrass Beef, Bill Kurtis, Pappy Van Winkle, Kaufman's Deli. Bette Dworkin, Video
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A Sun-Times investigation climaxes with the indictment of former Mayor Daley's nephew
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Richard Vanecko, David Koschman, Dan Webb, Chicago Sun-Times, Tim Novak, Chris Fusco, Carol Marin, Eric Zorn, Rolando Cruz, Alex Hernandez
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Previewing programs by Phil Solomon and Wladyslaw Starewicz
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Art House, Film, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Doc Films, found footage, Wladyslaw Starewicz, Phil Solomon, Stan Brakhage, experimental film, stop-motion animation, Wes Anderson, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Cameraman's Revenge
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What's on the Agenda for Tuesday, December 4, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Arts, Harold Washington Library Center, Holly Rozner, Trade Secrets, Jeff Garlin, Steppenwolf Theater, Closer Than I Appear, Richard Koppe, Moholy-Nagy, New Bauhaus, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Wicker Park
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This weekend's best concerts include Azita, Jeb Bishop, Six Organs of Admittance, Foxygen, High on Fire, and the last Country Calendar show
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Do This, Music, Azita, Jeb Bishop, Six Organs of Admittance, Foxygen, High on Fire, Soundboard, live music, concert listings
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As long as there isn't one newspaper for the Web, we'll be skimming just to find what we want to read. That's where TL;DR helps.
- by Asher Klein
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Tags: Shots Fired, The Internet, Media, News, TL;DR, reading, newspapers, media, the Internet, the Web, Too Long Didn't Read, e-newstands, reading news
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What's on the Agenda for Thursday, December 6, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Arts, Burlington, Logan Square, Owen Ashworth, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Advance Base, Leor Galil, Julie Byrne, J Fernandez, The Rebekah Theatre Project, Raven Theatre, Edgewater, Michael Cristofer, The Shadow Box, Asher Klein, Lana Herzog, Werner Herzog, Maya Polsky Gallery, Permanent Mirror
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Chicago aldermen are poised to sign off on Rahm Emanuel's no-bid billboard plan
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Politics, Clout City, News, billboards, bus shelters, Chicago, Chicago City Council, FOIA, freedom of information act, Interstate-JCDeCaux, JCDeCaux, mayor, parking meter deal, parking meter lease deal, parking meters, privatization, Proco "Joe" Moreno, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley
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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Chicago International Film Festival, The Central Park Five, Burn: One Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit, Generation P, Starlet movie, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, New Jerusalem, Rick Alverson, The Comedy movie, Oliver Twist, Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney, Step Up to the Plate, Michel Bras, Sebastien Bras, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, Joseph von Sternberg, Anatahan, Portage Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Eric von Stroheim, Blind Husbands, Gene Siskel Film Center, Busby Berkeley, The Gang's All Here, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Joe Dante, Gremlins, Logan Theater Chicago, Alfred Hitchcock, Marnie Hitchcock, Facets Cinematheque, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, Gretchen Helfrich, WBEZ, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, University of Chicago Doc Films, Chicago movies, Video
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What's on the Agenda for Saturday, December 1, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Arts, Sean Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway Museum, Oak Park, Miguel, Usher, Asher Roth, Trey Songz, Arie Crown Theater, Kaleidoscope Dreams, Miles Raymer, Elle Varner, Bobby Slayton, The Tonight Show, Politically Incorrect, Zanies, Old Town
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Should 'roids be allowed in the Hall of Fame? Baseball writers are putting themselves in their answers.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Sports, News, Baseball Hall of Fame, Baseball Writers Association of America, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Phil Rogers, Rick Morrissey, Philip Hersh, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, Nate Silver, Bill James
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What's on the Agenda for Monday, December 10, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Warped Tour, The Starting Line, House of Blues, Vinne Caruana, the Movielife, Chicago Artists' Coalition, West Loop, HATCH Project, Marissa Lee Benedict, Brittany Ransom, Life in Some Form, Gorilla Tango, Bucktown, Season's Geekings: A Gorilla Tango Burlesque Holiday Special
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Find your way to Interurban, pastry chef Christine McCabe's Lincoln Park alley takeaway window
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Christine McCabe, Chicago restaurants, Charlie Trotter's, Gabriel's, Washburne Culinary Institute, Sugar, Glazed and Infused, Jerry Suqi, Scott Harris
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Talking with the longtime Siskel Film Center employee about the upcoming screenings he programmed, which will raise money for his experimental Lyme-disease treatment
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: On Video, Film, Nate Cunningham, Lyme Disease, Gene Siskel Film Center, Eric Marciano, The Age of Insects, video club, New York in the 80s, Abel Ferrara, stem-cell therapy, the Nightingale, exploitation film
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Beard Papa dies, Kevin Boehm digs Wendy's, Next goes vegan, and more
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, bacon, Next Restaurant, Grant Achatz, Beard Papa, Boka, Kevin Boehm
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This cabbie is no hack
- by Jerome Ludwig
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Tags: Behind Our Scenes, Books, Arts, Jack Clark, Chicago Reader, Westerfield's Chain, Nobody's Angel, Dancing on Graves, Highway Side, Nick Acropolis, On the Home Front, Private Path, Mary Jo Ryan, Hard Case Crime, Deanna Isaacs, Hack Writing, Dmitry Samarov, West Side Stories, Studs Terkel
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Previewing the "glitch art" festival in Wicker Park that runs from December 6-8
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Broken, Arts, Film, GLI.TC/H, glitch art, Wicker Park, academic panel, conference, video art, High Concept Labs, Tritriangle, TGFKAHD
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Most of the president's followers are phonies
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: The Internet, Politics, News, Twitter, Barack Obama, Chicagoist, Bob Fioretti, Wikipedia, Mitt Romney, LinkedIn, StatusPeople, Fake Followers Check, Lady Gaga, @ladygaga, Justin Bieber, @justinbieber, the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, @pontifex, Facebook
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The best shows to see Monday through Wednesday include MusicNow, Public Enemy, and Stacian
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Do This, Music, Public Enemy, MusicNow, Stacian, Moniker Records, NPR, Austin Cooper, Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Sofia Gubaidulina, Peter Margasak, Leor Galil, Natasha Khan, Karin Dreijer Andersson, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Previewing the recently rediscovered backstage comedy by one of America's greatest filmmakers
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Do This, Film, John Ford, Upstream, Portage Theater, Dave Kehr, long-lost movies, backstage drama, Earle Foxe, silent movies, The Wings of Eagles, Young Mr. Lincoln, Will Rogers, Gideon's Day, Grant Withers, Nancy Nash
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What's on the Agenda for Saturday, December 8, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Arts, Twelve Bars of Xmas, Cubby Bear, Wrigleyville, Second Saturdays Silent Film, Music Box Theatre, Frank Lloyd, Oliver Twist, Lon Chaney, Jackie Coogan, Congress Theater, Logan Square, Young Jeezy, Thug Motivation 103: Hustlerz Ambition
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Journalists practicing solidarity
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Steve Franklin, Chicago Headline Club, Curtis Black, Flynn McRoberts, Scribe Aid, Mary Schmich, Eric Zorn, Heartland Cafe, Community Media Workshop, Subcomandante Marcos
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Mellow country grooves from legendary sideman Chris Darrow
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Do This, Music, Chris Darrow, country rock, country music, Drag City, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Linda Ronstadt, Leonard Cohen, James Taylor, Hoyt Axton., Video
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If you must listen to Christmas music, it should be the Roots, Jimmy Fallon, and Mariah Carey
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Things I Hate, Things I Love, Television, Music, The Roots, Jimmy Fallon, Mariah Carey, Christmas, video, Video
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On his new album, the AACM stalwart takes on jazz standards
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Jazz, Music, Post No Bills, Ernest Dawkins, Afro Straight, Chicago jazz, AACM, Footprints, New Horizons Ensemble, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Corey Wilkes, Junius Paul, Isaiah Spencer, Willerm Delisfort, Andy's Jazz Club, Audio
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The great Dutch cornetist Eric Boeren keeps finds meaning and material in the music of Ornette Coleman
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Mike Reed, People Places and Things, Dutch jazz, Eric Boeren, Coconut, Han Bennink, Wilbert de Joode, Michael Moore, jazz, PadĆ m, jazz, Audio
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On old coffeehouse hangouts, which attracted the best sorts of people
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: 90s Nostalgia, Coffee Week, Food & Drink, News, Variations on a Theme, coffee week, Smoke Free Illinois Act, Neal Pollack, Coffee Club Closes, smoking, Camel cigarettes, Marlboro, Parliament cigarettes, Pall Mall, Kent cigarettes, Vantage cigarettes, The Cure, Disintegration album, longform.org, Caffe Streets, Star Lounge, Atomix
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The film re-creates the glum talk and savage violence of its source novel
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Books, Arts, Film, Killing Them Softly, Brad Pitt, Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Box Office Mojo, Ocean's Eleven, George V. Higgins, Cogan's Trade, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, which Robert Mitchum, Scoot McNairy, Richard Jenkins, George W. Bush, John McCain, Barack Obama, James Gandolfini, crime fiction, movies
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What's on the Agenda for Sunday, December 9, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Hanukkah, Chicago Botanic Garden, Prop Thtr, Avondale, Irish American Heritage Center, Sandy benefit, From Lake Show to Jersey Show, Empty Bottle, Pop Up Book Fair, Chicago Writers House
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What's on the Agenda for Sunday, December 2, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Arts, Tokyo, Suzuki Junzo, Monica Kendrick, Empty Bottle, Eight-Sided Infinity, Plastic Crimewave Syndicate, Pandava, Frank Rosaly & Steven Hess, Gorilla Tango, Season's Geekings: A Gorilla Tango Burlesque Holiday Special, Bah Humbug, Charles Dickens, Piccolo Theater, Evanston, Asher Klein
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Chief Keef's probation hearings, the Wednesday-morning shooting at Logan Square's Ultra Lounge, and White/Light's upcoming performance with Kim Gordon
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Shots Fired, The Internet, Music, Chief Keef, Pitchfork, Finally Rich, Spin, Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon, Face the Strange, Ultra Lounge, MP Shows
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As expected, the Chicago City Council advances the city's latest privatization plan
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Politics, Clout City, News, privatization, Rahm Emanuel, Lois Scott, mayor, Chicago, billboards, Ed Burke, James Cappleman, Scott Waguespack, Ameya Pawar, Robert Fioretti, Chicago City Council, Interstate JCDeCaux, Carrie Austin, quorum
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I admit it: I think the past was better than now and Europe is better than here
- by Sarah Nardi
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Tags: Things I Love, Arts, Coffee Week, Variations on a Theme, art, coffee, impressionism, monet, manet, baudelaire, freud, mahler, wittgenstein, vienna seccession, midnight in paris, paris, vienna, godel, renoir, degas, josef hoffman, koloman moser, adolf loos
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Burning Fight" by Inside Out
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Rage Against the Machine, Inside Out, Zack de la Rocha, Revelation Records, hardcore, Shelter, Gorilla Biscuits, Earth Crisis, Youth of Today, 12 O'Clock Track, Video
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What's on the Agenda for Tuesday, December 11, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Seattle, Blue Scholars, Lincoln Hall, Lincoln Park, Permanent Records, Dominick Mayer, Uncharted Books, Logan Square, iO, Wrigleyville, Cook County Social, Ryan Hubbard
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Make like the Finns and take a coffee breakāit's good for you
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Coffee Week, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Variations on a Theme, Kevin Warwick, "Loaded, " Coffee Week, the Atlantic, coffee consumption, coffee and health, Institute for Coffee Studies, Finland, coffee breaks, coffee parties, pulla, Video
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This Saturday bring your favorite record to Town Hall Pub, play it for the masses, and maybe exchange numbers with a fellow music fanatic
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Music, Town Hall Pub, music, vinyl, the Flipside, Willis Earl Beal, Breaking Bad, Horseshoe, Ryan Ehresman, DJRC, Michael Jackson, Benny Goodman, Off the Wall
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What's on the Agenda for Friday, December 7, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Arts, The Den Theatre, Wicker Park, Vagina II, DJ Shadow, the Mid, West Loop, Reconstructed: The Best of DJ Shadow, Peter Margasak, DJ Intel, Zebo, Moppy, Gene Siskel Film Center, Fred Camper, Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage
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TV's loudest self-styled cultural critics
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Piety, Election 2012, Visual Art, News, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, The O'Reilly Factor, Blaze TV, Andres Serrano, Piss Christ, Ann Coulter
