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On Culture
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A judge's dismissal of the Prentice preservationists' case leaves a window open.
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Prentice Hospital, preservation, landmark status, landmarks, Chicago Architecture Club, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Edward Torrez, Alan Cubbage, BauerLatoza Studio, architecture, Landmarks Illinois, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Bertrand Goldberg, Neil H. Cohen, Commission on Chicago Landmarks, Northwestern University, Mardell Nereim, public notice, due process, Martin Sinclair, lawsuits
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On Politics
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The former congressman leaves Chicago without independents.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Harold Washington, Jane Byrne, Frank Coconate, progressive politics, Rahm Emanuel, Michael Bilandic, Jesse Jackson Jr., Gery Chico, Richard M. Daley, Daley Machine, machine politics, Mike Quigley, mayoral elections, Rick Munoz, Sandi Jackson, 7th Ward, 2nd Congressional District of Illinois
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Savage Love
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Plus: A lot of exclamation marks, and a word on The Walking Dead
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, sex store, sex toys, Valentine's Day, Jennifer Pritchett, Smitten Kitten, Minneapolis, Minnesota, vibrating dildo, G-spot, prostate stimulation, Claire Cavanah, Babeland, Seattle, New York City, cock ring, gas masks, floggers, cock locks, fucksaw
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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: An impressively pedigreed new band from Josh Chicoine of the M’s and a new mixtape from Village MC Alex Wiley
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Anatomy of Habit, Dylan Posa, Mark Solotroff, Blake Edwards, Kenny Rasmussen, Will Lindsay, Indian, Wolves in the Throne Room, Greg Ratajczak, Tortoise, John McEntire, BloodLust!, CIMMfest, Josh Chicoine, Cloudbirds, Max Crawford, Edward Anderson, Mazes, 1900s, Colby Starck, Head of Femur, Shane Schroeder, Hot as Hell, Schubas, Tomorrow Never Knows, Chelsea Wolfe, the Amazing, King Dude, Alex Wiley, Village, Club Wiley, Chance the Rapper, Julian Malone, Freddie Gibbs, Raekwon, GLC, Closed Sessions, Elevator Lofts
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In Rotation
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Plus: Reader music editor Philip Montoro on Egyptian pop singer Abou El Leef, Anatomy of Habit front man Mark Solotroff on Sisters of Mercy bootlegs, and more
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: In Rotation, Philip Montoro, El Leef, Anatomy of Habit, Mark Solotroff, Sister of Mercy, Sisters of Mercy bootlegs, bootlegs, Alma Negra, Erin Page, Neurosis, King Dude, Thin Lizzy
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Music Feature
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Chicago producer Nick Zanca has had a whirlwind year, and his debut album doesn’t even come out till next month
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Music Feature, Pitchfork's "Best New Track", Portals, Bankrate, Soleman, Svengali, Jessica Blanchet, Different Sleep, Absent Fever, Flashlight Tag, Mister Lies, Columbia College, Nick Zanca, GarageBnd, Logic, Jessie Ware, Tomorrow Never Knows, Lefse Records, Nolan Andrea, Rafa Alvarez, Peter Luber, Potholes in My Blog, Eloise Hess, Tyler Andere, Lake Rescue, Lincoln Hall, Video
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Music Sidebar
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This year the festival is bigger than ever, with Merchandise, Chelsea Wolfe, the Walkmen, Jessie Ware, and much more.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Music Sidebar, Tomorrow Never Knows, Lincoln Hall, Schubas, Metro, Smart Bar, HideoutFather John Misty, Low Times, Tom Scharpling, Maggie Serota, Daniel Ralston, Steve Albini, Bear in Heaven, Supreme Cuts, Merchandise, Free Energy, Orwells, Chelsea Wolfe, King Dude, Geographer, School of Rock, Born Ruffians, Wild Belle, Niki & the Dove, Ssion, Freelance Whales, Hundred Waters, Jessie Ware, Lucero, Slam, Jeff Derringer, Derrick Carter, Black Madonna, Studio Casual, Only Children
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Culture Vultures
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Mister Tom Musick, Dollhouse Reading Series, and the Claudettes
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Tags: Culture Vultures, Gallery Cabaret, Zachary Whittenburg, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The Claudettes, Michael Caskey, Jeff Semmerling, Meredith Miller, Semmerling & Schaefer Mask Studios, Mister Tom Musick, Ronnie Kuller, Dollhouse Reading Series, Michael Robbins, Dolly Lemke, Ryan Spooner, Johnny Iguana, Poetry Foundation
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Theater Review
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Rivendell Theatre Ensemble premieres a new play by Chicago's Lisa Dillman.
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Theater Review, Lisa Dillman, cupcakes, comedy, Megan Carney, Keith Kupferer, American Wee-Pie, Kurt Brocker, Regina Garcia, Jennifer Pompa, Rivendell Theatre
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Performing Arts Review
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In "Free/Bound," Margi Cole and company deal with difficulties formal, emotional, and environmental.
- by Laura Molzahn
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, Free/Bound, Margi ColeLeaving and Wanting, Molly Shanahan, In Orderly Fashion, Philip Elson, 13, Dance COLEctive, Stage 773, Recommended
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Performing Arts Sidebar
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RE|Dance cofounder Michael Estanich goes back to his Appalachian roots
- by Laura Molzahn
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Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, RE, Dance Group, Homeland dance, Michael Estanich, Lucy Riner, Nemacolin Pennsylvania, Fiddlers 4, Wailin' Jennys, Daiva Bhandari, Kym Nolden, Hamlin Park, Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater, Recommended
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Movie Review
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Phil Karlson's politically minded films pushed the genre leftward.
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Movie Review, Gunman's Walk, Phil Karlson, Tab Hunter, Van Heflin, James Darren, Phil Nugent, John Ford, Wagon Master, Fort Apache, The Searchers, They Rode West, Robert Francis, The Phenix City Story, Daniel Mainwaring, Joseph Losey, The Lawless, Crane Wilbur, Hell to Eternity, revisionist Western, Pearl Harbor, Japanese American imprisonment, The Brothers Rico, Recommended
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Restaurant Review
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Curtis Duffy's food weakens the knees, but his long-awaited restaurant isn't all the way there yet.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Curtis Duffy, prix fixe menus, Grace, ingredients, chefs, egos, fine dining, Vanity Fair, Corby Kummer, Avenues, Alinea, Elizabeth, expensive restaurants, Grant Achatz, Trio, autographed menus, open kitchens, presentation, flora menu, fauna menu, Michael Muser, French wines, Loire Valley wines
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Bleader
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The new Neurosis album, Honor Found in Decay, might be the closest the band ever gets to a country record
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Neurosis, Honor Found in Decay, metal, Scott Kelly, Neurot, We All Rage in Gold, At the Well, Steve Albini, Times of Grace, Given to the Rising, Enemy of the Sun, Catal Huyuk, Harvey's Club Deluxe, Billy Anderson, Through Silver in Blood, The Eye of Every Storm, Bleeding the Pigs, My Heart for Deliverance, Casting of the Ages, Video
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A Cook County judge gives preservationists until February 15 to revise a lawsuit aimed at saving Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital from imminent destruction
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: Arts, Architecture, News, Visual Art, Prentice Hospital, Bertrand Goldberg, Neil H. Cohen, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Landmarks Council of Illinois, Northwestern University, Commission on Chicago Landmarks
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Top Five Debut Films
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, They Live by Night, Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause, The Great McGinty, Preston Sturges, The Miracle of Morgan Creek, Unfaithfully Yours, Targets, Peter Bogdanovich, Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, Jack Nicholson, Boris Karloff, L'Age D'Or, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, Shadows, John Cassavetes, Bela Tarr, The Family Nest, Kevin Smith, Clerks, Badlands, Roman Polanski, Knife in the Water, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accatone, Mama Roma, Citizen Kane, Orson Welles, Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard, Sauve qui peut (la vie), Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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Cofounder Dave Beltran talks about the label and how it transformed into a multipurpose space
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Neighborhoods, Music, FeelTrip, Yawn, David Beltran, music, Starfoxxx, Pitchfork Music Festival, Dirty Beaches, Twin Peaks, DJ Earl, Sepalcure, Machinedrum, Orwells, Daniel Perzan, Adam Gil, video, Video
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The Internet's strangest video star gave my phone number to thousands of his devotees.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Seriously?, The Internet, News, Shoenice, YouTube, phone calls, prank calls, text messages, harassment, Internet, viral video, videos
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Pipeworks Brewing finally bottles its Abduction Imperial Stout, and it's bitter, black, and bottomless
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Pipeworks, Pipeworks Brewing, Abduction, Abduction Imperial Stout, beer, metal, Beejay Oslon, Gerrit Lewis, Ninja vs. Unicorn, Triptykon, The Prolonging, Eparistera Daimones, Video
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Reconsidering the work of Louis Malle and Claude Sautet in light of recent Chicago revivals
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Foreign, Film, Louis Malle, Claude Sautet, Max et les Ferrailleurs, Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Murmur of the Heart, Doc Films, Gene Siskel Film Center, Un Coeur en Hiver, Jean-Luc Godard, Numero Deux, bourgeois realism, Lacombe Lucien, Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud, Nouvelle Vague, crime films, Classe Tous Risques, A Man Escaped
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Previewing new releases and notable revival screenings playing in town between January 18 and 24
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Opening, Film, Gunman's Walk, Phil Karlson, Andrew Sarris, Jean Rouch, Moi un Noir, The Lion Hunters, Doc Films, Music Box Theatre, Doc Films, Gene Siskel Film Center, Raising Arizona, Coen brothers, Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, The Trouble With Harry, Alfred Hitchcock, Out of the Past, Jacques Tourneur, Zazie in the Metro, Louis Malle, Days of Being Wild, Wong Kar-wai, Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley, Chicago Cultural Center, West of Memphis, Amy Berg, West Memphis Three, Bel Borba Aqui, In Bed With Ulysses, A Haunted House, Marlon Wayans, Sexy Baby, La Rafle, Luv, Common, Video
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Bolt Cutter, Founders' 15th-anniversary barleywine, doesn't have anything to do with Bolt Thrower except that they're both great
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Booze, Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Founders, Founders Brewing, Bolt Cutter, barleywine, anniversary, Nemesis, Bolt Thrower, Those Once Loyal, Maryland Deathfest, Chaos in Tejas, Jo Bench, Karl Willetts, Video
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Top five Ozploitation films
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, The Man From Hong Kong, Patrick, Thirst, Long Weekend, Mad Max, Walkabout, Nicolas Roeg, Brian Trencahrd-Smith, BMX Bandits, Richard Franklin, Roadgames, Rear Window, Mad Max 2, Psycho II, Craig Eggleston, George Miller, Ozploitation, The Devil's Playground, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Wake in Fright, Gene Siskel Film Center, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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A German-style dark wheat beer brewed with Belgian yeast and aged in Heaven Hill barrels
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Food Chain, Music, Food & Drink, La Petite Mort, Central Waters, Central Waters Brewing Company, Local Option, Bierwerker, Heaven Hill, bourbon, beer, weizenbock, dunkelweizen, Alexi Front, Noah Hopkins, Tony Russomanno, Jon Scordato, Anello Mollica, heron, metal
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, January 18, 2013
- by Katie Kather
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Bingo Night, 826CHI, Wicker Park, Bucktown, Chicago Zine Fest, Threadless, Intelligentsia, Green Dolphin, Crystal Method, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Riviera Theatre, Langhorne Slim
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Ruben Fleischer's new gangster epic is gonna get even with you
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Gross, This Will Kill You, Moviegoing, Film, Politics, Ruben Fleischer, Gangster Squad, Sandy Hook shooting, Aurora Colorado shooting, Production Code Administration, Motion Picture Association of America, Django Unchained, Patrick Arden, Chicago Reader, gun violence, movies
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Scott Jacobs, proof the journalist of the future can actually exist
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Scott Jacobs, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Daily News, Wheel of Fortune, Lou Grant, Stuart Gordon, Organic Theater, Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur, Kurtis Productions, Len Aronson, The Week Behind, Apple
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Weekly Top Five: most anticipated films of 2013
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Taste of Money, Side Effects, Mud, Frances Ha, Before Midnight, Im Sang-Soo, Steven Soderbergh, Noah Baumbach, Jeff Nichols, Richard Linklater, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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FOBAB showcases some of the most awesomely excessive beers in the world, which is pretty metal if you think about it
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Food Chain, Music, Food & Drink, Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer, FOBAB, Bridgeport Art Center, Skyline Loft, Illinois Craft Brewers Guild, Pete Crowley, Justin Maynard, Haymarket Pub and Brewery, Perennial Artisan Ales, Pipeworks Brewing, Spiteful Brewing, Goose Island, Firestone Walker, Sour Opal, Passion House, Solemn Oath, Sun King, Cigar City, Metropolitan Brewing, Lost Abbey
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The trailer for Beyonce's documentary disturbs, fascinates.
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Whoa, Media, Film, Music, Beyonce, Life Is But A Dream, HBO, GQ, Amy Wallace, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Phillip K. Dick, android, celebritism, social networking, Google, hyperreal., Video
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Top five Shaw Brothers films
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Film, Chang Cheh, Lau Kar-Leung, King Hu, Yuen Chor, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, The New One-Armed Swordsman, Death Duel, Come Drink with Me, Five Deadly Venoms, Doc Films, The One-Armed Swordsman, Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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Canadian hardcore act Single Mothers have been selling point-and-shoot cameras they used to document their tour with Quicksand; here's their experience in Detroit and Chicago in photo form.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Arts, Music, Visual Art, Single Mothers, Quicksand, merch, photo slideshow, Metro, Kickstarter, Hot Charity, Kodak, Walgreens, Slideshow
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Juggalos, fake blood, and more
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: On Video, The Internet, Music, Deathface, Johnny Love, Marilyn Manson, juggalos, Lil Internet, seapunk, Tumblr, Twitter, Video
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The final installment of 40 favorite albums of 2012 countdown
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Year in Review, Music, Post No Bills, Duane Pitre, Josephine Foster, Frank Ocean, Billy Hart, Streifenjunko, Stefan Prins, Eric Boeren, Giovanna Pessi, Susanna Wallumrød, Vijay Iyer, David Virelles, favorite records of 2012, Year in Review 2012, Variations on a Theme
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A zingy, fruity double IPA, Ravaged by Vikings, from Naperville's tap-only brewery Solemn Oath
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Solemn Oath, Ravaged by Vikings, Jourdon Gullett, Naperville, Acre, Martin Langrall, Kidnapped by Vikings, Bathory, Enslaved, Amon Amarth, Ragnarok, Video
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Saint Louis brewery Perennial won a silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival with its Heart of Gold wheat wine
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, beer, metal, Beer and Metal, Perennial, Perennial Artisan Ales, Heart of Gold, wheat wine, Phil Wymore, Cory King, Goose Island, Half Acre, Great American Beer Festival, Fister, Rites of Impiety, the Lion's Daughter, Saint Louis
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A buoyant track from the debut album of former Chicagoan Dylan Ryan's new trio, Sand
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, Dylan Ryan, Sand, 12 O'Clock Track, White Nights, Herculaneum, jazz, Devin Hoff, Tim Young, Audio
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The top five films with "marathon" running times
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Variations on a Theme, La Belle Noiseuse, Jacques Rivette, Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky, Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman, Satantango, Bela Tarr, Fanny and Alexander, The Decalogue, Berlin Alexanderplatz, La Commune (Paris 1871), Edvard Munch, Punishment Park, Privilege, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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Pundits like to pronounce on what people in the news do and don't deserve, but do they understand how magisterial and self-important they sound when they do?
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Deservability, Chicago Sun-Times
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, January 19, 2013
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Winter Bike Swap, Harper College, Soul Summit, Double Door, DJ Sloppy White, Dave Mata, Duke Grip, Fillet of Solo
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Revisiting the 1976 drama Mado in light of the current release of Sautet's Max et les Ferrailleurs (1971)
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Foreign, On Video, Film, Claude Sautet, Michel Piccoli, Max et les Ferrailleurs, Gene Siskel Film Center, Claude Chabrol, The Unfaithful Wife, La Femme Infidele, Une Partie de Plaisir, Mado, Ottavia Piccolo, Jacques Dutronc, Dave Kehr
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Stone wraps up its series of yearly one-off beers with a dry, spicy Belgian-style dark ale
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Stone Brewing, Vertical Epic, 12.12.12, Vertical Epic Ale, Belgian, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, sweet orange peel, clove, rose hips
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The Chicago Tribune's terrific series on itself deserves book, HBO treatments.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Michael Oneal, Steve Mills, Chicago Tribune, Broken Deal, Sam Zell, Tribune Company, HBO, Joy Bergman, David Carr, New York Times, Colonel McCormick, Randy Michaels, Dennis FitzSimons, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal, Gerald Kern, Dean Baquet, Robert Lurie, Equity Group Investments, Ann Lurie
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Three Floyds' double rye IPA and Dio's "Holy Diver"
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, Three Floyds, rye, Rye da Tiger, Dio, Ronnie James Dio, Holy Diver, ride the tiger, IPA, DIPA, beer, metal, Video
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wedneday, January 16, 2013
- by Katie Kather
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Tomorrow Never Knows, Schubas, Lincoln Hall, Smart Bar, indie hip-hop, dance, Bear in Heaven, Born Ruffians, Supreme Cuts, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Conservative Vice Lords, Jason Reblando, God vs. Hall and Oates, The Drinking and Writing Theatre at Haymarket Pub & Brewery
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The humble banh mi sandwich extends its reach.
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, banh mi, Mike Sula, Nhu Lan Bakery, Argyle Street, Ba La Sandwich Shop, Banh Mi & Company, Nhu Lan Bakery, Lincoln Square, Saigon Subs #2, bho ko, pho, Saigon Sisters, Chicago French Market, Big Jones, Paul Fehribach, banh mi po'boy, Red Boat fish sauce
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Ravenswood's Spiteful Brewing debuts with the roasty, chocolatey G.F.Y. Stout, which arrived in Chicago stores five days ago
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Spiteful Brewing, Brad Shaffer, Jason Klein, Ravenswood, G.F.Y. Stout, FOBAB, Pipeworks Brewing, Thrones, Joe Preston, Oso Malo, Anguish of Bears, Black Bear, Hulk Smash, Video
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The best shows to see Monday through Wednesday are Slut River, Child Bite, and Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Do This, Music, Slut River, Child Bite, Ingebrigt Haaker Flaten, Paul Giallorenzo, free, Iowa City, bad vibes, Detroit
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Top Five Steven Spielberg Films
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Steven Spielberg, Minority Report, Hook, The Terminal, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Jaws, Lincoln, Duel, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jurassic Park, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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The Beast that came from Jersey and the Beast that comes from Milwaukee
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: This Will Kill You, Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, The Beast, Cosmic Hearse, Aesop Dekker, Devil's Music, Power Metal EP, Last Beastial Incarnation, Scott Ruth, Jack Pitzer, the Hinge, Milwaukee's Best, Milwaukee's Best Ice, New Jersey, Eugene, Oregon, poor life decisions, Video
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, January 20, 2013
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Vintage Garage, Metro, screamo, Underoath, Anthology: 1999-2013, Leor Galil, Margi Cole, Dance COLEctive, Free/Bound, In Orderly Fashion, Leaving and Wanting, Laura Molzahn
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Our correspondent discovers a new favorite hoppy beer from Chicago, and also that the word "ninja" is not the best sign when it comes to metal
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Pipeworks, Pipeworks Brewing, Beejay Oslon, Citra Ninja, Abduction, Ninja vs. Unicorn, Zombie Dust, Vallejo, Half Acre, Three Floyds, Video
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Notes on the hard-working character actor, who appears in the Mark Wahlberg detective movie Broken City
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Whoa, Film, James Ransone, Broken City, Starlet, Sinister, character actors, Allen Hughes, Mark Wahlberg, Dan Duryea, Robert Siodmak, film noir
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Top five horror films from the aughts
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, The Devil's Backbone, The Devil's Rejects, Trick 'r Treat, House of the Devil, Frontiere(s), Halloween, Doc Films, Xavier Gens, Ti West, Rob Zombie, Guillermo del Toro, Michael Dougherty, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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The countdown of my favorite albums of 2012, part two
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Year in Review, Music, Post No Bills, Fay Davis-Jeffers, Mika Vainio, Kevin Drumm, Axel Dörner, Lucio Capece, Deerhoof, Josh Berman, Oren Ambarchi, António Zambujo, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Eli Keszler, Cate Le Bon, Cairo Gang, Avishai Cohen, Triveni, Emmett Kelly, Year in Review 2012, favorite records 2012, Variations on a Theme
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The best of the controversial Polish director, whose 1979 film Tess screens in a digital print at the Siskel Center this week
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Things I Love, Weekly Top Five, Film, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, The Ghost Writer, Chinatown, The Pianist, The Tenant, Dave Kehr, Franz Kafka, William Castle, Knife in the Water, National Film School in Łódź, Repulsion, Carnage, Harold Pinter, Samuel Becket, Freud, Frantic, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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This weekend Tomorrow Never Knows has all kinds of great shows, and other great choices include Magic Trick, Meek Mill, and Underoath
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Do This, Music, Tomorrow Never Knows, Merchandise, Hundred Waters, Black Madonna, Underoath, Magic Trick, Meek Mill, live music, concert listings, Soundboard
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Weekly Top Five: Robert Mitchum performances
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Things I Love, Weekly Top Five, Film, Robert Mitchum, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Portage Theater, Out of the Past, River of No Return, The Locket, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Lusty Men, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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Two Brothers' oak-aged wet-hop IPA and the equally heavy-handed Devin Townsend
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, beer, metal, Beer and Metal, Two Brothers, Two Brothers Brewing, Heavy Handed, Heavier Handed, wet hop, foudre, harvest ale, Devin Townsend, Devin Townsend Project, Strapping Young Lad, Love?, Alien, City, Supercrush!, bald bastard, Video
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Top 5 CIFF Films
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Night Across the Street, Raul Ruiz, Like Someone in Love, Abbas Kiarostami, Certified Copy, Post Tenebras Lux, Carlos Reygadas, Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel, Sweetgrass, Holy Motors, Leos Carax, Tokyo!, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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Lovano's Us Five quintet releases its third album, Cross Culture, for Blue Note.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Jazz, Music, Post No Bills, Joe Lovano, jazz, Us Five, Cross Culture, Francisco Mela, Otis Brown III, Esperanza Spalding, James Weidman, Lionel Loueke, Peter Slavov, Blessings in May, Audio
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The Ungnomes, fronted by Jon Langford's son Jimmy, play at Martyrs' this weekend
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Things I Love, Music, The Ungnomes, Twin Peaks, Rubber, Martyrs', Jon Langford, Jimmy Langford, punk rock, live, high school, music
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Top five Wong Kar-wai films
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Foreign, Weekly Top Five, Film, Wong Kar-wai, Gene Siskel Film Center, In the Mood For Love, Happy Together, The Hand, Eros, Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Ashes of Time Redux, Vulgaria, Drew Hunt's Weekly Top Five
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A short review of The Last Stand, directed by Kim Jee-woon
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Opening, Film, The Last Stand, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kim Jee-woon, Johnny Knoxville, I Saw the Devil, The Good the Bad the Weird, South Korean cinema, Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks
