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Feature
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Should a Chicago Public Schools teacher have used "nigger" in a sixth-grade class?
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Feature, Lincoln Brown, Rick Ross, Greg Mason, Murray Language Academy, Chicago Board of Education, CPS, Neil Lester, Teaching Tolerance, Southern Poverty Law Center, Chicago Public Schools, free speech, n-word, schools, teachers, teaching, Rashida Foluke, Randall Kennedy, race, Mos Def, Jeff Miller, words, First Amendment
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Zoom in
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A real-life Medieval Times in Hyde Park, or something
- by Hannah Gold
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Tags: Zoom in, Hyde Park, University of Chicago, Arley D. Cathey Learning Center, Rockefeller Chapel, the Shire of Gray Gargoyle, ociety for Creative Anachronism, Middle Ages, Ida Noyes Hall, Monty Python, Midway, Midlands, Midlands of Illinois, Middle Earth
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Cocktail Challenge
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Red Door's Jay Schroeder beheads a childhood favorite.
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Cocktail Challenge, PEZ, Vienna, Austria, Red Door, Jay Schroeder, Masa Azul, Jenny Kessler, Declaration of Neutrality, lemon juice, thyme simple syrup, Dubonnet Rouge, Bols Genever, Mary Rose Braun, Blackbird, cod milt, roe, cocktail challenge, Slideshow
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On Media
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Has the flush toilet done more for society than the digital revolution? According to some journalists, yes.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Michael Miner on Media, Economist, Rodin's Thinker, toilet, 21st-century, computer, Robert Solow, Internet, GDP, Britain, Aaron Swartz, Chicago Tribune, Clarence Page, Margaret Sullivan, New York Times, Mike Fourcher, 21 Things I Learned Running Hyperlocal News Sites, Chicagoist, Journatic, TribLocal, This American Life, the Philippines, Chicago News Cooperative, AldertrackJimm Dispensa, Chicago Public Schools, Early and Often, Chicago Independent Advertising Network, The Nieman Journalism Lab, DANK Haus, Lincoln Square
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On Politics
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A close look at how Chicago officials shutter public schools
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: On Politics, Rahm Emanuel, school closings, Chicago Public Schools, schools, CPS, gentrification, public housing, Robert Fioretti, Leslie Recht, Second Ward, neighborhood schools, magnet schools, charter schools
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Savage Love
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Plus: Defriending an evil bitch and remembering Dear Abby
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, cross-dresser, bi-curiosity, gender-transgression play, Facebook, evangelical girls, saddlebacking, oral sex, anal sex, HIV transmission, birth control, condoms, Pauline Phillips, Dear Abby, Eppie Lederer, Ann Landers, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, New York Times, Margalit Fox, Nob Hill, San Francisco, Jeanne Phillips
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Culture Vultures
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The Idolatry of God, š!, and the Music Box Theatre
- by Katie Kather and Janey Lee
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Tags: Culture Vultures, Peter Rollins, The Idolatry of God, Tim Brown, Chicken Soup for the Soul, religion, metaphysics, theology, books, cartoons, comics anthologies, Tabletop Zine, Jackie Furtado, Pictures for Sad Children, John Campbell, God, š!, comics, movies, popcorn, Music Box, Quimby's Bookstore, Luther Memorial Church
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Culture Vultures
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Grime Time, Actors Training Center, and The Talent Code
- by Katie Kather, Janey Lee and Meg Pier
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Tags: Culture Vultures, Dave Mata, Grime Time, outsider art, zine, Quimby's, Chaz Boriquez, National Museum of Mexican Art, Howard Street Gallery, Evanston, Hugh Iglarsh, Actors Training Center, Wilmette, Cliff Colnot, DePaul University, The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle, New York City, Quimby's Bookstore
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Art Review
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A dozen artists look at the natural world—and what we've done to it.
- by Bill Stamets
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Tags: Art Review, carbon, DePaul Art Museum, Climate of Uncertainty, Laura Fatemi, Daniel Shea, Cheshire Ohio, Metropolis 41°54'N 87°39'W, Christina Seely, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Terry Evans, University of Kansas, Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, Lake Michigan, Chris Jordan, Sabrina Raaf, Translator II: "Grower", Maskull Lasserre, Murder, crows, Recommended
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Book Review
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In Zak Mucha's Heavyweight Champion of Nothing, a dead-end furniture-moving crew turns to petty crime—with dead-end results.
- by Jerome Ludwig
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Tags: Book Review, Heavyweight Champion of Nothing, Zak Mucha, Shake Rattle & Read, Reading Under the Influence, Sheffield’s, Emotional Self-Defense workshop, Open Books, The Beggar's Shore, Andrew Vachss, Frank Caruso, Heart Transplant, Ten Angry Pitbulls, Edgewater, Recommended
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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: Tree and Danny Brown talk collaboration, and the sunny Desert Soap launches a winter residency.
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Humboldt Park, Teith, Pelican, Trevor de Brauw, Let's Pet, Migration Media, Empty Bottle, Yixi Nama, Josh Grubman, Don't Obfuscate Me, Danny Brown, Tree, Sunday School, Tree Featuring the City, Naledge, Project Mayhem, Vic Spencer, Primo Mendoza, Michael McSherry, Desert Soap, Bread, America, CSN, Hungry Brain, Charming People
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Music Feature
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"If you can make some weird shit and have it pop off, I don't think there's anything cooler to me."
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music Feature, Brenmar, Bill Salas, These Are Powers, Salva, EDM, Wavvy, Mykki Blanco, Le1f, Zebra Katz, Tigga Calore, Sasha Go Hard, V Magazine, Timbaland, The Neptunes
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Bleader
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, January 22, 2013
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Michael Vallera, Cleared, Johnny Young, Empty Bottle, Vallera, Bill Meyers, The Motherfucker with the Hat, Steppenwolf, Tony Adler, David Lindsay, Abaire, Good People, The Renaissance Society, New York, R.H. Quaytman
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Bleader
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The concluding segment of an interview with two noted Chicago documentarians about the influential French ethnographer and filmmaker.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Foreign, Film, Judy Hoffman, Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin Films, ethnography, anthropology, Kwakwaka'wakw Indians, Margaret Mead, Sony Portapak, Gene Siskel Film Center, Jean Rouch, Box of Treasures, Jerry Temaner, Charles Benton, University of Illinois at Chicago, Jim Morissette, Musee de l'Homme, Maxwell Street, Cinematheque de la Danse
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Bleader
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My belated countdown of my 40 favorite albums of the year
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Year in Review, Music, Post No Bills, Mike Wexler, Jeremy Pelt, Ivar Grydeland, Huntsville, Kevin Drumm, Eivind Opsvik Overseas, Neneh Cherry, the Thing, J.D. Allen Trio, Aaron Dilloway, Wolf Eyes, Dr. John, Dan Auerbach, Henry Threadgill Zooid, favorite records of 2012, Year in Review 2012, Variations on a Theme
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Bleader
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King Crimson's Gavin Harrison teaches two small master classes next week at Vic's Drum Shop.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Do This, Things I Love, Music, Gavin Harrison, King Crimson, Porcupine Tree, Vic's Drum Shop, drums, master class, progressive rock, drumming, video, Video
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Bleader
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This week's gig poster, created by frequent Reader illustration contributor Ryan Duggan, features a delightful image of a giant ape making love to a car
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Gig Posters, Arts, Music, Visual Art, gig poster, Meat Wave, Bully in the Hallway, Nervous Passenger, James Francis Swanberg, Ryan Duggan, Subterranean, gorilla, car
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Bleader
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Central Waters first brewed Kosmyk Charlie's barleywine for Y2K, but luckily they kept going.
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Central Waters, barleywine, Kosmyk Charlie's Y2K Catastrophe Ale, Y2K, Wisconsin, Amherst, Local Option, La Petite Mort, Al Capone, Miasmal, Twilight, Behemoth, regrets, I've had a few, Video
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Bleader
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Part three of my favorite albums of 2012 countdown
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Year in Review, Music, Post No Bills, Sharon Van Etten, Wadada Leo Smith, Jeremiah Cymerman, Angel Olsen, Mariel Roberts, Holly Herndon, Fatoumata Diawara, Jeremy Denk, Deep Timer, Mary Halvorson, favorite records of 2012, Year in Review 2012, Variations on a Theme
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Bleader
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But it doesn't matter: they aren't offering them any longer.
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Shots Fired, Technology, News, Groupon, guns, gun range, clay shooting, concealed handgun training, Garden & Gun, Sandy Hook, Andrew Mason, Tal Rosenberg on technology
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Bleader
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Flapjacks, both corn and potato, stand out on the bread program at this Lincoln Square joint from a couple of fine-dining vets
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: One Bite, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Gather, brandade, blini, Lincoln Square, Old Town School of Folk Music, Stephan and Nicole Outrequin, David Breo, Ken Carter, Charlie Trotter's, Cibo Matto, Troy Graves, LM Restaurant
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Bleader
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Detropia and Burn ask if we should let Detroit go to blazes.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Docurama Films, Detropia, Gene Siskel Film Center, Burn: One Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit, Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Jesus Camp, American Axle, Tommy Stevens, Raven Lounge, Dave Bing, Detroit Strategic Framework Plan, Tom Putnam, Brenna Sanchez, 600 N. Michigan, Stooges, Gimme Danger, Detroit Engine Company 50, Dave Parnell, Craig Robinson, Donald R. Austin, Los Angeles Fire Department, urban rebewal, urban blight, firefighting, documentaries, movies, J.R. Jones on DVDs, Video
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Bleader
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“A Little Messed Up” is 80s-inspired new wave from Yacht Club, which is fronted by Canadian hardcore vet Ben Cook.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Yacht Club, Ben Cook, Fucked Up, No Warning, Matt DeLonge, A Little Messed Up, video, synth-pop, 80s, new wave, stalker, Video
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Bleader
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Cross Record, Brooklyn Rider, Sera Cahoone, and Ital are among the weekend's musical highlights.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Do This, Music, Cross Record, Brooklyn Rider, Sera Cahoone, Ital, Best Shows to See, Soundboard
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Bleader
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, January 17, 2013
- by Katie Kather
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Chicago History, Harold Washington Library, Sweet Home Chicago: The History of America's Candy Capital, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Cadre, South Africa, Willy Mason, Folk, Country, Old Town School of Folk Music
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Bleader
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Talking with some of Chicago's most esteemed documentarians about the great French ethnographer and filmmaker
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Foreign, Film, Jean Rouch, Gene Siskel Film Center, Kartemquin Films, Gordon Quinn, Judy Hoffman, documentary films, anthropology, ethnography, The Mad Masters, Les Maitres Fous, Chronicle of a Summer, The Lion Hunters, Moi un Noir, cinema verite, direct cinema, hauka religion, provocation, Wise Fool's Pub, Margaret Mead, University of Illinois at Chicago, Cahiers du cinema, Edgar Morin, Bix Beiderbecke, Mike Shea, Maxwell Street, ...And This Is Free, Jerry Tamener, Stan Karter, Niger, handheld camerawork
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Bleader
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, January 27, 2013.
- by Janey Lee
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Empty Bottle, dance, music, Daniel Martin-McCormick, Ital, Dream On, Chrissy Murderbot, Hieroglyphic Being, film, Music-About-Film & Film-About-Music Show, Hopscotch Cinema, cellist, Tatsu Aoki, Lori Felker, film-critic band, Farewell Scarlet, beehive, Kestutis Nakas, Bridgeport, monologue, No Bees for Bridgeport
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Bleader
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Flawed encryption and "deduplication" are among the new service's weaknesses.
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: The Internet, Technology, Film, Music, News, Megaupload, Mega, Kim Dotcom, the Internet, piracy, One Direction
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Bleader
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"Bad Party" by Japan's Thee Mighty Fevers is less than a minute of unrelenting punk fury.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Thee Mighty Fevers, Fuck'in Great R'n'R, Bad Party, Guitar Wolf, Teengenerate, Japan, punk rock, punk, garage rock
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Bleader
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Earlier Thursday Chief Keef was sentenced to 60 days in jail for violating his probation; here's what it was like in the courtroom.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Whoa, Music, News, Chief Keef, probation, sentencing, Keith Cozart, Pitchfork, Judge Carl Anthony Walker, Bang Part 2, Finally Rich, Video
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Bleader
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Thoughts on reading the morning paper.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Chicago Tribune, David Haugh, Tom Thibodeau, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, Simeon High School, Morgan Park High School, K.C. Johnson, Joakim Noah, Marco Belinell
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Bleader
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Isa Giallorenzo's Street View 072
- by Isa Giallorenzo
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Tags: Style, Arts, womenswear, Chicago street style, street fashion, skirts, leopard, Loop, fishnet tights, skateboard, skater girls
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Bleader
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Jim Romenesko is tracking a big story—NBC-TV's hunt for a small-town newspaper to feature in a new reality series.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Television, Media, News, Jim Romenesko, NBC, Sean Scully, Weekly Calistogan, Andrew Ottoson, Idaho County Free Press, Great Falls, Montana, Medill
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Bleader
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Shows to see over the next few days include Freakwater, Michael Vallera, Femi Kuti, Castle, and the NRG Ensemble
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Do This, Music, Freakwater, Michael Vallera, Femi Kuti, Jeff Parker, Rob Mazurek, Ryley Walker, Bitchin Bajas, Castle, NRG Ensemble, Soundboard, live music, concert listings
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Bleader
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It's a corrections bonanza at the New York Times lately.
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Broken, Media, News, New York Times, Lindsay Lohan, Paul Schrader, David Axelrod, Mitt Romney, Rahm Emanuel, Ayn Rand, Talleyrand, Harry Weese, Joseph "Jose" Banks, Bertrand Goldberg
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Bleader
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In his inaugural address, President Obama seemed to listen to members of the press.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Barack Obama, inaugural speech, Lincoln's second inaugural address, Ronald C. White, New York Times, Paul Begala, John Paul Rpllert, Salon, the Daily Beast, Yahoo, William Kristol, Bill Moyers, Anthony Leiserowitz, Jared Spurbeck, Edward Prato, Jocelyn Fredrics, Alfonso Coley
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Bleader
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, January 21, 2013
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Louisville, Freakwater, Hideout, Feels Like the Third Time, Janet Bean, Catherine Irwin, relatively coarse, Peter Margasak, The Inconvenience, Fresh Meat, Cleave, Saki, Delicious Design League, Yuck
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Bleader
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Considering the sexual politics in two new releases, a social-issue documentary and a Marlon Wayans gross-out comedy.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Paranormal, Women's Issues, Film, Sexy Baby, A Haunted House, feminism, women's issues, Marlon Wayans, pornography, Barefoot in the Park, Chicago Filmmakers, Jill Bauer, Ronna Gradus, Essence Atkins, monogamy
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Bleader
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The second part of an interview with two Chicago documentarians about the influential French ethnographer and filmmaker
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Foreign, Film, Jean Rouch, Kartemquin Films, Gordon Quinn, Judy Hoffman, Chronicle of a Summer, Maitres Fous, direct cinema, cinema verite, provocation, Hoop Dreams, Home for Life, ethnography, Trick Bag
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Bleader
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The City of Evanston made a worthy investment in this little cocktail bar.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Ward Eight, Cody Modeer, Anne Carlson, In Fine Spirits, Premise, Ben Schiller, cocktails, Marianne Sundquist, Tally Ho, Badou's Senegalese Cuisine, The Fish Keg, Chez Violette
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, January 25, 2013
- by Katie Kather
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Brooklyn Rider, Mandel Hall, Dinner with the Family, Renaldi's Pizza, Potpourri, Linda Warren Gallery, Doug Fogelson, classical music
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Bleader
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Absecon Isle," the opening track from Sannhet's upcoming Known Flood.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Sannhet, Saint Vitus, Absecon Isle, metal, Mogwai, instrumental, post-rock, Brooklyn, Tolkein
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Bleader
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About Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar-nominated film
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Film, Politics, Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow, Argo, torture, David Denby, the New Yorker, Jonathan Kim, Mark Boal, James Stockdale, Academy Awards, Golden Globe awards, Osama bin Laden
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, January 26, 2013.
- by Janey Lee
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Tags: Do This, Arts, hip-hop, Winter Block Party for Hip Hop Arts, Metro, Sidewalk Chalk, Psalm One, ADD-2, Saba, dance battles, poetry slams, Benji, Simeon, basketball, Ben Wilson, rare films, foreign films, classic films, the Whistler, Odd Obsession, Senegal, Touki Bouki, Impala Sound Champion, True Lies: Stories of Deception, storytelling series, Rebecca Anderson, Parker Stockman, Cyn Vargas
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Bleader
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The president's speech was rich in platitudes, but at least many were aimed in one direction.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Poverty, Politics, News, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., President Obama, inaugural addresses, speeches, inequality, Martin Luther King, State of the Union
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Bleader
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A legendary relic from dance-music history turns up for free.
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Do This, Music, Tom Moulton, R_co, SoundCloud, Frankie Knuckles, Ron Hardy, Larry Levan, disco, dance music, house music
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Previewing the groundbreaking gay hardcore film, which screens this weekend in a new digital restoration.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Arts, LGBT, Film, Fred Halsted, L.A. Plays Itself, gay hardcore, Museum of Modern Art, Maya Deren, Patrick Friel, White Light Cinema, Nightingale Theatre, Chicago Filmmakers, "porno chic", Wakefield Poole
