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Architecture
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The new supersized Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's is a joke, but it's not a complete architectural failure.
- by Lynn Becker
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Book Review
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Touring American history with the country's most self-absorbed docent.
- by Brian Nemtusak
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Performing Arts Review
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A historical fiction with allegorical potential from the crew that brought us The Libertine.
- by Albert Williams
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On Culture
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With an ambitious expansion on the horizon, the U. of C. art museum calls on a new director who's been there and done that.
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: The Arts, The Business
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Feature
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Against all advice, a theater vet and two precocious teens team up to bring Saddam Hussein's first novel to the stage.
- by Justin Hayford
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Our Town
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How James Teitelbaum grew a tiki cottage industry on Martin Atkins's dime.
- by Richard Knight Jr.
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Our Town
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Crappy day jobs in the city of small theaters.
- by Ann Sterzinger
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Chicago Antisocial
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And you thought Liz was a party animal. Plus: Joe Meno, you have a new fan.
- by Liz Armstrong
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Essay
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Manny Plores's latest attempt to protect old buildings in East Village looks like an attempt to avoid a fight.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Essay, The Works
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Essay
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- by Kabir Hamid, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, Brian Nemtusak, J. Niimi, Ann Sterzinger
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Tags: Essay, The Treatment
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Miscellany
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Ted Fishman on the looming supremacy of the People's Republic and what we might be able to do about it.
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Miscellany, Q&A
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Sports
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Not Sox fans; the rancor's at Wrigley.
- by Ted Cox
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Movie Review
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Jean-Luc Godard's view of the 60s is consumerist; Hal Hartley's new send-up of modern consumerism is sexy.
- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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This week at: Monsoon
- by Richard Knight Jr. & Stephen Gruhn