Chicago Reader | Issue Archives | Dec 22, 2005
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  • Dec 22-28, 2005
  • Vol. 35, No. 13

News & Politics

Columns & Opinion

Music

  • Night Spies

    This week at: Strawdog Theatre

Arts & Culture

  • Fiction
  • Paint It Beige

    Nikki Blake had the demeanor of a nun with a serious yeast infection, the kind that could put Wonder Bread out of business.
  • Fiction
  • Double Fault

    You won't remember me unless you're a trivia freak with a stack of Tennis back issues, but that's cool. Hardly anyone, even in the industry, follows the game well enough to know anyone but the men's and women's winners at Wimbledon, plus a few other genuine American heroes. ...
  • Fiction
  • Lasagna

    Kemp was having a crisis of confidence. After two months waiting tables at Angelo's, a family Italian restaurant inside the largest mall in Birmingham, he'd discovered that dinners included salad only, not soup and salad as at lunch. A minor mistake, his girlfriend insisted--don't worry about it. ...

Film

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