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Performing Arts Review
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TUTA Theatre Chicago takes on modern Serbian plays, starting with the dark comedy Huddersfield.
- by Justin Hayford
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Feature
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New York and Boston have gone to great lengths to eliminate "stray voltage," a phenomenon responsible for death and injury to both animals and people. Though Chicago's seen at least three such incidents, no similar effort is under way.
- by Justin Hayford
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Tags: Feature, stray voltage, dogs, electrocution, winter, salt, ComEd, dog walking, electrical infrastructure, dangers
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Our Town
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The guy blocking the special prosecutor's report on Chicago police torture may be trying to protect more than his own name.
- by John Conroy
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Media
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Isn't it time for the Trib to cover it like a sport instead of a phenomenon?
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Hot Type, soccer, Phil Hersh, World Cup soccer, sports, Chicago Tribune, Tom Hundley, Gay Chicago, Julia Keller, Printers Row Book Fair, Wynne Delacoma, John Barron, Chicago Sun-Times, 2006 FIFA World Cup, World Cup, Ralph Paul Gernhardt, Philadelphia Inquirer
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Chicago Antisocial
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Singing along with other people's songs in bars changed Peter Enger's life.
- by Liz Armstrong
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Essay
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Insiders say Mayor Daley wants to re-up the Central Loop TIF, a barely overseen slush fund that sucks tax dollars away from schools and other public services in the name of stimulating development.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Essay, The Works
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Sports
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Chicago's new WNBA team is off to a rocky start. But don't give up yet.
- by Ted Cox
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Movie Review
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In his latest short, Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami begins with his landscape photographs and ends with apocalypse.
- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Movie Review
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Robert Altman's enormously entertaining drama about public radio is really about death.
- by J.R. Jones
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Music Sidebar
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With the new album from his solo project, the Black Mountain front man takes a U-turn from hedonistic to repentant.
- by Jessica Hopper
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Tags: Music Sidebar, Music
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Music Review
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Rudy Acosta, the would-be castle dweller who runs the hip-hop label the Legion, has a new major-label deal and a raft of releases ready to go.
- by Bob Mehr
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Tags: Music Review, The Meter