- Issue of
- Nov 2-8, 2006
- Vol. 36, No. 6
News & Politics
- Feature
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Who's Next?
This season's local fiction hopefuls range from a Nigerian-American prizewinner to an Entertainment Weekly TV critic to a navy publicist who published his own novel.
Columns & Opinion
Food & Drink
- Restaurant Review
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In Search of Pho (and Bun Bo Hue Too)
In the Neighborhood
Arts & Culture
- Book Review
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Alice in Genderland
As a woman, Alice Sheldon was a frustrated debutante. As James Tiptree Jr., she revolutionized science fiction.
- Book Review
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Men and Their Mishaps
Patrick Somerville makes his debut with a collection about masculinity and control
- Book Review
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Cinematic Grit
In Bayo Ojikutu's books, his native south side leaps to life.
- Book Review
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The Sleeper
John Sheppard's self-published third novel, a tribute to his murdered sister, gets a second life.
- Book Review
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Son of the South
Chicago let him publish his first book, but Todd Dills can't stay away from Dixie.
- Book Review
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The Rewrite Artist
Joe Meno can't stop revising his latest story.
- Book Review
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The Genius in the Cornfield
Urbana professor Richard Powers on his National Book Award-nominated ninth novel, The Echo Maker
- Book Review
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A Self-Important Prick
An exercise in writing to repel from PhD Joseph Suglia
- Book Review
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Made at Medill
Entertainment Weekly TV critic Gillian Flynn writes about the crime reporter she never was.
- Book Review
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That's Not Funny
Comedian Amy Guth turns it on to plug a dark debut about women in trouble.
- Book Review
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Short Takes
Our 2006 books round-up
Music
- Music Review
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The Big Pond
Back in Arkansas, Keefe Jackson could pay the bills playing other people's music--but to play his own, he had to come here.
Blogs
- Bleader
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DRM: the next electoral battleground?
DRM wasn't a big issue in this election. Things might be different in the next one.
- Bleader
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Malachi Ritscher's apparent suicide
Malachi Ritscher, longtime supporter of jazz and improvised music, apparently immolated himself near the Ohio Street exit on the Kennedy on November 3.
- Bleader
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Tom DeLay's "moral clarity"
One leading Republican offers us "moral clarity."
- Bleader
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One thing doesn't lead to another
A million ringtones makes what?
- Bleader
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Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars living large
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars turn tragic circumstances into success
- Bleader
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Rahm Emanuel, loser?
Did Rahm win, or did Bush lose?
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- Bleader
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American song
Randy Newman and the Hacienda Brothers present two very different kinds of American songs this weekend
- Bleader
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Election day lines
Great election-day quips from Harry Siegel and Steve Rhodes.
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- Bleader
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The ultimate negative ad
A Democratic attack ad that just might work.
- Bleader
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Women scientist discovers real cloak of invisibility
Sexism is alive and well among rational scientists and academics.
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Jane Bunnett finally gets it right
Canadian winds player Jane Bunnett finally gets her Cuban fusion right; plays HotHouse on Thursday night
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- Bleader
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The Vandermark 5's new lineup
The Vandermark 5 releases its first album with new member Fred Lonberg-Holm
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Weekend linkfest
Rationing carbon, why Hayek is now a poor model for libertarians, the Trib on alternative medicine, why problems at the CPS are getting worse, and more.
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- Bleader
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The election's over -- now what?
Some ideas for decompressing after the election: catch the transit of Mercury, watch a new reactor get approved, set standards for pole dancers.
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The sound the people slept on
Maybe it's okay that everyone missed the boat on the last Kill Rock Stars comp.
- Bleader
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Dept. of bad advice
A former state legislator thinks he knows why David McSweeney couldn't solve Melissa Bean.
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- Bleader
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All politics, all the time
Stories from the last-minute push in Illinois.
- Bleader
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On the front lines of politics
Working the trains, and the wastebaskets.
- Bleader
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Jackson for Mayor? Perhaps not
Congress? Or City Hall?
- Bleader
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Deceptive rapid robocalls
Robocalls: the point at which hardball politics becomes thuggery.
- Bleader
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Thursday linkfest
Emily Dickinson, another SUV irony, the frat brother who planned Iraqi prisons, and more.
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It's a small world after all . . .
Overseas outsourcing: not just for tech support anymore.
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I am not ashamed that I like the Horrors.
The Horrors's singer gets beat up at CMJ. I don't have jokes about it.
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Election spawns fashion disaster!
A crucial part of the official wardrobe for the '06 election.
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Feeling the Rapture
The Rapture live at Metro 11/5.
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Hip-hop fundamentals: rhyming, DJing, grilling . . .
According a new book about hip-hop jewelry, it's about the grillz
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You can't talk about good empires! My head is exploding!
Two Dartmouth economists argue that European colonization may have been a positive thing.
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A peek into the gene factory
Learning genetic policy from the Illinois Humanities Council.
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Next: the Blagojevich reforms
After four years and two successful elections, will Rod Blagojevich end pay-to-play government at last?
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The morning after -- a partial cleanup
Law enforcement, circular firing squads, happy feminists, and more.
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What it's like to really be at war
Richard Stern knew total war, and this ain't it.