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Performing Arts Feature
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Caitlin Bergh's journey from Catholic to comic
- by Brian Costello
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Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Caitlin Bergh, Chunks, Studio Be, Anais Nin, Catholic, stand up comedy, Cameron Esposito, Beth Stelling, Ever Mainard, Adam Burke, Lisa Laureta, Candy Lawrence, Studio BE Theatre
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Theater Review
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Victory Gardens Theater stages Anupama Chandrasekhar's play about alienation, disorientation, and all-around psychic pain at a Chennai, India, call center.
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Theater Review, Disconnect, Anupama Chandrasekhar, bewilderment, Glengarry Glen Ross, Arya Daire, Debargo Sanyal, Minita Gandhi, Behzad Dabu, Ann Filmer, Victory Gardens Theater
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Theater Review
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Heidi Stillman's staging of the play by Rajiv Joseph lacks a sense of urgency.
- by Zac Thompson
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Tags: Theater Review, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Kareem Bandealy, Daniel Ostling, Rajiv Joseph, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Troy West, Heidi Stillman, JJ Phillips, Walter Owen Briggs, Anish Jetjmalani
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Performing Arts Review
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Veteran Chicago actors perform a staged reading of the classic Stanley Kubrick satire
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, Dr. Strangelove, Cold War, Stanley Kubrick, Ted Nugent, John Birch, Peter Sellers, Nate Herman, Second City, Improv Olympics, Tim Kazurinsky, Warren Leming, Wilderness Road, Gary Houston, Bob Swan, SPACE, Evanston, Howard Hawks, His Girl Friday, Carol Reed, The Third Man, Preston Sturges, The Great McGinty, John Kennedy, Recommended
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Performing Arts Review
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Seattle-based choreographer/visual designer duo makes its Chicago debut.
- by Laura Molzahn
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, Seattle, Zoe Juniper, A Crack in Everything, Dance Center of Columbia College, Oresteia, Zoe Scofield, Juniper Shuey, Robert Aguilar, Matt Starrit, Recommended
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Cocktail Challenge
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Blackbird's Mary Rose Braun dresses up a briny delicacy.
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Cocktail Challenge, Caviar, fish roe, cod milt, sperm sac, Red Door, Jay Schroeder, Blackbird, Mary Rose Braun, pisco, boba pear, tapioca balls, bubble tea, Balena, Natalia Cardenas, lentil, lemon juice, simple syrup, orange bitters, Stout syrup, rum, cocktail challenge, Slideshow
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Restaurant Review
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River North quadruple-level wine bar is populist on a grand scale.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Restaurant Review, River North, wine, WTTW, Everest, wine bars, Check, Please!, Alpana Singh, Christian Gosselin, Cafe des Architectes, Bistronomic, poutine, lobster poutine, steak tartare, cheese curds, poutine pizza, Julia Fitting, desserts, The Boarding House, Yelp
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On Culture
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Andreas Mitisek shakes things up, beginning with Philip Glass's The Fall of the House of Usher.
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: On Culture, Chicago Opera Theater, Brian Dickie, Ken Cazan, Andreas Mitisek, Long Beach Opera, Philip Glass, The Fall of the House of Usher, Gregory O'Leary, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Lyric Opera, opera, Anthony Freud, opera season, fundraising, Eric Slauter, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Harris Theater
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On Politics
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Conclusions to draw from a yearlong Freedom of Information Act battle between the Chicago Public Schools and Glenn Krell, an intrepid north-side parent.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Mayor Emanuel, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, teachers, teachers' strike, Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, Jean-Claude Brizard, Glenn Krell, parents, longer school day, decision-making, Arne Duncan, Lisa Madigan, Illinois attorney general, Sara Gadola Gallagher
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Savage Love
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How to handle "the talk." Plus: blind to all but the Adonises
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, gay porn, closeted teen, laptop, sexually active teen, sex talk, John Schwartz, New York Times, Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality, same-sex marriage, LGBT, parenting, unplanned pregnancy, John Schwartz, adonises, Bayard Rustin, Barney Frank, Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Daniel Hernandez Jr., Ian McKellen, Evan Wolfson, Jinkx Monsoon, Jared Polis, Bruce Vilanch, Alan Turing, George Kalogridis
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Feature
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Dana Bostic's gang-affiliated west-side drug organization employed dozens of residents, served thousands of customers, established ties with Mexican drug cartels, and relied on violence to stay in business.
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Feature, 11th police district, antihistamines, Aurora, Austin, Berwyn, Black Gangsters, Brandon Richards, Bucktown, cannabis, Charles Cowart, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Sun-Times, Cicero, Cornelius Thomas, CPD, crack, crime, Curtis Ellis, cutting heroin, Dana Bostic, Davon Taylor, DEA, Dirty Unknown Vice Lords, Dormin, druck trafficking, drug cartels, drug dealers, drug dealing, Drug Enforcement Agency, drug runners, drug use, East Garfield Park, ecstasy, Eddie Valentino, Eleazar Alves, Erik Guevara, Excalibur, gang violence, gangs, guns, heroin, homicides, Jerry Bischoff, jobs, Joe Gorman, K-Town, Ladonta Gill, Lee Floyd, Mahogany Barbee, marijuana, Matthew F. Kennelly, Maurice Davis, Mexican drug cartels, murders, New Breeds, Operation Bird Cage, poverty, River North, Rock 'n' Roll McDonalds, schools, Sinaloa cartel, Stroger Hospital, Takers, Taste of Chicago, Tony Allen, U.S. Attorney, Undertaker Vice Lords, unemployment, Vice Lords, West Garfield Park, West Humboldt Park, west side, White Palace Grill, Woodridge
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Movie Sidebar
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Two weeks of revivals in the high-definition format
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Tags: Movie Sidebar, Music Box, 70-millimeter, Music Box Theatre 70mm Festival, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master, Ken Hughes, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Gus Van Sant, Hamlet, Tobe Hooper, Lifeforce, Richard Brooks, Lord Jim, Jacques Tati, Playtime, Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, Robert Wise, West Side Story
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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: My Gold Mask finally release a second full-length, and Nude Sunrise try crowdfunding after a robbery
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Alex White, Francis White, White Mystery, Telepathic, Schubas, Christopher Saathoff Foundation, Absolutely Not, Twin Peaks, Post Honeymoon, Chin Up Chin Up, Chris Playboy, Empty Bottle, My Gold Mask, Phillip Lim, Gossip Girl, Balthazar de Ley, Strobe Recording, Humboldt Park, Leave Me Midnight, Bandcamp, Further It Gets, Highwheel Records
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In Rotation
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Plus: The Reader's Miles Raymer on Townes Van Zandt’s outtakes and audio engineer Jeremy Lemos on the Dirty Projectors at the Sydney Opera House
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: In Rotation, Miles Raymer, demos, outtakes, Justin Walter, Iron & Wine, Echophon, live sound, Public Info, record labels, electronic music, Austin Cesar, F.C. Judd, Brian Case, Acteurs, Dirty Projectors, Sydney Opera House, Nomo, Make Noise, Fireside Bowl, We Ragazzi, Tony Rolando, trumpet, Electronic Valve Instrument, EVI, synthesizers, Kranky, Levon Helm, books, Time Iseler, Future, mixtapes, Four Tet, Kieran Hebden, DJs, audio engineers, Jeremy Lemos, Townes Van Zandt, 4ms Pedals, Rotating Clock Divider, Shuffling Clock Multiplier
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Music Feature
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Violinist, vocalist, and composer Carla Kihlstedt combines avant-garde pop, contemporary classical, and dreams in a new commissioned work for ICE.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music Feature, Carla Kihlstedt, Shahzad Ismaily, Art Bears, Tin Hat, Bridget Kibbey, Oberlin Conservatory, Rabbit Rabbit Radio, violin, Rya Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi, Nathan Davis, Zeena Parkins, Rebekah Keller, Facebook, violinists, Claire Chase, Nathan Davis, E.E. Cummings, ICElab, Bridget Kibbey, Ridiculon, Minamo, Satoko Fujii, vocalists, Fred Frith, classical music, Tyshawn Sorey, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, interviews, composers, New England Conservatory of Music, International Contemporary Ensemble, Museum of Contemporary Art, Video
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Bleader
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Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill's Redemption looks at New York's can and bottle collectors.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Art House, Film, Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill, Redemption documentary, Wall Street, Microsoft, Gold Derby, Academy Awards, Oscar race, movies, Video
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Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman lock horns in this new comedy
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Identity Thief, Melissa McCarthy, Chris Farley, John Belushi, Jason Bateman, Seth Gordon, Horrible Bosses, Robert Patrick, movies, Video
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Bleader
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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Art House, Film, Stolen Seas, Thymaya Payne, Facets Cinematheque., Drew Hunt, Concrete Parlay: An Evening With Fern Silva, Ben Sachs, Shohei Imamura, Karayuki-San: The Making of a Prostitute, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Atomic States of America, Columbia College Hokin Hall, Jakob the Liar, Frank Beyer, John Dies at the End, Don Coscarelli, Bubba Ho-Tep, Lucky movie, Side Effects Steven Soderbergh, The Turning Point, East German cinema, Michael Curtiz, Casablanca, Cover Girl Rita Hayworth, Charles Vidor, Bela Lugosi, Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Logan Theater Chicago, Wong Kar-wai, Fallen Angels, University of Chicago Doc Films, William Friedkin, The French Connection, Frank Borzage, History Is Made at Night, Block Museum of Art, Mikhail Kalatozov, I Am Cuba, Louis Malle, Murmur of the Heart, Orson Welles, Touch of Evil, Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, Music Box, Dennis Scott, Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein, movies, Video
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, February 9, 2013
- by Katie Kather
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Chicago Cider Summit, Navy Pier, Ty Segall, Ex-Cult, Trin Tran, Empty Bottle, Ground Control, Vegan Baked Goods
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Redd's Apple Ale is apparently what happens when MillerCoors realizes that Mike's Hard and Twisted Tea don't have apple versions.
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Redd's Apple Ale, MillerCoors, alcopop, cider, New Glarus Apple Ale
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, February 13, 2013
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, New York Times, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Harold Washington Library, Jim DeRogatis, Greg Kot, Music Box, Sound Opinions at the Movies, Mike Nichols, Dustin Hoffman, Art Institute of Chicago, Winter Series at the Art Institute, Pop Art and Its Descendants, Andy Warhol
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Costumes, goofing off, and a crazy EDM song. What more do you need?
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: The Internet, Music, Baauer, the Internet, memes, Jay-Z, EDM, video, Video
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A Reader staff writer has an extra ticket to see The Book of Mormon on Valentine's Day. Want to go with him?
- by Reader staff
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Tags: Behind Our Scenes, Theater, Whoa, Arts, The Internet, Book of Mormon, Valentine's Day, Leor Galil, win a date, free, Music Box, romance, South Park, tickets
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A review of the latest Bollywood musical to play at the River East 21
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Foreign, Film, Dance, ABCD (Any Body Can Dance) 3-D, Remo D'Souza, dance, choreography, Prabhu Deva, Bollywood musicals, River East 21, Spinz
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The New York Times op-ed columnist resolves to get "a better grip on some of the questions raised by the data revolution."
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Sports, News, David Brooks, New York Times, "The Hot Hand in Basketball: On the Misperception of Random Sequences, " Thomas Gilovich, Amos Tversky, Robert Vallone, shooting probabilities in basketball, Audio
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Revisiting the French filmmaker's not-quite farce from 1972
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Foreign, On Video, Film, Claude Sautet, Cesar and Rosalie, Max et les Ferrailleurs, Romy Schneider, Sami Frey, Yves Montand, Gene Siskel Film Center, screwball comedy, A Letter to Three Wives, Ernst Lubitsch, Carole Lombard
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Stevie Nicks's "Silver Springs," now appended to a recently reissued Rumours.
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Narcissism, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Rumours album, Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingman, Stevie Nicks, Los Angeles, LA California, Tusk album, Silver Springs song, heartbreak, resentment, jealousy, vacation, Video
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Trouble in Mind Records, Mikal Cronin, Bang Bang Pie Shop, Goose Island, Saki, The Magistrate, John Lithgow, The National Theatre Live, And the Poet Sang, Poetry Foundation
- by Katie Kather
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Tags: Do This, Arts
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LA-via-Chicago duo Houses return with "The Beauty Surrounds," a tune that brings out the loveliness in melancholy.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Houses, The Beauty Surrounds, Dexter Tortoriello, Megan Messina, Dawn Golden & Rosy Cross, Mad Decent, Downtown Records, A Quiet Darkness, video, Video
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thuday, February 14, 2013
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Anti-Valentine’s Day Party, Logan Square Auditorium, the Hood Internet, the Fly Honeys dance, the Windy City Rollers, the Whistler, Latin Dance Night, Ballroom Dance Chicago, Reuben Wu, Ladytron, Beauty Bar, Urban Sandbox, Hairpin Lofts Arts Center, Marty McConnell, Wine for a Shotgun, Lamar Jorden, Louder Than a Bomb, Robb Q. Telfer. Music Box, Michael Curtiz, Casablanca
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A review of the 2012 animated short
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Education, Film, The Simpsons, The Longest Daycare, Oscar-nominated shorts, animated short films, Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, Ayn Rand, David Silverman, Maggie Simpson, Video
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Chicago's Anubis Quartet presents an exciting program of new music with guest violist Nadia Sirota on Monday night.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Anubis Quartet, Ensemble Dal Niente, contemporary classical music, Ryan Muncy, Georges Aperghis, Nadia Sirota, Baroque, Nico Muhly, Daniel Bjarnason, Ben Frost, Paul Corley, Valgeir Sigurdsson, Chris Fisher-Lochhead, Edward Hamel, Judd Greenstein, Shara Worden, Missy Mazzoli, In Teaching Others We Teach Ourselves, Audio
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, February 8, 2013.
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Angel Olsen, Pitchfork, Los Angeles Times, People Issue, Leor Galil, Hideout, Water Liars, Don't Fret, Johalla Projects, I Am Your Leader, Oh Boy, Danny Pudi, NBC, Community, DePaul, Brad Riddell
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Prentice preservationists aren't giving up; they filed an amended lawsuit this week.
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: Arts, News, Architecture, Clout City, Prentice Hospital, Prentice Women's Hospital, Bertrand Goldberg, Commission on Chicago Landmarks, Judge Neil Cohen, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Landmarks Illinois
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The Commission on Chicago Landmarks votes again to dump protection for Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital.
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: Arts, Architecture, Politics, Clout City, News, Prentice Hospital, Prentice Women's Hospital, Commission on Chicago Landmarks, Bertrand Goldberg, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Jeff Case, Adam Natensohn, James M. Houlihan, Todd Schwebel, Mable Buckner-Payton, Dennis Mahoney, Chicago Building Trades Council, Streeterville Chamber of Commerce, Northwestern University, Eugene Sunshine, Rafael M. Leon, Judge Neil H. Cohen, Joe Houlihan, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Dave Urschel, Christopher Reed, John Baird
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A review of the 2012 documentary short
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Academy Awards, Oscar Open Heart, Open Heart movie, Salam Center, Salam Centre for Cardiac Surgery, Kief Davidson, Gino Strada, Emmanuel Rusingiza, University Teaching Hospital in Kigali, Rwanda, Omar al-Bashir, International Criminal Court, documentaries, movies, Video
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Oscar-nominated documentary shorts: King's Point
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Art House, Dim the Lights, We're Old, Film, Academy Awards, Oscar nominated short documentaries 2013, King's Point, Sari Gilman, The Golden Girls, documentaries, aging, movies
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, February 11, 2013
- by Katie Kather
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Naucke, The Burlington, Let's Make Out!: Stories of Awkward Love, 2nd Story, Webster's Wine Bar, Love in the Time of Online Dating, Don't Fret, Johalla Projects
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "The Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich," from the dancy postpunks in the Dismemberment Plan.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Dismemberment Plan, 12 O'Clock Track, post-punk, disco, Travis Morrison, The Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich, DC, Video
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There's a place for pathos in presidential speeches, but it's running amok.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Politics, News, Cecilia Munoz, White House domestic policy council, Barack Obama, State of the Union, The Anti-Intellectual Presidency, Elvin Lim, Aristotle, Mussolini, Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Dan McGroarty, George W. Bush, Osama bin Laden, SEALs, Race to the Top
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The Belgian reedist Joachim Badenhorst celebrates the release of his strong new solo album The Jungle He Told Me Saturday night at Heaven Gallery
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Jazz, Music, Post No Bills, Joachim Badenhorst, Thomas Heberer, Pascal Niggenkemper, Clarino, Cookbook, The Jungle He Told Me, Rafel Romp, jazz, Heaven Gallery
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Sosa made it into an elite SOTU club, if not the HOF.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Politics, News, State of the Union, Lenny Skutnik, Potomac River, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, President Obama, Clint Romesha, Medal of Honor, Afghanistan, Michelle Obama, James Fallows, Atlantic magazine, Chicago Cubs, Sammy Sosa, Dominican Republic, Hillary Clinton, Tipper Gore, performance-enhancing drugs, baseball Hall of Fame
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Retirement is all the rage among people in power.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Gregory XII, Great Western Schism, Pope Celestine V, Beyond the Fringe, Peter Cook, U.S. Supreme Court, Queen Beatrix, Queen Elizabeth II, Mayor Richard J. Daley, Mayor Richard M. Daley, Mayor Edward Kelly, Council of Constance, Dante, "The Divine Comedy, "
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The excellent restaurant celebrates a decade of business with its talented and musical staff.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Do This, Things I Love, Music, Handlebar, anniversary, Pink Frost, Apteka, the Runnies, Touched by Ghoul, Old Black & Blue Eyes, Melina Ausikatis, Gel Set, Empty Bottle, mac and cheese
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On the road to democracy: activists come to the Chopin Theatre to start spreading the word about TIFs.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Politics, News, Mayor Richard Daley, Tax Increment Financing, TIFs, Chopin Theater, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Tom Tresser, Valerie Leonard, Professor Richard Dye, Glenbrook North High School
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, February 15, 2013
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, The Vintage Bazaar, DANK Haus, Manly Vintage, Apartment 528, Century Chicago, Big Star, Scofflaw, Allstate Arena, Grave Digger, Maximum Destruction, Monster Jam, Mike Tyson, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, Cadillac Palace Theate, Spike Lee, New York Daily News
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Also the woman who died from drinking too much soda, how even scientists can miss something that's right in front of them, Dan Harmon's life after Community, and the campaign against IDOT?
- by Reader staff
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Tags: Did You Read __________?, News, Did you read?
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Eccentric neosoul, endearingly obnoxious EDM, and two very different but very good singer-songwriters
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Do This, Music, Baauer, Mikal Cronin, Iris DeMent, Cody Chesnutt, Freddie Gibbs, Sasha Go Hard, ShowYouSuck, Tree, Retribution Gospel Choir, Stagnant Pools, Cam'ron
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Ethnic stereotypes über alles
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Stereotypes, New York Times, Germans, Swiss, "Girls, " Fabien Tepper, schadenfreude, "The Third Man, " Orson Welles
