- Issue of
- Apr 10-16, 2008
- Vol. 37, No. 29
News & Politics
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- Feature
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Apparently Money Does Grow on Trees
Because there's no other way the Park District can justify the $22 million it's spending on Streeterville offices.
- Feature
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Come Out and Pay
In its first year of paying property taxes, the Park District overpaid by more than $400,000.
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- Our Town
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Great Black Music in Print
After ten years, George Lewis's monumental history of the AACM is finally finished.
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- Media
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Harold and Barack
Did personal dynamism—and not social or political movements—propel our highest-profile black leaders to power?
Columns & Opinion
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- On Culture
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Art Is Long, Money Is Short
A new study tallies the impact of Blagojevich's diminished arts funding.
Food & Drink
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- Food & Drink Column
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Omnivorous: What Iranians Really Eat
The Persian restaurant Masouleh is a hummus-free zone.
- Restaurant Review
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Restaurants: In the Neighborhood, April 10, 2008
Twenty more restaurants in Rogers Park
Film
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- Movie Review
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The Real Deal
How the government accidentally funded art and journalism.
Arts & Culture
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- Performing Arts Review
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Love, Death, and Ringtones
Sarah Ruhl's latest takes on the metaphysics of cell phones.
Music
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- Music Column
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Sharp Darts: A New Roommate
Kent Lambert's one-man tech-pop project has been transformed by his time in Chicago.
Blogs
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- Bleader
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Allá tonight at the Empty Bottle
Alla plays a free show tonight at the Empty Bottle.
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Current events talk and free nosh
Current events talk and free nosh tomorrow at the Freedom Museum
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Heads Up: This week and beyond
This week's talks, tastings, and events.
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Olympic fever: can't hardly wait
The Olympics would mean fixing the CTA. . . right?
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Frozen treats at Wicker Park "kefir cafe"
Wicker Park "kefir cafe" celebrates grand opening tomorrow with free frozen treats.
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Uptown vs. LaborReady
Uptown residents are fighting a day-labor chain in the heart of the 46th Ward.
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Hand-screened stuff from 4F Design
4F Design is giving away hand-screened goods at this weekend's studio open house.
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Voguing class for vogue stylists and beginners
Voguing class for vogue stylists and beginners
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Commonplace links
Commonplace links: "I kind of got out of the spotlight and life's never been this good."
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Photographers going free
It's good news for captive photographers Richard Butler and Bilal Hussein in Iraq.
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You Shoot: Union Station
You Shoot: Union Station
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As if losing Tony Rezko's friendship wasn't enough . . .
For his next party, Stuart Levine may have to try the Days Inn.
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George Lewis event: Corrected time
The George Lewis event at the Chicago Cultural Center on Tuesday begins at 4:15 PM, not 5:15.
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Know nothings
Does the First Amendment guarantee our right to ignorance?
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The United States of Arugula
You are what you eat, or at least what you reference in an off-hand remark in the presence of our insane press corps.
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Rose and Robert
Rose Lazar and Robert A.A. Lowe show images from their new Thrill Jockey book Gyromancy.
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A reading and discussion with Delbert Tibbs
A reading and discussion with Delbert Tibbs
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Brutalist force
Lynn Becker and Andrew Patner weigh in on the Brutalist design of the proposed Chicago Children's Museum building.
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George Lewis at the Chicago Cultural Center
Musician and author George Lewis to speak and perform at the Chicago Cultural Center on Tuesday with Nicole Mitchell and Douglas Ewart
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Food, music, and more at the Garfield Park Conservatory's 100th birthday party
Food, music, and more at the Garfield Park Conservatory's 100th birthday party
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Show your bones
Russian roentgenizdat: LPs cut into discarded X-ray plates
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Airport '08
Why did American Airlines ground its planes?
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Tiger's loss at the Masters still brings him closer to the Golden Bear
Tiger Woods may break Jack Nicklaus's record for Major victories, but will he approach Nicklaus's record for runner-up finishes?
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The Black Keys Get (Danger) Mousy
An unlikely alliance between the Black Keys and Danger Mouse.
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They're just being honest / it's the least they can do
Shooting a cougar.
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The reviews are in
They hated, hated, hated, this debate.
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"If you can't help anybody, no one sticks with it."
Forget Robert Sorich--one political insider says the patronage system went down long ago.
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You Shoot: Greening
You Shoot: Greening
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The sort-of-getting-tougher approach to plastic bags
Environmentalists say the latest proposal to require plastic bag recycling in Chicago still has lots of holes.
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Power bases
Robert Sorich notwithstanding, the southwest side's the place to be to get city work.
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KRS-One and Pugslee Atomz: Stop the Violence
KRS-One comes to town with his Stop the Violence project and plays the Cubby Bear with Pugslee Atomz on Sunday.
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The sort-of-getting-tougher approach, part two
Update on the plastic bag front: The Illinois Retail Merchants Association takes a bold stand against higher taxes.
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The simulacrum your mama warned you about
If North Bridge bars are too sincere in their drunken obnoxiousness, Dick's Last Resort may be an appealing alternative.
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- Bleader
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Fight the Big Bull spars with Vandermark
Fight the Big Bull, a nine-piece jazz group from Richmond, Virginia, collaborates with Ken Vandermark.
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Chicago could be Detroit
Update: The Chicago Film Office would welcome a movie project about the Boss.
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You Shoot: MDN
You Shoot: MDN
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The sickness unto election day: Normative masculinity and orange juice
The Miss Manners guide to dining and presidential races.
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His weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency
The first Zell freakout of spring.
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What good are notebooks?
Coudal goes up against the deceitful Moleskine empire.
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Commonplace links
Commonplace links: "a private getaway for stressed-out presidents and prime ministers"
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Objectophilia
My doomed romance with the Xone:V6 club mixer
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The crazy fauna of Jim Flora
Classic album-cover artist Jim Flora gets a retrospective in Lake County.
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Not getting it
Eureka moments.
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Commonplace links
Commonplace links: "Whatever history they have had is a history without events"
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Cumbia caliente
New York's Folklore Urbano plays a free show tonight at the Old Town School of Folk Music.
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The Whole Hog Project: spring piglets, and lots of 'em
The Whole Hog Project: Our mulefoot Dee Dee and two of her pals are mamas.
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A memo to Tribune Company employees
Lee Abrams, the Tribune Company's new innovation chief, preaches to the troops.
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Vodka cocktails and finger foods at Viet Bistro
Vodka cocktails and finger foods at Viet Bistro in Edgewater
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I vote for the rainbows
Scenes from an apocalypse: Mariah Carey night on American Idol
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- Bleader
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Rock Bottom is serving up free Kolsch
Rock Bottom Brewery is serving free Kolsch beer from 5 to 7 PM tonight.
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Olympic fever: catch it
Engineering a fun 2016 Olympics.
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You can't do that in a fire station
What are your firefighters reading?
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The sickness unto election day: you are what you drink
The Democratic presidential race descends from coffee & OJ to Crown Royal & chasers. Is Wild Irish Rose next?
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The Children's Crusade
New Chicago seals for the City of Children.
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Whose cougar now?
You're saying the Roscoe Village cougar belonged to someone?
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Thursday: Jennifer 8. Lee, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Jennifer 8. Lee, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, is in town Thursday night.
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In praise of water coolers
With Big Z's big win Wednesday night (three hits too!), a look back at last week's "bubble gum thing" incident.
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Commonplace links
Commonplace links: "Follow me then and you'll have Y2010 business cards also."
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Commonplace links
Commonplace links: "Cheeta turns 76 today, continuing his run as the oldest living non-human primate."
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Plugging Ravenswood into the Matrix
The Wachowski brothers are apparently opening an editing studio in Ravenswood; let's get them on the Daley movie project.
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Death never goes out of style
A wonderful box set from Tompkins Square Records captures three decades of murder ballads and disaster songs.
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Building bridges to nothing, you get nowhere
Finally the Children's Museum backers come clean: Grant Park is nothing.
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Biggest typo ever
Screw something up recently? Raymond Chandler has a story for you.
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Just asking . . .
The presidential candidates grilled General Patraeus and Ambassador Crocker, but did they actually ask them anything?
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The sickness unto election day: They call him Mr. Bitterness
Bitter, bitter.
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The problem with fiction is that it's usually too subtle
Bleak news detail of the day.
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Pickled peppers and turkey talk
Vera Videnovich and John Caveny speak at a Slow Foods open house.
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Media take back photo rights from IHSA
The Illinois High School Association caves to the Illinois Press Association.