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On Culture
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Vintage gowns by Scaasi are among the finds on the block at the nation's largest couture department.
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Mr. Fabulous, Charles James, fashion, Marvin Davis, Scaasi, Versace, Hermès, Birkin, Mamie Eisenhower, Barbara Bush, Barbra Streisand, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Jackie Kennedy, Arnold Isaacs, The New York Times, Parker Ladd, Casey Monda, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Leslie Hindman, auctions, vintage couture, Sotheby's, fashion designers, Elizabeth Arden, Zandra Rhodes, Marilyn Monroe, Vogue Italia, Patricia Davis Raynes, Dynasty, accessories, clothing, jewelry, lesliehindman.com
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Culture Vultures
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House of Cards, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, The Boy Detective Fails, and Chicago Whispers
- by Katie Kather and Hannah Lorenz
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Tags: Culture Vultures, Crabby Golightly, bloggers, history, books, theater, blogs, Oline Eaton, biographers, writers, House of Cards, Netflix, Joe Giovannetti, Bartleby Productions, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, Theater Oobleck, parking, William Blake, folk music, Jacob Wittich, Chicago Whispers, St. Sukie de la Croix, LGBT history, Victory Gardens Theater
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Lit Feature
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The premier English-language translator of Nobel-winning Chinese fiction lives (for now) in South Bend, Indiana. His mind is someplace else entirely.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Lit Feature, Howard Goldblatt, Mo Yan, Wang Shuo, Su Tong, translation, Chinese translation, Guan Moye, Gao Xingjian, Nobel Prize, Pow!, New York Times, Salman Rushdie, Herta Muller, Frogs novel, Song Ying, Sylvia Lin, Gesar, Alai, Notre Dame University, Taiwan, Mandarin Training Center, San Francisco State University, Xiao Hong, Chen Jo-hsi, Zhang Jie, Tibet, Dylan Suher, Tanxiang Xing, Sandalwood Death, Cultural Revolution, Pai Hsien-yung, Crystal Boys, John Updike, Big Breasts and Wide Hips novel, My Life as Emperor, Asymptote, Jonathan Stalling, Chinese Literature Today, The Garlic Ballads, Red Sorghum, Gaomi County, Shangdong Province, South Bend
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Performing Arts Review
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Dancers become choreographers in a DIY showcase.
- by Laura Molzahn
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, Mix With Six, the Seldoms, Carrie Hanson, Amanda McAlister, (I'm)barrassed, Damon D. Green, Optimism of the Antagonist, Javier Marchan Ramos, Himself [With You], Philip Elson, Between Means and Ends, Cara Sabin, Bruce Ortiz, Moments After and Ahead, Recommended
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Performing Arts Sidebar
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Five full-lengths, five short takes, and two parties—all in the seven-day Black Playwrights Festival
- by Jena Cutie
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Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Black Ensemble Theater, Black Playwrights Initiative, Jackie Taylor, Paul Oakley Stovall, Jil Ross, The Last Word, Jarrin Davis, Light, Loy Webb, For Alice and August, Leonard M. Ferris, Savages, Katrina V. Miller, The Holidays
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Performing Arts Review
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Lively songs and deft acrobatics can't save this 1980 musical's flat script.
- by Jack Helbig
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, Gypsy, Cy Coleman, 42nd Street, Singin' in the Rain, Annie Get Your Gun, General Tom Thumb, Jenny Lind, Swedish Nightingale, umbo, P.T. Barnum, There Is a Sucker Born Ev'ry Minute, The Prince of Humbug, George Washington, Cy Colemen, Michael Steward, Mark Bramble, Barnum, Wizard of Oz, Elmer Gantry, L. Walter Stearns, Flying Griffin Circus, Cory Goodrich, Summer Naomi Smart, Jenny Lind, Gene Weygandt
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Performing Arts Review
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The new Second City revue lacks wack.
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, Second City, Professor Walther von der Vogelweide, Severn Darden, Tim Robinson, SNL, Tim Baltz, Mary Sohn, Katie Rich, Let Them Eat Chaos, Holly Laurent, Let Them Eat Chaos, Edgar Blackmon, The South Side of Heaven, Holly Laurent, Ross Bryant, Pinkberry
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Performing Arts Review
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This First Folio show is worth a little apostasy.
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, Wandering Jew, Jerusalem, Golgotha, Jesus, Second Coming, Glen Berger, Underneath the Lintel, First Folio Theatre, Alison Vesely, Kristine Thatcher, Michael Joseph Mitchell, Recommended
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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: Eitarnora's austere party favors, Jody Duff's decadent feast, and more
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Bobby Conn, the Hideout, Michael Zerang, KK Rampage, Mucca Pazza, Joan of Arc, Cave, Tuxedomoon, Roxy Music, Os Mutantes, Hair, Eitarnora, Tall Grasses and Black Ash, Planning for Burial, Jody Duff, Unbelievable, Rick Ross, Duff, What the Duff, the Gift, Rockie Fresh, Maybach Music Group
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In Rotation
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Plus: Reader music editor Philip Montoro on King David’s harp, Joan of Arc drummer Theo Katsaounis on Leonard Cohen’s everything, and more
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: In Rotation, Rorcal, Vilagvege, begena, King David's harp, Tafese Tesfaye, Ken Vandermark's Midwest School band, Ken Vandermark, Dogon A.D., Julius Hemphill, The Green Mill, Katherine Young, Steven Takasugi, Iridescent Uncertainty, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Full Force album, Magg Zelma, Music From Saharan Cell Phones Vol. 2, Bela Shayevich, Theo Katsaounis, Joan of Arc band, Anatomy of Habit, Ataraxie, Major Scaled, Leonard Cohen, Famous Blue Raincoat
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Artist on Artist
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"Last night I was lying in bed thinking, 'Oh my God, what if I don't get to put out another record? I'm going to be homeless!'"
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Artist on Artist, Marnie Stern, The Chronicles of Marnia, Zach Hill, Kid Millions, David Reminick, Paper Mice, Empty Bottle, Pro Tools, Laurie Anderson, My Pie
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Key Ingredient
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Braised, deep-fried, stir-fried—pig uterus has its merits.
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Key Ingredient, pig uterus, uterus, tripe, organs, pork intestine, pork uterus, Abraham Conlon, bacon, offal, texture, pig ear, wood ear mushroom, funnel cake, stir-fry, crunchiness, squeakiness, chefs, cooking, recipes, Fat Rice, Video
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Movie Feature
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If you're going to see a 97-minute film with 3,000 GIFs, see this one.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Movie Feature, Eric Fleischauer, Jason Lazarus, GIFs, Twohundredfiftysixcolors, Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Basel Miami, School of the Art Institute, Orson Welles
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Movie Critic's Choice
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Harrison Ford costars as Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, 42, Jackie Robinson, Brian Helgeland, Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Brooklyn Dodgers, Branch Rickey, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, Alan Tudyk, John C. McGinley, Red Barber, Recommended
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Movie Sidebar
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The annual event kicks off Friday at 600 N. Michigan.
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Tags: Movie Sidebar, 29th Chicago Latino Film Festival, International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago, The Devil's Hole, Francis Disla Ferreira, A Long Journey, Lucia Murat, Athens, Sydney, Kabul, Rishikesh, New York, On the Line, Ecuador, Guayaquil, David Nieto Wenzell, Orange Honey, Flame & Citron, Winter in Wartime, Imanol Uribe, Porcelain Horse, Javier Andrade, SofÍa and the Stubborn Man, Almodovar, Carmen Maura, Giulietta Masina, Nights of Cabiria, Things the Way They Are, William Vega, Lisandro Alonso, Los Muertes, Cristi Puiu, Aurora
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On Politics
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Even in Chicago, an unknown on a kamikaze mission can end up winning the mayor's office.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Jane Byrne, Roger Ebert, Rahm Emanuel, Toni Preckwinkle, Michael Bilandic, Wilson Frost, Bill Granger, Lori Granger, Fighting Jane, Eddie Burke, Anthony Beale, City Hall, Stacy Davis Gates, Chicago Teachers Union, Harold Washington
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Savage Love
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An expert can attest! Plus: Avoiding the forced march to orgasm.
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, Christian, Orthodox Christian, God, homosexuality, Right Reverend Gene Robinson, Episcopal Bishop, New Hampshire, LGBT, God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage, sex life, kinky fantasies, "Emerging Adulthood: An Age of Sexual Experimentation or Sexual Self-Focus?", Hayley Leveque, Cory Pederson, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, British Columbia
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Bleader
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Is DMX's version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" a sly bit of viral marketing for his most recent album?
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, DMX, Dark Man X, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Power 105.1, DMX Vs. Computer, Google, Grantland, Undisputed, Video
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The HBO documentary Gideon's Army screens at Gene Siskel Film Center
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Opening, Film, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Facets Cinematheque, Gene Siskel Film Center, Dawn Porter, Gideon's Army, Brandy Alexander, Travis Williams, Brett Willis, The Last White Knight, Paul Saltzman, Delay De La Beckwith, Byron DE La Beckwith, Medgar Evers, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cyn, Mona Eldaief, Jehane Noujaim, Rafea: Solar Mama, My Afghanistan: Life in the Forbidden Zone, Nagieb Khaja, film festivals, movies, Audio
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A selection of shows to get out of the house to see include Engines at the Green Mill, Flatlanders at Mayne Stage, Wovenhand at the Empty Bottle, and KEN Mode at the Empty Bottle
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Do This, Music, Sigur Ros, KEN Mode, Engines, Flatlanders, Wovenhand, Peter Margasak, Jimmie dale Gilmore, postrock, Soundboard
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Local rapper Lucki Ecks is prepping a mixtape called Alternative Trap, but he's not the only one who has been toying with the southern-raised rap genre.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Lucki Ecks, Count On Me, Alternative Trap, drill, Chief Keef, Citgo, Finally Rich, Young Ravisu, Radoslaw Sobieraj, Spin Magazine, Hytman, video, Video
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A Yom Kippur reflection on Matisyahu's "Tel Aviv'n," Drake's re-bar mitzvah, Mac Miller, MCA, and more
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Matisyahu, MCA, Beastie Boys, Mac Miller, Drake, Spark Seeker, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv'n, Israel, Lyor Cohen, Yom Kippur, hip-hop, Video
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The author discusses her new book, about the relationship between plants and booze.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Science, Books, Arts, Booze, Food & Drink, Amy Stewart, The Drunken Botanist, gardening, plants, Fernet Branca, saffron, cassareep, cocktail garden, Poire Williams
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, April 10, 2013.
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Iceage, Miles Raymer, Empty Bottle, Violent End, Final Grin, Andy Cohen, Watch What Happens Live, Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture, Barbara's Bookstore, Macy's, Greg Proops, The Smartest Man in the World Proopcast, Up Comedy Club
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What a new commercial for a soft-drink company says about Odd Future
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Tyler the Creator, Odd Future, LA, Loiter Squad, Wolf, Mountain Dew, rap, video, talking goats, Video
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Weekly Top Five: William Friedkin films
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, William Friedkin, The Friedkin Connection, Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, Harold Washington Library, The Exorcist, Killer Joe, Filmspotting, Adam Kempenaar, The Exorcist, Deliverance, Straw Dogs, New Hollywood, Rampage, Richard Chase, Bug, Rules of Engagement, the Hunted, Tracy Letts, Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, To Live and Die in L.A, Robby Muller, Repo Men, Paris Texas, Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party, Cruising, The French Connection, Sorcerer, The Wages of Fear, Henri-Georges Clouzot
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What the Outkast member's Frank Ocean remix and the response to it says about our growing desire to see our wildest musical dreams come true
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Narcissism, Music, Big Boi, Frank Ocean, Pink Matter, Antwan Patton, Andre 3000, Andre Benjamin, Channel Orange, Soundcloud, Spin magazine, T.I., Sorry, Idlewild
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The best shows to see this Monday through Wednesday include Floor, Caitlin Rose, and Iceage.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Do This, Music, Iceage, Floor, Caitlin Rose, Schubas, Empty Bottle, Peter Margasak, Miles Raymer
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, April 7, 2013
- by Katie Kather
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Tags: Do This, Arts, KEN Mode, Empty Bottle, Fight Amp, Today Is the Day, Black Tusk, Jennifer Perillo, Jennie's Kitchen, Homemade with Love: Simple Scratch Cooking from Jennie's Kitchen, Book Cellar., Derek Smith, Kind of Blue Comedy, the Hideout.
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Politically conscious local rap group BBU breaks up
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, BBU, Chi Don't Dance, Dude 'n Nem, bell hooks, Mishka, Jasson Perez, Michael Milam, Richard Wallace, Video
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is the Bed Wettin' Bad Boys' "Any Day Now," from their debut full-length, Ready for Boredom.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Bed Wettin' Bad Boys, R.I.P. Society, Nic Warnock, 12 O'Clock Track, REady for Boredom, Sydney, Australia, Video
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Baltimore's Schwarz spins his hometown sound into an ebullient self-esteem booster with "U R Beautiful."
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Schwarz, "U R Beautiful, " Baltimore club, BBU, Outlaw Culture, Bandcamp, Thunder Zone, Video
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Business leaders as well as educators have been tarnished by the scandal in Atlanta.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Education, News, standardized tests, John Barker, Chicago Public Schools, Rod Paige, George W. Bush, New Yorker, Ford Motor Company, Campbell's Law, Donald T. Campbell, Richard P. Phelps, Nonpartisan Education Review, Wilson Quarterly, Atlanta cheating, Beverly Hall, Sonny Perdue, New York Times, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
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Get On Down's reissue of Ghostface Killah's Ironman comes with a puzzle that should get plenty of play.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, The Biz Never Sleeps, Biz Markie, In Rotation, Ironman, Ghostface Killah, rap, hip-hop, Nas, Illmatic, Video
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, April 9, 2013
- by Katie Kather
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Tags: Do This, Arts, How Does Radio Get Made?, Re:sound, Caitlin Rose, Schubas, Adrew Combs, Hairpin Lofts Art Center, Matthew Schultz, The History of Division
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Some decided to love or hate Chief Keef's Interscope debut prior to its release, but the album shouldn't inspire such strong feelings
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Chief Keef, Keith Cozart, Finally Rich, Interscope, Gawker, drill, hip-hop, WorldStarHipHop, John Cage, G.O.O.D. Music, Love Sosa, Hallelujah, I Don't Like, Rick Ross, Laugin To The Bank, Video
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Why waste time working or gardening this week when you can be watching baseball, basketball, hockey, and golf?
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Sports, News, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Blackhawks, NCAA championship, Carlos Marmol, Kyuji Fujikawa, Dayan Viciedo, Addison Reed, Louisville, Michigan, Milwaukee Brewers, Hank Aaron, Washington Nationals, Gwynedd Stuart, Mick Dumke, Masters, Augusta National, Tiger Woods
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New songs from local hip-hop artists Tree, Vic Spencer, Kembe X, Sasha Go Hard, and M.I.C
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, hip-hop, Tree, Trillin, Karl Malone, Vic Spencer, Spence Ethic, Black Sour, Kembe X, Soul Fever, Sasha Go Hard, On My Mind, DGainz, Chief Keef, I Don't Like, M.I.C, Next 2 Blow, Lil Chris, Same Shit Different Day, Video
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New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Opening, Film, Room 237, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, Tabu, F.W. Murnau, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, Evil Dead, Sam Raimi, The Host movie, Twilight Stephenie Meyer, Never the Same: The Prisoner of War Experience, The Place Beyond the Pines, Derek Cianfrance, Blue Valentine, Adam McKay, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Landmark's Century Centre, Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, University of Chicago Doc Films, Werner Herzog, Only Dwarfs Started Small, Stephen Frears, High Fidelity, Logan Theater Chicago, Chris Marker, La Jetee, movies, Video
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, April 11, 2013
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Chicago Golden Gloves, Joe Louis, Sonny Liston, Cassius Clay, Michael Flatley, Lord of the Dance, Cicero Stadium, Messing With a Friend, Susan Messing, Ryan Hubbard, Mark "Howard" Sutton, Bassprov, Donny Weaver, Columbia College's Film Row Cinema, Columbia College, Ron Falzone, Robert Zemeckis, Flight, Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips, United Airlines First Officer Dan Swanson, Cinema Slapdown
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A couple decades ago Chaz L. Morgan began drawing pictures as a kid in Maywood, Illinois. Now 25, he's making a living designing album artwork for famous rappers.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Style, Arts, Hip-Hop, Music, Visual Art, Chaz L. Morgan, hip-hop, rap, Meek Mill, Wale, One Forty Five South, Matt Mateo, DJ Sean Mac, 3Deep Chicago, One Off Entertainment Group, GPX All Black, Piet Mondrian, Dreams and Nightmares, MMG, Peter Saville, New Order, Trey Songz, Nelly, Lil Reese, Ciara, Bad Boy, Red Cafe, Jordan Brand, Rick Ross, Future, Apparel Reserve, Power Corruption & Lies
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Hip-hop heads will be "Causin' rambunction, throughout the sphere" at Saturday's rap karaoke party
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Multikulti, The Holiday Rap Karaoke Party, J. Johari Palacio, Psalm One, Encyclopedia Brown, PremRock, Has-Lo, Pseudo Slang, Sharkula, Jay-Z, Run-DMC, Nas, Wu-Tang Clan, Slick Rick, Salt-n-Pepa, Gang Starr, EPMD, Snoop, A Tribe Called Quest, Outkast, Kanye West, Video
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We don't mourn Roger Ebert—we miss him.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: RIP, Media, Film, News, Roger Ebert, Stan Musial, Chicago, Saint Louis, Studs Terkel, Mike Royko, Eric Zorn
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Argentine singer La Yegros brings a more traditional cumbia sound to ZKK Records.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, ZZK, electro-cumbia, cumbia, La Yegros, Viene de Mi, Gaby Kerpel, King Coya, Alejandro Franov, 12 O'Clock Track
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A recent box set collects the entire history of ICP Records, while on his latest album pianist Reed salutes Thelonious Monk.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Jazz, Music, Post No Bills, ICP, Instant Composers Pool, Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, Pieter Boersma, jazz, box sets, Eric Reed, Thelonious Monk, The New Duck, Evidence, The Baddest Monk, Rumboon, Tetterett, Lumps, Video, Audio
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, April 5, 2013
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Level-Up Magazine, Chicago Art Department, Kembe X, Alex Wiley, Sybris, Bottom Lounge, 3 Floyds, Dungeons & Dragons, Rabid Rabbit, Killer Moon, Voyage of the Stag Party, Book Cellar, Chelsea Prince, Rock and Vine: Next Generation Changemakers in America's Wine Country, Mary Steinbacher, New York Times, Meiomi, Rock and Vine, Parallel
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The jazz vocalist/rap collaborator on her partnership with producer Petter Cottontale, her work with Chance the Rapper, and more
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Lili K, Peter Cottontale, Chance the Rapper, Metal Petals, rap, hip-hop, J Dilla, #10Day, Acid Rap, Secret Garden, Thelonious Martin, Mayer Hawthorne, Quincy McCrary, Rockie Fresh, Sulaiman, the GTW, Video
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Prepare for the Brkf$t Club's first headlining show with one of the year's best local rap videos
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Do This, Hip-Hop, Music, Chief Keef, Glory Boyz Entertainment, Brkf$t Club, 2008ighties, Calez, Julian Malone, Legit, Fonz-E Mak, UG, Johnny St. Cloud, Reggie's Rock Club, The Fellowship, Grizzly Bear, MTVU, Video
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The Black Bar Mitzvah and Good Kid, Maad City have at least one thing in common—Chicago
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Rick Ross, The Black Bar Mitzvah, Lil Reese, Lil JoJo, Chaz L. Morgan, Chief Keef, Shy Glizzy, Drake, Meek Mill, Dreams and Nightmares, Rockie Fresh, Kanye West, G.O.O.D. Music, Kendrick Lamar, Jessica Hopper, Spin magazine, Video
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Beloved for their squeaky-clean rap, Kriss Kross shook things up on 1993's Da Bomb in part by throwing around the N-word.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Da Bomb, Kriss Kross, Jump, rap, Totally Krossed Out, Mac Daddy, Daddy Mac, Video
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Martyl Langsdorf, the artist who designed the Doomsday Clock, had a very interesting life.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: RIP, Arts, Martyl Langsdorf, Doomsday Clock, Alexander Langsdorf Jr., Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, nuclear bomb, Manhattan Project, FBI, CIA, Art Institute
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Previewing Le Pont du Nord, screening in Chicago three times next week
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Foreign, Film, Jacques Rivette, Le Pont du Nord, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Gene Siskel Film Center, Pascale Ogier, Bulle Ogier, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Film: The Front Line
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The former BR5-49 regains his bearings on Back at the Quonset Hut, a collection of hard-core country covers.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, BR5-49, Chuck Mead, Nashville, honky-tonk, country music, Grassy Knoll Boys, Back at the Quonset Hut, Owen Bradley, Audio
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An interview with the local MC, who headlines at the Metro on Friday, November 23rd
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Chance the Rapper, Acid Rap, #10Day, Three Beats, Kevin Coval, Metro, Kids These Days, Rockie Fresh, Milo & Otis, Mikey Rocks, Save Money, Peter Cottontale, Lily K, Thempeople, Jamiroquai, Kanye West, Can't Tell Me Nothing, Chief Keef, Childish Gambino, Stefan Ponce, Lincoln Hall, Leaders, Jugrnaut, Barack Obama, Video
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Next time a tourist makes an Al Capone joke, splash him with hot pizza soup.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Cooking, Food Chain, Food & Drink, deep-dish pizza soup, Soup & Bread, the Hideout, deep-dish pizza, Burt's Place, Pequod's, Al Capone, Mike Sula on cooking
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Thoughts surrounding DAM, the first Palestinian rap group, who performs in Chicago on Friday.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, DAM, Da Arabian MCs, Israel, Palestine, The Light and the Shadow, Subliminal, Mook E., Shabak, Tel Aviv, SXSW, Loyola, Tupac, Hebrew, Arabic, BBU, Bruno Mars, Video
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Previewing Ida Lupino's The Bigamist, which the Northwest Chicago Film Society will present this week
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Do This, Women's Issues, Film, Ida Lupino, The Bigamist, Portage Theater, Northwest Chicago Film Society, The Filmmakers, Collier Young, Joan Fontaine, The Hitch-hiker, women filmmakers, RKO Pictures, Howard Hughes, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Senses of Cinema
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The man known as DJ RTC: "Curren$y, he sent me an e-mail, just three words: 'I'm with you.'"
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Alex Fruchter, Ruby Hornet, Closed Sessions, hip-hop, rap, Decon, Fool's Gold, Alex Wiley, Cannibal Ox, Kickstarter, Club Wiley, Vic Mensa, ShowYouSuck, Sunday School 2, Tree, Acid Rap, Chance the Rapper, Digital Freshness, Roc Marciano, Curren$y, Raekwon, 2dopeboyz, Chuck Inglish, Soundscape Studios, Video
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A short list of people who, under some circumstance, could challenge Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2015.
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Politics, News, mayor, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago politics, 2015 election, Toni Preckwinkle, fundraising, Robert Fioretti, Scott Waguespack, Roderick Sawyer, Tom Dart, Chicago City Council, Miguel del Valle, Jesus Garcia, Karen Lewis, Chicago Teachers Union, Lisa Madigan
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Examining the rapper-producer as he prepares for fatherhood
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Narcissism, Hip-Hop, Music, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Washington Post, Jay-Z, Glory, Blue Ivy Carter, Grantland, Alex Pappademas, Chief Keef, G.O.O.D. Music, Lex Luger, I Don't Like, H.A.M., New York Times Magazine, L.E.P. Bogus Boys, King Louie, King L, Young Chop, Video
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The Bay Area rock quartet have been fruitfully collaborating with the Chicago new music group Ensemble Dal Niente, but tonight they're on their own at Lincoln Hall.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Deerhoof, Ensemble Dal Niente, Deerhoof Chamber Variations, Marcos Balter, Greg Saunier, Ecstatic Music Festival, Lincoln Hall, We Do Parties, Video
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You can watch Seidl's 1997 TV documentary, a companion piece to the director's recent Paradise: Faith, on YouTube.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Foreign, On Video, Film, Ulrich Seidl, The Bosom Friend, Paradise trilogy, Paradise: Faith, Rene Rupnik, Austrian TV, cross-cutting, Senta Berger, Dog Days, Animal Love
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These hip-hop Halloween masks aren't exactly what they seem
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Riff Raff, Eminem, Tupac, rap, hip-hop, Halloween, masks, Rubie's, Vanilla Ice, Asher Roth, Mac Miller, Slipknot
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The Montreal-style smoked meat is alone worth a trip, and coming soon to the market is Stephanie Izard's Little Goat Bread.
- by Kate Schmidt
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Chicago French Market, Fumaré Meats & Deli, Montreal-style smoked meat, pastrami, Little Goat Diner, Little Goat Bread, Charlie McKenna, Lillie's Q, Pastoral, Wisma, John des Rosiers, Royce
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How many kids wait for places in Chicago's charter schools? Surely not 19,000.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Education, Media, News, Chicago Tribune, charter school waiting lists, Illinois Network of Charter Schools, Andrew Broy, Sheila McAulife, Bruce Dold, Youth Connection Charter School, WBEZ, Becky Vevea
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Local pop-punk powerhouse takes a page from rap's book with its new single, "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)."
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Fall Out Boy, 2 Chainz, Infinity On High, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up), Save Rock and Roll, Led Zeppelin, When the Levee Breaks, Dr. Dre, the Beastie Boys, Eminem, Video, Video
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On the sensation of watching film stock exceed the screen's parameters
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Dim the Lights, Moviegoing, Film, Celluloid exhibition, digital film exhibition, DCP, Vagabond, Gene Siskel Film Center, 35-millimeter film, Apocalypse Now Redux, McClurg Court Cinemas, moviegoing, Breakfast of Champions, Rabo Karabekian
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How LA producer Flying Lotus single-handedly created and destroyed one of the more interesting rappers to gain national attention this year
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Arts, Hip-Hop, Music, Visual Art, Captain Murphy, hip-hop, Adult Swim, Flying Lotus, Steven Ellison, Odd Future, Earl Sweatshirt, Between Friends, Duality, Riff Raff, The Prisoner, MF Doom, Video
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Thrash metal may go hand-in-hand with shit beer, but the stout that Municipal Waste brewed with Three Floyds is world class.
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Three Floyds, Toxic Revolution, Toxic Revolution Stout, Municipal Waste, oatmeal stout, Dave Witte, The Fatal Feast, Waste in Space, Terror Shark, Waste 'Em All, You're Cut Off, Hazardous Mutation, Exodus, Sybris, In the Name of Suffering, Eyehategod, Melt-Banana, Pelican, the Creeper, Lair of the Minotaur, Evil Power, Amon Amarth, Ragnarok, Pig Destroyer, Permanent Funeral, wall of death, thrash, Video
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Russian sausage, hummus law, the return of Logan Square Kitchen, and more
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Butcher & Larder, Rob Levitt, Michael Ruhlman, Alec Mikhaylov, Alef Sausage Co., Bernard's Bar, Waldorf Astoria, hummus, Jason Vincent, Nightwood, Food & Wine, Logan Square Kitchen, Zina Murray, Alinea, Video
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A new video for "Jealousy" includes some noxious and outdated 3-D graphics that have some similarities with seapunk and vaporwave.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, seapunk, vaporwave, Jealousy, the Purist, Danny Brown, Globodigital Home Video, video, Heavy Metal, Steve Smith, Video
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Delving further into a New Yorker story on sexual abuse at Horace Mann
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Education, Media, News, Horace Mann School, Robert Berman, the New Yorker, Marc Fisher, Gary Alan Fine, Scientology, New York Review of Books, Lawrence Wright, Going Clear, Diane Johnson, Sand Creek Massacre, John Evans, Northwestern University
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On her latest album, The Blue Room, Madeleine Peyroux pays homage to the country recordings of Ray Charles—sort of.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Larry Klein, Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Madeleine Peyroux, The Blue Room, Changing All Those Changes, Old Town School, countrypolitan, Video
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It's been less than a year since Kitty Pryde first captured the Internet's attention, which has been enough time for people to forget their most polarizing opinions of the teenaged rapper
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: The Internet, Music, Kitty Pryde, rap, hip-hop, Florida, Rolling Stone, Dead Island, D.A.I.S.Y. Rage, Okay Cupid, Sufjan Stevens, Chopped and Scrooged, Why?, Yoni Wolf, Haha I'm Sorry, Video, Video
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, April 6, 2013
- by Katie Kather
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Off-Air Event Series, UIC Social Justice Initiative, Global Activism Expo, UIC forum, Worldview, Jerome McDonnell, Flatlanders, Mayne Stage, Vertical Gallery, The Young and the Restless, Don't Fret.
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Previewing a three-day symposium at the University of Chicago's Logan Center for the Arts
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Do This, Foreign, Education, Film, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, University of Chicago, Logan Center for the Arts, parallel cinema, Kerala, Indian cinema, Malalayam cinema, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Vidheyan (The Servile), Mathilukal (The Walls), Nizhalkkuthu (Shadow Kill), Elippathayam (The Rat-Trap)
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Rising local rapper Sasha Go Hard on staying away from violence, the roots in rap, and her new mixtape, Hip-Hop vs. Love
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Sasha Go Hard, drill music, hip-hop, Fader, DGainz, M.I.C, Il Will, Low End, Young Chop, DJ Kenn, Do You Know Who I Am?, GTW, Bengfang, Hip-Hop vs. Love, Video
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Is trustworthy high-stakes testing feasible?
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Education, News, standardized testing, Campbell's Law, Atlanta test cheating, Richard P. Phelps, Wilson Quarterly, John Cannell, John Barker, Chicago Public Schools, Seattle testing boycott, Measures of Academic Progress, Northwest Evaluation Association, No Child Left Behind
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Keep an eye out for Mexican dishes at this North Center diner.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: One Bite, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Danny's Egghead Diner, hash, corned beef hash, diners, One Bite, Broadway Cellars, What's Cooking?, hash, Mexican food
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Some mixtapes are so great they demand to be replayed before you finish listening to the entire thing; Kevin Gates's new The Luca Brasi Story is one of those mixtapes.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Kevin Gates, rap, hip-hop, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Danny Brown, XXX, Tree, Sunday School, Jeremih, Late Nights With Jeremih, Video
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, April 8, 2013
- by Katie Kather
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Mike Greenberg, Mike and Mike in the Morning, All You Could Ask For, Barbara's Bookstore, Young Man, Schubas, T'Bone, Bridgeport Arts Center, Words and Gestures
