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Feature
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Is there a cure for Chicago's crippling dependence on firearms?
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: Feature, 24th Ward, 911, addiction, Anita Alvarez, Antonio Villaraigosa, ATF, Barack Obama's house, basketball, cannabis, CeaseFire, Charlie Beck, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Tribune, Christopher Koper, City Colleges, City Council, conflict resolution, conflicts, Connie Rice, Cook County state's attorney, CPD, crime, drinking, drug dealing, drug territory, Englewood, Evans Mob, ex-offenders, Frederick Seaton, gang members, gang territory, gangs, Gangster Disciples, Gary McCarthy, George Mason University, Greater Grand Crossing, gun laws, gun violence, guns, Hadiya Pendleton, Hales Franciscan High School, high school basketball, interruption, Jack Tweedle, Kennedy-King College, liquor stores, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Develop, marijuana, Marilyn Pitchford, Michael Chandler, Michael Davis, murder, Napoleon English, neighborhoods, Phil Cline, police overtime, policing, poverty, prison, Project Safe Neighborhoods, punishment, race, Rahm Emanuel, restaurants, Richard M. Daley, roots of violence, Safer Foundation, Sheldon Smith, shootings, social services, South Side, The Crime Report, Tony Wade, Turkey Chop, U.S. attorney, U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, U.S. Department of Justice, Vice Lords, violence, violence interrupters, Violence Reduction Strategy, West Humboldt Park, Audio
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On Politics
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The prestigious University of Chicago Lab Schools respect and reward teachers—so why can't the public schools?
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: On Politics, academic freedom, Allison Bates, American Federation of Teachers, Arne Duncan, Barack Obama, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union, class size, classroom evaluations, CPS, curriculum, education, Faculty Administration, Hyde Park High School, International Baccalaureate, Karen Lewis, labor, labor unions, Lincoln Park High School, longer school day, parents, peer review, Persepolis, Persepolisgate, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, Robert Zimmer, school governance, school principals, schools, Senn High School, Taft High School, teacher evaluations, teachers, teaching, unions, University of Chicago Lab Schools
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Savage Love
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Plus: It’s time to dump the deadbeat.
- by Dan Savage
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Tags: Savage Love, Portland Mercury, marriage, sex, video games, porn, divorce, bi, monogamish, liberal hippies, conservatives, Republicans, escort, pro dom, one night stand, hook ups
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Gossip Wolf
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Plus: Oyarsa goes transcontinental, Reds and Blue's drummer hits the road with Daughn Gibson, and more
- by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
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Tags: Gossip Wolf, Heavy Times, Luca Cimarusti, Quarters Rock 'n' Roll Palace, Milwaukee, Express Milwaukee, Matt Courtade, HoZac, Fix It Alone, Oyarsa, Empty Bottle, Sun Splitter, Winters in Osaka, Noah Coleman, Idaho, Areif Sless-Kitain, Eternals, I Kong Kult, Daughn Gibson, Jim Elkington, Horse's Ha, Pitchfork, Hideout
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In Rotation
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Plus: Julie Shapiro of Third Coast on the Austin Music Map, the Reader's Kevin Warwick on the CHIRP Record Fair, and more
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: In Rotation, Chicago Reader, Kevin Warwick, CHIRP, Chicago Independent Radio Project, CHIRP Record Fair, record fairs, Permanent Records, Lance Barresi, records, record shopping, My Disco, bands, Beat Kitchen, Young Widows, baseball, Eight Men Out, Kenny Chesney, Julie Shapiro, Third Coast International Audio Festival, Phil Smith, In the Dark Radio, Free Kitten, Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Elle, Austin Music Map, austinmusicmap.com, Jim Dempsey, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Les Blank, Teranga Beat, Narduar, Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Riff Raff, Odd Future, Kendrick Lamar, Florence & the Machine
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Music Feature
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A new coffee-table book and CD set documents the weird bygone world of private-press records.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music Feature, DJ Shadow, family bands, private-press records, private-press albums, records, vinyl, Jr. and His Soulettes, The Rhodes Kids, Michael Thevis, GRC, Captain Hook and His Pirate Crew, Von R. Saum, Now-Again, The Invaders, Cleo McNett, Gary Schneider, Silk & Silver, Jimmy Flemion, DIY distribution, The Invaders, Cleo McNett, Jonema Wintergate, Kalassu Kay, 33 1/3, Robert Baldwin, Gary Higgins, The Frogs, Gary Wilson, vanity records, vanity pressings, self-released records, The Shaggs, Austin Wiggin, sampling, The New York Times, Drag City, reissues, rereleases, Numero Group, Gear Fab, Byron Coley, books, record covers, coffee-table books, Enjoy the Experience: Homemade Records 1958-1992, history, record collectors, Johan Kugelberg, Michael P. Daley, Paul Major, St. Therese's Folk Group, The Happy Eggs, Century Records, Endless Boogie, Harriette Blake, Chicago Sun-Times, Irv Kupcinet, Don Alan, Von R. Saum, YouTube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, CD Baby
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Performing Arts Feature
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The festival puts people with disabilities on the stage, on the screen, behind the mike, and—just as importantly—in the audience.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Bodies of Work Festival, Carrie Sandahl, disability, UIC, UIC Department of Disabilitiy and Human Development, University of Illinois-Chicago, stereotypes, outside art, theater, literature, poetry, novels, visual art, dance, Ginger Lane, Lisa Bufano, Momenta, Stephen Dwoskin, film, Yolanda Cursach, MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ballet Black, Mayor's Office for People With Disabilities, accessibility, Americans With Disabilities Act, ADA
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Theater Review
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Promising at first, Lynn Nottage's ambitious play falls apart after intermission.
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Theater Review, the American dream, Ashkenazic, Alexander the Great, pre-Civil Rights Act America, Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen, Stepin Fetchit, Vera Stark, Lynn Nottage, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Gloria Mitchell, The Belle of New Orleans, Pulitzer Prize, Ruined, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Goodman Theatre, Chuck Smith, Erich von Stroheim
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Show us your [____]
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Horrorbles houses its fair share of horror relics and kitsch, including remnants from the house where the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was shot.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Show us your [____], Horrorbles, Berwyn, John Aranza, Boris Karloff, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Friday the 13th, Kane Hodder, Haunting Tales of Horrorbles, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Matt Wilberg
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Book Review
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In her new illustrated novella, Raven Girl, Niffenegger draws the lineage of a human-avian brood.
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Book Review, Audrey Niffenegger, Raven Girl, Her Fearful Symmetry, The Time Traveler's Wife, Harper's, Antony and the Johnsons, Royal Ballet, Bird Gurhl, Recommended, Video
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Comedy Critic's Choice
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And why? In Funny: The Book, the longtime comedy writer and stand-up explains his craft.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Comedy Critic's Choice, David Misch, Funny: The Book, Aristotle, Freud, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Mork & Mindy, Duckman, Sumeria, Steve Martin, Recommended
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Performing Arts Review
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Six dance troupes boogie to live music.
- by Laura Molzahn
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Tags: Performing Arts Review, footworking, Auditorium Theatre, Music + Movement Festival, Kuumba Lynx, Braid Tales . . . Remix, FootworKINGz, Christopher "Mad Dog" Thomas, Braid Tales, Giordano Dance Chicago, Michelle Dorrance, Mexican Dance Ensemble, Los Condenados Huastecos, Amanda Batterson, Thodos Dance Company, Sentinet, DanceWorks Chicago, Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, Wilfredo Rivera, Black Tears, Recommended
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Space
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The artist, musician, and collector extraordinaire guides us through his Humboldt house of psych.
- by Andrea Bauer
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Tags: Space, Steve Krakow, Plastic Crimewave, Chicago Reader, The Secret History of Chicago Music, Galactic Zoo Dossier, Plastic Crimewave Syndicate, comic books, collections, collectors, records, vinyl, cassette tapes, VHS, jukeboxes, Mr. T, Humboldt Park, apartments, psychedelia, stuffed animals, Video
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Small Screen
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The comic and podcaster stars as himself in Maron, a new IFC sitcom about his less-than-sunny outlook on life.
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Small Screen, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Louie, Maron, WTF With Marc Maron, podcast, IFC, Larry David, Louis C.K., Recommended
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Movie Critic's Choice
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Haile Gerima presents a rare screening of his 1976 ghetto drama
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Haile Gerima, Bush Mama, Barbara O. Jones, Johnny Weathers, Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, UCLA, LA Rebellion, Killer of Sheep, Recommended
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Movie Review
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The director's Something in the Air circles back to the 70s.
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Movie Review, James Joyce, Dubliners, Stephen Dedalus, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Something in the Air, Music Box, Olivier Assayas, Cold Water, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Film Comment, Carlos, World War II, May 1968, Beaux Arts, Pierre Ryckmans, The Chairman's New Clothes, Mao, Soft Machine, Why Are We Sleeping, Dr. Strangely Strange, Strings in the Earth and Air, Amazing Blondel, Celestial Light, Recommended
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Movie Review
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Leonardo DiCaprio stars in an overblown adaptation of the Fitzgerald classic.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Movie Review, The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge!, Jazz Age, Jay-Z, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Entourage, Alan Ladd, Robert Redford, Robert Ryan, Robert Montgomery, Long Island Sound, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire
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Key Ingredient
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A love-it-or-hate-it variety meat gets transformed into sausage.
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Key Ingredient, tripe, beef tripe, honeycomb tripe, cookbooks, The French Laundry Cookbook, Alinea, pea shoots, cranberry beans, Carol Blymire, boggers, cow stomach, reticulum, John Asbaty, menudo, pho, texture, sausage, ragout, salad, Key Ingredient Cook-Off, recipes, cooking, Panozzo's Italian Market, Video
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Restaurant Review
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It's spendy sports bar food—and it's in River North—but it's not bad.
- by Sam Worley
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Tags: Restaurant Reviews, River North, bar food, sports bars, bars, Kendal Duque, sliders, pork belly sliders, gastropubs, quail eggs, DJs, meat, Sepia, chain restaurants, Tru, Everest, NoMi, food cliches, flatbread, lobster, wild boar chili cheese fries, appetizers, small plates, pasta, chicken, fisherman's stew, wine, cocktails, beer, American Junkie
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Bleader
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There's no logical explanation for why we throw money at teams who repay our devotion and generosity with mediocrity and greed.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Politics, News, Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field, Rosemont, Mayor Bradley Stephens, Tom Ricketts, Chicago White Sox, Soldier Field, Chicago Bears, Chicago Bulls, Wrigleyville, Ozzie Guillen, Ozzy Osbourne
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Bleader
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, May 3.
- by Hannah Lorenz
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Little Village, Cinco de Mayo Festival, Mexico, France, Battle of Puebla, Key Ingredient Cook-Off, Bridgeport Art Center, Paul Virant, Perennial Virant, Abraham Conlon, Fat Rice, City Winery, River North Beer, Tenzing, Four Roses, Olmeca Altos, Cremaster Cycle, Matthew Barney, Gene Siskel Film Center
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Bleader
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Cesar Ruelase thinks we shouldn't believe everything the WGN broadcaster says.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Broken, Seriously?, Media, News, Tom Skilling, weather, meteorology, weather predictions, Cesar Ruelase, crusades, TV news, weathermen, Steve Baskerville
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Bleader
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How the discoloration of faded prints can add to a movie's meaning.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Moviegoing, Film, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Chicago Cinema Society, Patio Theater, Neil Calderone, John Cassavetes, Timothy Carey, Centennial Summer, Showboat, celluloid film, discoloration, Nashville, Robert Altman, Showboat, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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Bleader
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A terrific new collection of early works by the eclectic American composer Joseph Byrd, who founded the late 60s psychedelic rock band United States of America, has been released by New World Records.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Joseph Byrd, United States of America, minimalism, avant-garde, La Monte Young, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Virgil Thompson, Don Ellis, Dorothy Moskowitz, Broadcast, John Cage, Fluxus, Morton Feldman, Charlotte Moorman, Max Neuhaus, American Contemporary Music Ensemble, New World Records, String Trio, Video, Audio
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Bleader
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The best shows to see through Wednesday include Patti Smith & Her Band, Black Pus, and Momo.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Do This, Music, Best shows to see, Patti Smith & Her Band, Black Pus, Momo, Cadafalso, Marcelo Frota, Brian Chippendale
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, May 8.
- by Hannah Lorenz
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Museum of Science and Industry, The Art of the Bicycle, Sanford Biggers, Ago, Monique Meloche Gallery, Marcelo Frota, Momo, Peter Margasak, Cadafalso, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music
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Bleader
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The rapper drops a couple new tracks that should get plenty of traction outside the city as Chance the Rapper clues the nation's pop listeners into another side of the local rap scene.
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, The GTW, James King, Tink, Yours Truly, Songs From Scratch, Chance the Rapper, Acid Rap, Jody, The Long Goodbye, When I'm Lit, Good Kid M.A.A.D. City, The Long Goodbye, Vic Mensa, Video
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Bleader
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A new book tells the story of a Mexican actor in Hollywood in the 1930s.
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Books, Arts, LGBT, Film, Alex Espinoza, The Five Acts of Diego León, By the Way Meet Vera Stark, Lynn Nottage, Hollywood, 1930s, movie stars, Ramon Novarro, Anthony Quinn, P'urhépecha, Jacob Krantz, Ricardo Cortez, Latin lovers, Lillian Faderman
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Bleader
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Michael Bay's recent Pain & Gain inspires the latest Weekly Top Five.
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Weekly Top Five, Film, Michael Bay, Pain & Gain, American dream, El Norte, Gregory Nava, Thieves' Highway, Jules Dassin, Stroszek, Werner Herzog, California Dreamin', Cristian Nemescu, Hoop Dreams, Steve James, Frederick Marx, Peter Gilbert, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ben Sachs
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, May 4.
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, cannabis, Chelsea Lately, Cinco de Mayo, Copernicus Center, Daley Plaza, Drunk History, Global Cannabis March, Hideout, I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids, Jen Kirkman, marijuana, Polish Fest
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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: Opening, Film, Ben Sachs, Pain & Gain, Michael Bay, Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Persistence of Vision, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mira Nair, Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, The Big Wedding, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Hava Nagila (The Movie), Iron Man 3, Robert Downey Jr., Kon Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl, My Afghanistan: Life in the Forbidden Zone, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Lizzie Borden, Born in Flames, Gene Siskel Film Center, Haile Gerima, Bush Mama, Logan Center for the Arts, Stanley Donen, Funny Face, University of Chicago Doc Films, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, Part II, John Cassavetes, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Patio Theater Chicago, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Music Box Chicago, Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman, Detroit Threat Management, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Beneath the Blindfold, Wellington Avenue Church of Christ, film festivals, movies, Video
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Bleader
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A particularly poignant track from the singer-songwriter's 1973 folk-jazz hallmark, Solid Air
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Apropos of Nothing, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, John Martyn, Solid Air, Over the Hill, Richard Thompson, folk music, Video
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, May 9.
- by Hannah Lorenz
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Tree House Humane Society, Kittypalooza, Martyrs', My My My, Charles Bradley & the Extraordinaires, Super Fly, Curtis Mayfield, Muscle Shoals, Philadelphia International, Peter Margasak, Paul & the Tall Trees, Metro, John Francis Daley, Freaks and Geeks, Horrible Bosses, CineYouth Festival, Columbia College
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Today's 12 O'Clock Track is the infectious, 90s-flavored "Wire" from New York's Lurve.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Lurve, New York, pop, indie rock, indie-pop, New York, "Wires"
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John Cassavetes's personal take on the crime film screens Friday and Sunday at the Patio Theater.
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Crime, Do This, Film, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Patio Theater, Chicago Cinema Society, Ray Carney, Gloria, The Godfather Part II, Sans Soleil, Fantastic Planet, Touch of Evil, Orson Welles, crime film, revival screenings, repertory screenings, Frank Capra, Aurora, Cristi Puiu, Philip Lopate, Criterion Collection, film noir, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Music Box Theatre, Doc Films
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Bleader
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The author's thoughts on the past live on as a meme.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Books, Arts, Media, News, William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun, Phil Rosenthal, Chicago Tribune, New Deal, American Prospect, Atlantic, Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris, Sony Pictures Classics, memes
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Isa Giallorenzo's Street View 095
- by Isa Giallorenzo
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Tags: Style, Arts, womenswear, spring, cool hair, blue, denim, scarves, oxfords, metallics, fashion, Chicago street style
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Considering some of the forebears of Michael Bay's recent Pain & Gain
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Gross, Film, Pain & Gain, Robert Aldrich, Natural Born Killers, The Choirboys, J. Hoberman, Kiss Me Deadly, Southland Tales, Dave Kehr, grotesquerie, Nelson Rockefeller, Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, Starship Troopers, Idiocracy, Spetters, Michael Bay, Hustle, A.I. Bezzerides
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"I scare politicians in both parties," Bruce Rauner says.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Education, Media, Politics, News, Bruce Rauner, Crain's Chicago Business, Greg Hinz, Illinois governor's race, Rahm Emanuel, State Journal-Register, Diana Mendley Rauner, Ounce of Prevention Fund, homestead exemption, Payton College Prep, New Trier High School, Northside College Prep, charter schools, Rauner College Prep, Arne Duncan, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald, U.S. News & World Report, college rankings, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Public Schools inspector general
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The Sun-Times shutters its Weekend section, launches Agenda.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Wrapports LLC, Sun-Times Media, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Reader, Jim Kirk, Mara Shalhoup, Reader's Agenda, Weekend
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, May 5.
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Sprocket Hole/Speaker Box's Wordy Show, Township, Advance Base, Beau Golwitze, Caitlin Bergh, Next Theatre Company, Bodies in Motion, Pete Jordan, Dishwasher, In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist, Quimby's
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The Steppenwolf ensemble member recalls making an LSD comedy with Groucho Marx.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Paranormal, Film, Skidoo, Mad Men, Timothy Leary, Otto Preminger, Bonjour Tristesse, Anatomy of a Murder, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Jackie Gleason, Austin Pendleton, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Gloria Bowman, Home Projectionist, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Mickey Rooney, George Raft, Groucho Marx, Harry Nilsson, Cesar, Frank Gorshin, Burgess Meredith, Batman, LSD, movies
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The new home of Co-op Sauce and Crumb Chicago is a cafe, hot-sauce factory, and benefactor to youth arts.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Cooking, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Sauce and Bread Kitchen, Mike Bancroft, Co-op Image, Co-op Sauce, Crumb Chicago, Anne Kostrowski, Mike Sula on Cooking
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Episodes of the new WYCC music show Musicology: Live From the Old Town School of Folk Music are now available on YouTube
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Arts, Television, Music, Post No Bills, Old Town School of Folk Music, Musicology: Live From the Old Town School of Folk Music, WYCC, Hamid Al-Saadi, Amir ElSaffar, Habib Koite, Eric Bibb, Creole Choir of Cuba, international music, maqam, Video
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"New Bridge" by Michigan synth-prog band Mounds, who open for Black Pus tonight at the Empty Bottle
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Michigan, Mounds, Empty Bottle, Oozing Wound, Black Pus, Lightning Bolt, Brian Chippendale, Seth Sher, Zath, Psychic Steel, New Bridge, synth, prog
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A James Beard award and three Lisagor awards were bestowed upon Reader staff on Friday.
- by Tal Rosenberg
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Tags: Behind Our Scenes, Narcissism, LGBT, Food & Drink, News, James Beard Foundation Award, M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, Mike Sula, Peter Lisagor award, Mick Dumke, Elly Fishman
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A piercing, visceral improvisation from the South Korean cellist.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, Okkyung Lee, Ghil, Ideologic Organ, 12 O'Clock Track, "Two to Your Right, Five to Your Left, " noise, improvisation, cello, Lasse Marhaug
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Inspired by the log cabins and pizza pies of the Pacific northwest, Homeslice cozies into Lincoln Park.
- by Kevin Warwick
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Tags: Food & Drink, Homeslice, pizza, Lincoln Park, Oregon, Pacific northwest, DePaul, crust, log cabin, wood, more wood, Douglas fir, slice, crust, cornmeal, lacquer, turtlenecks
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Chicago Sun-Times lays off photographer Jon Sall, who then wins awards.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, News, Jon Sall, Sinead O'Connor, Saturday Night Live, the pope, Jeff MacNelly, Chicago Tribune, Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times, Eric Bower, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Sun-Times Media, James Tyree, Wrapports LLC, Michael Ferro, Dave Hoekstra, Melissa Isaacson, Dan Haley, Wednesday Journal Inc.
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, May 6.
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Bill Callahan, Drag City, Garfield Park Conservatory, Harold Washington Library Center, Timuel D. Black, Linda Johnson Rice, Adam Green, the Great Migration, African American Chicago Chamber Musicians, First Monday, Chicago Cultural Center
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Al pastor mom's way and some lengua, too
- by Gwynedd Stuart
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Tags: One Bite, Food & Drink, tixteco mexican restaurant, irving park, al pastor, lengua, tongue, taco, burrito, gordita, Mexican food, Milwaukee
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Spacey pop act Bigcolour welcomes the summer vibes this Monday.
- by Luca Cimarusti
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Tags: Do This, Things I Love, Music, Bigcolour, Big Forever, Notes & Bolts, Teen River, DIY, space, summer, psych, pop, guitars, psych pop
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The wealth gap between white families and black and Hispanic families has grown to six to one.
- by Steve Bogira
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Tags: Neighborhoods, Poverty, Segregation, Politics, News, wealth gap, racial wealth gap, asset-building, mortgage deduction, property-tax deduction, retirement tax credits, segregation, Civil War, discrimination, Urban Institute, American Sociological Review, Princeton, predatory lending, subprime lending, housing bubble, recession, foreclosure crisis
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Kris Kross's Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly passed away last night at the age of 34, so let's celebrate his life by listening to his group's megajam "Jump."
- by Leor Galil
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Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, 90s Nostalgia, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Kris Kross, Jump, rap, hip-hop, Chris Mac Daddy Kelly, Video
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The pleasures of doom—not just Founders' barrel-aged imperial IPA but also the heaviest metal in the universe.
- by Philip Montoro
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Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Founders, Doom, Founders Brewing, imperial India pale ale, IPA, bourbon barrels, Jeff Hanneman, Slayer, Double Trouble, Hand of Doom, Ahab, Caspar Brotzmann Massaker, Hooded Menace, Electric Wizard, Conan, Coffinworm, Witch Mountain, Yob, Serpentine Path, Electric Wizard, Hooded Menace, Indian, Horseback, Loss, Mournful Congregation, Om, Pallbearer, Samothrace, Tryptikon, Video
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The venerable indie filmmaker returns to Chicago this Thursday.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Poverty, Film, Bush Mama, Haile Gerima, Unviersity of California-Los Angeles, UCLA, LA Rebellion, Howard University, Logan Center for the Arts, Jacqueline Stewart, Northwestern University, Goodman School of Drama, Barbara O. Jones, Johnny Weathers, blaxploitation, Shaft, Superfly, movies, Video
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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, May 7.
- by Drew Hunt
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Tags: Do This, Arts, Ian Svenonius, Nation of Ulysses, the Make-Up, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group, Quimby's, Kevin Warwick, Keith Koeneman, First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley, Neil Steinberg, You Were Never in Chicago, Steve Edwards, University of Chicago's International House., Standup comedian and Chicago expat Jared Logan (Best Week Ever, John Oliver’s New York Stand-up Show) performs at Zanie's.
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Considering the similarities of three recent art films from Mexico, Turkey, and Israel
- by Ben Sachs
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Tags: Art House, Foreign, Film, Aqui y Allà (Here and There), Sharqiya, Honey, "slow cinema", Mexican cinema, international cinema, Turkish cinema, Israeli cinema, Satyajit Ray, Vittorio De Sica, Apu Trilogy, Bicycle Thieves, Facets Multimedia, Block Cinema, Pather Panchali, neorealism, Aparajito, The World of Apu
