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The Kachingle model: move freely about the Internet, pay only for the news you like, and tell your friends.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Hot Type
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Wednesday Journal Inc. is dropping three Chicago neighborhood papers, but Inside Publications is probably picking up two.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: News, News Bites, skyline, Wednesday Journal Inc., Andy Johnston, Ron Roenigk, Inside Publications, Sun-Times Media-Group, The Booster, The News-Star, Chicago Journal
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The Pitchfork fest's first acts are announced.
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music, Crickets, Chicago, Pitchfork Music Festival, Pitchfork, Indie Rock, servicey, Pitchfork Festival, Jesus Lizard, Built to Spill, Write the Night
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The debate (if you want to call it that) over the latest proposal to strengthen the role of the inspector general centers on whether the office should be allowed to investigate aldermen. But the effectiveness of the measure really hinges on a provision that would expand the office's budget and shield it from a politically inspired axe. The proposal from Joe Moore and his allies would do more than protect the office's budget--it would hike it dramatically. This year it would go up 50 percent, from $5.9 million to nearly $9 million.
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: News, Clout City, Aldermen, inspector general, Alderman Joe Moore, Chicago City Council, Chicago politics, Alderman Berny Stone, David Hoffman, Alderman Pat O'Connor, New York City government, Los Angeles city government, government waste, government fraud, New York Independent Budget Office, Chicago budget
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The terrifying disaster behind the amusing Jon Stewart - Rick Santelli - CNBC feud.
- by Whet Moser
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Tags: News, Chicagoland, Economics, Bankruptcy, Jon Stewart, foreclosure, AIG, Long Term Capital Management, Rick Santelli, CNBC, Gaussian copula formula, David X. Li
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The morning's news of scandals and budget deficits as the city gears up for the Olympics.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: News, Clout City, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Mayor Richard Daley, Al Sanchez, U.S. Olympic Committee, International Olympic Committee, streets and sanitation, Fran Spielman, Philip Hersh, Streets & Sanitation
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Some aldermen call for a more independent, better funded inspector general; another says it's "bullshit." So who are the reformers?
- by Mick Dumke
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Tags: News, Clout City, Mayor Richard M. Daley, Rod Blagojevich, Bernard Stone, inspector general, Ricardo Munoz, Toni Preckwinkle, Chicago City Council, Joe Moore, Chicago politics, Political corruption, Roland Burris, Desmond Tutu, political reform
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French garage rock, Swedish krautrock, and new sounds from old indie rockers.
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music, Crickets, Bonnie Prince Billy, Audionom, R. Kelly, Prince, obits, yo la tengo, A-Trak, Jacques Dutronc, Montt Mardie, EPMD, Soft Pack, Will Oldham, Condo Fucks, Jah Thomas
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Richard Pegue's funeral features songs, speeches, and tears.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: News, Clout City, Otis Redding, Mayor Richard Daley, R&B, Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, Apostolic Church of God, Richard Steele, Alderman Freddrenna Lyle, Richard Pegue, Jackie Taylor, Black Ensemble Theater, Theo Huff, Melanie McCullough, Chinta Stausberg, Herb Kent
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David Leonhardt's article on federal taxes applies to Chicago with a twist: We want government services, but pretend we don't pay for them.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: News, Clout City, Taxes, Mayor Richard M. Daley, New York Times, Tifs, Chicago Park District, Chicago politics, Tax Increment Financing, David Leonhardt, public services, government services
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The Reader reviews theater, dance, and a Beatles tribute show.
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Performing Arts, Onstage, Arts, Stage Left Theatre, Auditorium Theatre, Our Lady of the Underpass, The Day of Knowledge, Teatro Vista, Rain, David Rousseve, Dance Center of Columbia College
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3/12 -- French Quarter Burlesque at Blue Bayou Bar & Grill: local burlesque performer Red Hot Annie will perform along with Donna Touch, Wham Bam Pam, Bonny Babs, The Honey Buns, and Paris Green in Vaudezilla's Erin Go BraLess.
- by Nicholas Teddy
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Tags: Free Shit, Swag, Burlesque, Blue Bayou Bar & Grill, Red Hot Annie
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This week's talks, tastings, and events
- by Julia Thiel
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Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Facets Cinematheque, Mark Bazer, Milk in the Land, Theatre Mir, The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, Interview Show, Spice House, Jack Daniel's Chili Cook-Off
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A report from Sweden's Perspective Festival, which cuts to the heart of what's happening in experimental and improvised music.
- by Peter Margasak
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Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Free Jazz, Improvised Music, noise, experimental music, Mats Gustafsson, Perspectives Festival, Clayton Thomas, Cor Fuhler
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3/6 --Richard Bellia opening and screening of "But We Have the Music" at ThinkArt
- by Nicholas Teddy
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Tags: Free Shit, Swag, James Brown, The Clash, Radiohead, The Cure, David Bowie, Richard Bellia, The Rolling Stones, ThinkArt, But We Have the Music
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New nat'l barista champeen hails from the Chicago Broadway store.
- by Alison True
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Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Chicago Tribune, Coffee, Intelligentsia, Gapers Block, Monica Eng, barista, U.S. Barista Championship, Latte, gapersblock, Mike Phillips
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More notes on CIMMFest.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Chicago Reader, Music, Movies, Film Festivals, Chicago Sun-Times, Keith Phipps, Jim DeRogatis, Chicago International Film Festival, J.R. Jones, Botnik, The Onion, music festivals, Chicago International Movies and Music Festival, Lech Kowalski, Richard Bellia, But We Have the Music, Jackie Smessaert Brennan, Th!nkArt Salon, Shanti Masud, Ilko Davidov, Burt Kearns, The Seventh Python, Gregory Viens, Punching the Clown, Arnie Bernstein, Hollywood on Lake Michigan
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The best piece of thinking and writing that I've seen emerge from the Chicago Journalism Town Hall is the long blog essay by the Reader's Whet Moser that's running on the cover of this week's print edition. Moser walks us through journalism in the online era, explaining some things that aren't easy to get our minds around, and offers some inconvenient opinions. Such as -- "Traditional journalism, in 2009 AD, is boring and kind of uninformative"
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: News, News Bites, RedEye, Whet Moser, Chicago Journalism Town Hall, Ken Davis
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Before landing here in Chicago in 1982 Nasir Raufi and his wife fled the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan for Iran, and then Germany. He owned a furniture store for a long time, then he opened Afghan Kabob almost three years ago at the intersection of Elston and Montrose. As far as I know it's the only Afghan restaurant in the region, ever since the demise of Devon Avenue's Afghan Restaurant, and the (supposedly) in-the-process relocation of Skokie's Kabul House. Its novelty may be part of the reason they pull in a multiethnic range of customers from all over the city and suburbs, but it's more likely the solid, careful execution of his country's cuisine that keeps them coming back.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Turkish food, Persian food, blogsherpa, Afghan Kabob, Massouleh, war rugs, aushak, mantu, bourani badenjan, kabule palaw, Nasir Raufi, Afghan food
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New Reader reviews
- by Tony Adler
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Tags: Performing Arts, Onstage, Arts, Chicago Dramatists, Playground Theater, Storefront Theater, Teatro Luna, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Theatre Mir, The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, Brick Wall, Gorilla Tango, Camp Freedom, Black Sheep Productions, Everything Freezes, Sideshow Theatre, The Goat, Redtwist, Marriott Lincolnshire, Playing with Fire, BoHo Theatre, Police Academy: Insurgency Emergency, New Millennium Theatre, The Secrets Project, Genesis Ensemble, S-E-X-Oh! The Remix, The Shape of a Girl, Pegasus Players, The Solid Gold Cadillac, Open Eye Productions, Trying Too Hard, Athenaeum
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Cool Kids, Flosstradamus, and Claychella
- by Miles Raymer
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Tags: Music, Crickets, Chicago, Hip-Hop, Flosstradamus, dance music, Kid Sister, Cool Kids, Clayton Hauck, Jokers of the Scene, Alex Gopher
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Sharon Keller, a Texas judge whose court was criticized by the Chicago Tribune in 2000, has been accused of discrediting the judiciary and may lose her job.
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: News, News Bites, Chicago Tribune, Maurice Possley, Steve Mills, Ken Armstrong, Judge Sharon Keller, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Thomas Knight, State of Execution: The Death Penalty in Texas, Roy Criner, Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct, Michael Richard, Charles Chip Babcock, Jeanine Nicarico, Trial & Error -- How Prosecutors Sacrifice Justice to Win, Failure of the Death Penalty in Illinois
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There's at least some good restaurant news out there if you look for it.
- by Mike Sula
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Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Moto, Rockstar Dogs, Brasa Roja, D'Candela, Mataam al-Mataam, blogsherpa, Harry's Hot Dogs, Mambo Grill, Tocco, Sunda, Tapas Valencia, Markethouse, Al-Amira, Antojitos!, Zahrat al Madaaa'en, Fina Estampa, Pollo Volador, Flying Chicken
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Schedule changes (already) for the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival.
- by J.R. Jones
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Tags: Film, Music, Movies, Film Festivals, Chicago International Movies and Music Festival, Robert Pattinson, Twilight, Lech Kowalski, Tricia Todd, Andre Williams, How to Be, Sergio Myers, I Am a Videomachine, Francois Begaudeau, Xavier Esnault, Becoming Pony Boi, East of Paradise
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What to look for in a $775k condo: inspirational walk-in closets.
- by Whet Moser
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Tags: News, Chicagoland