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Author Archives: Tyler Daswick
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Fall TV offers up a super(hero) lineup
Though the relatively weak box office numbers for Ant-Man (its $57 million opening weekend was Marvel’s second-lowest ever) and Fantastic Four ($42 million total) suggest that superheroes have hit their saturation point, that memo never made it to television. The fall TV lineup is bloated with special powers and comic adaptations, some new, some older, […]
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Pancakes & Booze Art Show serves up paint and sculpture, carbs and syrup
Behold the least pretentious gallery show in the city this week.
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Is The Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot the final flush for Captain Underpants?
If it is, the other caped crusader is going out in style.
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Straight Outta Compton plays it safe by sticking to interpersonal drama
The N.W.A. biopic devolves into trash talk and diss tracks.
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Go Set a Watchman reads like a book no one should have ever been allowed to see
Go Set a Watchman isn’t a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, it’s an early draft—and it shows.
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Where to eat and drink near Lollapalooza and Grant Park
Good places to escape the masses in Grant Park
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Where to eat and drink near the Pitchfork Music Festival and Union Park
These bars and restaurants are just a short walk from the Pitchfork festival grounds.
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Chicago goes wild when the WWE comes to town
Cena gets booed, CM Punk gets woo-hooed, and other scenes from the July 6 taping of Monday Night Raw at Allstate Arena
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Aziz Ansari is the dating guru we didn’t realize we needed
The comedian blends zaniness with sharp observations about love in the Internet age in his book Modern Romance.
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Two Chicagoans hope to light up the Wabash el tracks
A new project, still in the fundraising stage, will combine public art and computer technology.
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Rooftop bars where you can see the Navy Pier fireworks
Celebrating America’s independence feels better with a drink in your hand. Looking up at the rockets’ red glare and sipping a brew—that’s pretty standard. But if that drink comes with a swarm of bug bites and a flock of honking children, your liberty-fueled mood can surrender quicker than Cornwallis at Yorktown (sup). That’s why we’re […]
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Here are 28 books we can’t wait to read in 2015
New stuff to read from Sandra Cisneros, Harper Lee, Elizabeth Gilbert, Patti Smith, and more.