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Hey, did you read:
• That even Romney is expecting Obama’s performance tonight to be an improvement? (Um, how could it be worse?) —Mara Shalhoup
• The report in Chicago Now on last night’s community meeting on the city’s budget, in which locals complained of the mayor’s absence (and which Mick Dumke moderated)? —Tal Rosenberg
• Once again, what is up with Jesse Jr? —Mick Dumke
• What happened to the rogue CIA burglar? —Sam Worley
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• In the Atlantic Wire about the art thieves in Rotterdam who stole a Picasso, a Matisse, and two Monets along with masterpieces from Freud, Gauguin, and de Haan? (I’d start looking at Thomas Crown.) —Tal Rosenberg
• This thuddingly stupid piece about how “condescending” and “self-righteous” it is to play jazz that’s not aimed at people who don’t like jazz, which makes a particular example of pianist Vijay Iyer? (Iyer plays the Mayne Stage this Thursday, October 18; check out Peter Margasak‘s Soundboard write-up.) —Philip Montoro
• That singer-songwriter Todd Snider says Rahm Emanuel “has a special mind” and is “not afraid to drink beer”? —Kate Schmidt
• Who won Equity Jeff Awards? —Tony Adler
• Deschutes Brewery, one of the Pacific Northwest’s finest purveyors of craft beers, is finally gracing Chicago bars with its presence. —Drew Hunt