Listening to modern traditional metal can sometimes be a little like meeting up with a special old flame. It’s a blast until you’re eventually reminded why it didn’t work out for the long haul—you moved on with your life while they seemed to stay suspended in time, and the little things you once adored now […]
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Orkesta Mendoza blends vintage sounds to create a groovy boogie-woogie border scene
The first time I saw Orkesta Mendoza was at SXSW about five years ago, and the group had already perfected an enormous, vintage Latin big-band sound and intense, punk-like sensibility unparalleled in the Latin scene. Led by bandleader, singer, and guitarist Sergio Mendoza (a longtime member of Calexico and Devotchka), the Tucson indie mambo group […]
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You can thank Karen Lewis for the national wave of teacher insurrections
The red-shirt-wearing teacher activists from Kentucky, West Virginia, and Oklahoma obviously learned a thing or two from Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis.
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Who loves Chicago’s most unlovable losers, the Bears?
Perhaps no local fan base is more loyal than that of the Bears. But what has the so-called pride and joy of Illinois done in three decades to deserve such devotion?
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The Defense Department helps counties round out their arsenals
A closer look at how Washington arms America
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In Ulzana’s Raid, the Vietnam War’s in the Arizona desert
Robert Aldrich’s Ulzana’s Raid sets the moral conflicts of the Vietnam War in the Arizona desert.
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Pavilion’s teen dream
Tim Sutton’s Pavilion captures the urgency and unease of adolescence.
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12 O’Clock Track: Johnny Ill Band, “In the Wintertime”
“In the Wintertime” by Johnny Ill Band is an upbeat pop song detailing how much the winter totally sucks.
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Joe Arpaio’s cold-case posse
The Arizona sheriff’s long-form investigation into Barack Obama
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Arizona Boycott Gets Results, But Not the Right Ones
Sound Strike has got its heart in the right place, but it seems like it’s only doing wrong.
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Justice Film Festival
Esau Melendez’s documentary “Immigrant Nation! The Battle for the Dream,” about Alvira Arellano’s standoff with immigration officials, screens Friday in the first Justice Film Festival.
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9500 Liberty
Coffee Party founders Annabel Park and Eric Byler’s documentary “9500 Liberty,” about the Prince William County, Virginia’s short-lived anti-immigrant law, opens Friday at Piper’s Alley.
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9500 Liberty
Coffee Party founders Annabel Park and Eric Byler’s documentary “9500 Liberty,” about the Prince William County, Virginia’s short-lived anti-immigrant law, opens Friday at Piper’s Alley.
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Occasional Pieces at the Nightingale
British filmmaker Stephen Connolly investigates spaces and their meanings in “Occasional Pieces,” a selection of his short works screening Saturday 11/7 at the Nightingale.