Listen to a raw and raucous Nirvana concert at Metro in 1990. Hear Slint performing a knockout cover of Neil Young’s “Cortez the Killer” at Club Dreamerz. Check out a rare live set from local postpunks End Result, or New York’s ESG in 1984 at Lakeview’s long-defunct countercultural nightclub Medusa’s. Or peruse more than 1,000 […]
Tag: Iraq War
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Ghosts of War narrates more than it represents
This adaptation of an Iraq war memoir by a “GI Joe Schmoe” is strangely lifeless.
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Daniel Biss on Abu Ghraib, how to resist the urge to check out at the words ‘pension crisis,’ and what he’s learned from Michael Madigan
The Illinois gubernatorial candidate talks about the arc of progressive politics and what’s required to bring change to the state capitol.
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‘What We Carried’ tells the stories of Iraqi refugees through objects
A new exhibition at the Illinois Holocaust Museum shows everything new immigrants have left behind.
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Aleksandar Hemon on the making of The Making of Zombie Wars
The author of The Book of My Lives talks about bringing together horror movies, the Iraq war, Jewish culture, and a peculiar kind of writer’s block in his latest novel.
Posted inFilm
Bradley Cooper is number one with a bullet in American Sniper
With American Sniper, Clint Eastwood tells the story of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle.
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The American military not so smartly inspected in the Atlantic
James Fallows’s January/February cover story on the American military could be a little more thoughtful.
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In never-ending wars, the U.S. is on a losing streak
America keeps losing wars—without effect.
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Mayor Rahm’s crime-fighting mission remains unaccomplished
Remember last week, when the mayor held a press conference to claim he’d made the city safer—just days before the Fourth of July carnage?
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A pilot brings the war home in American Blues Theater’s Grounded
George Brant scores a direct hit with Grounded, his one-woman play.
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Reader’s Agenda Sun 4/21: Sister Souljah, The Happiest Song Plays Last, and Kvelertak
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Sunday, April 21, 2013.
Posted inFood & Drink
The restorative powers of pita
Food Issue: Deta’s Pita offered shelter from the cold—and from the dread of war.
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Stephen Petronio Company finds a little light in Underland
Stephen Petronio Company performs Underland at Dance Center of Columbia College.
Posted inNews & Politics
The $12 million protest
Will Chicago learn from its $12 million protest mistake?