The Neo-Futurists reflect on a quarter century of their forever-running show, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind.
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Schnitzel King really is the king of schnitzel
A visit to the food truck’s new Bridgeport storefront
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They Got Us Wrong
The new Fox series, The Chicago Code, isn’t bad but it isn’t Chicago.
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Ain’t You Heard About a Nightclub Called the Nice Nice?
The new Lifter Puller reissues, this week in Sharp Darts
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Jamlady speaks up: “Jamlady is not crazy”
A few weeks ago, I reviewed The Jamlady Cookbook, a canning guide and recipe collection written entirely in the third person. You can read the review here, or I can summarize it for you: Jamlady is (possibly) crazy. About a week later, I got an e-mail with a Jamlady return address. You could have knocked […]
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Jamlady, meet Christine Ferber
Three jam cookbooks: One comes highly recommended. One is a sturdy supplement to a classic. And one may drive you to the brink.
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New restaurant reviews this week: a glut of upscale Mex
Can Chicago really support five more tablecloth Mexican restaurants?
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Notes on a promo stack
Ronnie Milsap, the Whip, Gentleman Reg, and the NCIS soundtrack: it’s promo pile day.
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Tuesday Release Roundup
New releases 9/19: Ben Kweller makes his family-man record, and Mosquitos score with a Neil Young cover.