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Posted inBlogs

The Reader’s Agenda: Fri 9/7

by Drew Hunt September 7, 2012August 19, 2021

What’s on the Agenda for Friday, September 7, 2012

Posted inMusic

Three Beats: A tape from the band that spawned Vee Dee, Daily Void, and Nobunny

by Brian Costello and Miles Raymer June 30, 2011August 19, 2021

Plus: Freddie Gibbs cuts an EP in 24 hours, and Little White Earbuds launches a label

Posted inMusic

Try some Swervedriver with your Wishbone at Taste of Randolph Street

by Luca Cimarusti June 16, 2011August 19, 2021

Taking place along the six-block corridor of Randolph between Peoria and Racine, the Taste of Randolph Street features lots of food and three days of live music on two stages, Fri-Sun 6/17-6/19. Friday the music starts at 5 PM and includes the Heavy and Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers on the west stage (Randolph […]

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Is it safe to send your child to journalism school?

by Michael Miner June 2, 2011August 19, 2021

The Sun-Times back in the 70s didn’t have a foreign affairs budget, but it was more than happy to indulge a restless reporter’s existential funk. So on my own dime, in the spring of 1975 I found myself in Saigon as the Communist army closed in on the city and the world watched. And that […]

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