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Home » Vol. 38 No. 16

Tag: Vol. 38 No. 16

Issue of Jan. 8 – 14, 2009

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Liz Armstrong, now at Vice

by Michael Miner January 14, 2009August 19, 2021

Liz Armstrong, the Chicago Reader’s former Chicago Antisocial columnist, now writes for Vice magazine.

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Heads Up

by Julia Thiel January 14, 2009August 19, 2021

This week’s talks, tastings, and events.

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The future of news — not so free, at last.

by Michael Miner January 14, 2009August 19, 2021

David Carr and Jack Shafer imagine news going the way of music and iTunes — you’ll have to buy it.

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Artificial sunlight

by Miles Raymer January 14, 2009August 19, 2021

Ice melters from the Starters DJs and Tigerstyle

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Merriweather Post-Information Economy

by Miles Raymer January 14, 2009August 19, 2021

Hipster Runoff on Animal Collective

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One bite: Trader Vic’s peanut butter sauce

by Mike Sula January 14, 2009August 19, 2021

Trader Vic’s peanut butter sauce will see you in hell.

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From the mayor to your feet

by Whet Moser January 14, 2009August 19, 2021

Proof the city is definitely serious about stepping up snow removal.

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Floating Like A Butterfly

by Ben Joravsky January 14, 2009August 19, 2021

Arne Duncan shows once again that he’s the master of the duck and dodge.

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Lasko’s letting go letter

by Deanna Isaacs January 14, 2009August 19, 2021

Redmoon Theater artistic director Jim Lasko writes about stepping down.

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More guns than roses

by Whet Moser January 14, 2009August 19, 2021

To: Sam Zell CC: America–The future of journalism is its yellow, bloody past.

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Priorities

by Mick Dumke January 14, 2009August 19, 2021

The City Council spent more time Tuesday praising Roland Burris than discussing plans to use taxpayer money on the 2016 Olympics. By a long shot.

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Get busy, these papers aren’t going to sell themselves

by Whet Moser January 14, 2009August 19, 2021

Those 2008 stories Chicago gave us were great, but we the press are still screwed. What can you do for us in ’09?

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The many sides of Maja Ratkje

by Peter Margasak January 13, 2009August 19, 2021

Norway’s Maja Ratkje shows two very different musical personalities on a pair of recent albums.

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Just one more week!

by Miles Raymer January 13, 2009August 19, 2021

A young Obama drops Peter Tosh into a 1983 college-newspaper piece about campus antiwar groups.

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Community benefits

by Mick Dumke January 13, 2009August 19, 2021

Backed by activists, five aldermen propose a plan to ensure Chicago’s Olympics bid yields “community benefits.”

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