Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is Boris the Sprinkler’s “Kill the Ramones”
Tag: Vol. 42 No. 12
Issue of Dec. 13 – 19, 2012
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Happy Hanukkah from Mayor Rahm and the City Council!
The City Council struggles to find new and innovative ways to suck up to Mayor Rahm as they pass his digital billboard deal even though they know next to nothing about it
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Reader’s Agenda, Sun 12/16: Braid at Metro, a BYOB craft fair, and (Long Pause)
What’s on the Agenda for Sunday, December 16, 2012
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Backstage tour rider: a holiday listicle
Sometimes you just need a good Malawian orphan
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Reader fiction, past and future
A sampling of great fiction that’s appeared in the Chicago Reader over the years
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Reader’s Agenda, Sat 12/15: A Klingon Christmas Carol, Kool Keith at Reggie’s, and original art for sale
What’s on the Agenda for Saturday, December 15, 2012
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School-rampage shootings are rare, which is why they’re hard to prevent
We look for causes and cures, understandably. But there are unique circumstances in each of these tragedies.
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The region’s best (only) Malaysian restaurant is in the burbs
By default, Asian Noodle House, a strip-mall joint in Hoffman Estates is the region’s only Malaysian restaurant
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How much is that playwright in the window? On view now: the Storefront Playwright Project
Storefront Playwright Project puts Emilio Williams (and a couple dozen other playwrights) in the Hot Tix window
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The view from the terrace: on the death of Nicholas Wieme
A personal anecdote tied to some terrible news
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The new sound of Ethio jazz from Samuel Yirga
Pianist Samuel Yirga revives the sound of Ethio jazz on his new album Guzo
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Having a laugh with multimedia artist Wayne White
An interview with the subject of the documentary Beauty Is Embarrassing, which plays in Chicago this week
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The Gold Star’s Susan Stursberg passes, and food news bites
Greenwashing, food truck theft, Trotter loses it (again), and more
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12 O’Clock Track: Julian Leal, “Get Away”
Julian Leal’s 1987 gem “Get Away” is Illinois-bred pop perfection
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Did you read about McDonald’s employees, HSBC laundering drug money, and Anita Alvarez?
Also anti-Muslim bias in Texas public schools, Kevin Weiner . . . er Youkilis, and brain cells made of urine?