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Tag: Vol. 42 No. 48
Issue of Aug. 22 – 28, 2013
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Burke’s Bacon Bar wants to rescue your next meeting
David Burke and Rick Gresh launch a tiny sandwich shop devoted to bacon sliders—and more.
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Best shows to see: The Horse’s Ha, Serengeti, Bat for Lashes, Negativland
Between now and Sunday, your live-music options include the Horse’s Ha, Serengeti, Bat for Lashes, Negativland, Travi$ Scott, and the Michael Moore Quartet.
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 8/22: Coffee ceramic art, Festa Italiana, and #ShopFest
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, August 22
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Should parents Pamper a diaper swiper?
Dan on a budding diaper fetishist and a pretty unimpressive deformity.
Posted inNews & Politics
A new generation of activists fights injustice, from school cuts to Trayvon Martin
March on Washington anniversary: A new generation of activists fights for change, from school cuts to Trayvon Martin.
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Fifty years later, participants in the March on Washington still hoping for justice
Organizers of the Chicago contingent in the 1963 March on Washington say it’s time for another movement.
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A dream unrealized for African-Americans in Chicago
When Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, most blacks here were living in poor, segregated neighborhoods. They still are.
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A first look at the cocktails of Analogue
Violet Hour vets Robert Haynes and Henry Prendergast show off a little of what’s to come at their soon-to-open Logan Square bar, Analogue.
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All-American bullshitting with writer-director David Gordon Green (part two)
The director of Prince Avalanche expounds on his creative process, what makes him laugh, and the influence of Super Mario Brothers on his new film.
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One powerful line in Giftz’s Position of Power mixtape
East-side rapper Giftz has plenty of great rhymes about street life on his new mixtape.
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Education in Chicago: Millions for DePaul, bulldozers for Whittier Elementary
Having run out of schools to close, Mayor Rahm bulldozes La Casita.
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The Northwest Chicago Film Society and the Patio Theater are both alive and well
After near extinction, the film society and movie palace have found happiness together.
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12 O’Clock Track: “First Field Path,” a slice of bucolic guitar music by Nathan Salsburg
The opening track from Hard For to Win and Can’t Be Won, the Louisville musician’s forthcoming second solo album.