The Hypocrites offer a Twelfth Night for the tween set.
Tag: Vol. 42 No. 48
Issue of Aug. 22 – 28, 2013
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Did you read about Marian McPartland, Joyce Kilmer, and the many uses of urine?
Also fracking, Bradley Manning, the booze of choice among ER patients, what Americans think of states other than their own, Corey Feldman’s creepy birthdays, and new leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant?
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The Vivian Maier of celebrity cheeseburgers
How a burger, the northwest side, and an outsider-art collector go together.
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BBC2’s The Fall delves into double lives
Everyone leads double lives, but especially serial killers.
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Gig poster of the week: Soul Summit and Afro picks
This week’s gig poster was designed by local artist Scott Williams.
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 8/21: Opera Underground Cruise, Mary Gauthier, and Two Authors Talking
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, August 21
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Gossip Wolf: Marc Ruvolo hands over the Bucket O’ Blood
Marc Ruvolo hands over the Bucket O’ Blood, Owen Ashworth records with Sun Kil Moon, and more.
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The Butler: The anti-Gump
In Lee Daniels’s The Butler, painful social realities collide with delirious fantasy.
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Noir City: Shadowy films in vibrant color
Noir City: Chicago 5 brings classics, rarities, and even Technicolor examples of the genre to the Music Box.
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Experimental collective Kill All Comedy now experimenting at the Hideout
Experimental troupe Kill All Comedy is now experimenting at the Hideout.
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Gallery Bar/Fame
River North’s Gallery Bar is an art gallery-slash-street food concept that specializes in Mexi-Asian-Caribbean-Polynesian fusion wraps called “Bonzai” and also serves a large selection of beer cocktails. Alright. That sentence was probably a little stomach-churny for anyone with a low tolerance for the sort of unabashed trendiness and worldly urbanism that that simultaneously makes restaurants […]
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What this week’s top ten has to say about the year in pop
The 2013 pop charts in a nutshell
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Exclusive song premiere: “Tchana” by the Niger guitar band Tal National
An exclusive premiere from the forthcoming album Kaani.
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12 O’Clock Track: Danny Brown and Darq E Freaker’s “Hand Stand”
Danny Brown reunites with Darq E Freaker for a song that’s disgusting and explosive and awesome.
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Did you read about Watch Dogs, Mark Kirk, and Elmore Leonard?
Also Jonathan Franzen on threatened songbirds, pharmaceutical companies for unlimited meth, Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Bayard Rustin, Australia and global warming, the Association of French Bakers’ letter to Kanye West, Patton Oswalt’s Twitter trolling, Obama and the 1972 Miami Dolphins, and the Wizard of Oz theme park?