James Wesley Jackson toured the world with Funkadelic—and you can see him at the Hideout on August 23.
Tag: Vol. 42 No. 48
Issue of Aug. 22 – 28, 2013
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The deli is dead, long live deli at Dillman’s
Brendan Sodikoff on the seductions of the deli, and why his latest project, Dillman’s, changed its name.
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 8/20: Chicago Dancing Festival, Hunters, and Story Club Chicago
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Tuesday, August 20
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In The Distancers, the past is another Illinois countryside
The Distancers, Lee Sandlin’s newest, is an austerely beautiful remembrance of his southern Illinois family.
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James Tissot’s tragic muse
In the Art Institute’s “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity,” painter James Tissot’s muse stands in sharp focus.
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Visual allusions and optical illusions in David Fincher’s Zodiac
Why the 2007 crime movie is so much more beguiling when you watch it on film
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Street View 114: Black and white at the Violet Hour
Isa Giallorenzo’s Street View 114
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A voyage to Oak Park in search of Forbidden Root
Fledgling “botanical” brewery Forbidden Root hits the Oak Park Micro Brew & Food Review with the delicious session ale Sublime Ginger.
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Best shows to see: Richard Buckner, Hunters, Mary Gauthier, Hookers
Between now and Sunday, your live-music options include Richard Buckner, Hunters, Mary Gauthier, Hookers, Nick Garrie, and Whirr.
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Llama: It’s what’s for dinner
How the wild game gets to your plate at West Town’s Frontier.
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12 O’Clock Track: Iron Lung’s ferocious powerviolence opus “Brutal Supremacy” (in three parts)
Today’s 12 O’Cock Track is Iron Lung’s three-part “Brutal Supremacy.”
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What the hell is this place? Alchemy Arts
Books on the satanic scriptures are available, but Alchemy Arts is more welcoming than its dark texts suggest.
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Earl Sweatshirt’s humane, heartbreaking Doris and 14 more record reviews
Earl Sweatshirt’s humane, heartbreaking Doris and 14 more record reviews
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Did you read about Michael Shannon, stop-and-frisk, and Tolkien’s Yiddish translator?
Also medical marijuana in Colorado, Dwight Garner’s epiphany, Egypt, British special forces and Princess Diana’s death, David Miranda hellish day at Heathrow, and the mayor of Rio’s courting of Woody Allen?
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It’s time to knock off walk-off
“Walk-off” is another example of fresh language turned into cliché.