With 32 acts at 11 venues, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival paints a portrait of the Chicago scene.
Tag: Vol. 43 No. 1
Issue of Sep. 26 – Oct. 2, 2013
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 9/26: Filter Photo Festival, The North China Lover, and the XX
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, September 26
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Show us your . . . roaming face-painting cart
Show us your . . . roaming face-painting cart
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Terrible person wonders why he can’t get a date
Dan on the particular dating challenges faced by major jerks, a girlfriend with a missing clitoris, and more
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Aged to perfection at the Berkshire Room
Under the direction of Ben Schiller, the bar on the first floor of the Acme Hotel unveils a splendid drinks program.
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Mayor Rahm finds $92 million for his South Loop deal
Just when you thought the city and schools were broke, Mayor Rahm digs into the TIF slush fund for his South Loop hotel/DePaul basketball arena fiasco.
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There’s just one Lost Generation, but several others are being misplaced
Is journalism “losing a generation” a little too frequently for its own good?
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The knotty, transformational solo guitar practice of Eric Hofbauer
Boston guitarist Eric Hofbauer brings his attractively gnarled, elliptical improvisational style to Elastic on Thursday
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Today in Drake-related mixtapes
On Don’t Care local rapper-producer Rashid Hadee chops up Drake’s Take Care to create songs even those who don’t particularly like Drake can dig into.
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Where’s the love for filmmaker (and honorary Chicagoan) Hong Sang-soo?
Chicago’s still missing out on the films of acclaimed South Korean writer-director Hong Sang-soo.
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A National Punctuation Day postscript
A punctuation free period in belated honor of our essential characters
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Chicago Opera Theater’s controversial Joan of Arc burns on
A play-within-a-play presentation of the early Verdi opera inflames the critics.
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12 O’Clock Track: “Zivot Cigana,” a blast of Balkan brass from Boban and Marko Markovic
A brassy burner from the forthcoming album Gipsy Manifesto
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Did you read about Ted Cruz, Popular Science, and Jeff Bezos?
Also fingerprint protection on iPhones, Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Ampelmänchenn, a closeted lesbian Hasid, Burger King’s “Satisfries,” and a Chipotle-style pizza chain?