People Issue 2013: We selected 19 Chicagoans to shed light on the city’s many moving parts.
Tag: Vol. 43 No. 12
Issue of Dec. 12 – 18, 2013
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Best shows to see: Drake, Bottle Rockets, Snow Angels, Gorguts, Their/They’re/There
The best shows to see on Thu 12/12 through Sun 12/15
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 12/12: Drake, 12 Bells of Christmas, and Trapped in a Room With a Zombie
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, December 12
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Max Temkin: The gamer
Max Temkin, 26, is a designer and game developer. He’s one of the eight creators of the hugely popular Cards Against Humanity (“A party game for horrible people”).
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: Georgia Tom Dorsey
He his biggest hit as raunchy bluesman Georgia Tom Dorsey, but today he’s known as “the father of gospel music.”
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Sex drive over a cliff
Dan on mismatched libidos, STI testing, and letting poly people in on the acronym game
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Trader Joe’s Vintage Ale: To age or not to age?
Trader Joe’s Vintage Ale, brewed by Unibroue, is meant to be cellared. Is it better that way?
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Mayor Rahm moves ahead with his $18 million Lincoln Elementary expansion
The Public Building Commission gives its blessing to Mayor Emanuel’s plan to spend at least $18 million building an annex in a Lincoln Park grammar school that doesn’t really need one.
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John Akomfrah’s collage of the humanities
Black Cinema House revisits John Akomfrah, radical chronicler of the African diaspora.
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Tomorrow: Chicago rapper Stunt Taylor brings the “Fe Fe” to Reggie’s Rock Club
The K-Town rapper behind the regional hit “Fe Fe on the Block” is one of the faces of bop’s rap sound; he headlines Reggie’s Rock Club tomorrow night.
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Introducing scary eyes herself, Jewel Carter Cash
Lifetime’s biopic Ring of Fire doesn’t quite do June Carter Cash justice
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Underground dining experience gets a real kitchen with 42 Grams
Underground dinner Sous Rising will go street level with 42 Grams next month.
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12 O’Clock Track: “Last Day,” a rattling art-pop gem from LA’s Katie Gately
Something good comes out of working on the year-end album list.
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Did you read about ACL injuries, International Tango Day, and a $20 doughnut?
Also David Simon, political genes, India’s supreme court, Nelson Mandela’s memorial, waking up in the morning, and facial hair?
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Help fund a community garden at Oglesby Elementary
A south-side school wants to grow its own food with the help of some big corporate cash.