Shopping at one of the city’s biggest and most insanely crowded holiday craft fairs
Tag: Vol. 43 No. 12
Issue of Dec. 12 – 18, 2013
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12 O’Clock Track: Who needs the new Black Flag when you can have “My War?”
Everyone’s talking about their first record in 30 years, but I just want to hear a cut from 1984.
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Did you read about Nelson Mandela, Christmas Tinner, and “Blurred Lines”?
Also the Black Panther Party, Juan Rangel, grad student unions, snark versus smarm, Bad Sex in Fiction, Dave Van Ronk, and John Fahey?
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Soundcheck: Wavves get loud and rowdy at Park West
In this edition of our ongoing Soundcheck series, an interview and live track with Wavves.
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Recalling the trolley line that wasn’t built in Chicago
On the trolley song and dance
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“Resisterectomy,” “Lunch Drawings,” and the rest of your weekend in visual arts
Your guide to visual arts around the city this weekend.
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 12/6: The Nutcracker, Tasting Table Open Market, and Chicago Serbian Film Fest
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, December 6
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Coming soon: The lauded drug-war documentary Narco Cultura
Noting the under-the-radar release of Saul Schwarz’s feature about the narcocorrido music business
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Paper Mice bid farewell to bassist Adam McCormack
Local math-rock trio say goodbye to their bass player this Friday at the Burlington.
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Live forever in the upcoming Empty Bottle book
Curbside Splendor is soliciting stories for the up coming book, The Empty Bottle Chicago. An Oral History. 20-Something Years of Piss, Shit, and Broken Urinals.
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A sausage outlaw goes legit
Ehran Ostrreicher plans to open Homestead Meats & Deli in Evanston this spring.
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Chicago Commercial Collective hits the road
Chicago Commercial Collective is booking Midwest college tours for five off-Loop theater productions.
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12 O’Clock Track: Open Mike Eagle and Busdriver pay homage to class photos with “Degrassi Picture Day”
Chicago-reared MC Open Mike Eagle teams up with fellow Hellfyre Club rapper Busdriver to make a song that captures all the energy and excitement of being a kid getting ready for class photos without actually having to pose for the camera.
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Did you read about TipsForJesus, LeBron James, and Mike Magee?
Also the NSA, TIF funds, Antarctica, Amsterdam, and Vin Diesel?