The Democracy Fund offers $400,000 to the American Press Institute to fund a fact-checking project. Will this be money well spent?
Tag: Vol. 43 No. 22
Issue of Feb. 20 – 26, 2014
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12 O’Clock Track: That Nick Cave song that was in The X-Files
The Bad Seeds’ singer and bandleader’s 1994 song “Red Right Hand,” which also appears on the album Let Love In.
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South-side legislator joins the fight for community schools—right before the election
In south-side legislative race, charges fly over who’s the real schools advocate.
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Did you read about Wall Street, Pussy Riot, and Lil Herb?
Also violence and crime, Mel Reynolds, stoned driving, divorce, and itchiness?
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A few more tales from the amazing life of Ruth Gruber
The photographer’s encounters with Virginia Woolf, Nazis, Commies, and a pair of arctic explorers
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 2/18: Delorean, Kill Yr Idols, and Camille Claudel 1915
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Tuesday, February 18
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UIC faculty union flexes its muscle with two-day walkout this week
University of Illinois at Chicago faculty union calls two-day work stoppage for February 18 and 19.
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Remembering Theresienstadt at the U. of C. Film Studies Center
Noting a free screening and discussion of Nazi propaganda films about the “model ghetto” in Czechoslovakia, a subject of Claude Lanzmann’s upcoming The Last of the Unjust
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Two Brothers’ Midwestern Death Metal, available only at the brewery’s upcoming Cabin Fever party
Two Brothers bottles a barrel-aged imperial stout that might as well have been custom made for Beer and Metal.
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Stranger by the Lake, Porn Theatre, and the influence of cruising on film narrative
Revisiting Jacques Nolot’s 2002 drama in light of Alain Guiraudie’s thematically similar thriller, which returns to Chicago this week
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12 O’Clock Track: “Penetrating Eye” is a Sabbathy good-bye from Thee Oh Sees
Thee Oh Sees are leaving us with one more record.
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Best shows to see: Courtney Barnett, Together Pangea
The best shows to see through Wednesday night include Courtney Barnett and Together Pangea.
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Did you read about the Koch brothers, Bill Murray, and Potbelly’s secret menu?
Also Jen Richards, Sean Graney, Roger Angell, and presidential dogs?
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Taking Coppervine’s test for wine servers
How badly would a food writer fail at trying for a server job?
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Reader’s Agenda Mon 2/17: The Dinner Party, Oscar-nominated shorts, and Saint Joan
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, February 17