For pioneering photojournalist Ruth Gruber, words and pictures are tools to inspire others to act.
Tag: Vol. 43 No. 22
Issue of Feb. 20 – 26, 2014
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Jenny Magnus, one of the fringe theater’s most literate scribes, gets her due
With Magnus in Play, Rhino Fest gives playwright Jenny Magnus the retrospective she deserves.
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Paul Verhoeven
The best of master satirist Paul Verhoeven.
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Reader’s Agenda Sun 2/16: Eleni Mandell, the Chili-Synthesizer Cookoff, and Beau O’Reilly
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Sunday, February 16
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Street View 166: Chic and hip in a fur-collared coat
Isa Giallorenzo’s Street View 166
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Reader’s Agenda Sat 2/15: Winter Bike Swap, Hump! Film Festival, and “Queenie Pie”
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Saturday, February 15
Posted inCity Life
A blaze of glory for Taryn and Sanford Parker’s home
After their newly acquired Logan Square residence went up in flames, the couple got creative with an “unintentional gut rehab.”
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Show us your . . . bass harmonica
Of the ten to 15 harmonicas Bob Kessler plays, the one that’s the bass harmonica is likely the most peculiar.
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Mayor Rahm v. Mayor de Blasio
In a comparison between Mayor Emanuel and New York’s Bill de Blasio, Chicago loses again.
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Now Playing: About Last Night
David Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago gets another screen adaptation with About Last Night.
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So how was that cassoulet for 500, anyway?
Attending cassoulet dinner with the Sunday Dinner Club, at last.
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12 O’Clock Track: Young Widows drop the dark and noisy “Kerosene Girl”
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “Kerosene Girl,” the first track released from the upcoming Young Widows full-length, Easy Pain.
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Did you read about Shakespeare, Drake, and Tinder?
Also Chris Christie, a sinkhole, Steve Duncan, Tom Perkins’s Q&A with Adam Lashinsky, professional huggers, and the Cubs?
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Amid calls for drug policy reforms, Chicago-to-Iowa heroin dealer gets stiff sentence
New sentencing guidelines from the Obama administration didn’t help former Chicagoan Dwayne Appling.
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Iranian westerns, French madwomen, Laotian rocketeers, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue