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Mosh pits and toilet paper antics at Saturday’s Black Lips show

by Chicago Reader April 29, 2014August 18, 2021

Photographer Alison Green captured the Black Lips’ 4/26 show at Logan Square Auditorium.

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Reader’s Agenda Tue 4/29: Helen Prejean, Sound of Silent Film Festival, and Diana Ross

by Brianna Wellen April 29, 2014August 18, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Tuesday, April 29

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CTA president Forrest Claypool say the $320 million Belmont bypass would shave a few minutes off the north-side commute. Then again, maybe it wouldn't.

Columns & Opinion

For $320 million, how much time would the CTA’s Belmont bypass really save?

by Ben Joravsky April 29, 2014August 18, 2021

For $320 million, how much time would the CTA’s Belmont bypass really save?

Stills from the Stateville inmates' animations

Arts & Culture

At the Hull-House Museum, artwork made while doing time

by Jake Malooley April 29, 2014August 18, 2021

Stateville Correctional Center inmates find creative ways to serve out their sentences.

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Illinois politicians now talking openly about legalizing pot

by Mick Dumke April 28, 2014August 18, 2021

At a press conference Monday, a group of elected officials set a goal of legalizing, regulating, and taxing marijuana sales for recreational use in Illinois.

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What’s the difference between video surveillance and portraiture?

by Ben Sachs April 28, 2014August 18, 2021

Reflections on an interactive performance piece from the recent Nightingale exhibition “Persistence of Motion”

Arts & Culture

Megan Stielstra taps into the anxieties of early adulthood in Once I Was Cool

by Aimee Levitt April 28, 2014August 18, 2021

Megan Stielstra taps into the anxieties of early adulthood in Once I Was Cool, the Columbia College teacher’s new collection of personal essays.

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City announces lineup for Millennium Park’s Loops & Variations series

by Peter Margasak April 28, 2014August 18, 2021

Eighth Blackbird, Alarm Will Sound, and Chicago Q Ensemble among the highlights of this summer’s program

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Dark Lord Day 2014: Three Floyds tweaks the festival’s new model for speed

by Philip Montoro April 28, 2014August 18, 2021

More than you could conceivably want to read about Three Floyds’ 2014 Dark Lord Day—but there are lots of pictures too!

News & Politics

Will the Parental Notice of Abortion Act help or hurt young women?

by Julia Thiel April 28, 2014August 18, 2021

When Yamani Hernandez, executive director of the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health, is asked what motivated her to get into her line of work, she always tells the same story. Several years ago she worked for a summer art program for youth, and she overheard a pregnant 14-year-old offering $10 to anyone willing to kick […]

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