Fact-checking Mayor Emanuel’s budget speech
Tag: Vol. 43 No. 5
Issue of Oct. 24 – 30, 2013
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 10/24: Bikecitement Night, Joey Bada$$ and Pro Era, and Disclosure
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, October 24
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Never trust any kid over 30
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival celebrates 30 years of programming.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
It puts the lotion on its skin
Dan on disparate libidos, an unstable ex, and a porn-jealous GF.
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The Bad Plus tackle Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring on Friday
The iconoclastic trio puts its spin on the iconic ballet at the Logan Center for the Arts.
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How does Chicago taste? (Hint: probably not like Absolut Chicago vodka)
Absolut’s Chicago vodka—with flavors of rosemary and olive, not Chicago-style hot dog—isn’t terrible.
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Mayor Rahm has successfully pitted charters against public schools
In the fight for school funding in Mayor Rahm’s Chicago, it’s hard for the charters not to stretch the truth.
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Chicago-reared bear rapper Big Dipper gets nasty on Thick Life
The queer formerly local MC just dropped his first full-length mixtape, and it’s quite raunchy.
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Final thoughts on this year’s Chicago International Film Festival
Ten favorites from the festival lineup, plus stray thoughts on a few other features
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What if Rahm Emanuel doesn’t want to be another mayor for life?
Would it spell the end of a fifth-floor monarchy?
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12 O’Clock Track: “Velha e Louca,” a Brazilian take on Parisian pop from Mallu
A breezy gem from the singer’s first American release
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Halloween 2013: More than three dozen creepy happenings
Haunted houses, pumpkin-carving parties, costume contests featuring dogs in bumblebee costumes—we’ve got it covered.
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Did you read about charter schools, sucky Chicago neighborhoods, and David Lynch’s quinoa recipe?
Also Japan’s celibacy crisis, Condé Nast’s internship program, the entrance to hell, a bizarre slavery joke, Omar Souleyman, Tom Carson on Errol Morris, and TJ Webster?
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All the Disney World’s a stage in Escape From Tomorrow
Guerrilla filmmaking comes to the Magic Kingdom in Escape From Tomorrow.