Vic & Gab, Slayer, Eli Keszler, and Barbez top a full card of weekend music
Tag: Vol. 43 No. 8
Issue of Nov. 14 – 20, 2013
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 11/14: Rob Delaney, “Christmas Around the World,” and Traviata
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, November 14
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Slut autoshaming
Dan on slut self-shaming, a misplaced cock ring, and a misleading online lesbian
Posted inFilm
Museum Hours: figures in the landscape
Two strangers bond over Bruegel in Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours
Posted inMusic
The Secret History of Chicago Music: Seeds of Doubt
Garage rockers the Seeds of Doubt were kings of the Chambana scene in the late 60s, but their only recordings have been lost.
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This week in Claire Denis: Talking to the Nightingale’s Christy LeMaster about Nenette et Boni and Beau Travail
The second in a series of discussions about the renowned French filmmaker with Chicago-based female critics, artists, and academics
Posted inArts & Culture
What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival 2013
What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival: Robots, pigs, Bambi, and more
Posted inNews & Politics
A better goal for CPS
A better goal for CPS: reduce the staggering proportion of low-income students
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A Soundcloud spin through Chicago hip-hop’s past
Let Milwaukee rapper and Dope Folks Records cofounder Kid Millions guide you through the world of hard-to-find old-school Chicago rap with his recent Soundcloud mix.
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What puts One World Trade Center above Willis Tower?
Tallness: You know it when you see, says the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
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Lyric Opera’s Parsifal: A pure fool Q&A
You’ll want to be awake for the second act of Wagner’s bro-centric five-hour opera.
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12 O’Clock Track: “The Electric Airbag Police,” shape-shifting abstraction by Norway’s Astro Sonic
A jam from the improvising trio’s debut album Come Closer and I’ll Tell You
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Did you read about Tacloban, Francis Bacon, and Tina Turner?
Also Richard Cohen, dating sites, latter-day oil booms, Janis Shinwari, Apple II DOS, slavery in Brazil, the What Would I Say? app, The Nine-Tenths, Charlie Parker, and an alligator on the Blue Line?
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Michael Kinsley’s takedown of Double Down is a plea for plain English
You might like the juicy new account of the 2012 presidential campaign if you can cut through its chasmal noisesomeness.