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Tag: Vol. 44 No. 13
Issue of Dec. 18 – 24, 2014
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Freddy’s Pizzeria in Cicero
Growing up in a large Italian family it felt like food was the center of everything, not to mention a cure all. Feeling a cold coming on? Have some gravy and meatballs. Someone in the family got engaged? Start filling the cannoli. Have a bad scar that just won’t seem to fade? Some salami will […]
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House DJ Wayne Williams will soundtrack your lunch break tomorrow at the Cultural Center
The Chosen Few Picnic founder plays DCASE’s Wired Fridays tomorrow at noon.
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Listen to the Willie Hutch song both Chief Keef and Chance the Rapper sampled
It’s “Brother’s Gonna Work It Out,” and, yes, Dr. Dre sampled it back in the day too.
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Did you read about income inequality, Chicago’s shitty weather, and Jay Cutler?
Also social spending, Dick Durbin, Bo Pelini, orgasms, and Longform.org’s best of 2014?
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Are privacy’s days numbered? Pew asks experts to weigh in
For Pew, experts predict the future of privacy
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In the mayoral money race, the rich—that is, Rahm—gets richer
Jesus “Chuy” Garcia and Robert Fioretti trail far behind Mayor Emanuel in fundraising. Does it matter?
Posted inArts & Culture
More than 50 of the best New Year’s Eve 2014 events
Ring in 2015 with everything from a balloon drop to a Mexican feast to a beach party.
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MTVghosts drop a free album of glammy, goofy ‘dreampunk’
MTVghosts drop a free album of glammy, goofy ‘dreampunk,’ Parlour Tapes throws a party to benefit Snow City Arts, and more.
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A Q&A on topics from peeing on the boyfriend to suicide by dungeon
Dan Savage fields audience questions from a live appearance in Seattle.
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The real monster in The Babadook is all in your mind
A storybook creature creeps from the pages into real life—or does it?
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The mayoral election follies begin with a few challenges
It’s great political theater at the board of elections as Mayor Rahm goes after an obscure mayoral candidate named Willie Wilson while Wilson goes after just about everybody else.
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Rob Mazurek performs two markedly different sets tomorrow night at Chopin Theatre
The cornetist’s new album, Alternate Moon Cycles, is the first LP released on the new local label International Anthems.
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The funny similarities between Charlie Chaplin and Bob Hope
A pair of new biographies, considered together, show that the legendary funny men weren’t so unalike after all.
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Nick Jr.’s Cancel Christmas is here for everyone who hates Christmas music
The local rapper’s spirited, rebellious Christmas kinda-takedowns might be what you need if you want to escape the barrage of gross yuletide music.