Leonard Caston helped convince Willie Dixon to pursue the blues instead of boxing, but ended up overshadowed by his friend and fading from public view.
Tag: Vol. 44 No. 23
Issue of Mar. 5 – 11, 2015
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Those Patrick Sharp rumors—to spread or not to spread
On Rick Morrissey on Patrick Sharp rumors
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Roxie’s has good bread by the slice
The Wicker Park pizza joint keeps it simple with nothing but New York-style pies by the slice.
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Dødheimsgard return from eight years in oblivion with a new deranged vision for black metal
Dødheimsgard’s bizarre, sprawling “Aphelion Void” ought to keep black metal’s humorless genre police busy all afternoon.
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Did you read about heroin overdoses, Ringling Brothers, and the world’s oldest person?
Also the Attorney General on Ferguson, violent offenders, McDonald’s at SXSW, the new Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan museum, and Holocaust survivors?
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Our guide to the European Union Film Festival, week one
More than 60 new features debut at the European Union Film Festival.
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At Mad Mobster’s peculiar crossroads of real and imagined horrors
A fest for those fascinated with serial killers, Mad Mobster True Crime & Horror Expo looks to become an annual Chicago institution.
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A 25th Ward challenger accuses Alderman Solis of election shenanigans, demands recount
Byron Sigcho is hoping a recount shows he has a few dozen more votes to force a runoff with 25th Ward alderman Danny Solis.
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Chicago’s breaded steak sandwich gets its day in USA Today
An authentic Bridgeport gut bomb gets national praise.
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You’re a cuckold, I presume
Dan Savage decodes a cry for help, advises a woman on libidinal mismatch, and announces the 11th annual HUMP! amateur-porn fest.
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Moxee Restaurant on Maxwell Street has moxie—and house-brewed beer
The brewing portion of Moxee Restaurant and Mad Mouse Brewing is newly operational, but the food is already spot-on.
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Kanye West’s ‘All Day’ proves the value of strength in numbers
The Chicago hip-hop icon demonstrates some of the advantages of collaborating with more than a dozen songwriters at a time.
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The king is dead—but Lady Macbeth is alive and vibrating with power in Dunsinane
The National Theatre of Scotland returns with Dunsinane, David Greig’s imagined sequel to the Scottish play.
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What would Mayor Rahm do without Detroit?
Leave it to one of the mayor’s Republican backers—Senator Mark Kirk—to use the Detroit analogy to try to scare white Chicagoans into voting for Rahm.
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Is Lena Dunham keeping Girls from being a great show?
Mark Schafer Lena Dunham is Hannah Horvath—and the other way around. With its portrayals of obsessive-compulsive behaviors, blundering social skills, and cringe-worthy sexual encounters, Girls remains one of the most subversive shows to come out of the mainstream. Lena Dunham, the show’s creator, and de-facto spokesperson for millennials, is talented, odd, and hilariously terse—and so […]