This week’s featured gig poster was created by illustrator Les Herman.
Tag: Vol. 44 No. 24
Issue of Mar. 12 – 18, 2015
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With Lens 2015, the world comes to Evanston’s Perspective Gallery
A small show features a broad range of photography from around the world.
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Sex Box puts sex in a box inside another box inside your living room
Sex has never been boxier!
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Mayor Rahm stages an aldermanic press conference
When it comes to budgets, TIFs, taxes, and other financial matters, the last people we should turn to for advice are the mayor’s City Council rubber-stampers.
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The Corned Beef Factory makes meat mountains
The erstwhile Ex-Cel corned beef plant now makes sandwiches to go.
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Why I’m Gere-ing up for The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
An appreciation of the 65-year-old actor’s career
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Alderman Emma Mitts wants more 37th Ward charter schools
Mitts readies herself for a fight with the teachers’ union as she faces a runoff against teacher Tara Stamps.
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Cannibal Ox returns to town Friday in support of their first album in 14 years
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “Iron Rose” off of the duo’s newly released Blade of the Ronin.
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Swervedriver’s watered-down I Wasn’t Born to Lose You and 11 more record reviews
Seven Reader writers tackle a dozen new releases, including comeback albums from Swervedriver and Cannibal Ox, Ata Kak’s oddball Ghanaian electro-rap, and Jack DeJohnette’s love letter to Chicago-born jazz.
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Did you read about Wikipedia, male belly dancers, and Zoolander 2?
Also Chuy, the CPD “black site,” Monopoly, discarded pictures, New York hardcore, and “Flaming Moe’s”?
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Why aren’t progressives ecstatic about the race for mayor?
Why isn’t this a progressive dream race in Chicago?
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Listen to Niger guitar band Tal National’s ebullient new music
A summery, hard-driving track from the band’s forthcoming new album Zoy Zoy
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Did you read about neo-Nazis, Yik Yak, and the World Elephant Polo Championships?
Also the first solar-powered around-the-world flight, Ferguson, assaults against food-delivery drivers, German criticisms of Israel, Google, and book tournaments?
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Shop for a farmer and more at the Good Food Festival
Chicago’s Good Food Festival hold its 11th annual open house and conference aimed at connecting food producers with consumers and business contacts.
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Working vs. The House on Mango Street: Greatest Chicago Book Tournament, final four
Which of these two titles will advance to the final round?