The New Yorker stops by this weekend in support of a strong new album.
Tag: Vol. 44 No. 29
Issue of Apr. 16 – 22, 2015
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Arts expo Lake FX opens with a question: What’s the ‘lake effect’?
Lake FX, Chicago’s weekend of workshops and events for the creative community, launched Thursday with a discussion of the “lake effect.”
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There’s a new Slayer song!
Slayer releases the first official single from their long-awaited upcoming LP for Record Store Day.
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Did you read about WikiLeaks, Jay Z, and Boston Corbett?
Also a murderous Southwest Airlines passenger, an Oregon land dispute, Gustave Whitehead, and some angry Muslims?
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Kris Bryant era to begin today at Wrigley
The Cubs’ slugging phenom has been paroled from Iowa.
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The Chicago Palestine Film Festival and CIMMFest highlight this week’s new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Two more writers weigh in on the Greatest Ever Chicago Book
A few more thoughts on Working versus The Warmth of Other Suns
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The Bridgeport Library all-ages punk series continues with Ono and Running
Art-rock legends Ono will be performing a weirdo set of country covers.
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Did you read about Morgellons, Pluto, and White God?
Also recycling in a multiunit building, iPhone 6 posters, the exclamation point, an ambitious man in Jacksonville, Pluto, and the Italian trattoria that unearthed history?
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Isabel Wilkerson is ‘so grateful’ for Greatest Chicago Book tourney victory
The author of The Warmth of Other Suns talks about her admiration for Studs Terkel and Working and offers her own list of great Chicago books.
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They Might Be Giants relaunch Dial-a-Song and return to the Vic
The jaunty, sinister “Erase” opens the band’s 17th studio album, Glean, most of whose tracks debuted via Dial-a-Song.
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James Franco and Jonah Hill exploit each other in True Story
In this adaptation of Michael Finkel’s confessional memoir, a murder suspect plays mind games with a reporter.
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Orr vs. Moore in the 49th Ward!
A modest proposal: Alderman Joe Moore and Cook County clerk David Orr should run against each for Democratic committeeman of the 49th Ward.
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Outed by his back-street trans girl
Dan Savage advises a self-described nice guy ‘betrayed’ by his secret trans lover and a woman conflicted about being down with her adult-baby boyfriend
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Our guide to the Chicago Latino Film Festival, week two
South American sci-fi dominates this week’s roundup of the Chicago Latino Film Festival.