The shorts program “Kartemquin Members’ Work for Hire” kicks off a monthlong series of eye-opening discoveries from the annals of educational filmmaking.
Tag: Vol. 44 No. 30
Issue of Apr. 23 – 29, 2015
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ARTIST: Stavros GiannopoulosSHOW: The Atlas Moth, Northless, and Rollo Tomasi at Cobra Lounge on Fri 4/24MORE INFO: getinthepink.blogspot.com
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ARTIST: Stavros GiannopoulosSHOW: The Atlas Moth, Northless, and Rollo Tomasi at Cobra Lounge on Fri 4/24MORE INFO: getinthepink.blogspot.com
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Will the next schools chief please stand up—to Rahm?
Barbara Byrd-Bennett steps down after overseeing school cuts and closings.
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Sam Prekop of the Sea and Cake on a reissued minimalist classic
Current musical obsessions of the Sea and Cake front man Sam Prekop, artist David Hartt, and Reader critic Peter Margasak
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Conan, what is best in life? Chinatown’s Little Lamb Hot Pot
Also crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentation of their women.
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Remembering a time when Todd Rundgren wrote incredible pop-rock songs
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “Bleeding,” off of 1971’s Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren; Rundgren plays the Vic tomorrow night.
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Did you read about Fuller House, the Lilly Pulitzer fiasco, and Dante Servin?
Also T.H. Tsien, Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer, Oliver Sacks on Spalding Gray, credit-card metadata, loneliness, Rob Kuznia, the original music pirate, Hozier, and renovations at Dome of the Rock?
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Soccer star Becky Sauerbrunn and the ascent of woman
Sauerbrunn is family—and she’s headed to the Women’s World Cup.
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Andersonville’s Summerdale serves comfort food for the neighborhood
A menu full of classics gets most of them right.
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Spandau Ballet tour the States—and release new music—for the first time in almost 30 years
Martin Kemp, bassist for the New Romantic torchbearers, talks to Jes Skolnik of Chicago postpunks Split Feet and arts nonprofit Pure Joy.
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Serving on the supreme court of pork at Baconfest
What I saw at Baconfest as a judge this year.
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Moody Tongue beers finally reach retail
Jared Rouben’s culinary brewery ships four-packs of Sliced Nectarine IPA, Caramelized Chocolate Churro Baltic Porter, and Steeped Emperor’s Lemon Saison.
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Listen to the great 80s band Game Theory’s indelible pop gem ’24’
A classic from the band’s 1985 album Real Nighttime, the latest in an extensive reissue program from Omnivore Recordings