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Tag: Vol. 46 No. 1
Issue of Oct. 6 – 12, 2016
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Northwestern prof Sir Fraser Stoddart wins Nobel Prize in chemistry
The prize is a culmination of 35 years of research in nanotechnology.
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Tacos and pizza duke it out on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local artist Joe Schorgl.
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Rapper-producer Frank Leone recruits Monster Mike for his relaxed, glistening new single
Onetime Chicagoan Frank Leone revisits “Cocaine for Kids,” an instrumental he initially made for rapper-producer Lucki Ecks.
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More than 70 percent of the City Council purchased Cubs playoffs tickets at face value, and other Chicago news
Also, creepy clowns reportedly sighted in the city and suburbs.
Posted inArts & Culture
What Chicago can learn from LA’s Skid Row
U. of C. sociologist Forrest Stuart catalogs the perils of overpolicing in Down, Out, and Under Arrest.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
What’s changed—and what hasn’t—since the last teachers’ strike
The rhetoric is less divisive, but the mayor’s dirty tricks are the same.
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People who give racism a free pass are part of the Trump problem
A new poll suggests that most Americans are only too willing to overlook racism in their peers.
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The Ear Taxi Festival tours Chicago’s rich contemporary classical scene
The Ear Taxi Festival presents more than 80 new works in its six-day tour of Chicago’s rich contemporary classical scene.
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Anthony Cheung has turned foghorns and out-of-tune piano into a Guggenheim Fellowship
Award-winning composer Anthony Cheung presents a new viola concerto at this weekend’s Ear Taxi Festival.
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CHIRP Radio’s storytelling series focuses on performers’ First Times
Funds raised by the storytelling series and podcast The First Time go toward the independent station’s first radio tower.
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An obscure Brazilian masterpiece gets another chance
The brilliant 1970 José Mauro album Obnoxius, never released in its day, gets reissued again.
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CPS lays off 140 teachers and 109 support staff members because of drop in student enrollment, and other Chicago news
Also, a new list says Saint Louis and Springfield are more dangerous than Chicago, and Mayor Emanuel has an in with the Joffrey.
Posted inMusic
Jill Flanagan of Forced Into Femininity takes her underground scene to task
Jill Flanagan of Forced Into Femininity takes her underground scene to task, the Era throw a listening party for their first ‘footwork mixtape,’ and more.
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City Hall reacts to Reader revelations about the Chicago Police Department’s secret budget
CPD’s hush-hush slush fund surprises city leaders.