Hogwarts-themed festivities begin in the lounge at 10 PM on February 3 and February 4.
Tag: Vol. 46 No. 15
Issue of Jan. 19 – 25, 2017
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Lost Lake’s Paul McGee and a tiki bar dream team have created a rum that will make you say, ‘Oh, fuck, that’s delicious!’
How a supergroup of mixologists and one cocktail historian made Plantation OFTD Overproof Rum
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Inauguration barhopping in Chicago’s most pro-Trump neighborhood
Down the political rabbit hole to Mount Greenwood on the city’s far south side
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Chicago producer Nasim Williams on his new track with Cam’ron and the mentor who made him a musician
Today Nasim Williams drops “Want It All,” a collaboration with L’s, Ly-key on the Beat, and Cam’ron.
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No Obama commutation for former governor Rod Blagojevich, and other Chicago news
Also, the opening site of the Chicago Women’s March, now expecting around 50,000 participants, has been moved again.
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Crafty preparations for the women’s march
Tomorrow, the women (and male allies) of America march on Washington and more than 200 other cities, including here in Chicago, where nearly 50,000 people are expected to rally in Grant Park and then walk en masse to Federal Plaza. But even before the marches, people are gathering to prepare, to make hats and buttons […]
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Trump protesters embark on a long, strange trip to Washington, D.C.
Have anti-Trump sentiment, will travel
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On the eve of the presidential inauguration, two rival Americas prepare to share a common playing field
We’re all the same in that we know what we know about each other, whether we actually know much of anything.
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Trump has only enhanced Obama’s legacy
The Obama era will not recede into the insignificance the right wishes for it.
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Sinead O’Connor’s I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got speaks to the fight against Trump from 27 years in the past
Sinead O’Connor’s 1990 album combines the rage of ’80s antifascist punk with a private grief that’s timeless—it’s music for a battle we hoped we’d never have to wage again.
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Chicago responds to President Trump
Artists, writers, musicians, academics, activists, and politicians—even Rahm!—weigh in on the new administration: the threats, the fears, the absurdity.
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Former CPD chief Garry McCarthy gets a surprise subpoena in the Sandi Jackson-Jesse Jackson Jr. divorce case, and other Chicago news
Also, a lot of Illinois elected officials are skipping the Trump inauguration.
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Bill Ayers believes opposition to Trump should come from the people—not the Democratic Party
Retired UIC professor and author Bill Ayers says modern revolutionaries also don’t have to look to the 1960s for inspiration.
