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  1. Do we really need the Great Chicago Fire Festival?Read the original story w/Photo

    Nov 2, 2009 | Chicago Reader

    An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire Festival, which would take place along the city's reimagined Riverwalk Twice last winter, I heard cultural affairs commissioner Michelle Boone's pocket speech on the city's new cultural plan .

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  2. My favorite cakeRead the original story

    Monday May 13 | Chicago Reader

    I've requested the same simple birthday cake every year since I was teenager. It's a recipe from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for a buttermilk lemon cake that my mom clipped and slightly modified.

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  3. Ballast Point beers-including Yellowtail, Big Eye, and Sculpin-arrive in ChicagoRead the original story w/Photo

    Monday May 13 | Chicago Reader

    Venerable San Diego brewery Ballast Point , founded in 1996, began distributing its beers in Chicago last week.

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  4. Best shows to see: Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, the Body, and Deep Sea DiverRead the original story w/Photo

    Monday May 13 | Chicago Reader

    The week's just beginning, and it's another busy one. The obvious highlight of a stacked list of great shows is Kurt Vile, who's playing Lincoln Hall on Tue 5/14 in support of his excellent new record Wakin on a Pretty Daze .

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  5. 12 O'Clock Track: Mudhoney's ripper about shitty white wine, 'Chardonnay'Read the original story w/Photo

    Monday May 13 | Chicago Reader

    Mudhoney is just the best. There are a load of reasons as to why this is-the group's stubborn unwillingness to go the way of much of the first-wave grunge phenomenon and front man Mark Arm's embrace of the curmudgeon lifestyle being among my very favorites.

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  6. Cocktail Challenge: Tartar sauceRead the original story w/Photo

    Monday May 13 | Chicago Reader

    Challenged with Tartar sauce by Scofflaw's Uby Khawaja , "I was going to go the fish route," says Annemarie Sagoi, a bartender at Big Star and the Charleston .

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  7. Show us your . . . framed Velveeta recordRead the original story w/Photo

    Mar 29, 2013 | Chicago Reader

    In our recent Food Issue , Cursive front man and recent Chicago transplant, Tim Kasher, spilled his guts about how much he appreciates a box of Velveeta Shells & Cheese.

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  8. Reader's Agenda Mon 5/13: The Yellow Birds, the Harlem Renaissance, and David MischRead the original story

    Monday May 13 | Chicago Reader

    Kevin Powers was a machine gunner in Iraq at the age of 17. He then wrote a war novel called The Yellow Birds .

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  9. At Vu Sua, Macku Chan channels the 90sRead the original story w/Photo

    Oct 3, 2012 | Chicago Reader

    I once tried to sit down at a sidewalk restaurant in Hanoi that specialized in dog meat.

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  10. Reader's Agenda Sun 5/12: A Mother's Day matinee, a Marxist musical, and ColiseumRead the original story w/Photo

    Friday May 10 | Chicago Reader

    Shake things up a bit this Mother's Day by going to the Music Box for a matinee showing of the 1981 camp classic Mommie Dearest , with commentary by Dick O'Day and complimentary wire hangers.

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  11. Still thinking about Lookingglass Theatre's Still Alice-and about Alzheimer'sRead the original story

    Friday May 10 | Chicago Reader

    In the novel Still Alice -the source for Lookingglass Theatre's play of the same name-that's what Alice hears from her husband when she tells him she has Alzheimer's disease.

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  12. Street View 097: Sheyssa rocks her trenchRead the original story w/Photo

    Friday May 10 | Chicago Reader

    Sheyssa's outfit is like a poem: the umbrella rhymes with the shoes, and the hat with the trench coat.

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  13. Reader's Agenda Sat 5/11: Chicago Arts Girls Spring Pop-Up Shop,...Read the original story w/Photo

    Friday May 10 | Chicago Reader

    Paintings. Housewares. T-shirts. Furniture. Basically, any kind of functional or nonfunctional art you're in the market for is up for grabs at the Chicago Art Girls Spring Pop-Up Shop, which takes place at Ravenswood Event Center.

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  14. Jackie Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis walk into a brasserie . . .Read the original story w/Photo

    Friday May 10 | Chicago Reader

    One of the strangest side effects of studying a foreign language is the desire not just to immerse yourself in a new culture but to become a part of it, indistinguishable from a native speaker.

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  15. The house Theaster Gates builtRead the original story w/Photo

    Friday May 10 | Chicago Reader

    Theaster Gates is known as an artist, but he trained as an urban planner, and it's hard to separate his work from the city that inspired it.

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  16. This week in Indian cinema: Wadala, Goa, and Gatsby,Read the original story w/Photo

    Friday May 10 | Chicago Reader

    This week the River East 21 is showing two new Bollywood releases: Go Goa Gone , a horror-comedy about zombies attacking a rave party, and Shootout at Wadala , an action film inspired by the real-life standoff between Mumbai police and gangster Manya Surve in 1982.

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  17. Distant Intimacy: An object lesson in knowing when to quitRead the original story w/Photo

    Friday May 10 | Chicago Reader

    Joseph Epstein wrote that in an essay called "I Like a Gershwin Tune." You can find it in his 1998 collection Narcissus Leaves the Pool .

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  18. And the Key Ingredient Cook-Off winners are . . .Read the original story w/Photo

    Friday May 10 | Chicago Reader

    Last Friday night, 26 of Chicago's best chefs and scads of you nice, attractive people gathered at the Bridgeport Art Center for a little culinary symbiosis in the name of adventure.

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  19. On throwing Derrick Rose into the breachRead the original story w/Photo

    Friday May 10 | Chicago Reader

    The problem with the Bulls and Derrick Rose is that the Bulls don't need inspiration.

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  20. ATMs: Automated Theft MachinesRead the original story

    Friday May 10 | Chicago Reader

    Be kind to your ATM today. The machines have been going through withdrawal lately, more than they're used to.

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