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Music
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Music Review
Nov 16, 2020
Recommended
Yves Jarvis creates gently disintegrating folk music
By Noah Berlatsky
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Music Review
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Yves Jarvis
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Sundry Rock Song Stock
,
Anti- Records
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folk music
,
Canada
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psychedelic
,
Montreal
,
Quebec
,
Recommended
Music
,
Music Review
Jul 22, 2020
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Vile Creature embrace resistance and power amid despair on
Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!
By Monica Kendrick
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Vile Creature
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Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!
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Prosthetic Records
,
queer musicians
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LGBT
,
vegan
,
Canada
,
doom
,
Minuscule
,
Laurel Minnes
,
Vic
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Tanya Byrne
,
Bismuth
,
KW
,
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,
Music Review
Apr 17, 2020
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Video
Lido Pimienta’s
Miss Colombia
is a luminous anthem to resilience
By Catalina Maria Johnson
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La Papessa
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Barranquilla
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Toronto
,
Canada
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San Basilio de Palenque
,
Color
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Afro-Colombian
,
Okan
,
Li Saumet
,
Bomba Estereo
,
porro
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bullerengue
,
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Music
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Music Review
Apr 3, 2020
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U.S. Girls shares some welcome sunshine in dark times on
Heavy Light
By Luca Cimarusti
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U.S. Girls
,
Heavy Light
,
Megan Remy
,
COVID-19
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
4AD
,
Toronto
,
Canada
,
drum-machine
,
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,
Video
Music
,
Music Review
Mar 13, 2020
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Video
Caribou makes intimate dance music that’s irresistibly personal
By Joshua Minsoo Kim
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Caribou
,
Dan Snaith
,
Canada
,
dance music
,
Suddenly
,
Merge Records
,
Gloria Barnes
,
Ravi
,
Never Come Back
,
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Video
Music
,
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Mar 7, 2020
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Canadian producer Jacques Greene celebrates the complexities of dance on
Dawn Chorus
By Leor Galil
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Jacques Greene
,
Dawn Chorus
,
Philippe Aubin-Dionne
,
Canada
,
dance music
,
LuckyMe
,
Do It Without You
,
Sleeping Village
,
Whenever
,
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Music
,
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Dec 21, 2019
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Down a cofounder, fearless fusion quartet BadBadNotGood close 2019 in Chicago with lineup 2.0
By Scott Morrow
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BadBadNotGood
,
Toronto
,
Canada
,
Ghostface Killah
,
Sour Soul
,
Lex
,
IV
,
Innovative Leisure
,
Matt Tavares
,
Matty
,
Key to Love
,
Majestics
,
Jonah Yano
,
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,
Video
Music
,
Concert Preview
Nov 21, 2019
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Songwriter Cat Clyde journeys beyond the blues on
Hunter’s Trance
By Jamie Ludwig
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,
Stratford
,
Ontario
,
Canada
,
singer-songwriter
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Ivory Castanets
,
Hunter's Trance
,
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Nov 15, 2019
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Christine Fellows illuminates the liminal on
Roses on the Vine
By Ed Blair
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Femmes de Chez Nous
,
Burning Daylight
,
Roses on the Vine
,
John K. Samson
,
Weakerthans
,
2 Little Birds
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The Last One Standing
,
Faron Hall
,
Winnipeg
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Manitoba
,
Canada
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Kathleen Raine
,
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Oct 3, 2019
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Tegan and Sara mine the past for
Hey, I’m Just Like You
By Ed Blair
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,
Tegan & Sara
,
The Con
,
High School
,
Hey, I'm Just Like You
,
synth-pop
,
alternative rock
,
Don't Believe the Things They Tell You (They Lie)
,
Calgary
,
Canada
,
Tegan Quin
,
Sara Quin
,
Alberta
,
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Music
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Sep 26, 2019
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Masked country crooner Orville Peck channels Wild West fantasy—and something deeper
By Megan Kirby
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,
Pony
,
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,
Lone Ranger
,
Lana Del Rey
,
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Music
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Mar 21, 2019
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Wake Expands The Boundaries of Grind on
Misery Rites
By Ed Blair
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Wake
,
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,
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,
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Travel
May 30, 2018
Austin travel agent helps west siders see the world—and lists her favorite midwestern trips
Stops on the Underground Railroad, an urban cheese factory, and an eye-popping Hindu temple are among Crystal Dyer's road-trip recommendations.
By Tatiana Walk-Morris
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crystal dyer
,
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devin dyer
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at&t
,
chicago austin youth travel adventures
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chicago architecture foundation
,
cook county juvenile detention center
,
west garfield park
,
fathers who care
,
lashawn k. ford
,
michigan city
,
lake michigan
,
hampton inn & suites
,
lakeside cabins resort
,
underground railroad
,
canada
,
dr. henry d. palmer
,
milwaukee
,
pridefest
,
june-teenth day
,
america's black holocaust museum
,
clock shadow creamery
,
saint charles
,
pheasant run resort
,
baps shri swaminarayan mandir temple
,
hindu
,
travel agency
,
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Bleader
May 1, 2018
The weird world of Guy Maddin
Five great films by Canadian indie Guy Maddin, whose latest, The Green Fog, screens this week at Gene Siskel Film Center.
By Patrick Friel
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Foreign
,
On Video
,
Small Screen
,
Guy Maddin
,
Canada
,
cinema
,
The Green Fog
,
Gene Siskel Film Center
,
J.R. Jones
,
Doc Films
,
My Winnipeg
,
Archangel
,
Jonathan Rosenbaum
,
The Heart of the World
,
Tales from the Gimli Hospital
,
Kyle McCulloch
,
Michael Gottli
,
Winnipeg
,
Angela Heck
,
Margaret-Anne MacLeod
,
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
,
Lisa Alspector
,
Cowards Bend the Knee
,
Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary
,
Rotterdam Film Festival
,
Brand Upon the Brain!
,
Isabella Rossellini
,
Jason Staczek
,
The Forbidden Room
,
Evan Johnson
,
Geraldine Chaplin
,
Mathieu Amalric
,
Jacques Nolot
,
Charlotte Rampling
,
Udo Kier
Blogs
,
Bleader
May 12, 2017
The dividing line between the U.S. and Canada
An addendum to Adam Gopnik's argument that "we could have been Canada."
By Michael Miner
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,
News
,
Canada
,
United States
,
Adam Gopnik
,
New Yorker
,
American Revolution
,
the Reader
,
Joseph McCarthy
Blogs
,
Bleader
Apr 27, 2017
Former
Sun-Times
publisher returns to Chicago—to represent Canada
John Cruickshank now serves as Canada's consul general here.
By Michael Miner
Tags:
Media
,
News
,
The Trump Era
,
John Cruickshank
,
Conrad Black
,
David Radler
,
Justin Trudeau
,
Donald Trump
,
Canada
,
Chicago Headline Club
,
Toronto Star
,
Canadian Broadcast Corporation
,
Adrian Smith
,
Globe and Mail
,
softwood lumber tariff
,
World Trade Organization
Columns & Opinion
,
Savage Love
Mar 23, 2017
A lightning round of answers to questions from Toronto’s Curious Minds Weekend
Dan addresses threesomes, butt plugs, Justin Trudeau, and more.
By Dan Savage
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,
butt plugs
,
Canada
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cannabis
,
Curious Minds Weekend
,
Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema
,
ITMFA
,
Justin Trudeau
,
marijuana legalization
,
oral sex
,
polyamory
,
pot
,
threesome
Blogs
,
Bleader
Oct 31, 2016
Queen for president, Trudeau for regent
Maybe it's not too late to rethink this independence business.
By Michael Miner
Tags:
Media
,
News
,
Politics
,
Presidential election
,
Andy Borowitz
,
the New Yorker
,
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,
Hillary Clinton
,
Queen Elizabeth
,
Canada
,
Justin Trudeau
,
Articles of Confederation
Blogs
,
Bleader
May 21, 2016
Ferris Bueller’s bedroom has been meticulously recreated inside Chicago’s Virgin Hotel
Artists save Ferris's room and take it to Ferris Fest.
By Jake Malooley
Tags:
Visual Art
,
Film
,
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
,
Sarah Keenlyside
,
Joseph Clement
,
Toronto
,
Gladstone Hotel
,
Ferris Fest
,
Canada
,
John Hughes
,
Cabaret Voltaire
,
Simple Minds
,
Bryan Ferry
,
technology
,
E-Mu emulator
,
IBM Personal Computer XT
,
Personal Computer Museum
Blogs
,
Bleader
Feb 29, 2016
Second City CEO Andrew Alexander remembers co-owner Len Stuart
Alexander shares memories of his friend and business partner after his passing.
By Brianna Wellen
Tags:
Arts
,
Comedy
,
RIP
,
The Second City
,
SCTV
,
Andrew Alexander
,
Len Stuart
,
Chicago
,
Toronto
,
Canada
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jun 23, 2014
Video
12 O'Clock Track: Greys' straight-ahead posthardcore jam 'Use Your Delusion'
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Use Your Delusion" from the debut Greys album,
If Anything
, just out on Carpark Records.
By Kevin Warwick
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,
Music
,
Greys
,
Toronto
,
12 O'Clock Track
,
"Use Your Delusion
,
" Metz
,
Canada
,
Carpark Records
,
Township
,
video
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jun 13, 2014
Video
Ham, tapeworms, and shitty soup: A brief retrospective of
The Kids in the Hall
A retrospective of comedy sketches from
The Kids in the Hall
in honor of the performance tonight at the Chicago Theatre, one of five stops on the troupe's first tour together since 2008.
By Kevin Warwick
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Arts
,
Comedy
,
Kids in the Hall
,
Chicago Theatre
,
sketch
,
Dave Foley
,
Bruce McCulloch
,
Kevin McDonald
,
Mark McKinney
,
Scott Thompson
,
Brain Candy
,
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
,
Philip Montoro
,
ham
,
tapeworm
,
Buddy Cole
,
Canada
,
Saturday Night Live
,
Comedy Central
,
Video
Columns & Opinion
,
On Media
Dec 17, 2013
The world according to the
Trib
's Rex Huppke
Facts matter to Huppke as they do to all reporters, but only Huppke has written their obituary.
By Michael Miner
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,
Chicago Tribune
,
Rex Huppke
,
Bethlehem Star
,
newspapers
,
alt-weeklies
,
Associated Press
,
AP
,
Catherine Cornell
,
facts
,
Allen West
,
AJR
,
American Journalism Review
,
Obamacare
,
government shutdown
,
Ted Cruz
,
websites
,
Canada
,
columns
,
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,
University of Chicago
,
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,
Steven Colbert
,
truthiness
,
John Kass
,
University of Missouri
,
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Blogs
,
Bleader
Oct 25, 2013
12 O'Clock Track: White Lung release another ripper with "Down With You"
White Lung released the B side from their new seven-inch, and it's great.
By Luca Cimarusti
Tags:
12 O'Clock Track
,
Music
,
12 O'Clock Track
,
White Lung
,
Down With You
,
Sorry
,
Canada
,
punk rock
,
melodic hardcore
,
Warped Tour
Columns & Opinion
,
Savage Love
Oct 10, 2013
A vigorous Canucking in Nova Scotia
Just the Halifax, ma'am: Savage fields sex Qs from curious Canadians.
By Dan Savage
Tags:
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,
Halifax
,
Nova Scotia
,
Canada
,
the Coast
,
Save Love Live
,
Stephen Harper
,
Jorge Mario Bergoglio
,
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,
Cher
,
Lady Gaga
,
Madonna
,
Rihanna
,
Katy Perry
,
Venus Envy
,
Seattle
,
New York
,
Portland
,
San Francisco
,
Madison
,
Toronto
,
Vancouver
,
Chicago
,
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