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Music, Music Review Nov 20, 2020
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Aya Nakamura delivers pure shots of intimate emotion on Aya
- By Joshua Minsoo Kim
- Tags: Music Review, Aya, Aya Nakamura, Warner Music France, France, Mali, Djadja, Doudou, Recommended, Video

Music, Music Review May 8, 2020
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Kassel Jaeger and Jim O’Rourke take us on a journey with In Cobalt Aura Sleeps
- By Joshua Minsoo Kim
- Tags: Music Review, Kassel Jaeger, Jim O'Rourke, In Cobalt Aura Sleeps, Editions Mego, Paris, France, electroacoustic, François Bonnet, Wakes on Cerulean, electronics, field recording, waves, Tokyo, Japan, Recommended

Music, Music Review Apr 3, 2020
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France’s Igorrr adds Middle Eastern motifs to its genre-splicing mashup of death metal and breakcore
- By Scott Morrow
- Tags: Music Review, Igorrr, France, Mr. Bungle, industrial, death metal, chiptune, Gautier Serre, Savage Sinusoid, Travis Ryan, Cattle Decapitation, Adam Stacey, Secret Chiefs 3, Spirituality and Distortion, Metal Blade, George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher, Corpsegrinder, Parpaing, Camel Dancefloor, Recommended

Music, Concert Preview Sep 20, 2019
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French disco legend Cerrone touches down at Smart Bar
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Concert Preview, Cerrone, Marc Cerrone, France, Kongas, Love in C Minor, Cerrone 3: Supernature, The Best of Cerrone Productions, disco, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Aug 9, 2017
Michael Madigan is now the longest-serving state house speaker in American history, and other Chicago news

Also, prompted by the highly unpopular pop tax, Cook County commissioner Richard Boykin is mulling a 2018 run against board president Toni Preckwinkle.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Illinois house speaker Michael Madigan, Illinois house, Springfield, South Carolina, Solomon Blatt, National Congress of State Legislators, Bon Appetit magazine, Julia Kramer, Time Out Chicago, restaurants, Richard Boykin, soda tax, pop tax, sweetened beverage tax, Cook County, Toni Preckwinkle, taxes, DuPage County, Rahm Emanuel, immigration issues, sanctuary cities, Department of Justice, Danny Davis, Jeff Sessions, Mark Halperin, George Stephanopoulos, Laquan McDonald, Wyndham Lathem, Northwestern University, bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, the Black Death, Institut Pasteur, Paris, immunology, infectious diseases, France, Trenton Cornell-Duranleau, River North murder, Andrew Warren

Blogs, Bleader Jun 16, 2016
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What Chicago could learn from Paris's massive labor protests

What if Illinois workers responded to austerity measures the way French workers did this week?
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Foreign, History, News, Chicago, CTU, France, Haymarket Affair, ISIS, Karen Lewis, labor, labor unions, Paris, strike, unions, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 13, 2015
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Chicagoans react with horror to Paris attacks

The Chicago police, Dick Durbin, the Alliance Francaise de Chicago, and others respond to news of the shootings and explosions in France.
- By Robin Amer
- Tags: News, Paris, terrorist attacks, hostage crisis, France, Dick Durbin, Alliance Franciase, Mark Kirk, Chicago Police Department, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 13, 2015
Chicago Alliance Français official: 'No words to describe' Paris attack

The cultural center's director is in Paris but safe, according to his colleagues.
- By Robin Amer and Jake Malooley
- Tags: News, Foreign, Paris, terrorist attacks, France

Blogs, Bleader Jun 18, 2014
World Cup soccer isn't the only occasion for flopping

How soccer strategy reflects the quest for justice through the ages.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Sports, News, Flopping, World Cup, soccer, football, NBA, basketball, Eric Levenson, New York Times, Albigensian Crusade, Beziers, France, Arnaud Amaury, Fred

Blogs, Bleader Jan 31, 2014
Reader's Agenda Fri 1/31: Crispin Glover, Chicago Deep Freeze Festival, and Has the Film Already Started?

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, January 31
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Crispin Glover, George McFly, It is Fine. Everything is Fine!, Epitonic, Chicago Deep Freeze Festival, Wicker Park, Public Works Gallery, Subterranean, Double Door, Mike Lebovitz, Kellye Howard, Meat Wave, Bloodiest, Carbon Tigers, Maurice Lemaître, Has the Film Already Started?, University of Chicago, Film Studies Center, France, Paris

Blogs, Bleader Jul 1, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: Blastbeats forever on Aluk Todolo's "Occult Rock I"

Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Occult Rock I" from Aluk Todolo's album of almost the same name, Occult Rock.
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Aluk Todolo, Occult Rock, 12 O'Clock Track, France, black metal, blastbeat, psych, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 19, 2013
Gossip Wolf: Cheer-Accident emerges from hibernation

Plus: Baathhaus go through plenty of "blood, glitter, and jizz" at their first video shoot, and Lamp shines on a new EP
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Cheer-Accident, Thymme Jones, Mayne Stage, Dante Kester, Gillespie Killings, Sounds Like Braille, Rock in Opposition, Carmaux, France, Faust, Soft Machine, Baathhaus, Instagram, Vine, Dan Foley, Dario Argento, Suspiria, James Bidgood, Pink Narcissus

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love May 16, 2013
Should Mom buy Playboy for her kid?

Plus: Gays have 99 problems, but drunk straight girls making out ain't one.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, mentally disabled, Christian, nursing home, butt plug, birth control, smartphone, porn, Playboy, lesbians, bi women, Same-sex marriage, Rhode Island, Delaware, Minnesota, Uruguay, France, New Zealand, Employment Non-Discrimination Act, HIV, rape, spanking, public dom/sub scene

Blogs, Bleader May 3, 2013
Reader's Agenda Fri 5/3: Cinco de Mayo Festival, Key Ingredient Cook-Off, and Cremaster Cycle

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, May 3.
- By Hannah Lorenz
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Little Village, Cinco de Mayo Festival, Mexico, France, Battle of Puebla, Key Ingredient Cook-Off, Bridgeport Art Center, Paul Virant, Perennial Virant, Abraham Conlon, Fat Rice, City Winery, River North Beer, Tenzing, Four Roses, Olmeca Altos, Cremaster Cycle, Matthew Barney, Gene Siskel Film Center

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Apr 25, 2013
Happy, gay, free

A light Love after a heavy week
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, Boston Marathon, Texas, antigay violence, France, North Korea, femdom role play, paid-for-sex fantasy, rim job, college student, masturbates, nerve endings, synapses, erotic, obsessions, lesbian dom, British, campsite rule, North London

Arts & Culture, Art Review Mar 15, 2013
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"Rising Up": Hale Woodruff's murals on a northern tour

Six paintings by the Harlem Renaissance artist leave the south for the first time since their installation—over half a century ago.
- By Janet Potter
- Tags: Art Review, Talladega College, Harlem Renaissance, Hale Aspacio Woodruff, Amistad, Underground Railroad, Diego Rivera, cubism, France, Atlanta University, Cairo Illinois, Works Progress Administration, Spelman College, Clark University, New York University, High Museum of Art, Savery Library, Chicago Cultural Center, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Mar 15, 2013
When man met mammoth and painted it (part one)

A preview of the Field Museum's Lascaux cave paintings exhibit
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Science, Arts, Visual Art, Field Museum, Lascaux, Robert Martin, anthropology, cave paintings, prehistoric humans, magic, religion, art, France, Chauvet, Werner Herzog

Film, Movie Review Feb 6, 2013
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Meet the skull and crossbones

Stolen Seas dives deep into the economic waters of modern Somali pirates.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Maersk Alabama, Somali pirates, Pirates of the Caribbean, U.S. Navy Seals, Richard Phillips, Stolen Seas, University of Chicago, Thymaya Payne, Facets Cinematheque, CEC Future, Gulf of Aden, Somalia, Yemen, Daniel Howden, Independent, Ishmael Ali, Clipper Group, Panama, Liberia, the Marshall Islands, Philippines, Copenhagen, Per Gullestrup, Bahamas, Georgia, Lithuania, Canada, France, Great Britain, Japan, Stephen Haskins, Eugene Kontorovich, Richard Dowden, Cold War, Juergen Kantner, Sabine Merz, Matthew Rafferty, Recommended

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Oct 10, 2012
Developing story

Ross McElwee's Photographic Memory contrasts a father's youth with his son's
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Ross McElwee, France

Film, Movie Review Aug 15, 2012
French disconnection

Chris Rock braves a household of galling Gauls in Julie Delpy's 2 Days in New York
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Julie Delpy, Chris Rock, indie films, indie sequels, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater, France, Adam Goldberg, Alexia Landeau, Alexandre Nahon

Film, Movie Review Jul 24, 2012
Big with child

French teens flaunt the power of pregnancy in 17 Girls
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, teenage pregnancy, teen pregnancy, Gloucester pregnancies, Carolyn Kirk, class drama, misguided utopianism, communitarianism, Louise Grinberg, Yara Pilartz, Roxane Duran, Lorient, France, Izia Higelin

Blogs, Bleader Mar 1, 2011
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Histoire de Melody Gainsbourg

Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar celebrates the 20th anniversary of Serge Gainsbourg's death Wednesday 3/2 with a program of TV appearances, Scopitone films, music and specialty cocktails.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Music, Free Shit, Food & Drink, Swag, Serge, Gainsbourg, Charlotte, Jane Birkin, Brigitte Bardot, Bonnie, Clyde, Maria's, Packages goods, community bar, Ed Marszewski, Bridgeport, Music Box, Scopitone, graphic novel, biopic, Joann Sfar, France, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 20, 2011
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Fallen Gods

Ernesto Daranas's drama "Fallen Gods" sets a Havana turf war against the legend of pimp Alberto Yarini Ponce de Leon, who murder led to France's ouster from Cuba. It screens Tuesday 2/22 in the Latino Cultural Center's Reel Film Club series.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Los Dioses Rotos, Reel Film Club, Latino Cultural Center, Ernesto Daranas, Alberto Yarini, Havana, Cuba, prostitution, France, Fallen Gods, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 3, 2010
Plus chic que ça et tu meurs

Being buried alive is the height of vulgarity
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Premature burial, France, death, Sex and the City, smell, hygiene

Blogs, Bleader May 12, 2010
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Inch'Allah Sunday

An Algerian woman reunites with her estranged husband, and finds herself drawn to French culture against the wishes of her conservative mother-in-law in Yamina Benguigui's 2001 film "Inch'Allah Sunday," screening Wednesday 5/12 at Alliance Francaise.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Algeria, France, Film Movement, Inch'Allah Sunday, Inch'Allah Dimanche, Alliance Francaise, Yamina Benguigui, Fejria Deliba, Video

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Also, prompted by the highly unpopular pop tax, Cook County commissioner Richard Boykin is mulling a 2018 run against board president Toni Preckwinkle.

What if Illinois workers responded to austerity measures the way French workers did this week?

The Chicago police, Dick Durbin, the Alliance Francaise de Chicago, and others respond to news of the shootings and explosions in France.

The cultural center's director is in Paris but safe, according to his colleagues.

How soccer strategy reflects the quest for justice through the ages.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, January 31

Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "Occult Rock I" from Aluk Todolo's album of almost the same name, Occult Rock.

Plus: Baathhaus go through plenty of "blood, glitter, and jizz" at their first video shoot, and Lamp shines on a new EP

Plus: Gays have 99 problems, but drunk straight girls making out ain't one.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, May 3.

A light Love after a heavy week

Six paintings by the Harlem Renaissance artist leave the south for the first time since their installation—over half a century ago.

A preview of the Field Museum's Lascaux cave paintings exhibit

Stolen Seas dives deep into the economic waters of modern Somali pirates.

Ross McElwee's Photographic Memory contrasts a father's youth with his son's

Chris Rock braves a household of galling Gauls in Julie Delpy's 2 Days in New York

French teens flaunt the power of pregnancy in 17 Girls

Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar celebrates the 20th anniversary of Serge Gainsbourg's death Wednesday 3/2 with a program of TV appearances, Scopitone films, music and specialty cocktails.

Ernesto Daranas's drama "Fallen Gods" sets a Havana turf war against the legend of pimp Alberto Yarini Ponce de Leon, who murder led to France's ouster from Cuba. It screens Tuesday 2/22 in the Latino Cultural Center's Reel Film Club series.

Being buried alive is the height of vulgarity

An Algerian woman reunites with her estranged husband, and finds herself drawn to French culture against the wishes of her conservative mother-in-law in Yamina Benguigui's 2001 film "Inch'Allah Sunday," screening Wednesday 5/12 at Alliance Francaise.

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