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- Music, Concert Preview Mar 6, 2020
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Chicago’s Plague of Carcosa make dense, cosmic-horror doom
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Oct 1, 2019
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Chicago Humanities Festival wants you to feel powerful
This season’s lineup focuses on harnessing the strength within.
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review May 16, 2019
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Barangaroos is as American as Aussie pie
Australian-style savory hand pies tell no lies, but may harbor some secrets.
- Film, Movie Review Apr 25, 2019
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It's the end of the world as we know it, and Avengers: Endgame feels fine
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the superheroes of our lives.
- Film, Movie Review Jun 5, 2018
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Chicago Underground Film Festival: The Shorts
Reader critics assess eight short works screening in the 25th edition
- Arts & Culture, Feature Oct 25, 2017
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Behind the gory scenes of Splatter Theater
The Annoyance’s savagely funny 30-year-old slasher spoof is a triumph of a certain schlocky stagecraft.
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Aug 31, 2017
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Advice for the broken-hearted—and for those sick of hearing about it
Dan dispenses some tough love. Plus: What's with Game of Thrones?
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 28, 2017
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Game of Thrones wrap party, Noir City film festival, Fringe Fest, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Yas Queen! at the Playground, Joseph Chilliams at Schubas, and more happenings August 28-31
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 1, 2016
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Cheers Live, Dog Night, The Happiest Place on Earth, and nine more new theater reviews
The latest Chicago stage shows range from the rawly emotional to the enjoyably ridiculous.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Aug 11, 2016
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Ayn Rand in Love, Thrones! A Musical Parody, and eight more new stage shows
An incongruous musical and a Game of Thrones spoof are among this week's highlights.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 29, 2016
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Add this to your list of newspaper cliches: push
The press has turned push into a Three Bears sort of action verb.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 28, 2015
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Is nerd culture even a thing anymore? Scenes from C2E2 2015
Nerd culture goes mainstream at the annual comic con.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 23, 2015
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'I want to learn from this guy'—Iliana Regan appoints chef de cuisine at Elizabeth
Iliana Regan kicks herself upstairs and names a San Francisco-trained chef the chef de cuisine of Elizabeth.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 11, 2015
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The Hammer Trinity is a nine-hour fantasy epic that feels surprisingly short
A marathon staging from the House Theatre of Chicago is thrilling and thought-provoking—even if you don't like the genre.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 25, 2014
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Nerd alert: Geek culture gets its own clip show
Wil Wheaton weeds through TV and the Internet on his promising new SyFy show, The Wil Wheaton Project.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 17, 2014
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Game of Thrones strokes our sadistic sides so good
Finally, an episode that didn't quite make me stress-puke.
- Blogs, Bleader May 19, 2014
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Martell it on the Mountain: A midseasonish Game of Thrones recap
The show that loves to make us nervous
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 16, 2014
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End of the road for The Red Road?
The SundanceTV series completed its six-episode run—will it be back?
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 8, 2014
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Game of Thrones season four: Who are our guys?
With the Starks out of serious throne contention, who are our main characters?
- News & Politics, Zoom in Apr 3, 2014
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Zoom in: Jefferson Park
Despite its Game of Thrones-ish name, the Independent Order of Svithiod is really a century-old fraternal organization struggling to survive.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 12, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Wed 3/12: I Saw You, Game of Thrones trivia, and "Migration Stories: All Roads Lead to Chicago"
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, March 12
- Arts & Culture, Show us your [____] Aug 12, 2013
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Show us your . . . construction sculptures
Artist Kip Pasta spends anywhere between 100 and 300 hours on his elaborate wooden structures—some of which may connect with Game of Thrones fans.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 12, 2013
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A Gchat about the Game of Thrones season finale
Two resident Game of Thrones fans get in the spirit of season three by killing off some more characters.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 22, 2013
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I tried Ommegang's Game of Thrones tie-in beer Iron Throne
Any excuse to drink-slash-talk about a really great show
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 10, 2013
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The very best shows to see: Speck Mountain and Circuit des Yeux, Quicksand, and John Fullbright
A few of the best shows to see this weekend include Speck Mountain and Circuit des Yeux, Quicksand, and John Fullbright
