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- Blogs, Bleader Nov 5, 2018
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What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival this weekend
Discussed: Ida B. Wells, Tom Hanks's favorite sandwich, Dessa, Jessica Hopper's friends, and the girl whose kidnapping inspired Lolita
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Sep 18, 2018
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Jessica Hopper’s memoir Night Moves pays homage to a bygone era in Chicago—the aughts
On being young, ambitious, and falling in love with the city, block by block, on a bicycle.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2018
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The Christian indie-rock star who broke up with God
Jessica Hopper's deep and dark profile of David Bazan.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 9, 2018
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Warped Tour is dead! Long live Warped Tour! (Or maybe not)
Warped Tour sets off on its last hurrah this summer, which means now is a great time to revisit Jessica Hopper's excellent expose from her travels with the infamous mainstream-punk festival.
- Music, Gossip Wolf May 17, 2016
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Women in Music host a benefit for victims of domestic abuse
Plus: Shake Rattle & Read closes this weekend, and Jessica Hopper talks to Bob Mehr about his new Replacements book.
- Music, Music Feature Dec 22, 2015
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The year in music: 2015
Seven Reader writers drill down into rap, jazz, punk, metal, and more—instead of just rearranging the same records on everyone else’s best-of list.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Dec 22, 2015
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All the books we liked in 2015
And some theories about why we enjoyed them.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 27, 2015
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Long reads from the Reader archive for your long Thanksgiving weekend
Sink your teeth into these favorite Reader features.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 13, 2015
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Music critic and editor Jessica Hopper on her departure from Pitchfork
The success of Jessica Hopper's latest book, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, has helped create opportunities that persuaded her to leave a dream job.
- Arts & Culture, Book Review May 20, 2015
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A long-overdue collection of Jessica Hopper's music writing plants a flag for female rock critics
It also shows the evolution of a distinctive voice into a well-known byline.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 12, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Tue 8/12: Drekfest, CFA Crashers, and Plebeian Grandstand
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, August 12
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 8, 2014
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Show us your Ibsen, and the rest of this week's screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 7, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Thu 8/7: The Bowie Ball, LOTR Live, and Shapers
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, August 7
- Music, Gossip Wolf Mar 5, 2014
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Gossip Wolf: A radio remembrance of Da's Lorna Donley
Plus: New music from MC the Buttress and scum punks Flesh Panthers
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 12, 2014
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Tonight: Embrace Psalm One's new name at the Hideout
The local rapper just released Hug Life her first full-length as Hologram Kizzie, a name that's given her the freedom to make whatever music she wants.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 13, 2013
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Poseidon is alive and destroying water parks in Wisconsin
Anders Nilsen's new book brings Greek gods and Bible stories into the modern world.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 2013
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Read this oral history of Exile in Guyville
The inside story of a local masterpiece
- Blogs, Bleader May 21, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: Katie and Allison Crutchfield's noisy take on "Oblivion"
Indie rockin' twin sisters team up for Rookie.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 23, 2013
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Reader exclusive: Album stream of Rollin Hunt's The Phoney
An exclusive premiere of the studio debut from onetime Chicagoan Rollin Hunt; stream it and read more about how the musician's ramshackle pop sound evolved through the years.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 31, 2012
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12 O'Clock Track: Explosions in the Sky, "The Birth and Death of the Day"
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is Explosion in the Sky's "The Birth and Death of the Day"
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 8, 2012
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12 O'Clock Track: Pedro the Lion, "Priests and Paramedics"
Tonight at Metro, David Bazan and his band play Pedro the Lion's Control, which includes today's 12 O'Clock Track, "Priests and Paramedics"
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 10, 2012
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Chicago flavor in new music from Rick Ross and Kendrick Lamar
The Black Bar Mitzvah and Good Kid, Maad City have at least one thing in common—Chicago
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2012
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Shows to see: Serengeti, Dawnbringer, King Tuff, and more
Shows this weekend unrelated to Pitchfork include Delicate Steve, Serengeti, Dawnbringer, and King Tuff
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 28, 2012
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Ambitious experimental electronics, obscure doo-wop, good-byes and more in this week's B Side
Supreme Cuts, Pelican, Codeine, the Wavefront and FitzGerald's fests, obscure doo-wop, and some sad good-byes
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 27, 2012
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Gossip Wolf: Burying Treasure Town
The DIY venue shuts down with one last show. Plus: cop trouble for Names Divine, arts and crafts with Nachtmystium, and more