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Music, Music Review Oct 8, 2020
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Shamir returns to the spotlight with nostalgic, 90s-influenced alternative pop
- By Lorena Cupcake
- Tags: Music Review, Shamir, pop music, On My Own, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Accidental Popstar, synth-pop, Be the Yee, Here Comes the Haw, Cataclysm, Kyle Pulley, Gen-Z, Recommended, Video

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Jun 16, 2020
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A tragic plane crash denied horn-rock juggernaut Chase their legacy

Bill Chase’s virtuosic nine-piece band, powered by four trumpets, belongs on the same pedestal as Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Bill Chase, Chase, horn rock, fusion, Ides of March, Jim Peterik, Survivor, Chicago, the Mob, William Edward Chiaiese, Maynard Ferguson, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, the Herd, New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, Schillinger House, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show, Las Vegas, Ted Piercefield, Alan Ware, Jerry Van Blair, Phil Porter, Angel South, Dennis Keith Johnson, Jay Burrid, Terry Richards, Get It On, Ennea, Pure Music, Epic Records, Grammy, Best New Arist, DownBeat, WBBM, So Many People, Jackson County Fair, Wally Yohn, John Emma, Walter Clark, Watch Closely Now, Chase Revisited, Video

Music, Concert Preview Nov 1, 2019
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Rapper-producer Baby Keem has fun switching up his styles on his latest mixtape
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Concert Preview, Baby Keem, Hykeem Carter, Top Dawg Entertainment, Die for My Bitch, Las Vegas, Black Panther, Crash Talk, Recommended

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Jul 30, 2019
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Johnny Pate is one of the great unsung architects of Chicago soul

This 95-year-old living legend has played jazz, written blaxploitation soundtracks, and arranged for Stan Getz, B.B. King, and most famously Curtis Mayfield—but he's probably most widely heard via hip-hop samples.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Johnny Pate, arranger, composer, producer, bassist, R&B, soul, jazz, John William Pate, Chicago Heights, Oscar Pettiford, Stuff Smith, Jay-Z, Red Saunders, Club DeLisa, Stan Getz, Wes Montgomery, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Carl Davis, OKeh Records, Brunswick Records, Impressions, Sad, Sad Girl and Boy, Curtis Mayfield, Super Fly, We're a Winner, Keep on Pushing, ABC-Paramount, Betty Everett, B.B. King, Gene Chandler, Jerry Butler, MGM/Verve, Brother on the Run, Bucktown, Shaft in Africa, Bee Gees, Peabo Bryson, Natalie Cole, Las Vegas, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 8, 2019
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Let us now praise Elvis Presley and his movies

It's the King's birthday, so Viva Las Vegas, baby!
- By Aimee Levitt and Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: Film, Flopcorn, Music, Elvis Presley, Blue Hawaii, Viva Las Vegas, Change of Habit, Hawaii, tourism, Angela Lansbury, Ann-Margret, Mary Tyler Moore, nuns, Las Vegas, He's Your Uncle Not Your Dad, Speedway, Bill Bixby, Nancy Sinatra, IRS, Black Panthers, The Sound of Music, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2018
Five literary biopics whose pictures are worth a thousand words

Five literary biopics whose visual style lives up to the words.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Books, Film, Foreign, History, On Video, Poetry, Biopic, Gene Siskel Film Center, Haifaa al-Mansou, Mary Shelley, Chicago Film Society, Charles Vidor, Hans Christian Andersen, The Color of Pomegranates, Sergei Paradjanov, Armenia, Sayat Nova, Sergei Yutkevich, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Karl May, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Germany, Ludwig, Requiem for a Virgin King, Our Hitler: A Film From Germany, Richard Wagner Third Reich Dave Kehr, An Angel at My Table, Jane Campion, Sweetie, New Zealand, Janet Frame, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, Kerry Fox, Laura Jones, High Tide, Stuart Dryburgh, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson, Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam, Johnny Depp, Richard Lester, Amour Fou, Heinrich von Kleist, Jessica Hausner, Lourdes, Henriette Vogel, Eric Rohmer, The Marquise of O, Ben Sachs

Blogs, Bleader Oct 26, 2017
The Illinois house failed to override Rauner's veto of ‘right-to-work’ zone ban by one vote, and other Chicago news

Also, a Chicago priest blessed the Mandalay Bay hotel floor where Las Vegas shooter conducted massacre.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Billy Dec, Bottlefork, Bruce Rauner, Catholic Church, Chicago, Clete Kiley, Gilbert Villegas, gun violence, Illinois, Illinois Capitol, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois House of Representatives, Illinois senate, JDL Development, Kevin Hickey, labor unions, Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay, mass shootings, One Chicago Square, real estate development, restaurant closings, right-to-work, Rockit Burger Bar, sexual harassment, skyscrapers, Springfield, Stephen Paddock, Toi Hutchinson, unions, Wrigleyville

Blogs, Bleader Oct 6, 2017
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Stephen Paddock rented two Michigan Avenue hotel rooms overlooking Lollapalooza but never showed up, and other Chicago news

Also, Cubs home playoff tickets are the most expensive in the MLB..
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Stephen Paddock, Las Vegas, gun violence, mass shootings, Lollapalooza, Blackstone Hotel, Bank of America Chicago Marathon, Chicago Police Department, sweetened beverage tax, soda tax, pop tax, Cook County Board, John Daley, Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah, Skip Haynes, Lake Shore Drive, Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field, MLB playoffs, New York Yankees, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2017
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ACLU of Illinois sues for federal oversight of CPD reforms, and other Chicago news

Also, the Blackhawks allowed Bryan Bickell to retire as a Blackhawk with a one-day contract.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, ACLU, ACLU of Illinois, Chicago Police Department, Lisa Madigan, police reforms, Department of Justice, Rahm Emanuel, Uber, Lyft, taxes, Chicago Blackhawks, multiple sclerosis, Bryan Bickell, United Center, Stanley Cup, Carolina Hurricanes, Illinois Department of Public Health, cancer, Chicago White Sox, Las Vegas, gun violence, Tribune Media, real estate development, Chicago RiverWalk, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 4, 2017
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Emanuel criticizes Trump administration’s response to Las Vegas massacre: ‘Take responsibility and accountability for something,’ and other Chicago news

Also, Las Vegas gunman's notorious bank-robber father lived in Chicago.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Rahm Emanuel, Donald Trump, Bruce Rauner, Las Vegas, gun control, gun violence, Joseph Ferguson, Chicago Police Department, inspector general, Stephen Paddock, Benjamin Paddock Jr., Sheboygan, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Most Wanted list, Eddie Johnson, CPD, Mark Wahlberg, Blase Cupich, UIC Pavilion, Catholic Church, (re)Encounter, Jason Aldean, Kyle Harris, Las Vegas shootings, Las Vegas massacre, Route 91 Harvest Festival, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 3, 2017
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Chicago not adding more security at marathon, Cubs playoffs after Las Vegas mass shooting, and other news

Also, Robin Kelly to Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Most guns used in Chicago shootings come from out of state.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, gun violence, Las Vegas, mass shootings, Alicia Tate-Nadeau, Rahm Emanuel, Office of Emergency Management and Communications, Bank of America Chicago Marathon, Chicago Cubs, MLB playoffs, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Robin Kelly, Indiana, Wisconsin, gun control, guns, Tom Dart, Cook County Sheriff's Office, Aurora University, Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria, Luis Gutierrez, Chicago Ideas Week, Kim Kardashian West, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 12, 2015
Think you want to be a travel writer? A pro describes the 'not sexy' reality of the job

Freelance travel writer Elaine Glusac: "I’ve been projectile-vomited on on a plane."
- By Anne Ford
- Tags: You Are Here, Chicagoans, Media, News, Elaine Glusac, travel writing, Chicagoans, You Are Here, journalism, Arctic Circle, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Departures, Afar, National Geographic Traveler, The Da Vinci Code, Michigan, Las Vegas

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 18, 2014
Recommended
A pilot brings the war home in American Blues Theater's Grounded

George Brant scores a direct hit with his one-woman play.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, George Brant, Grounded, Taliban, Gwendolyn Whiteside, Iraq War, Wyoming, Mojave Desert, Las Vegas, Jack Helbig, theater, Smith Prize from the National New Play Network, The Right Stuff, Lisa Portes, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Book Review Apr 15, 2014
Colson Whitehead
deals a weak hand with
The Noble Hustle

The novelist bellies up to the table at the World Series of Poker ready to fold.
- By Jonathan Messinger
- Tags: Book Review, poker, poker players, Colson Whitehead, Doubleday, World Series of Poker, Grantland, math, Bill Simmons, Wolrd Series of Poker Main Event, novelists, Atlantic City, Las Vegas, gamblers, gambling, Texas Holdem, James McManus, online poker, casinos, l

News & Politics, Zoom in Jan 18, 2014
Zoom in: Edgewater

Removed from the drag of Lincoln Avenue motels, the Heart O'Chicago can still easily be spotted thanks to its iconic neon sign.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Zoom in, Heart O'Chicago Motel, Ridge, Lincoln, Scott DeGraf, DeGraf Brothers, Crime Spree, City Council, Las Vegas

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Sep 11, 2013
Another "New Dawn" for the Alcyone Festival

Halcyon Theatre's annual celebration of female playwrights enters its sixth year.
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Halcyon Theatre's Alcyone Festival, A New Dawn, A New Day, Jenn Adams, Aphra Behn, Heart Shaped Nebula, Las Vegas, One Week in Spring, Nambi E. Kelley, The First Woman, Callie Kimball, May 39th, The Emperor of the Moon, Marisela Treviño Orta

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Feb 28, 2013
"Stop cock-in-frock-blocking your friend"

Plus: It’s never too early to start thinking about birth control.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, transvestite, Las Vegas, Kevin Garnett, Europe, gay, bisexual, beer goggles, transgender, Tumblr, sex-reassignment surgery, cross-dresser, drag queens, gynandromorphophiles, high school, virgin, college, birth control, IUD, nonhormonal copper IUD, progesterone-releasing IUD, sexually transmitted infections, condoms

Blogs, Bleader Sep 14, 2012
Hash House A Go Go: go go big or go go home

Food at this San Diego import towers above the—well, above the plate
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Paranormal, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Hash House A Go Go, Las Vegas, big things, rosemary

Blogs, Bleader Apr 15, 2011
People Seem to Kill Themselves More Often When the Economy's Bad

It's no big surprise, but we still shouldn't be complacent about it.
- By Lauri Apple
- Tags: News, depression, recession, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide, American Journal of Public Health, New York Times, Las Vegas, Criss Angel, Matt Wray, Temple University, the Atlantic

Blogs, Bleader Apr 15, 2011
Morning Newsfeed: Parking Meter Account Sort of Replenished, Jesse Jackson Sued for Discrimination, Prostitution Safe Zones, Vegas's Lady Liberty on a Stamp, Verizon Pitchman's Remorse, and More
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: News, Rod Blagojevich, President Barack Obama, BP, oil spill, Las Vegas, Statue of Liberty, Verizon, Jesse Jackson, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, parking meters, University of Chicago Medical Center, Jim Tyree, Sun-Times

Blogs, Bleader Dec 9, 2010
Stop The Presses!

Viva Las Vegas
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Divorce, Las Vegas, newsworthiness

Blogs, Bleader Feb 9, 2010
Spreading the privatization gospel

Other cities continue to consider following Chicago's lead in privatizing their parking systems—with the help of some of the same firms that engineered the deal here.
- By Mick Dumke
- Tags: Politics, Clout City, News, parking meters, parking garages, privatization, Mayor Richard M. Daley, Katten Muchin Rosenman, Morgan Stanley, William Blair & Company, Thomas Lanctot, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Pam Zekman, Clint Krislov

Blogs, Bleader Nov 15, 2006
Wednesday linkfest

Wal-Mart gets progressive, Bil Keane meets Friedrich Nietzsche, and more.
- By Harold Henderson
- Tags: Wal-Mart, Rate Your Students, Environmentalism, Homelessness, Comics, Nietzsche, Family Circus, Las Vegas

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