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- Music, Music Review Feb 26, 2021
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Chicago multi-instrumentalist Alex Cowling evokes the power of the great outdoors with Antarctica
- City Life, Feature Dec 22, 2020
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My year of hiking
When the pandemic hit, I ran to the woods.
- Music, Music Review Jul 21, 2020
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Protomartyr dive into the murk of modernity with Ultimate Success Today
- Music, Music Review May 1, 2020
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The Black Dahlia Murder pull out some new tricks on Verminous
- Music, Concert Preview Feb 21, 2020
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Detroit art-rock foursome Saajtak harness the power of improvisation for good
- Music, Concert Preview Dec 21, 2019
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Detroit’s Slum Village releases two orchestral tributes to its early hip-hop records while keeping an eye on the future
- Music, Concert Preview Oct 11, 2019
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Ghostly International celebrates two decades of putting out eclectic electronic sounds
- Music, Concert Preview Jul 5, 2019
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Eighties R&B band Ready for the World take a dive into 21st-century jams
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 23, 2018
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Eating elsewhere: of cow tongue Reubens and fresh pasta at Raduno, in Traverse City, MI
A ex-Chicago butcher makes a home in northern Michigan.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 22, 2018
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Illinois's late payment charges on its bills add up to $1 billion, and other Chicago news
Also, Chicago police used a Trump Hotel conference room during the Women's March.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Dec 4, 2017
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An untimely farewell to wizardly industrial guitarist and sound engineer Jason McNinch
Jason McNinch's band Lick put out just two albums in the mid-90s, but he lent his touch to dozens of other projects, including Pigface, Sister Machine Gun, Die Warzau, and KMFDM.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 20, 2017
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Rahm: Chicago's overwhelming disdain for Trump has made his mayoral job easier, and other Chicago news
Also, former Bear Charles "Peanut" Tillman is training to join the FBI.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Jul 26, 2017
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Megan Stielstra interviewing Samantha Irby: The right way to meet in real life
Two rising literary stars talk shop on the occasion of their new books.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2017
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R. Kelly is allegedly running an abusive ‘cult,’ and other Chicago news
Also, new Chicago Water Department emails show attempts at firearms deals and jokes about the city's gun violence.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Apr 5, 2017
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EPA employees are mad as hell and they’re not taking Trump’s policies any more
Longtime bureaucrats are stepping into the limelight to protest the president.
- News & Politics, Politics Jan 4, 2017
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Betsy Devos’s presumed agenda: Dismantle public education
Local experts warn that Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education will wage war on “government schools.”
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jun 1, 2016
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Get the f*ck out of here: The Road Trips Issue 2016
Doom and gloom in Bruce Rauner’s Springfield, the rebirth of an iconic Wisconsin supper club, and more stories of midwest exploration
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Oct 15, 2015
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Midwestern originals: A select list of regional food and drink
Taco pizza, toasted ravioli, the Booyah, and more provincial pleasures from the 12-state region
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 11, 2015
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Unearthing the high weirdness of forgotten fuzz freaks Gravitar
Michigan trio Gravitar ranks among the strangest of the 90s guitar-abuse bands to peter out just before the Internet began inadvertently preserving everything.
- Arts & Culture, Summer Guide May 14, 2015
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The midwest's midcentury-modern mecca is Midland, Michigan
How a sleepy town in central Michigan, famous for chemicals, became a destination for inspiring architecture.
- Arts & Culture, Summer Guide May 14, 2015
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A tour of bizarre outdoor art exhibits in the midwest
Check out strange open-air art along highways and byways in Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 30, 2015
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Brilliant Michigan grindcore band Cloud Rat stream new album, play Chicago
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is the entirety of Cloud Rat's forthcoming Qliphoth, because it's too consistently good to pick just one song.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 12, 2015
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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."
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Feb 19, 2015
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How to legally find someone to have sex with (in Michigan)
Dan advises the son of a 65-year-old father who hasn't had sex in 30 years. Plus: a 20-year-old who isn't getting much, more homework on kink
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 25, 2014
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Empire! Empire! front man Keith Latinen talks about his band's forthcoming album, emo, and graphic novels
Before Michigan emo outfit Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) play Chicago tomorrow night read this lengthy Q&A with front man Keith Latinen—he talks about poetry, Michigan, and, yes, "emo revival."
