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- Music, Music Review May 15, 2020
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Saint Louis rapper-singer Smino re-creates the fun of classic hip-hop mixtapes on She Already Decided “Mixtape”
- Arts & Culture, Comedy Mar 2, 2020
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Gossiping with Caleb Hearon
The comedian on his style, inspiration, and the Chicago comedy scene.
- Music, Concert Preview Nov 21, 2019
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Samantha Fish keeps blues-rock alive
- Blogs, Bleader May 31, 2018
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How Dems in red states can fight off Trump’s vicious attacks
Let's hope voters in states from North Dakota to West Virginia appreciate senatorial independence from Trump.
- Music, Music Feature Apr 18, 2018
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Jessica Risker sharpens her sweet songs on a hazy new album
I See You Among the Stars is the Deadbeat front woman’s first solo record under her own name—and her most confident and consistent effort yet.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Apr 10, 2018
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Bluesman Cash McCall hasn’t written a hit in more than 50 years, but that isn’t stopping him
Cash McCall has moved from gospel to soul to blues, and his best-known song is still the 1966 single "When You Wake Up."
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 11, 2018
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Chicago's ‘clusters’ of unsolved strangling deaths near Washington Park and Garfield Park, and other news
Also, Chris Kennedy continues bold attack on Emanuel by mentioning Joe Berrios.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 23, 2017
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Chance the Rapper interested in returning to college, and other Chicago news
Also, law enforcement looks for new leads in the 25-year-old kidnapping and murder of Tammy Zywicki.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 8, 2016
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Does the midwest still need Illinois to be its abortion oasis?
Hundreds of women flock to Illinois annually to get abortions not available in their home states. The recent Supreme Court decision could change that.
- 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 Aug 25, 2015
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A 'Jesus fish' on a war memorial causes controversy in Missouri
Who benefits and who suffers in a constitutional dispute over a monument honoring two Columbia, Missouri, natives who perished in the Persian Gulf War?
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 4, 2014
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Mayor Rahm searches for his inner Al Sharpton
Not long after handing over up to $17 million in school funds to a bunch of bankers, Mayor Rahm throws a bone to Chicago's lowest-paid workers—just in time for February's election.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 1, 2014
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Feel-good news is made near Ferguson!
All the news out of Saint Louis isn't bad
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 21, 2014
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The Defense Department helps counties round out their arsenals
A closer look at how Washington arms America
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 15, 2014
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On racial upheaval in Saint Louis—or at least Ferguson
Protest meets repressive force in Ferguson, Missouri
- News & Politics, Feature Apr 28, 2014
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Will the Parental Notice of Abortion Act help or hurt young women?
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 14, 2014
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Amid calls for drug policy reforms, Chicago-to-Iowa heroin dealer gets stiff sentence
New sentencing guidelines from the Obama administration didn't help former Chicagoan Dwayne Appling.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 12, 2014
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12 O'Clock Track: Distressing microtonal black metal from Jute Gyte's new Vast Chains
This avant-garde black-metal project from Missouri has released 17 full-lengths since 2010, and they just keep getting weirder.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Dec 18, 2013
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Gossip Wolf: Scheme raps with two tongues on Pocket Full of Pesos
Plus: New music and shows from Derek Nelson, his band Martin Van Ruin, and the Lemons
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Nov 5, 2013
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When the earth shook beneath the Mississippi
The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes tells the story about a powerful seismological event where you'd least expect to find it: The Mississippi Valley.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Sep 11, 2013
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Gossip Wolf: BLVD books its first CNCRT
Plus: Dowsing shakes up its roster, rapper Milo moves to town, and more.
- Arts & Culture, Summer Guide May 16, 2013
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Summer Guide: Meet me in Saint Louis
The "gateway to the west" is not just a smaller, inferior version of Chicago.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 1, 2011
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Winter's Bone musicians head in from the hills, hit town
Marideth Sisco, whose voice makes for one of the movie's most memorable scenes, brings her band to Lincoln Hall on Wednesday.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 16, 2011
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The Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulity
Brian Springer's family searches for an anarchist diary and buried treasure on their Missouri farm in his documentary "The Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulity," screening Thursday 3/17 at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 16, 2010
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This Week's Food and Drink Events
An African luncheon, a warehouse sale, a whiskey tasting, and more.