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Music, Music Feature Nov 25, 2020
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A eulogy for Danny’s Tavern

For decades, this cozy candlelit bar in Bucktown nurtured a devoted and welcoming community of music lovers—but it couldn’t survive the pandemic.
- By Jacob Arnold
- Tags: Music Feature, Danny’s Tavern, Bucktown, Danny’s, Sheer Magic, Play, Hot on the Heels, Danny Cimaglio, closed, closure, Angie Hebda, Terry Alexander, Michael Noone, Peter Nelson, 1951 W. Dickens, Sheree Rose, Ike Hobbs, Martin Giese, Dave Rodman, Tom Billings, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Wax Trax!, Eric Puls, Scott Harris Mia Francesca, Kevin Stacy, Ken Kordich, Okno, Soul Kitchen, One Off Hospitality, Jeff Parker, Damon Locks, Joshua Abrams, Ben Vida, Beau Wanzer, Claude Rains, Foster Grant, Courtland Green, Supreme Court, Kim Ambriz, Warren Lee, Empire State Soul Club, Scott Craig, Mark Henning, Dante Carfagna, Jamie Hodge, Shaun Pauling, Richard Smith, Rik Shaw, Deadly Dragon Sound System, Great Silence, Dave Bramble, Tony Janda, Big Tony, Stephen Sowley, Melissa Grubbs, Wayne Montana, Eternally Yours, Bob Davies, Brian Kelly, Alex Horn, Nanodust, Ray Rodriguez, DJ Ray_Rod, Marc Hellner, Marc Arcuri, Chandeliers, Brian Case, Bobby Burg, Joan of Arc, Joe Proulx, Love Boat, Chris Johnson, DJ Shoulders, Adam Gruel, Jen Kienzler, DJ Quick Paw, Peace Party, Naomi Walker, Jocelyn Brown, John Herndon, Soft Pow, Josh Berman, Jason Adasiewicz, Anton Hatwich, David Boykin, Isaiah Spencer, Reminder, Town and Country, Jim Dorling, Liz Payne, International Anthem, Uncanned Music, Scottie McNiece, Makaya McCraven, Junius Paul, Nick Mazzarella, Ben LaMar Gay, Hans Ballard, Night Moves, Off Chances, Ross Winston, Lono Brazil, Disco Unusual, Chances Dances, Jamie Hayes, Tanja Buhler, Party Line, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 22, 2019
Local punks Droids Blood add new variety to their dark, deranged hardcore

Plus: Chicago-bred rapper Open Mike Eagle makes a return visit with a fresh EP, and DJ Kool Hersh drops the expansive mix Attack of the Chicago Boogie.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Broken Prayer, Droids Blood, Scott Plant, Nick Donahue, Ceaușescu’s Dream, Unreality, Burlington, Riesgo, Sin Orden, Los Crudos, Primitive Teeth, Compressions, Open Mike Eagle, Pitchfork Music Festival, What Happens When I Try to Relax, Auto Reverse, Ruby Hornet, Digital Freshness, Closed Sessions, Fess Grandiose, Ness Heads, Star Creature Universal Vibrations, Kool Hersh, Attack of the Chicago Boogie, Boogie Munsters, Wild Prairie Vinyl & Vintage, Alex G, Night Moves, Jesse Sandwich, Tim Zawada, Shazam Bangles, Tone B. Nimble

Blogs, Bleader Nov 5, 2018
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
- By Brita Hunegs, Brianna Wellen, Leor Galil, Maya Dukmasova, and Anne Elizabeth Moore
- Tags: Arts, Books, Film, Hip-Hop, Music, Ida B. Wells, Michelle Duster, Peter Sagal, Tom Hanks, Uncommon Type: Some Stories, Dessa, My Own Devices, Doomtree, Greg Kot, Jessica Hopper, José Olivarez, Night Moves, Sarah Weinman, The Real Lolita, Lolita, Sally Horner, Rachel Shteir

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Sep 18, 2018
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.
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Lit Feature, Jessica Hopper, Night Moves, memoir, music writing, female rock critic, Wicker Park, gentrification, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, Alice Merrill, Ukrainian Village, writers, nightlife, bicycles, biking

Blogs, Bleader Mar 27, 2018
Nautical thrillers and mysteries set sail on FilmStruck this week

The streaming-cinema channel presents features by Antonioni, Arthur Penn, and Rene Clement.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Crime, Film, Foreign, On Video, Television, Crime, mystery, thriller, film, boats, FilmStruck, Macao, Josef von Sternerg, Paramount, RKO, Howard Hughes, Nicholas Ray, Jane Russell, Robert Mitchum, William Bendix, Gloria Grahame, Thomas Gomez, Dave Kehr, L'Avventura, Michelangelo Antonioni, Lea Massari, Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Roberto Rossellini, La Notte, Eclipse, L’Eclisse, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Purple Noon, Alain Delon, Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Rene Clement, Paul Gegauff, Claude Chabrol, Alfred Hitchcock, Strangers on a Train, Henri Decae, Marie Laforet, Maurice Ronet, Playtime, Bill Kearns, Knife in the Water, Jerzy Skolimowski, Moonlighting, Roman Polanski, Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Don Druker, Night Moves, Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, Watergate, Gene Hackman, Melanie Griffith, Florida Keys, Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald, Alan Sharp, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin, Kenneth Mars, James Woods

Film, Movie Review Oct 21, 2016
With Certain Women, writer-director Kelly Reichardt heads for Montana—and loses her way

Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, and Lily Gladstone star in this drama about three unhappy women.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Certain Women, Kelly Reichardt, Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, Stephen Meek, Night Moves, Jon Raymond, Jonathan Raymond, Maile Meloy, Laura Dern, Jared Harris, James Le Gros, René Auberjonois, Lily Gladstone, Kristen Stewart, movies

Best of Chicago, Reasons to love Chicago Jun 23, 2016
Critics' Picks
The Des Plaines River Trail is a real slice of nature in the big city

This 58.6-mile forest-preserve trail gives urban cyclists a much-needed taste of the wilderness.
- By Robin Amer
- Tags: Reasons to love Chicago, Des Plaines River Trail, Des Plaines Trail System, DPRT, Cook County Forest Preserves, Lake County Forest Preserves, cycling, hiking, mountain biking, night moves, Critics' Picks

Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2014
My favorite films of 2014 (that premiered in Chicago)

Drew Hunt's favorite films of 2014
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Best films of 2014, Buzzard, Citizenfour, Vic + Flo Saw a Bear, A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness, See You Next Tuesday, Gone Girl, Jealousy, Memphis, What Now? Remind Me, Closed Curtain, Boyhood, Enemy, the Grand Budapest Hotel, Happy Christmas, It Felt Like Love, Night Moves, Palo Alto, They Came Together, 22 Jump Street, Under the Skin, We Are the Best!, Whiplash, Wild, Winter Sleep

Film, Movie Feature Dec 26, 2014
Our favorite movies of 2014

The best films of the year, according to J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
- By J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, best films of 2014, J.R. Jones, Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski, Calvary, John Michael McDonagh, Norte, the End of History, Lav Diaz, Two Days, One Night, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Night Moves, Kelly Reichardt, Last Days in Vietnam, Rory Kennedy, Joe, David Gordon Green, The Kill Team, Dan Krauss, Everyday, Michael Winterbottom, Cheap Thrills, Eugene Ionesco, Starred Up, Jonathan Asser, David Mackenzie, Boyhood, Richard Linklater, Patricia Arquette, What Now? Remind Me, Breakfast With Curtis, Joaquin Pinto, Laura Colella, Jimmy P., Arnaud Desplechin, E.L. Katz, Year in Review 2014, The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki, Jiro Horikoshi, Rambleras, Daniela Speranza, Jacques Demy, Mood Indigo, Michel Gondry, Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream, Duke Ellington, Jean-Paul Sartre

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2014
Best Films of 2014, number five: Night Moves

J.R. Jones counts down his favorite films of 2014. Today at number five: Night Moves.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Year in Review, Film, Kelly Reichardt, Night Moves, Jesse Eisenberg, Peter Sarsgaard, Dakota Fanning, Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, James Le Gros, Jonathan Raymond, Meek’s Cutoff, best movies of 2014

Blogs, Bleader Jun 18, 2014
Reader's Agenda Wed 6/18: Night Moves, Juan Wauters, and the Thai Festival

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, June 18
- By Will Greenberg
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Night Moves, Kelly Reichardt, Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, Music Box, The Beets, Juan Wauters, Empty Bottle, Crystal Stilts, Your Friend, The Royal Thai Consulate General, Thai Festival

Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2014
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Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, Freedom Summer, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, The Cast Against 8, Mother Joan of the Angels, Night Moves, Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy, Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, The Signal movie, Citizen Koch, Carl Deal, Tia Lessen, Trouble the Water, The Fault in Our Stars, The Grand Seduction, Seducing Dr. Lewis, Night Train, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, Mike Myer, 22 Jump Street, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Victor Fleming, Gone With the Wind, Pickwick Park Ridge, Jared Hess, Napoleon Dynamite, Music Box, Gene Saks, The Odd Couple, Logan Theater Chicago, Rare Baseball Films, Joe DiMaggio, Christy Mathewson, Willie Mays, Hack Wilson, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, 16mm Animation Showcase, George Griffin, Kathy Laughlin, Sally Cruikshank, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 13, 2014
Reader's Agenda Thu 3/13: "Hemingway the Hunter," Kokorokoko's anniversary, and sound artist Marcus Schmickler

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, March 13
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Hemingway Museum, Poetry Foundation, John Barr, Hemingway the Hunter: On Safari, Beauty Bar, Kokorokoko, Boogie Munsters, Night Moves, Très Awesome Events, Marcus Schmickler, Comfort Station

Music, Music Sidebar May 30, 2013
Do-Division Street Fest: Disappears, Torche, Ariel Pink, the Gaslamp Killer, and more

This year's diverse lineup includes psychedelic pop, stoner punk, hooky metal, and anything-goes post-hip-hop.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Music Sidebar, o-Division Street Fest, Empty Bottle Presents, Beat Kitchen, Subterranean, Disappears, Torche, Planetsexploder, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, William Elliott Whitmore, Brown Bird, Ariel Pink, Inc., Night Moves, Roberto Carlos Lange, Helado Negro, Tilly & the Wall, He's My Brother She's My Sister, Archie Powell & the Exports, Hemmingbirds, the Gaslamp Killer, Beat Connection, Indians, Joan of Arc, Jeff the Brotherhood, Bailiff, Suns, Mutts

Music, Nightlife Jul 28, 2011
Night Moves: Alderman Proco Joe Moreno keeps up with his constituents

Hourly dispatches from the bar and club scene
- Tags: Nightlife, Alderman Proco "Joe" Moreno, Alderman Joe Moreno, Wild Flag, Wicker Park Fest, Big Star, Night Moves, Soldier Field

Music, Music Feature May 12, 2011
Better than a Silver Bullet

A bootleg compilation proves that Bob Seger made his greatest music before he got famous.
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Music Feature, Bob Seger, Night Moves, Thin Lizzy, Smokin' O.P.'s, Bob Seger & the Last Heard, The Bob Seger System, Hideout Records, Early Seger Vol. 1, I Love Music, Never Mind the Bullets: Bob Seger 1966-1974, Village Voice, Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, Allstate Arena

Blogs, Bleader Dec 7, 2010
Tonight: Holiday Night Moves at Longman & Eagle

Tickets are left for tonight's Night Moves dinner at Longman & Eagle.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Night Moves, Holiday Night Moves, Longman & Eagle, Great Lakes Brewing Co., Becker Lane, Anson Mills, Samuel Smith, Petrus

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For decades, this cozy candlelit bar in Bucktown nurtured a devoted and welcoming community of music lovers—but it couldn’t survive the pandemic.

Plus: Chicago-bred rapper Open Mike Eagle makes a return visit with a fresh EP, and DJ Kool Hersh drops the expansive mix Attack of the Chicago Boogie.

Discussed: Ida B. Wells, Tom Hanks's favorite sandwich, Dessa, Jessica Hopper's friends, and the girl whose kidnapping inspired Lolita

On being young, ambitious, and falling in love with the city, block by block, on a bicycle.

The streaming-cinema channel presents features by Antonioni, Arthur Penn, and Rene Clement.

Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, and Lily Gladstone star in this drama about three unhappy women.

This 58.6-mile forest-preserve trail gives urban cyclists a much-needed taste of the wilderness.

Drew Hunt's favorite films of 2014

The best films of the year, according to J.R. Jones and Ben Sachs

J.R. Jones counts down his favorite films of 2014. Today at number five: Night Moves.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, June 18

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, March 13

This year's diverse lineup includes psychedelic pop, stoner punk, hooky metal, and anything-goes post-hip-hop.

Hourly dispatches from the bar and club scene

A bootleg compilation proves that Bob Seger made his greatest music before he got famous.

Tickets are left for tonight's Night Moves dinner at Longman & Eagle.

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