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Music, Music Feature Dec 22, 2016
The ten best jazz records of 2016

The cream of this year’s crop includes a large-ensemble concept album about conspiracy theories, a tug-of-war between loops and live-band grooves, and an amazing hybrid of jazz and hip-hop.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, jazz, best, top ten, 2016, albums, Mary Halvorson Octet, Away With You, Firehouse 12, JD Allen Trio, Americana, Savant, Tyshawn Sorey, The Inner Spectrum of Variables, Pi, Henry Threadgill Ensemble Double Up, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs, Jeff Parker, The New Breed, International Anthem, Jim Black Trio, The Constant, Intakt, Steve Lehman, Sélébéyone, Anna Högberg Attack, Omlott, Tim Stine Trio, Astral Spirits, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Real Enemies, New Amsterdam, Darcy James Argue, Secret Society, Ensemble Double Up, Henry Threadgill, Meltframe, Susan Alcorn, Gregg August, Rudy Royston, Jason Moran, David Virelles, Curtis MacDonald, Roman Filiu, Jose Davila, Christopher Hoffman, Craig Weinrib, Butch Morris, Zooid, Cory Smythe, Chris Tordini, Fung Chern Hwei, Kyle Armbrust, Rubin Kodheli, Jamire Williams, Paul Bryan, Josh Johnson, Thomas Morgan, Elias Stemeseder, Damion Reid, Carlos Homs, Maciek Lasserre, HPrizm, Gaston Bandimic, Malin Wättring, Elin Larsson, Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman, Anna Lund, Anton Hatwich, Frank Rosaly

Blogs, Bleader Nov 21, 2014
Time Bandits, Lola Montes, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming, Hombre, Naked, Pi, Lola Montes, RSO (Registered Sex Offender), Time Bandits, We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2014
Klute, Talk Radio, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Old Movies to Watch Now, Film, Orgasm, Inc., Pi, The Fountainhead, Klute, Mary Poppins, Talk Radio, Tell No One, Old Movies to Watch Now, Netflix, Hulu, online streaming

Film, Movie Review Apr 23, 2014
Recommended Video
Darren Aronofsky's Noah tells the story by the book

The director's religious blockbuster is immersed in Judaic literature.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Darren Aronofsky, Noah, Russell Crowe, the Bible, Judaism, Paramount Pictures, Ari Handel, the Torah, Ray Winstone, Book of Enoch, Peter T. Chattaway, J. Hoberman, Jacob Neusner, Genesis, Huffington Post, Old Testament, Carl Theodor Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Eric Rohmer, Perceval, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon, New Testament, Bertolt Brecht, Manoel de Oliveira, Doomed Love, The Letter, Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Gospel According to Matthew, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Pi, Black Swan, Peter Jackson, J.R.R. Tolkein, the Arc, Yoda, Anthony Hopkins, Recommended, Video

Music, Record Roundup Sep 20, 2013
Danny Brown's thoughtfully raunchy Old and 15 more record reviews

Eight Reader writers take on 16 albums—including the Dirtbombs' bubblegum garage, Glasser's peculiar electro-pop, and Traxman's user-friendly footwork.
- By Peter Margasak, Miles Raymer, Leor Galil, Luca Cimarusti, Kevin Warwick, Tal Rosenberg, Bill Meyer, and Philip Montoro
- Tags: Record Roundup, Daníel Bjarnason, composers, pianists, Reykjavik Sinfonia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ben Frost, Valgeir Sigurdsson, Danny Brown, Fool's Gold, Bedroom Community, rappers, rap, Connections, Anyway, Adam Elliott, Times New Viking, Kevin Elliott, The Dirtbombs, In the Red, Mick Collins, Glasser, True Panther Sounds, Cameron Mesirow, Arve Henriksen, Rune Grammofon, trumpeters, oboists, Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Ingar Zach, Lars Danielsson, The Internet, Odd Future, Syd the Kyd, beat makers, Matt Martians, Pi, Matt Mitchell, Ches Smith, Nohome, Trost, F.M Einheit, Marino Pliakas, Michael Wertmüller, Caspar Brötzmann, Warp, Oneohtrix Point Never, Daniel Lopatin, synthesizers, samples, library science, Parquet Courts, What's Your Rupture?, Iannis Xenakis, Decca, Universal Music, 20th-century classical music, tape delay, Touche Amore, Deathwish Inc., emo, screamo, Traxman, Lit City Trax, footwork, TV Ghost, Tim Gick, Charles Waters Quartet, Amish, jazz, Chris McIntyre, Andrew Barker, George Rush, mixtapes

Blogs, Bleader Jul 25, 2012
Video
Pi, in pictures

Pi jokes for Pie Week
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Cheese, Pie Week, pi, pie, Pie Week, Variations on a Theme, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 13, 2012
Pip pip, Pi Day!

A list of bakeries and restaurants selling pie for Pi Day 2012.
- By Asher Klein
- Tags: Paranormal, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Pi Day, pi, mathematics, geometry, delicious things, reasons to like math

Blogs, Bleader Dec 7, 2009
Free "Pi" From Local Producer Radius

Unreleased post-hip-hop by local producer Radius goes online for free.
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, Free Shit, Swag, Radius, Chicago, hip-hop, J Dilla, free, Pi

Blogs, Bleader Jan 9, 2007
Darren Aronofsky to appear at University of Chicago

Darren Aronofksy, director of Pi, Requiem for a Dream, and The Fountain, will appear this Friday at University of Chicago Doc Films.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Darren Aronofsky, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, University of Chicago Doc Films

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The ten best jazz records of 2016

The cream of this year’s crop includes a large-ensemble concept album about conspiracy theories, a tug-of-war between loops and live-band grooves, and an amazing hybrid of jazz and hip-hop.

Time Bandits, Lola Montes, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

Klute, Talk Radio, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

Recommended Video
Darren Aronofsky's Noah tells the story by the book

The director's religious blockbuster is immersed in Judaic literature.

Danny Brown's thoughtfully raunchy Old and 15 more record reviews

Eight Reader writers take on 16 albums—including the Dirtbombs' bubblegum garage, Glasser's peculiar electro-pop, and Traxman's user-friendly footwork.

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Pi, in pictures

Pi jokes for Pie Week

Pip pip, Pi Day!

A list of bakeries and restaurants selling pie for Pi Day 2012.

Free "Pi" From Local Producer Radius

Unreleased post-hip-hop by local producer Radius goes online for free.

Darren Aronofsky to appear at University of Chicago

Darren Aronofksy, director of Pi, Requiem for a Dream, and The Fountain, will appear this Friday at University of Chicago Doc Films.

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The cream of this year’s crop includes a large-ensemble concept album about conspiracy theories, a tug-of-war between loops and live-band grooves, and an amazing hybrid of jazz and hip-hop.

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

The director's religious blockbuster is immersed in Judaic literature.

Eight Reader writers take on 16 albums—including the Dirtbombs' bubblegum garage, Glasser's peculiar electro-pop, and Traxman's user-friendly footwork.

Pi jokes for Pie Week

A list of bakeries and restaurants selling pie for Pi Day 2012.

Unreleased post-hip-hop by local producer Radius goes online for free.

Darren Aronofksy, director of Pi, Requiem for a Dream, and The Fountain, will appear this Friday at University of Chicago Doc Films.

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