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- Music, Music Review Nov 26, 2020
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Electronic innovators Cabaret Voltaire make a mind-bending return on Shadow of Fear
- City Life, Community Jul 8, 2020
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Suicide inside a global pandemic
How is it possible to keep dark thoughts at bay when everyone is struggling to survive?
- Film, Movie Review Jan 15, 2019
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Bird Box recklessly villainizes mental illness and suicide
It squanders an opportunity for thoughtful commentary on trauma and survival.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 3, 2018
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Leave Me Alone! turns Chekhov into a public service announcement
And, in the process, gives the entire ending away.
- News & Politics, Feature Mar 28, 2018
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A Chicago cop’s daughter’s suicide sets family on mission
Carli Blanco shot herself to death at 14, highlighting the growing teen suicide risk.
- Film, Movie Review Jan 24, 2018
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Fatih Akin’s thriller In the Fade proves there’s nothing more dangerous than a person who’s lost everything
Diane Kruger gives a devastating performance as a woman whose family dies in a neo-Nazi terror attack.
- News & Politics, Feature Dec 13, 2017
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Suicide along the el
Heartbreak, trauma, economics, and the CTA’s new prevention effort
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Nov 21, 2017
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Sixties garage rockers the Royal Flairs are best remembered for the macabre single ‘Suicide’
The Royal Flairs got started in Council Bluffs, Iowa, moved to Chicago in 1965, and split up after their front man was shot protecting a go-go dancer.
- Film, Movie Review Nov 23, 2016
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Was Christine Chubbuck a symbol of her times, our times—or neither?
Christine stars Rebecca Hall as the Florida journalist who shot herself on the air.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Oct 18, 2016
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Permanent Records celebrates its odds-defying tenth anniversary
Plus: Hobbyist release a lathe-cut single benefiting the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network, Comfort Station hosts the inaugural ZINEmercado festival, and more.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Oct 11, 2016
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Chicago label Deep Space Objects compiles a constellation of diverse electronic tracks
Plus: Argot releases the serenely funky 90s house of Shifty Science, Lord Mantis drummer Bill Bumgardner dies at 35, and more.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2015
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The Wednesday Journal's indecent overreporting of a suicide
Readers denounced the Oak Park paper for reporting more about a suicide than they wanted to read.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 9, 2014
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Sweet soul: The generosity and tragedy of soul historian Bob Abrahamian
A personal farewell to Chicago soul historian and WHPK deejay Bob Abrahamian, who died at age 35 last week
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 3, 2014
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RIP Thomas Loconti, street artist
Unpublished excerpts from a Chicagoans profile of the street artist, who died early Thursday morning.
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Oct 24, 2013
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It puts the lotion on its skin
And it gets the cold shoulder again, anyway. Plus: an unstable ex and a porn-jealous girlfriend.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 18, 2013
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VICE magazine tries to find the glamour in suicide
Good photos in bad taste
- Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2013
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Ono and Piss Piss Piss Moan Moan Moan collaborate again
Three of Chicago's experimental giants combine forces on Monday night.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 19, 2013
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Oscar-nominated live-action shorts: Out late with Curfew
A review of Curfew, one of this year's Oscar-nominated live-action shorts.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 30, 2013
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Gossip Wolf: A flood of new tapes from Teen River
Quicksails, Cool Memories, and more. Plus: News from superduo Acteurs (Disappears, White/Light) and indie-pop trio Moritat.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Aug 29, 2012
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A portrait of David Foster Wallace as a midwestern author
The first full biography of the late novelist fails to bring much subtlety to how the region influenced his art
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Jun 6, 2012
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I Am Going to Change the World may sound positive
But in this premiere from Chicago Dramatists the world answers, "No, you're not."
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 11, 2011
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The fatal attraction of the James R. Thompson Center
Another suicide at the James R. Thompson Center
- Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Sep 29, 2011
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Getting over not being able to climax
Also: What to do in the wake of Jamey Rodemeyer's suicide.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 15, 2011
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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.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 12, 2010
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Could You Be More Specific?
It's true, people rarely kill themselves out of joy.