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Bleader
Jun 24, 2016
Pride Parade, Bob Dylan, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Pride Parade, a sausage fest, a vegan fest, and eight more cool things to do in Chicago this weekend.
By Sara Cohen
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Do This
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Arts
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Food & Drink
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Music
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Sara Cohen
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Weekend
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Logan Square Arts Festival
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Logan Square
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Xenia Rubinos
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Screaming Females
,
Blitzen Trapper
,
Bob Dylan
,
Mavis Staples
,
Ravinia Festival
,
Vegan Food and Drink Festival
,
Mic. the Vegan
,
Radius & Dia.L
,
Arcadia
,
Rai
,
Oshwa the Band
,
Grant Park
,
Field Museum
,
Field Market Days
,
Greater Chicago Food Depository
,
Hunger Walk
,
Jackson Park
,
Hollywood Beach
,
Transmale Beach Party
,
Pride Weekend
,
Evanston
,
Fountain Square Art Festival
,
The Flat Cats
,
Chris Greene Quartet
,
The Hat Guys
,
Trippin Billies
,
Joe Policastro Trio
,
Classical Blast
,
Elston Avenue Sausage and Music Fest
,
Glam Camp
,
Murder by Death
,
Gold Web
,
HoneyHoney
,
B96 Summer Bash
,
Ariana Grande
,
Meghan Trainor
,
Calvin Harris
,
Puth
,
Mike Posner
,
Daya
,
Chicago Pride
,
Pride Parade
,
Monica Raymund
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 22, 2016
Video
Charlotte Rampling stars in
45 Years
, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
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Film
,
Andrea Gronvall
,
Andrew Haigh
,
Weekend
,
All Mistakes Buried
,
All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records
,
Carmen From Kawachi
,
Seijun Suzuki
,
Censored Voices
,
The Lady in the Van
,
Alan Bennett
,
Maggie Smith
,
Old Fashioned: The Story of the Wisconsin Supper Club
,
A Perfect Day
,
Benicio Del Toro
,
Olga Kurylenko
,
MÄlanie Thierry
,
Tim Robbins
,
Smashing the O-Line
,
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
,
Michael Bay
,
Jan Svankmaier
,
Alice in Wonderland
,
Mel Brooks
,
Blazing Saddles
,
Herk Harvey
,
Carnival of Souls
,
Tony Gilroy
,
Michael Clayton
,
Martin Scorsese
,
Raging Bull
,
Jean Cocteau
,
Testament of Orpheus
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Top Hat
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Fred Astaire
,
Ginger Rogers
,
Ari Folman
,
Waltz With Bashir
,
George Cukor
,
The Women movie
,
The Early Films of Kartemquin
,
Experimental Cinema in Eastern Europe: City Scene / Country Scene
,
WS (WS)
,
movies
,
Video
Blogs
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Bleader
Feb 20, 2015
Video
High and dry at
Fifty Shades of Grey
, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
By J.R. Jones
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Film
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Fifty Shades of Grey
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The Last Five Years
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Jeremy Jordan
,
Anna Kendrick
,
Daniel Nearing
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Hogtown
,
Chicago Heights
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Gene Siskel Film Center
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Black History Month
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Concerning Violence
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Frantz Fanon
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The Wretched of the Earth
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The DUFF
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Hot Tub Time Machine 2
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Joy of Man’s Desiring
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Denis Côté
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Bestiaire
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Kingsman: The Secret Service
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Matthew Vaughn
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Kick-Ass
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McFarland USA
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Kevin Costner
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Rebecca Baron: Detour de Force
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Song of the Sea
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Tomm Moore
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The Secret of Kells
,
Adam McKay
,
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
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University of Chicago Doc Films
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Marx Brothers
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Animal Crackers
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Music Box
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Gillo Pontecorvo
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The Battle of Algiers
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Federico Fellini
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Casanova
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Thom Andersen
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
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Frank Darabont
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The Shawshank Redemption
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Jean-Luc Godard
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Weekend
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American Denial
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Chicago Cultural Center
,
The Stuart Hall Project
,
John Akomfrah
,
Northwestern University Block Museum of Art
,
They Don't Give a Damn
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Logan Center for the Arts
,
Through a Lens Darkly
,
Thomas Allen Harris
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movies
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Video
Music
,
Music Sidebar
Jan 14, 2014
Tomorrow Never Knows 2014: Five days, six venues, and 22 shows to see
Oneohtrix Point Never, San Fermin, Superchunk, Darkside, Mutual Benefit, James Adomian, and lots more
By Luca Cimarusti
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Tomorrow Never Knows
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Lincoln Hall
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Schubas
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Metro
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Smart Bar
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the Hideout
,
Athenaeum Theatre
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Cayucas
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Jim Jones Revue
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Oneohtrix Point Never
,
Tim Hecker
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Betty Who
,
Snarky Puppy
,
Rural Alberta Advantage
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Kopecky Family Band
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Mutual Benefit
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Weekend
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Bare Mutants
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Darkside
,
Lone Bellow
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AndHim
,
John Newman
,
Lady
,
San Fermin
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Ryley Walker
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Superchunk
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Roomrunner
,
Split Single
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Hugo Ball
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Yuck
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Diarrhea Planet
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Indians
,
Milagres
,
School of Rock
,
the Beatles
,
James Adomian
,
Nikki Glaser
,
Natasha Leggero
,
Kyle Dunnigan
Blogs
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Bleader
Sep 20, 2013
Video
Reader
's Agenda Fri 9/20: Edition Chicago, Wesley Willis, and Disappears
What's on the
Reader
's Agenda for Friday, September 20
By Tal Rosenberg
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Arts
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Edition Chicago
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Chicago Artists' Coalition
,
Wesley Willis
,
Project Onward
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Bridgeport Art Center
,
Disappears
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Empty Bottle
,
Weekend
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Outside World
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DJ Bud Sweet
,
Video
Blogs
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Bleader
May 7, 2013
Coming soon to the
Sun-Times
—the
Reader
The
Sun-Times
shutters its Weekend section, launches Agenda.
By Michael Miner
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Media
,
News
,
Wrapports LLC
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Sun-Times Media
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Chicago Sun-Times
,
Chicago Reader
,
Jim Kirk
,
Mara Shalhoup
,
Reader's Agenda
,
Weekend
Film
,
Movie Sidebar
Sep 29, 2011
Video
Your place, my place, or the whole wide world?
Full-bodied pillow talk in Andrew Haigh's
Weekend
By J.R. Jones
Tags:
Movie Sidebar
,
Weekend
,
Andrew Haigh
,
homosexuals
,
pillow talk
,
romance
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Nov 2, 2010
Listen to This: New Smith Westerns Single
Smith Westerns go from glam garage to Britpop on the first track from the forthcoming sophomore LP.
By Miles Raymer
Tags:
Crickets
,
Music
,
Smith Westerns
,
Chicago
,
Fat Possum
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HoZac
,
Dye It Blonde
,
Weekend
Reader
,
Matches blog
Sep 29, 2010
Video
A Second Rate Imitation, Watered Down Simulation
Back and forth and then back and then forth again. Circles kinda make me dizzy and I can't think clearly when I'm dizzy.
By Heartbroker
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Mismatched: Bad Dates, Great Stories
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Chicago
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O'Hare Airport
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Pinhead Gunpowder
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Cometbus
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LTR
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lecture
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smiley
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drifting
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Mary Tyler Moore
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Frank Sinatra
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Derek Hess
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Husker Du
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pill
,
juice
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Humphrey Bogart
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Casablanca
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Ingrid Bergman
,
story time
,
travel
,
travels
,
friends
,
family
,
boyfriend
,
girlfriend
,
regret
,
Easy Rider
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Peter Fonda
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Dennis Hopper
,
Suck City
,
U.S.A.
,
resolve
,
prison
,
jail
,
inmates
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realization
,
weekend
,
safe travels
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Video
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