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- Blogs, Bleader Nov 30, 2016
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Indigo Nation paints Pilsen blue
Street View covers the denim-centered Indigo Nation event in Pilsen.
- Arts & Culture, Feature May 20, 2014
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Everything is wonderful in the world of Everything Is Terrible!
The found-footage video collective is churning out new projects and collaborating with the likes of MTV, Fox, and Adult Swim, but its core mission—to be as weird as possible—holds true.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Mar 3, 2014
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For the Hamburg Ballet, the show doesn't go on
But after a fire forced performance cancellations, the Harris Theater plans to reopen this week.
- City Life, Holiday Gift Guide Nov 26, 2013
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An all-local holiday gift guide
A vintage-suitcase boom box, a cookbook for the vegan junk-foodie, a beer-brewing class, and a bike-share membership are each way cooler than cash. We swear.
- Columns & Opinion, On Media Oct 9, 2013
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Marina Shifrin dances her way out of a job
But remains a member in good standing of the troupe of oddball media makers.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Sep 23, 2013
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Bitches gotta write
As the author of the hyperpopular blog Bitches Gotta Eat, Samantha Irby uses humor—harshly, grossly, exquisitely—to get at serious issues: race, gender, loneliness. Her next volley? A new book.
- News & Politics, Chicagoans Sep 6, 2013
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This week's Chicagoan: Tiffany Tucker, fashion blogger
"I had never really thought of myself as desirable. And then one day I realized: I'm fine."
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2013
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Why be a restaurant blogger in a postblog world?
Answers from some still posting away.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 5, 2013
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Midwestern emo catches its second wind
The 90s underground sound shaped by the likes of Cap'n Jazz and Braid is back—and this time it's turning up overseas and on the charts.
- Music, In Rotation Jun 21, 2013
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In Rotation: Rafa Alvarez, aka Different Sleep, on Miley Cyrus twerking in a frog suit
Plus: Tyler Andere of Portals on moody German techno, the Reader's Leor Galil on Anti-Gravity Bunny, and more
- Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 20, 2013
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Best Local Visual Arts Blog
Artists on the Lam
- Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Jun 19, 2013
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Best Local Music Blog
Loud Loop Press
- Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Jun 19, 2013
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Best Nightlife Blogger
A/S/L
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jun 6, 2013
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Who does Brandon Baltzley think he is?
A chef whose mesmerizing creativity is deserving of fame? A drug addict in recovery who rightly eschews sobriety? A twentysomething memoirist whose brief history is worth your time? Or is he none of those things?
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Jun 6, 2013
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The Reader's guide to the Printers Row Lit Fest
Judy Blume, Art Spiegelman, D.T. Max, Haki Madhubuti, and more: Our critics pick favorites for the annual book blowout.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature May 30, 2013
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Susan Nussbaum's next act
The celebrated playwright and disability rights activist put down her pen for nearly a decade. But in a new novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, she picks back up where she left off, creating disabled characters who are funny, angry, and vividly human.
- City Life, Space May 23, 2013
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Lauren Viera's Logan house of spirits
The cocktail writer guides us through her library of booze.
- Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Apr 4, 2013
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This week's Culture Vultures recommend:
House of Cards, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, The Boy Detective Fails, and Chicago Whispers
- Music, Music Feature Mar 20, 2013
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Why South By?
Given that SXSW’s industry influence is on the wane, are there still good reasons for upstart bands to brave the festival?
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Mar 14, 2013
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A collection of curious cocktails
Eight bartenders contribute an unusual and delicious creation to our dream cocktail list.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 11, 2012
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Weird things customers say in bookstores, another blog-based book, and Seminary Co-op on the move
Two new books on books, both based on blogs, and the Seminary Co-op gets a new home
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 7, 2011
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What's your favorite state politics blog?
The Washington Post needs your help updating its best state political blogs list.
- News & Politics, Media Jan 27, 2011
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Under the Radar
The Sun-Times duplicates a freelancer's little-noticed scoop
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 20, 2010
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John Kass's Humor Finally Reaches the 21st Century
Trib columnist John Kass makes snarky comments about bloggers, so we make snarky comments about him.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 18, 2009
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"Today I Put Up a Couple of Pig Heads to Simmer. . . "
Butcher's Grip, a blog about whole-animal butchery and charcuterie making, has just been launched by an unnamed Chicago chef.
