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City Life, Shop Local Oct 19, 2020
Mail a ghost to a friend (or enemy)

The Chicago-based company Ghost Express lets you anonymously haunt whoever you want.
- By Tim Frisbie
- Tags: Shop Local, Ghost Express, Matt Jakubowsi, Johnny Christmas, ghosts, haunting, urban exploration, ouija board

Arts & Culture, Feature Sep 16, 2020
The lingering spirits of the California Clipper

The neighborhood tavern may be closing, but it’s forever a part of Chicago’s boozy, haunted history.
- By Micco Caporale
- Tags: Feature, California Clipper, ghosts, Brendan Sodikoff, Chelsea Foss-Ralston, prohibition, Dr. Tok Thompson, Gino Battaglia, Chicago Haunted Handbook, Daniel Majid, Stephen Spataro, Caporusso, Max Brumbach

Music, Music Feature Apr 23, 2019
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Operation Hennessy digs a new channel for Chicago hip-hop

Keen-eyed rapper Qari hooks up with producer Green Sllime and opens the floodgates on his reservoir of irreverent old-school beats.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Qari, Green Sllime, Operation Hennessy, All Smiles, Hurt Everybody, Supreme Regime, Mick Jenkins, Mulatto Beats, Qari Delaney, Lyrical Lemonade, Cole Bennett, No Time to Explain, Pants From Japan, Baghdadi, Sllime’s Broke Ass Low Budget Show, 119 Productions, the 406, Music Garage, Wu-Tang Clan, SolarFive, OnGaud, Nate Marshall, Rich Jones, Enfa Red, Wiggidies Crew, Jackson Duncan, Music Garage, Kids These Days, Vic Mensa, Will Is Chillin’, Smoko Ono, Sloane Peterson, Devin Smith, Frederick McCulloch-Burton, Supa Bwe, Chicago Sight ’n Sound: Part 2, Ghosts, The Water[s], The Life Aquatic, Pony, Steve Zissou, Alistair Hennessey, Video

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 15, 2018
A dramatization of eternal hell would be preferable to Redtwist's maudlin, moralizing Ghosts

The time, place, and motives are unclear in the humorless production.
- By Dmitry Samarov
- Tags: Theater Review, Ghosts, Redtwist Theatre, Henrik Ibsen, eternal hell, Old World, 19th century

Music, In Rotation Mar 20, 2018
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Adam Luksetich of Foul Tip on his contrarian pick for best country album ever

Plus: Hanna Hazard from Lil Tits on father-and-sons Wisconsin rock band Solid Freex, Luca Cimarusti from the Reader on a bargain-bin banger from a departed Yes bassist, and more
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: In Rotation, Self-Inflicted Aural Nostalgia, podcast, Jeff Gomez, Guided by Voices, Chris Squire, Yes, Fish Out of Water, Patrick Moraz, Bill Bruford, Blink-155, Blink-182, Sam Sutherland, Josiah Hughes, Mish Way, Ben Cook, Hanna Hazard, Lil Tits, Lifestyles, Solid Freex, Trin Tran, No Hoax, Platinum Boys, Wisconsin, Lou Miami, Dance With Death, Dancing With Death, Ghosts, Lou Miami & the Kozmetix, To Sir With Love, Boston, Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner, I Will Always Love You, Adam Luksetich, Foul Tip, Numero Group, Steve Hiett, Down on the Road by the Beach, Bernard Herrmann, Vertigo, Sanford Clark, They Call Me Country, Lee Hazlewood, Waylon Jennings, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 1, 2017
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Barack, Michelle Obama return to Chicago for the first-ever Obama Foundation Summit, and other news

Also, Prince Harry and Michelle Obama surprise south-side students.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Obama Foundation, Obama Foundation Summit, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Prince Harry of Wales, Obama Presidential Center, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rashida Jones, Caroline Kennedy, Common, Valerie Jarrett, Susan Rice, Ira Silverstein, John Cullerton, Illinois General Assembly, Elgin, Hyde Park Academy, environmental issues, recycling, Chicago history, SS Eastland, Eastland disaster, Lincoln Park, Great Chicago Fire, ghosts, paranormal, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 14, 2017
A Ghost Story is a haunting film about haunting

Writer-director David Lowery's meditative third feature opens in Chicago today.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Paranormal, A Ghost Story, David Lowery, Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, ghosts, Will Oldham

Blogs, Bleader Oct 31, 2016
Mark Kirk loses major endorsements after comment about Tammy Duckworth's Asian heritage, and other Chicago news

Also, paranormal experts pick the most haunted spots in the Chicago area.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Mark Kirk, Tammy Duckworth, Human Rights Campaign, U.S. Senate, Election 2016, Americans for Responsible Solution, Wrigley Field, Chicago Cubs, World Series 2016, O'Hare International Airport, American Airlines, ghosts, Ursula Bielski

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 25, 2016
Grounded, Dogs of Rwanda, and a dozen more new theater reviews

Two solo performances are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Allá en San Fernando, Collectivo El Pozo, Leslie Magdalena Holguín, José Rochel, Carolina Escrich, Raúl Doronte, Stage Left Theatre, The Bottle Tree, Beth Kander, Kathryn Acosta, Amy Szerlong, The Right Brain Project, The Dancing Plague, Joseph Ramski, Nathan Robbel, Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints, Dark Sisters, Nico Muhly, Stephen Karam, Third Eye Theatre Ensemble, Jason Carlson, Dogs of Rwanda, Sean Christopher Lewis, Rwandan genocide, Grounded, George Brant, drone warfare, Amber Kelly, Lexi Saunders, Leavings, Polarity Ensemble Theatre, Gail Parrish, Ashley Honore Roberson, Lecherous Honey, Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts, Cock and Bull Theatre, Ariane Mnouchkine, Théâtre du Soleil, Georges Bigot, Theatre Y, Macbeth, Runaways Lab Theatre, Mary Shelley Sees the Future, Frankenstein, Olivia Lilley, Multitudes, John Hollingworth, Rasaka Theatre Company, Vitalist Theatre, Liz Carlin Metz, Bradford, England, Saturn Returns, Tif Henderson, NeoFuturists, NeoFuturarium, Thumbelina, Lifeline Theatre, Hans Christian Andersen, Brandi Lee, Zombie Broads, The Factory Theater, Corrbette Pasko, Sara Sevigny, Janice L. Blixt

News & Politics, Chicagoans Jan 10, 2014
This week's Chicagoan: Adam Selzer, ghost-tour guide

"Every block I walk down in the city, I can tell you who got murdered there."
- By Anne Ford
- Tags: Chicagoans, ghost tours, tour guides, Adam Selzer, Chicago Hauntings, research, history, archives, Harold Washington Library, Daley Center, probate records, H.H. Holmes, serial killers, History Channel, ghosts, hauntings, Resurrection Mary, Resurrection Cemetery, cemeteries, Congress Hotel, fear, Florentine Room, funeral homes, swearing, Bethania Cemetery, ghost stories, deaths, murder

Reader, Matches blog Nov 22, 2010
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Simply Pathetic If I Call You Anymore

Investigation reveals people realistically devolving while technologically evolving, the safest sex ever, and proves you can still learn a lot riding the bus.
- By Heartbroker
- Tags: The Biggest Loser, root beer floats, monkeys, gum, Le Bron James, Chicago Bulls, CTA, Groupon, The Nerves, sexting, texting, technology, paint, brains, exploding, banana, Lincoln Park Zoo, Christmas, Pauly Shore, Rudy, computers, iPhone, Blackberry, Droid, sleeping, premature ejaculation, venereal disease, cyberspace, reality, soda, cream pie, future, ex-girlfriend, world's greatest mysteries, immature, ghosts, education, the English language, emotion, pant-suits, cougars, party, sweatpants, goatee, Facebook, it's complicated, Sherlock Holmes, Lethal Weapon, slut, Lagwagon, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Jun 24, 2010
Ibsen's Dead Issues

It's a struggle to make Ghosts seem scandalous in the age of August: Osage County.
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts, Aurora Turner Hall, Lanford Wilson, BoHo Theatre, Bohemian Theatre Ensemble, A Doll's House, Lou Andreas-Salome, Saren Nofs-Snyder, Steve O'Connell, Katy Peterson, Anders Jacobson, Judy Radovsky, Lewis Miller, Charles Riffenburg

Reader, Matches blog Feb 9, 2010
Get Into The Groove!

Held onto the relationship long enough to gain a lifetime of dancing and singing.
- By Heartbroker
- Tags: Mismatched: Bad Dates, Great Stories, Madonna, herpes, oozing, albums, Napoleon Dynamite, Calvin Klein, iPod, dance, arms, tickets, relationship, crabs, Chlamydia, Dion, Enya, Cds, iTunes, life, long, lifetime, troll, E!, facebook, break, up, break-up, ghosts, past, records, hooks, catch, obsession

Blogs, Bleader Dec 28, 2009
Crime Blotter, 1874

Brief snapshots of low-level criminal enterprise back in the day
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, horse theft, prostitution, mugging, reform, saloons, pigeon theft, police, the Bridewell, coat theft, ghosts, suicide, wife beating, spousal abuse

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Jan 25, 1990
Ghosts

Tony Adler reviews Court Theatre's 1990 production of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts.
- By Anthony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Court Theatre, Ghosts, Henrik Ibsen

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The Chicago-based company Ghost Express lets you anonymously haunt whoever you want.

The neighborhood tavern may be closing, but it’s forever a part of Chicago’s boozy, haunted history.

Keen-eyed rapper Qari hooks up with producer Green Sllime and opens the floodgates on his reservoir of irreverent old-school beats.

The time, place, and motives are unclear in the humorless production.

Plus: Hanna Hazard from Lil Tits on father-and-sons Wisconsin rock band Solid Freex, Luca Cimarusti from the Reader on a bargain-bin banger from a departed Yes bassist, and more

Also, Prince Harry and Michelle Obama surprise south-side students.

Writer-director David Lowery's meditative third feature opens in Chicago today.

Also, paranormal experts pick the most haunted spots in the Chicago area.

Two solo performances are among this week's best bets.

"Every block I walk down in the city, I can tell you who got murdered there."

Investigation reveals people realistically devolving while technologically evolving, the safest sex ever, and proves you can still learn a lot riding the bus.

It's a struggle to make Ghosts seem scandalous in the age of August: Osage County.

Held onto the relationship long enough to gain a lifetime of dancing and singing.

Brief snapshots of low-level criminal enterprise back in the day

Tony Adler reviews Court Theatre's 1990 production of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts.

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