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- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Jan 18, 2021
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The rug revival
Tufting their way through the pandemic
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Sep 14, 2020
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Gone but not frog-otten
A zinester remembers Rainforest Cafe.
- Music, Music Feature Mar 25, 2020
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The Chicago Underground Quartet bottle their lightning again
For 19 years, their first album was their only album—but now longtime collaborators Rob Mazurek, Jeff Parker, and Chad Taylor have recaptured the group’s freewheeling jazz spirit.
- Music, Music Feature Mar 7, 2019
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Boy Band Review help their fans turn off adulthood for a few hours
You can’t count on a Jonas Brothers reunion every week—and in the meantime, this Chicago group brings nostalgic boy-band favorites to life onstage all over the midwest.
- Music, Music Feature Sep 11, 2018
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Incubus hated nu-metal before hating nu-metal was cool
The much-maligned subgenre is enjoying a rosy reappraisal in the media, but Incubus cut their ties to it even before its early-2000s fall from grace.
- Music, Music Feature Sep 11, 2018
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Can Riot Fest turn nostalgia into a renewable resource?
Maybe it’s possible to book amazing reunions forever—but only by building current bands into tomorrow’s back-from-the-dead headliners.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 14, 2017
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The new It is an R-rated Disney movie
A new adaptation of Stephen King's 1986 novel is a shrewd mix of nostalgia and horror.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2016
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Drink in the nostalgia at the Reader’s Cocktail Challenge event on September 15
Nearly 20 local bartenders compete Thursday at Salvage One to create cocktails that evoke simpler times.
- Best of Chicago, Reasons to love Chicago Jun 23, 2016
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Long live the 1990s Bulls
Deathless memories of Jordan’s team help us cope with Chicago basketball’s dysfunctional present.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 8, 2016
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Check out our photos of Cheap Trick's Metro show
Cheap Trick performed at the Metro, one week ahead of their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 31, 2015
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Alt-rock revivalists Post Child brings more 90s nostalgia to town this weekend
The band's new single sounds right out of the 90s.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 31, 2014
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12 O'Clock Track: Trail of Dead's 'It Was There That I Saw You,' the opener to its seminal album
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is "It Was There That I Saw You" from Trail of Dead's 2002 abum Source Tags & Codes, which the band will be playing in full at the Empty Bottle on Tue 4/1.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 3, 2013
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Remembering Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills
Revisiting the 1979 BBC teleplay in light of I Declare War, the recent Canadian feature playing at Facets Multimedia
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 8, 2012
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The Shining at midnight: am I Blu?
Thoughts on a recent midnight show at the Logan Theater
- City Life, Space Jul 18, 2012
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Mike Lust's den of vintage toys
The Phantom Manor engineer fills his Logan Square abode with 80s nostalgia
- Blogs, Bleader May 4, 2012
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Saying good-bye to Adam Yauch, aka MCA of the Beastie Boys
An appreciation of the Beastie Boys on the occasion of the death of Adam Yauch, aka MCA
- Music, Gossip Wolf May 1, 2012
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Gossip Wolf: Doom for pole dancers
Local metal band Lord licenses some songs to an unlikely client. Plus: The Whistler launches the covers series Playing Favorites
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 18, 2012
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And I think that song ain't going out of my head . . .
When old tunes obsess us, that isn't nostalgia, is it?
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 16, 2012
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How I survived the good old days
Don't look back, the Reader's past might be gaining on you
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 16, 2012
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All week long, taking a trip down memory lane
This week's "Variations on a Theme": nostalgia
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 29, 2012
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First Flush of youth
The charms of knocking down those face-card tiles in the pinball game Royal Flush
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 28, 2012
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Pinball at the Deadwood Institute for Higher Learning
Pinball players I have known and loved
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 30, 2011
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The nostalgia of architecture and the architecture of nostalgia
Robert Powers captures the "Cubic Zirconium Coast."
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Nov 10, 2011
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Brave old world
Weary moderns escape to a retro fantasy in Next Theatre's Maple and Vine
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 13, 2010
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Returning to Alien I.D.
Kicking Giant: the best 2010 buzz band from 1994