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- Music, Gig Poster of the Week Dec 18, 2019
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A clan with a dental plan on the gig poster of the week
This week's featured gig poster was designed by the artist Goons.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 9, 2018
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Breaking and tagging at the Writer's Bench 2018 Battle for the Eagle in Logan Square
Dancers, DJs, and graffiti artists celebrated out in the open, not in train tunnels.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 2, 2018
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The art of the taco
Yolocone's colorful mural at El Santo Taqueria is one of many around Chicago by the talented street artist.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 25, 2018
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The inchoate new MPAACT show Blood Mural misses what’s right in front of it
There’s plenty of drama in the story of Chicago’s street murals—but not here.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2016
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Hip Hop Summerfest, Windy City Wine Festival, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Shock Top Oyster Fest, 48 Hour Film Project, and more happenings from September 9-11.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 16, 2016
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James Beard Awards recognize the city's chefs, and other Chicago news
Also, Trump Tower brought over foreign students under J-1 visa program that Trump has promised to ban.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 21, 2015
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Mac Blackout is the local rocker putting faces on tree stumps
If you've spotted tree stumps topped with the face of a strange, smiling creature you've seen the work of visual artist and local rock veteran Mac Blackout.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Jan 20, 2015
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What's safe under Illinois's new eavesdropping law?
In the era of Ferguson and "I can't breathe," can Illinois citizens now record police officers in action?
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Tue 9/9: "Lost and Found," Christmas in July, and Zammuto
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, September 9
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2014
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Why is Don't Fret painting a building that's about to be torn down?
The Chicago street artist turns an old hardware store into a pop-up gallery for one night only.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jul 16, 2014
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Behind the wall: Street art in Chicago
A snapshot survey of the artists, gallerists, and fans in the city's bustling urban art scene
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jul 16, 2014
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Street artists peek out from the shadows
Creators of some of the city's most ubiquitous sidewalk images tell their stories.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jul 16, 2014
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The life and death of Brooks Golden
The late street artist continues to make a mark on Chicago.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jul 16, 2014
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Patrick Hull's journey from the boardroom to the gallery
A mild-mannered former marketing exec is becoming one of Chicago's most prominent exhibitors of street art.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jul 16, 2014
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Street art photographers 'gram the scene
One step ahead of graffiti removal crews, these Instagrammers preserve the city's street art on their feeds.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Jan 6, 2014
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Spray-can art in the birthplace of Grafitti Blasters
A talk and exhibit at the Cultural Center put the city's love/hate relationship with tagging on display.
- Music, Music Feature Oct 28, 2013
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Listen closely to Jimmy Whispers
Jimmy Whispers’s cryptic street art and almost childlike love songs have a powerful antiviolence subtext—and his Summer in Pain Festival this weekend benefits CeaseFire.
- Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Jun 19, 2013
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Best Supplemental Reading by an Avant-Pop Artist
Jimmy Whispers's Summer in Pain zine
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 17, 2012
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Street View 065: Humboldt Park + Street Art
Isa Giallorenzo's Street View 065
- Blogs, Bleader May 22, 2012
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Street View 011: Najee + Don't Fret
Isa Giallorenzo's Street View 011
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 7, 2012
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"Unemployed and looking for work. Extensive experience in guerilla marketing."
Who is "Unemployed and looking for work. Extensive experience in guerilla marketing."?
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Dec 22, 2011
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Weed Wolf, the tagger
'No matter how lame or artsy-fartsy it is, I'll take anything over a poo-brown wall'
- Arts & Culture, Art Critic's Choice Dec 1, 2011
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Text and art had a baby . . .
and the Maxwell Colette Gallery is calling it "Text and Drugs and Rock & Roll"
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 19, 2010
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Even Banksy Has to Follow the Rules in Proco Joe's Ward
Where's the line between street art and graffiti for artsy alderman Proco "Joe" Moreno?
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 19, 2010
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Baba Fred's Pitchfork Appearance
A street-art tribute to the late Fred Anderson
