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- Music, Music Feature Mar 3, 2021
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Azita has more to say and more ways to say it
For Glen Echo, her first album in more than eight years, she played and recorded every instrument herself.
- Music, Music Review Sep 18, 2020
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Chicago rapper Judy infuses austere beats with bursts of color on Ard Bet
- City Life, Public Service Announcement Sep 11, 2020
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Readings, livestreams, and drunk farmers
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- Arts & Culture, Valentine's Day Feb 12, 2020
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Beyond the heartbreak hotel
Four places where relationships sunk
- Music, Music Feature Feb 5, 2020
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Building on the pillars of Blue Groove Lounge
The history of DJ Jesse de la Peña’s foundational Chicago hip-hop series, in the words of the people who made it work
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jan 14, 2020
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Longtime Reckless Records buyer Jim Magas quits to spend more time with his music
Plus: Emo four-piece Kittyhawk play their first show in more than three years, and Clear drops a posthumous 12-inch by the late Dan Jugle’s duo Juzer.
- Music, Concert Preview Dec 21, 2019
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Ian’s Party starts the year off right with three days of local bands
- Music, Gossip Wolf Oct 22, 2019
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Not Normal Tapes gives itself a year to live
Plus: Rabble Rabble reunite to benefit Resilience, and beat-scene mainstay Uncle El celebrates a new album at Emporium.
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Sep 24, 2019
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Gentrification pains
Everything Must Go pays tribute to the displaced working-class of Wicker Park.
- Food & Drink, Food, Drink, and Cannabis Issue Aug 14, 2019
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What really goes on at the Hollywood Grill at 3 AM?
The longtime night manager tells all. Well, some.
- Music, Music Feature Jul 15, 2019
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A brief oral history of the Silver Room Block Party
Since moving to Hyde Park, this free community-focused festival has blossomed into one of Chicago’s most important cultural institutions.
- Music, Music Feature Apr 10, 2019
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Remember resale shops this Record Store Day
Thrift and vintage stores are among the best places to find vinyl that nobody’s even thought of reissuing yet.
- News & Politics, Feature Feb 4, 2019
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‘Don't push us out’
The First and 26th Wards will vote on a nonbinding referendum that asks whether Illinois should li ft the ban on rent control—prohibited in the state since 1997.
- Music, Music Feature Dec 13, 2018
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Honoring the vanishing musical culture of Wicker Park
In some ways, Dorian’s is just one more boutiquey bar and restaurant. But its record store and music bookings connect it to the neighborhood’s 1990s arts community.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Sep 18, 2018
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Jessica Hopper’s memoir Night Moves pays homage to a bygone era in Chicago—the aughts
On being young, ambitious, and falling in love with the city, block by block, on a bicycle.
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Sep 6, 2018
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At Etta, chef Danny Grant plays with fire at a cooler price point
The talent behind Maple & Ash's Gold Coast lands in Wicker Park.
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Aug 30, 2018
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San Soo Korean BBQ is next generation
The scion of Chicago’s oldest live-coal gogi jip ("beef house") has set up shop in River West.
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Aug 9, 2018
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Wicker Park's Ina Mae Tavern is New Orleans in a bottle
Chef Brian Jupiter embraces the food of his foundation.
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jul 5, 2018
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The Bongo Room turns 25: A look back at Wicker Park's beloved brunch spot
“We’d just sit over pancakes and have these big dreams.”
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 5, 2018
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Goth doesn’t age, but DJ Scary Lady Sarah’s Nocturna party is turning 30
Plus: The new What’s for Brek-Fest takes over the Wicker Park Emporium, psychedelic disco group Shuttle Run celebrates a new album, and more.
- Blogs, Bleader May 21, 2018
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A note from the harsh macho underground
Or 1990s Wicker Park encapsulated in a single letter to the editor by Weasel Walter.
- Blogs, Bleader May 7, 2018
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How the Reader reviewed Exile in Guyville when it first came out
Nobody bothered to acknowledge what young women already knew: Liz Phair wasn't singing for Steve Albini. She was singing for us.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 10, 2018
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Readers and writers rally to rescue Volumes Bookcafe
The owners of the Wicker Park bookstore asked their friends to help them stay open.
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Jan 4, 2018
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Lonesome Rose joins Logan Square’s crowded modern Mexican field
But its food inspired by the “borderlands” is no ordinary Tex-Mex—or, really, Tex-Mex at all.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 3, 2018
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Homicides and shootings decreased overall in 2017 but not in every neighborhood, and other Chicago news
Also, a divorce between Jesse Jackson Jr. and Sandi Jackson appears inevitable, says Jackson Jr.
