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- Blogs, Bleader Mar 16, 2018
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The two most-read Reader stories of all time both involve major disappointments
What threesomes and coffee have in common.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 14, 2018
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Have a happy Valentine's Day with the Venus II, the greatest masturbation machine ever invented in Illinois
Rich Gellert was a man with a simple dream: to be able to jerk off while keeping his hands free for Hustler and the remote control.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 22, 2017
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Terminal cancer—and the band Toto—is bringing my family together for my parents’ last date
A Toto show in the Chicago suburbs has become my dad's "wake before he sleeps," now that he's been diagnosed with a rare terminal cancer.
- Blogs, Bleader May 25, 2016
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A Chicago couple sexes up card games with Weapons of Mass Seduction
Daniel Dranove and Kaitlin Johnson want to create an orgy of conversation with their new sex-themed card game, Weapons of Mass Seduction.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 14, 2015
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Documentary will tell you How to Lose Your Virginity if you haven't figured it out already
Even if you have, there's still a lot to think about.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 5, 2015
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This blog post is just an excuse to listen to Commodores' 'Nightshift'
Also, they play the Arcada Theatre in Saint Charles on Saturday.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 28, 2015
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'Frances Stark: Intimism' goes inside the mind of a self-described horny middle-aged woman
The artist searches for liberation through photos, collages, Chatroulette transcripts, and cat videos.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 14, 2015
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Magic Mike XXL is the best new movie of 1933
The sequel to Steven Soderbergh's 2012 sleeper hit invokes the spirit of Depression-era musicals in its breezy artistry.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 13, 2015
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Aziz Ansari is the dating guru we didn't realize we needed
The comedian blends zaniness with sharp observations about love in the Internet age in his book Modern Romance.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 9, 2015
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Larry Clark's solution to America's social ills? It has something to do with cunnilingus . . .
Clark's Marfa Girl receives its Chicago premiere this week.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 19, 2015
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Pornography remains a major influence on Paul Thomas Anderson
Retired adult-film performer Michelle Sinclair plays a small (but crucial) role in Anderson's Thomas Pynchon adaptation.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 8, 2014
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Is it curtains for curtains in America's movie theaters?
A short lament for the vanishing convention of curtains in front of movie screens
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 23, 2014
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Tomorrow night South Side Projections turns Co-Prosperity Sphere into a cathouse
Noting the south-side arts organization's second annual program of cat-related experimental shorts
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 9, 2014
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More on the Trilogy of Life, Nymphomaniac, and Roommates: Three ways of playing the organs
Considering how three very different films (all of which played recently in Chicago) employ hard-core imagery
- Blogs, Bleader May 7, 2014
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Fading Gigolo rekindles the light of Bertrand Blier
John Turturro cites the French novelist and filmmaker as a major influence on his new movie Fading Gigolo, providing a reminder of Blier's singular talent.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 11, 2013
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One person's special effect is another's sensory bombardment
Remembering a special screening of Robert Zemeckis's The Polar Express
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 21, 2013
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Either Charles Blackstone is the worst writer in Chicago, or we are being punked
Vintage Attraction cannot possibly be that bad unless it was intentional. Can it?
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 29, 2013
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The screening environment as choker hold
Certain movies are best appreciated in a pitch-black room.
- Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2013
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New study shows that a woman's reading material reflects her willingness to put out
MissTravel.com lets you know which girls in the airport are most likely to put out, based on their reading material!
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 8, 2013
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When celluloid film bleeds over the screen
On the sensation of watching film stock exceed the screen's parameters
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 19, 2013
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WBEZ's spring ad campaign: You've come a long way, babies
Is interestingness genetic?
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 8, 2013
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Oscar-nominated documentary shorts: kvetching past the graveyard in King's Point
Oscar-nominated documentary shorts: King's Point
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 28, 2013
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No matter what's playing, the multiplex is a great place to make out
It's January, also known as make-out season for moviegoers.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 14, 2013
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Attending a program of animated shorts with a room full of small children
First impressions of first impressions
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 14, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: Glenn Jones, "Show Me"
Today's 12 O'Clock Track is Glenn Jones's "Show Me," from his 1984 album Finesse