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- Blogs, Bleader May 10, 2018
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When a gun was considered a girl’s best fashion accessory
In the early 80s, a .38 revolver was just the thing for a modern woman to defend herself against assault.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 12, 2018
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The lessons from local media’s softball treatment of the Ken Griffin CPD donation story
This time no one can blame Sinclair Media for the hauntingly identical media coverage of Ken Griffin's $10 million handout to Chicago law enforcement.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 21, 2017
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Reader readers sound off about Chicago's worst things
Our readers respond to the Worst of Chicago issue with their own least-favorite local people, places, and things.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 26, 2017
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Dunkirk and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets are alive with the sound of money
The latest from Christopher Nolan and Luc Besson are both weighed down by their sense of spectacle.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 12, 2017
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Strong performances can’t undo the self-importance of It Comes at Night
Trey Edward Shults's arty horror film is a case of form overwhelming content.
- Blogs, Bleader May 18, 2017
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[UPDATED] Can the Reader survive a second helping of Michael Ferro?
The Chicago Reader may once again be controlled by Michael Ferro. Then what?
- News & Politics, Feature Sep 22, 2016
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The rise and fall of community policing in Chicago
Chicago used to be at the vanguard of community policing. But more than two decades after the strategy was launched, CAPS is a shadow of its former self.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 25, 2016
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Cook County has become an 80s movie villain in its attempt to tax small music venues to death
Cook County's effort to bilk small music venues is like a plotline from Footloose.
- News & Politics, Feature Aug 18, 2016
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Charged with murder, but they didn’t kill anyone—police did
A Reader investigation found ten cases since 2011 where police killed a civilian in Chicago and charged an accomplice with the murder.
- News & Politics, Feature Jul 20, 2016
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Family of autistic teen killed by Calumet City cops loses civil suit appeal
Stephon Watts’s family is still searching for justice.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2016
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After Orlando, is America capable of lifting a finger?
Is gun control too hard for America?
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 3, 2015
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Spike Lee says Chi-Raq will save lives on the south side—but can't say how
The director took part in a Q&A at an Apple store in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, but didn't provide a lot of answers.
- News & Politics, Feature Sep 18, 2015
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Thou shalt not kill?
Armed with the Catholic catechism—and sometimes a Glock—a priest counsels Chicago Police Department officers on the spiritual implications of the use of deadly force.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 7, 2015
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Why I'm suing the Chicago Police Department
Video of a Chicago police officer shooting a 17-year-old should be public, a Chicago journalist argues in a civil complaint.
- Blogs, Bleader May 26, 2015
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Drone warfare takes a psychic toll on Ethan Hawke in Andrew Niccol's Good Kill
The latest collaboration between the duo behind Gattaca portrays contemporary America as a sci-fi nightmare.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 30, 2015
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It Follows is overrated—watch Kiyoshi Kurosawa's miniseries Penance instead
I'm glad to have found an antidote to David Robert Mitchell's horror film.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 20, 2014
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The view from Ferguson ten days after the killing of Michael Brown
A Saint Louis newspaper editor talks about why Ferguson was bound to happen, even though no one saw it coming.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2014
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Toy Masters to dominate Chicago Filmmakers this Saturday
Noting a new documentary about the Masters of the Universe franchise
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 4, 2014
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Why are Russian forces in Ukraine?
Russia says it's reacting to fascistic ultranationalism in Ukraine; historian Timothy Snyder says no.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 17, 2014
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The constructive hoax of Propaganda
Noting the Chicago premiere of Slavko Martinov's faux documentary, which screens twice this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 10, 2013
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Now on DVD: Alexis Bledel and Saoirse Ronan as the most adorable assassins you'll ever meet
Violet & Daisy, the directorial debut of Precious screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher, is now available at Redbox.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 28, 2013
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Revisiting Walter Hill's 1981 quasi-war movie Southern Comfort
The director of The Warriors has become so alien to contemporary American cinema that his movies feel new again.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 26, 2013
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I've seen your boobs, all right
On the 1949 Oscar ceremony, and this year's
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 4, 2013
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Considering the phenomenon of movie audiences cheering for murder
When applause isn't the same thing as good cheer
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 21, 2013
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Hey, Groupon offered gun-related deals
But it doesn't matter: they aren't offering them any longer.
