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- Blogs, Bleader Aug 17, 2016
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Deep-fried Twinkies don't belong in your grocer's freezer aisle
The only place to truly enjoy something as absurd as a deep-fried Twinkie is at a state fair.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 11, 2016
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CIMMFest opening night: The Smart Studios Story revisits the Madison recording studio that helped birth indie rock
The Smart Studios Story, opening the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, revisits the Madison recording studio that nurtured the indie rock of the 90s.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 15, 2016
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The mythical idea of the American heartland shouldn't define the midwest
The heartland is a fictional notion of a midwest without cities, black people, and immigrants.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 9, 2015
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Boiler Room celebrates Chicago and Detroit's electronic legacy
The notorious international pop-up party brings the two midwestern cities together with a four-show series beginning tomorrow night at Evil Olive.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 8, 2015
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The great Chicago Reader potato-chip-eating challenge, 2015 edition
A brave experiment in defensive eating.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 10, 2015
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Joe Meno finds Marvel and a Wonder in an old-school midwestern white man
It's also the first novel about the crisis of American masculinity that this reviewer has actually enjoyed.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 27, 2015
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Chicago Singles Club continues to unite the city's vast music community
The local music site has helped create new bonds among the diverse array of local musicians it's documented for more than two years.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2015
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Arts expo Lake FX opens with a question: What's the 'lake effect'?
Lake FX, Chicago's weekend of workshops and events for the creative community, launched Thursday with a discussion of the "lake effect."
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 16, 2015
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Psych-rock group Santah makes complicated songwriting run smoothly on new song 'Sunkeeper'
The band is currently taking preorders for its self-released sophomore album.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 11, 2014
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Listen to the Pretenders' rust-belt-disco jam 'My City Was Gone'
Today's 12 O'Clock Track, off of 1984's Learning to Crawl, is in honor of front woman Chrissie Hynde's show tomorrow night.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 28, 2014
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Covering the rust belt for readers who don't like to think they're part of it
A website for the rust belt turns one.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 25, 2014
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Empire! Empire! front man Keith Latinen talks about his band's forthcoming album, emo, and graphic novels
Before Michigan emo outfit Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) play Chicago tomorrow night read this lengthy Q&A with front man Keith Latinen—he talks about poetry, Michigan, and, yes, "emo revival."
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 12, 2013
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The People Issue: The B Side
Someone doesn’t have to be famous to be interesting—and that's just as true in the Chicago music scene as it is anywhere else.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2013
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Wrestling With My Father: The best four and a half minutes you'll spend at the movies this weekend
A review of a short experimental video screening as part of the Nightingale's Charles Fairbanks program on Saturday night
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 7, 2013
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In The Middlesteins, Jami Attenberg shows you can go home again
In The Middlesteins Jami Attenberg makes suburbia actually kind of soulful.
- Blogs, Bleader May 29, 2013
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More prose gems from Chicago by Day and Night
Some boostery purple prose from the guidebook to the 1893 World's Fair
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2013
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Thomas Dyja talks about The Third Coast and Chicago's glory years
The author discusses his new book about Chicago's postwar heyday.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 30, 2013
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Road Tip: Free admission to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Touring bands get in free to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 12, 2013
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Southwest Airlines and Branson, Missourah, want YOU!
Southwest Airline has started flying direct from Chicago to Branson, Missouri.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 6, 2012
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A president shall be forged in the loins of the nation's breadbasket
. . . or whatever. On the fetishization of small-town life.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 16, 2012
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Q&A: Rick Perlstein on how a dose of machine politics could benefit Obama
The author of Before the Storm and Nixonland sits down for a chat in light of his recent Chicago magazine cover story
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 10, 2012
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Sin
gle in Chicago: an erasure poemSomething is definitely missing from "Single in Chicago," the NYT's buzzy travelogue. Now it's missing most of its word count
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 6, 2012
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Jack and the giant glass beanstalk: the Times is visited upon Chicago
I read it so you don't have to, though you probably should
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 6, 2012
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Book signing: Farmers' Markets of the Heartland
Janine MacLachlan signs her new book, Farmers' Markets of the Heartland, Monday at the Harold Washington Library Center
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 6, 2012
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In defense of pie
Haters gonna hate
