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Last-Minute Plans: RhinoFest
The Rhinoceros Theater Festival, now in its 21st year, started up last weekend and will run through February 14. Presented by Curious Theatre Branch, RhinoFest showcases “a wild variety of fresh new solo performance, live art, avant-garde theater and experimental music.” There are…
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Moss Covers Chicago
Moss Tapes, an emerging local music label heavily rooted in cassette tape culture, has organized a series of underground shows taking place on three consecutive Saturdays on three sides of the city. The first show was last Saturday in West Town at Dr. Who’s Warehouse of Ideas, a huge…
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Obama Faces The GOP
In the wake of this week's State of the Union address, President Obama met with House Republicans today to talk openly about issues. It was, in a word, remarkable. It makes us wish the President did this more often (you know, like the way the British Prime Minister faces off with Parliament on a…
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Alton Brown's Pan Fried Chicken
Since we're all on a fried chicken jones...
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Interview: Lemonade filmmaker Erik Proulx
One fall day in 2008, a 37-year-old copywriter named Erik Proulx lost his job at one of the largest advertising agencies in the country and, and like any media-savvy creative, the first thing he did was Twitter about it. This was the third time Proulx (pronounced “Proo’s”)…
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MenuPages Has An App (Finally)
The Gothamist network wasn't the only ones who released a new iPhone app yesterday. New York Media (publishers of the Grub Street blogs and MenuPages.com) also launched a new iPhone app that allows users to browse restaurant menus in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia,…
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Fall Out Boy Singer Flies Solo
So we get this email from a guy yesterday claiming to be Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy offering to tip us off to his impending solo album before his management alerted more of the press. We watched the video, thought it was cool to see a single dude playing an entire song, instrument by…
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Windy City Rollers Return To Action
Yes, it's cold. But there are still plenty of reasons to venture out of the house and this weekend, we get another one. The Windy City Rollers officially take to the track to open the 2010 season tomorrow and it's going to be a big year for the league. In addition to another fantastic season of…
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Art Shay At Thomas Masters Gallery
The problem with photojournalist exhibitions is that no matter how cool the photos are, no matter which politician or celebrity is captured, no matter how many media outlets ran the photographer's work, it’s hard to feel anything aesthetically compelling. You think, it’s great that…
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History Of Chicago Music 1908-1980
"A 3 hour mix from the earliest sourced recording through 1980 – just before the rise of Chicago’s house music scene."
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Mark Heister Design Inc | Fashion & Apparel > Apparel Manufacturing from AllBusiness.com
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Wiener & Still Champion Triple Undisputed Eating Shattered By Competitive Eaters
We can barely get through Wiener and Still Champion's regular burgers without feeling like we committed at least four cardinal sins. We're not even going to touch the "Triple Undisputed." Gus Paschalis's baby arm of a burger, nicknamed the "911 burger," is three pounds of dynamite aimed…
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Making Wicker Park "Gritty" Again
Photo by iammikeb Hey, once upon a time, Wicker Park didn't look exactly like Lincoln Park. Just 15 years ago, artists and students were just beginning to push most of the families that had lived there for years out of the area, people did drugs involving needles in bathroom stalls, and if you…
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CIF Productions on Vimeo
CIF Productions is a Chicago based not for profit organization that promotes the art of improvisational theatre by producing annual events including the prestigious Chicago Improv Festival, the nation wide College Improv Tournament, and the country's only Teen Comedy Fest.
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Woman sues Metra over exploding toilet - Chicago Bar-tender
Julianna Mandernach says that when she was a passenger on the Metra line from Chicago to Joliet/Rock Island, she flushed the toilet and "contents of the toilet exploded out of the toilet and splattered the plaintiff."
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Get to Know Your Local Wine Guy
Chicagoist is starting a new series to get better acquainted with our local wine experts. We'll be chatting with sommeliers, wine directors, consultants, suppliers, vitners, bloggers...a lot of people who drink a lot of wine for a living. Who to Know Image c/o Gwen Casten (Damien's 5 year old…
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Dominizuelan Dishes Up Comedy At iO
[Dominizuelan presents "People in the City"] We'll admit we didn't know what we were getting into when we decided to see Dominizuelan's "People in the City" show at iO last night. It's Tall Hispanic-Short Hispanic's first scripted show, and both performers are female. For some reason we…
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