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users, and the world’s best venues to share the most exciting and
worthwhile events happening in New York City, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Chicago, and London — with more cities on the way. Together,
we foster and promote the arts, entertainment, and nightlife we love,
embracing the underground, the mainstream, and everything in between.
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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
Every Sunday 7:00PM @ The Neo-Futurarium (map)
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February 10, 2011The Neofuturists’ winning theatrical formula is based upon frenetic performance that turns on a dime. Their signature show, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, with 30 ever-changing plays performed in 60 minutes, lands many of its laughs from the jarring transitions between plays with wildly different tones and subjects. more at flavorpill.com
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January 03, 2013“At last, a new collection from the hilarious, wise, and deliciously surreal George Saunders, whose last effort, 2006’s In Persuasion Nation, has its own creepy cabin inside our hearts. Every short-story addict has been counting down the days until this one — fresh material from one of our modern masters (though you may recognize six or so from the pages of The New Yorker). There’s as much absurdist glee here as ever, but Saunders is also exposing just a bit more of his heart to the fresh air — to great effect. The MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow reads from the collection, titled Tenth of December, then signs copies and discusses the book with Chicago author Adam Levin (The Instructions, Hot Pink).”
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Filmspotting's 2012 Wrap Party LIVE from Mayne Stage
Sun. 01/06 | 2:00PM @ Mayne Stage (map)
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January 03, 2013“Filmspotting consistently ranks among iTunes’ Top TV and Film Podcasts, and it’s easy to see why: the Chicago-based weekly show covers cinema from the art-house to the multiplex with emphasis on intelligent analysis, opinionated enthusiasm, and an easygoing tenor — no room for academic pedantry or fanboy-ism. Hosts Adam Kempenaar and Josh Larsen clearly have a lot of film-geek fun butchering classic scenes in the guess-the-movie game Massacre Theatre and in their well-considered, passionate list-making; and the good vibes are always infectious. Today, Kempenaar and Larsen, alongside guest critic Michael Phillips (Chicago Tribune), run down the year in film, discussing 2012’s best movies, cinematic moments, and performances.”
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Django
Sat. 01/05 | 11:59PM @ Music Box Theatre (map)
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January 03, 2013“Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 pulp western looks like a page torn from a comic book — its bloody intensity and dark humor are over the top and unrelenting. The titular Django — played by the quietly charismatic Franco Nero — rolls into a dusty town where violence has ravaged the population. He makes his grand entrance clad in all black, dragging a coffin behind him, and his dazzling gunplay and steely gaze are deadly. Low-budget Euro cinema often piggybacked on the success of bigger budget pictures. While Django references Sergio Leone’s films and inspirations, the movie was popular enough to spawn its own imitators who created over 30 unofficial sequels for a quick cash-in. It continues to influence today: Nero makes a cameo in Quentin Tarantino’s take on the spaghetti western, Django Unchained.” more at flavorpill.com
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The Interview Show hosted by Mark Bazer
Fri. 01/04 | 6:30PM @ The Hideout (map)
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January 03, 2013“At this monthly Hideout favorite, Tribune Media columnist Mark Bazer gathers local notables and does to them exactly what the title implies. Bazer’s genial affability and impressive rolodex rarely fail him or his audience, and the late-night interlocutor has assembled another fine cast of interviewees for tonight’s 2013 kickoff: Rebecca Skloot (The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks); Homaro Cantu (Moto, iNG, The Miracle Berry Diet Cookbook); Henry Wishcamper (Goodman Theatre, Resident Artistic Associate); and music by the Stone Chromatics.” more at flavorpill.com
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Wuthering Heights
Fri. 11/30 | 7:00PM @ Music Box Theatre (map)
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November 28, 2012Andrea Arnold’s (Red Road, Fish Tank) wholly unpretentious and surprisingly modest adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic is shot in an intimate, closed-in, handheld style that (combined with the direction and the playing) creates a stripped-down quality that lays bare the intense (and often troublesome) emotions at the story’s center. It’s a faithful literary adaptation that is not updated, but modernized, and the results are wonderfully unpredictable and emotionally combustible. more at flavorpill.com
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November 28, 2012From the makers of 1993’s Baraka, this sequel is a four-years-in-the-making continuation of that film’s universalist themes and stunning, non-narrative visuals (the film’s website likens it to “a nonverbal, guided meditation”).more at flavorpill.com
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November 28, 2012Cold Specks is the musical handle of Ontario-born, London-based singer/songwriter Al Spx, a name which itself is a pseudonym. more at flavorpill.com
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November 28, 2012Whether one reads their name as a Zorro slash or a proud statement of inscrutability, Zs’ fusion of no-wave skronk and neoclassical shredding results in some of the most fiercely intellectual noise-rock around. more at flavorpill.com
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October 23, 2012Cat Power’s latest album, Sun, is the result of years of struggle — financial, creative, and otherwise — for Chan Marshall, but the results couldn’t be more stunning.
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October 22, 2012I feel like I’ve been reading for years about all the troubles Chan Marshall, better known as Cat Power, has been through: insecurity, self-destructive impulses, messy breakups, substance abuse. more at chicagoreader.com
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October 23, 2012A supergroup of punk-rock veterans, OFF! features members of Burning Brides, Red Kross, and Rocket From the Crypt; but it’s singer Keith Morris (ex-Black Flag/Circle Jerks), 55, whose misfit personality punches through toughest. more at flavorpill.com
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October 22, 2012There’s an art to making sloppy, off-the-rails hardcore punk that doesn’t sound like a pile of hot garbage, and it’s not a subtle one. more at chicagoreader.com
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October 23, 2012Could Transcendental Youth be the album that gives John Darnielle and his able sidekicks, Peter Hughes and Jon Wurster, Black Keys-level recognition?more at flavorpill.com
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Keep the Lights On
Fri. 10/26 | 7:00PM @ Music Box Theatre (map)
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October 23, 2012“Ira Sachs’ affecting drama is a slow-burning love story based on the writer/director’s addiction-addled relationship with Bill Clegg, author of the memoir Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man. more at flavorpill.com
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The 3 Penny Was Here and Do312 present... The Princess Bride vs. The NeverEnding Story
Mon. 09/24 | 7:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
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September 18, 2012Screenwriter William Goldman’s novel The Princess Bride earned its own loyal audience on the strength of its narrative voice and its gently satirical spin on a swashbuckled adventure that seemed almost purely literary. more at flavorpill.com
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First Aid Kit, Dylan Leblanc
Mon. 09/24 | 6:30PM @ Metro (map)
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September 18, 2012Things that seem unlikely: two teenage Swedish sisters can, with confidence, record a YouTube video as “a little gift” to the ever-lumberjack Fleet Foxes, effectively launching themselves into Internet fame and beyond, while seemingly never leaving the lush woods of their home country, or taking off their woolen sweaters, or putting down their guitars. more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
September 17, 2012Very young Swedish duo First Aid Kit is made up of sisters Klara and Joanna Soderberg (they were both born in the ’90s!). more at ohmyrockness.com
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Kendrick Lamar At The Congress Theater
Sun. 09/23 | 6:00PM @ The Congress Theater (map)
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September 18, 2012A latterly underground mixtape maven with Lady Gaga and Dr. Dre in his contacts list, Kendrick Lamar is poised to break out to bigger-still audiences when his major-label debut, good kid, m.A.A.d. city, arrives in October. more at flavorpill.com
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September 18, 2012When we were in middle school, a DJ at the local college radio station used to do something called “Mandatory Melvin Mondays” each week. more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
September 17, 2012I, along with a few thousand others, saw the Melvins play the Oya Festival in Oslo, Norway this summer. more at ohmyrockness.com
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September 18, 2012The evolution of Ariel Pink from home-recording oddball into genuine international pop star has been one of the stranger and more heartening musical developments of recent years, although judging by the ill-disguised contempt with which he was singing “Round and Round” live by the beginning of last year, you do have to wonder what the man himself made of it all. more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
September 17, 2012Ariel Pink is a reclusive artist whose bizarre, crudely homemade album found its way into the hands of the guys in Animal Collective. more at ohmyrockness.com
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Bobcat Goldthwait performs at UP Comedy Club 9/21 - 9/23
Fri. 09/21 | 8:00PM - Sun. 09/23 @ UP Comedy Club (map)
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September 18, 2012Sadly, Bobcat Goldthwait is readily associated with a couple of Reagan-era pop-culture sour notes: the hack-friendly ’80s comedy boom and the regrettable Police Academy franchise. more at flavorpill.com
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How to Survive a Plague
Fri. 09/21 | 7:00PM @ Music Box Theatre (map)
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September 18, 2012Those not ensconced in the subculture might not realize what a burlesque powerhouse Chicago has in Michelle L’amour. more at flavorpill.com
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Brilliant Corners presents: Brilliant Corners of Popular Amusements: John Cale, Zola Jesus
Fri. 09/21 | 7:00PM @ Riverfront Theater (map)
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September 18, 2012The second annual Brilliant Corners of Popular Amusement offers three days of top-flight music under the Riverfront Theater’s waterside big top, complemented by circus matinees and free late-night comedy showcases. more at flavorpill.com
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The Big Beat on XRT welcomes Django Django, Deserters
Thu. 09/20 | 9:00PM @ Schubas (map)
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September 18, 2012Django Django’s self-titled debut finally receives a belated release in the USA on September 25, having been available since January in the band’s native UK, and the much-touted quartet is heading stateside, including a two-night stint at Schubas, in support. The British press have largely loved the Mercury Prize-nominated record, and rightly so, given that it’s a pretty precociously ambitious debut. more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
September 17, 2012Edinburgh’s Django Django is a fun, oddball band that makes strange and happy synth-driven pop for music geeks. more at ohmyrockness.com
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The Big Beat on XRT welcomes... Cloud Nothings, Chomp
Tue. 09/18 | 7:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
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September 18, 2012Cloud Nothings proffer the kind of ’90s alt-rock revivalism one can get behind guiltlessly. more at flavorpill.com
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September 17, 2012Cleveland’s Cloud Nothings is buzzing 19-year-old Dylan Baldi. Man, this dude knows how to write a good pop song… and we are certainly not the first to tell you that.
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September 06, 2012It’s been nearly 20 years since Trainspotting worked its insidious way into mischievous hearts and minds the world over. Drugs! Sex! More drugs! more at flavorpill.com
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WHY?, Doseone, Serengeti, DJ sets by Jel
Sun. 09/09 | 7:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
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September 06, 2012After many years of collaborating with Anticon buddy Adam “Doseone” Drucker, Yoni Wolf turned his solo project, WHY?, into a full-fledged band in 2005. more at flavorpill.com
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