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4/13/11

Are You Ready for This Jelly?

This Week’s Five: Bloodless bodies at the Shedd … debauched rockers at the Music Box … peerless bluegrass at Auditorium Theatre … plus, what Matt Rucins, the longtime booker for Schubas and Lincoln Hall, is doing this weekend

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4/6/11

Whoopi’s ‘White Noise,’ Sarah Vowell

This Week’s Five: White Noise at the Royal George … Joe Lovano at Jazz Showcase … CHIRP Record Fair returns … plus, what Sarah Vowell is doing this Wednesday and two don’t-miss gallery openings

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3/30/11

Putting the ‘Hot’ in ‘Hotel’

This Week’s Five: Steppenwolf heats up … robots pursue world domination through opera … a rare Scorsese short gets new life ... plus, what the world-class comic artist Ivan Brunetti is doing this weekend

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3/23/11

Watch This

This Week’s Five: National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch makes its Chicago premiere … dance for $5, theatre for $10, concerts for $15 … plus, what Kartemquin Films’ founder Gordon Quinn is doing this weekend

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3/16/11

Inish to Win It

Five picks for this week: A top Irish export hits Chicago Shakes … You can’t look; you can’t look away: Body Worlds returns to the MSI … Zombies, vampires, and Rick Bayless take over C2E2 … Plus, five don’t-miss freebies

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3/9/11

A Singular Task

Don’t-miss picks for this week: Nominate someone for our 2011 singles crew … hear Chicago’s answer to Vampire Weekend … see Cleopatra in her nearly native habitat … plus, what the Music Box’s house organist is doing this weekend

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3/2/11

Abbey Roadhouse

More dramatic—and certainly more entertaining—than the Oscars: Our top five theatre picks for this week; plus, one Blue Man’s weekend plans and free Menomena at the Empty Bottle

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2/23/11

Western Promises

Five things to do this week: A midnight gig from our best new band … really dark comedy at Theater Wit … a professional dance-off, of sorts … opera genius Peter Sellars … plus two don’t-miss film freebies

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2/16/11

Let’s Get Fiscal

Our top five picks for things to do this week: Smart money moves, courtesy of the Seldoms … the reigning Turner Prize winner muses on art … a gem of a film series flickers back to life … free theatre, free snacks … plus—genius alert—what the pianist Reginald Robinson is doing this weekend

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2/9/11

Mohr Better Blues

Our top five picks for things to do this week Big Head Todd jumps into his way-back machine … filling the mayor’s chair: a dramatic rendering … uncovering the science of sex at Schubas … the Funk It Up cast lets its hair down … and more

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