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The Confederate general From Pennsylvania
People who passed John Pemberton on the streets of Allentown must have thought him an impressive figure. This 60-year-old's lean, 5-foot-10-inch, ramrod-straight frame showed a positively military bearing. His finely tailored suits added to Pemberton's...Tags: U.S. Military, Anglicanism, Allentown, West Point, Unions
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Eateries to center on Wilmette
Mitchell Dulin ambled through his new Wilmette restaurant, The Avenue, still under construction and coated in a layer of dust, and saw things not yet in existence. There was the walnut bar with the black tufting, the 7-foot-tall Tuscan wine press, the...
Tags: Chicago Restaurants, Foods and Beverages, Bars and Clubs, Rentals, Avenues
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Edgy and ready, veteran players returning to city
This is one of those “Wow!” weeks for Chicago music fans, as two performers with a rich history in this city's edgy music scene are out and about, making noise. Helen Money People first got a glimpse of cellist Alison Chesley when she was...
Tags: PJ Harvey, Music, Shellac (music group), Genres
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Album review: My Bloody Valentine, 'm b v'
2.5 stars (out of 4) After a deafening 21-year silence, My Bloody Valentine finally got around to releasing “m b v” Saturday on its Web site (mybloodyvalentine.org), the follow-up to one of the more revered and influential albums of recent...
Tags: Brian Eno, Ministry (music group), Music
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What we know about 'Divergent' filming in Chicago
We know "Divergent" — the futuristic sci-fi flick starring Shailene Woodley ("The Descendants") and directed by Neil Burger ("Limitless") — will begin filming entirely on location in Chicago and at Cinespace Chicago Film Studios on the West...
Tags: Pat Quinn, Celebrities, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Gordon Beckham, Detroit Pistons
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Japanese Post-Rock Quartet MONO's Epic Bombast Arrives in Hamden on Oct. 26
In some alternate universe, where an instrumental post-rock band’s greatness is measured by how many glockenspiel players they have, MONO, with four, reigns supreme. Here, of course, that’s not how it works. Still, MONO’s bombast, their...
Tags: New York City, Music, Movies
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Gay Witch Abortion's Colorful Name and Liberating, Rugged Rock Come to Cafe Nine on Sept. 26
Gay Witch Abortion w/ Big Business and Ferocious Fucking Teeth $12. 8 p.m., Sept. 26. Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven, cafenine.com Jesse Bottomley doesn't exactly know why he plays what he plays. Sometimes, he wonders about it. “Every once...
Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Psychedelic (genre), Abortion, Anxiety, The Black Keys (music group)
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Monogamy Party Zigzag Down the Wild Side at Cherry Street in Wallingford on Aug. 27
Monogamy Party w/ Cold Snap and Burrows Aug. 27, 8 p.m., $7, Cherry Street Station, 491 N. Cherry St., Wallingford, manicproductions.org Sometimes — not often, but sometimes – you don't need to actually see a band to be convinced that...
Tags: Iggy Pop, Sharon Jones, Music, No Age (music group), Rob Zombie
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Throwing Muses' Kristin Hersh Talks Major Label Drama Before Going Solo in New London on Aug. 11
Kristin Hersh w/ Daphne Lee Martin, Chuck E. Costa, Girls Guns and Glory, Milksop:Unsung, and Graverobbers. $10 suggested donation, 3 p.m., Aug. 11. Hygienic Art Park, 79 Bank St., New London, hygienic.ning.com Life with major labels has produced a...
Tags: New London (New London, Connecticut), Music, Kristin Hersh, Music Industry, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
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Ray Bradbury dies at 91; author lifted fantasy to literary heights
Ray Bradbury, the writer whose expansive flights of fantasy and vividly rendered space-scapes have provided the world with one of the most enduring speculative blueprints for the future, has died. He was 91. Bradbury died Tuesday night, his daughter,...
Tags: Lifetime (tv network), Los Angeles Times, Christopher Isherwood, France, Book
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St. Vincent and David Byrne book Greek date, unveil single 'Who'
Pop & HissDavid Bryne and Annie Clark unveiled the first single from their upcoming collaboration, "Love This Giant." The song is called "Who" and it's heavy on the horns, but the real star of the tune may in fact be John Congleton. The two are coming to the... -
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