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Amateur hour

  Recent Reviews Near Chicago, IL
  Yelp - Recent Reviews Near Chicago, IL

  Gapers Block: Merge
  Gapers Block: Slowdown
  Gapers Block: Fuel
  Gapers Block: Detour
  Gapers Block: Airbags
  Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

  Chicagoist
  Chicagoist is a website about Chicago. MoreEditor: Margaret LyonsPublisher: Gothamist

  Radio Free Chicago
  Chi-town's Underground Music and Media Resource

Eat Out

  Big Sweet Tooth
  Dispatches from a curious mouth

  Thinking of Drinking

  Bake & Destroy!
  sugar, spice, not very nice

  MenuPages Blog :: Chicago
Art and Design

  Bad at Sports
  Contemporay art talk without the ego

  Design Observer: Main Posts
  mediabistro.com: UnBeige

  Lee Bey: The Urban Observer
  The official blog of urbanist, writer and architecture critic Lee Bey. The blog features observations, photography, video links and all things dealing with Chicago's built environment (or anything else that interests me). Contact me anytime at lee@leebey.com or 312-479-2671.

Books
  Bookslut

  Golden Rule Jones
  Literary Events and Topics, with a Chicago Angle

  Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online
  Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online

  Samizdat Blog
Clubs
  Discobelle.net

  TRASH MENAGERIE
  Music & Lifestyle Culture Site. Interviews, MP3's, Mixes, News from Global Artists, DJ's & Bands

  The Mad Ones
Film
  GreenCine Daily

  indieWIRE
  indieWIRE is the leading news, information, and social networking site for the international independent film community.

  The Screengrab
Music

  Elbo.ws Top Artists
  A list of this week's most talked about artists from mp3 blog aggregator, Elbo.ws

  Idolator
  When the internet came, we overthrew the pasty white tastemakers, the duplicitous music marketers and the manufactured pop idols. And then they all came back. This is Idolator. We're so disappointed.

  Radio Free Chicago
  Chi-town's Underground Music and Media Resource

  Gapers Block: Transmission

  Night After Night
  Conspicuous consumption of music, live and otherwise, in New York City.

Classical and Opera

  Brian Dickie
  Life as General Director of Chicago Opera Theater

  thirteen ways
  Adventures (in new music) with eighth blackbird

  wellsung.blogspot.com
  Tonic Blotter
Theater

  Theater For The Future
  The Art in the Business of Theater - Collaboration Tools and Technology and the Storefront Theater Movement

  Creative Control: Bilal Dardai's Journal
  life's too short to ride the rollercoaster

  I, Homunculus
  Chainsaw Calligraphy
Web Masters
  Zulkey.com

  Show Tracker
  What you're watching

  A.V. Club
  Content updated daily from The AvClub

  Everyone's Favorite As-Yet-Unproduced Chicago-Based Polish Playwright

  CTA Tattler
  Seen and heard on the Chicago Transit Authority

  WindyBits - Main
  Original content produced by WindyBits.com. Includes feature articles and "5 Questions."

  Chicagoist
  Chicagoist is a website about Chicago. MoreEditor: Margaret LyonsPublisher: Gothamist

Critical Condition
  An Angry White Guy in Chicago
  Jim DeRogatis
  Gapers Block: Transmission

  Golden Rule Jones
  Literary Events and Topics, with a Chicago Angle

  A.V. Club
  Content updated daily from The AvClub

  Chicagoist
  Chicagoist is a website about Chicago. MoreEditor: Margaret LyonsPublisher: Gothamist

  UNDER COVER

  The Food Chain - Chicago Reader
  The Reader's food and drink blog.

  Storefront Rebellion
  Chicago, theater, and Chicago theater.

Post serial
  from 'cello song to zip gun bop
  Salad Daze
  Illinois Pancakes
Roger That

  RogerEbert Headlines
  The latest movie reviews from RogerEbert.com

  Cinematical
  Observations on film art and FILM ART
Primary school

  ArchPundit
  Illinois, from Misery

  Progressive Politics Illinois - Front Page
  Progressive Politics Illinois

  Bill Baar's West Side