Time Out Chicago

• Restaurants & Bars

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  • Logan Square

  • Revolution Brewing in Logan Square

  • Fresh, local beer for the masses?

• • Eat outings

  • Let Bottles & Brushes free your inner artist at Lincoln Park’s Toasted Ox.

  • Bistro Bordeaux

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  • Capturing France by way of Evanston, an experienced duo shows a strong start.

  • Cuna

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  • An accomplished chef lands at an amateurish bar.

  • Lockdown Bar & Grill

  • PJ Zonis and David Jacobs open a prison-themed rock bar.

  • Longman & Eagle opens

  • Logan Square's new eat/drink/sleep spot?

• Arts & entertainment

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  • Street Shadows

  • Shine the light

  • A South Sider pulls his past out of the shadows.

• • Leaving (to) Las Vegas

  • A new novel. A woman on the run.

  • Poor marks

  • DePaul demystifies a controversial practice.

  • Helen Maurene Cooper

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  • “Hard Candy,” President’s Gallery, through Feb 26.

  • Sandra Bernhard

  • An iconoclast recalls her comic roots.

  • Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever

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  • By Justin Taylor. Harper Perennial, $13.99.

• Music & Clubs

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  • Heligoland (Virgin)

  • Massive Attack

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  • Bristol's original masters of dark, stoned beats are back.

• • Beats having a day job

  • Drummer Dana Hall is cooking on all burners.

  • Open to the public

  • Members Only AV throws loud electro parties, and it wants you to come.

  • Fresh Fest

  • Salt-N-Pepa tops the bill.

  • Spiritualized

  • Chicago a cappella singers honor Black History Month with choir pieces to bring them to tears.

  • Bishop Allen + Unicycle Loves You

  • Cute, quirky, NPR-friendly indie local acts write tunes you won't soon forget.

• Theater

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  • Oracle Theatre

  • The Castle

  • A knight enlists the Arab architect he claimed as his battlefield spoils to design a great castle.

• • Awake and Sing!

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  • Odets’s 1935 play indicted the American obsession with material success.

  • Harper Regan

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  • British playwright Stephens almost seamlessly blends the traditional well-made play with a more angular, riddling narrative approach.

  • Hughie/Krapp’s Last Tape

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  • Dennehy tackles O’Neill, Beckett.

  • American Buffalo

  • The shock is the reminder that Mamet once built plays around characters rather than straw men.

  • Yoni Ki Baat

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  • Yoni Ki Baat is meant to be an airing out of the sexual secrecy choking South Asian women.

• Film

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  • Michael Fassbender

  • The middle man

  • Fish Tank star Michael Fassbender toggles between breakout actor and next big thing.

• • Fish Tank

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  • Arnold introduces us to the truly awful life of 15-year-old Mia (Jarvis), who is navigating the dangerous transition from childhood to adulthood.

  • Where the werewolves are

  • Long before Taylor Lautner shed his T-shirt, lycanthropes enjoyed a robust cinematic nightlife.

  • Beeswax

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  • With all the think pieces about the supposed influence of mumblecore—a series of DIY indies that typically chronicle romantic anxiety among twentysomethings—it’s easy to forget that the movement’s figurehead actually makes terrific movies.

  • Frozen

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  • Location shooting in Utah’s Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest made this indie chiller about three friends stranded on a ski lift a natural for Sundance.

  • The Necessities of Life

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  • An Inuit falls victim to a tuberculosis epidemic.

The Get

• Shopping & Style

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  • Home remedy

  • DIY planters

  • We’ve found three ways to turn a seemingly useless container into a new home for your house plant.

• • Spa Soak

  • Four years after the opening of their first spa in Bucktown, co-owners Jen Olson and Emily Eisenberg set up shop in a second locale a few hops northeast.

  • West Elm

  • It’s hard to believe that up until now there hasn’t been a West Elm outpost in the city. But it’s worth the wait.

  • Vaute Couture

  • Former TOC cover model Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart launches a line of vegan coats.

  • Foodie's house

  • Blogger Tim Mazurek's Oak Park digs

  • Men's boots

  • Are guys into boots this year or is it just the weather talking?

• Decade in review

• • Our dumb decade

  • R.I.P. to OMG and other aughties sayings or Aughtie 5000

  • They lived. Now let these sayings of the '00s die.

• • Underrated Chicago albums

  • The decade’s most overlooked gems.

  • The decade in food

  • These openings shook Chicago dining.

  • Most fashionable TV shows of the aughties

  • Reality TV, drama and nostalgia

  • Top ten stupidest Kanye West quotes

  • The hip-hop star’s dumbest moments

  • Most notable electronic subgenres to rise—and fall

  • 1. Nu-rave. 2. Two-step.