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Good Girls, Good Music, Good Lovelies
The Good Lovelies – Sue Passmore, Kerri Ough, Caroline Brooks. (Photo by Ivan Otis) “That’s part of what we do with our shows, we make you feel like you’re in our living room and we’re all just...
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Let’s play The Belle Game
Pitchfork named The Belle Game’s song “River” as Best New Track. Another song, “Tradition” – was featured in the season premiere of Grey’s Anatomy. Both tracks are from the Vancouver-based band’s...
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WXRT pens “Christmas China Girl”
Because David Bowie wouldn’t do it Chicago’s WXRT-FM/93.1 can’t get enough of the China Girl. The song was released by David Bowie on his 1983 smash hit album “Let’s Dance” and reached No. 2 on the...
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Coming Friday: The Dodgy’s “Women of the Year”
On Friday we’ll announce the first annual Dodgy’s “Women of the Year” awards. We’re honoring three beautiful, passionate, smart, interesting, and sometimes controversial women of 2013. Additionally,...
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Women of the Year
The first annual Dodgy Awards honors three women of 2013 who made their mark with beauty, passion, talent, and in at least two cases, controversy. Other year-end awards in various areas are also...
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She Asked For A Ride, I Said No
So on the first day of 2014 a girl asked me for a ride and I said no. I drove down to Gary, Indiana, to help someone with a documentary he’s working on. It was a quiet, wintry day in murder city. I...
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Snow Cardinal
It’s snowing like ass in Chicago. Here’s a pic of a Cardinal in flight I snapped earlier today. Filed under: Random snaps
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You’re the Weird Girl, I’m the Asshole
During the holidays I attended a party at Chicago recluse author Clive Javanski’s place. There was a guy there wearing Jesus pants and playing acoustic guitar, but I’m not going to talk about that....
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Coming Soon: Interview with actress Marsha Dietlein
If you were to ask me to name my top five movies of the last couple years, I’d tell you two of them are the Edward Burns films Newlyweds and The Fitzgerald Family Christmas. These critically acclaimed...
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Bringing Aibreann back from Ireland
Or “The Asshole Dublin Club” “You know, my sister talks about you a lot. I think she cares about you. You seem to mean something to her.” “Then why is she in Ireland?” And so it began. Another reason...
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The Dublin Sweatshirt
Once in awhile we like to showcase a little Dodgy fashion along with everything else. And in light of the recent “Bringing Aibreann back from Ireland” essay, I thought it was an appropriate time for...
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Meet Marsha Dietlein
Marsha Dietlein in “Newlyweds” One of The Dodgy’s favorite filmmakers, Edward Burns (The Brothers McMullen), over the last few years made three New York-based movies pretty much back-to-back-to-back:...
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Aidan Reviews Auto Show Fashion
Auto Show employee: I bet you plan to take some cool pics of cars. Aidan: I bet not. And so began Aidan’s visit to the Chicago Auto Show. Aidan’s camera focused mainly on the fashion of the show....
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Casting “True Detective” Season Three
The other day I saw a Twitter post by The Score (Chicago 670 a.m.) producer and host Matt Abbatacola about who would be cast in season two of True Detective. Tweets began popping up with suggestions...
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I Liked Her Shoes, He Loved Her Feet
There’s something about a skinny brunette wearing clunky black shoes. I liked Jenny’s shoes. I told her so as we sat on the front steps of the therapeutic day school for at-risk students we worked at...
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The Death of Anne Hathaway’s Hair
The first words out of my mouth when Anne Hathaway walked onstage at the Oscars were “Jesus Christ.” I think it’s appropriate because Anne Hathaway’s hair is dead. I knew her hair was dying, for almost...
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Aidan Reviews Cibo Matto’s Chicago Concert
Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori are Cibo Matto About a year or so ago Aidan and I attended the Cibo Matto concert at Chicago’s Lincoln Hall. On Thursday the girls were back and this time in support of their...
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The Serbian Girl with Green Socks
The girls at my junior high swooned over the athletic boys in their uniforms. The Serbian girl with green socks thought I looked hot in my altar boy vestments. I really just wanted peace and quiet...
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Coming Soon: An Interview with Nichole Bloom, who plays Amanda on “Shameless”
Nichole Bloom and Jeremy Allen White in “Shameless” With each passing episode on what has been the highest rated season of Shameless many viewers are growing more curious about the actress who plays...
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A New Chicago Brew Crew
The Dodgy got an update from Jeremiah Zimmer of South Loop Brewing Company on the new brewery. We also discuss craft beer, craft beer fashion, and craft beer women. Jason Maxwell, Jeremiah Zimmer, and...
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