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		<title>Best art gallery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bucktown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture & Nightlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firecat Projects]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tony Fitzpatrick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Firecat Projects Formerly the studio of artist Tony Fitzpatrick, Firecat is now a gallery founded by Fitzpatrick and Stan Klein, and recently celebrated its one-year anniversary. In addition to giving one-person shows to deserving local and emerging artists, Firecat has a rare business model in that the gallery takes no commission from sales. Firecat Projects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best dance club</title>
		<link>http://best.newcity.com/2011/12/15/best-dance-club/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture & Nightlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lakeview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adulture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kid Color]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Serafini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smart Bar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Smart Bar Established in 1982, it may be older than most of its patrons and even house music itself, but Smart Bar puts the lie to the idea that club goers want flavor-of-the-minute nightspots with velvet ropes and bottle service. What they want is great music and a dance floor where people actually dance. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best unexpected exhibition in an unexpected museum</title>
		<link>http://best.newcity.com/2011/12/15/best-unexpected-exhibition-in-an-unexpected-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture & Nightlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elmhurst Art Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Rea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Soirée&#8221; by Michael Rea at the Elmhurst Art Museum Founded in 1980, and located in the middle of upper-middle-class suburban DuPage County, the Elmhurst Museum graciously sports Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House on its grounds. It’s a clean, quiet place that got down and dirty this summer hosting Michael Rea’s delightful mess of an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best tweeting by an art personality</title>
		<link>http://best.newcity.com/2011/12/15/best-tweeting-by-an-art-personality/</link>
		<comments>http://best.newcity.com/2011/12/15/best-tweeting-by-an-art-personality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Kaysen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Kaysen For some unjustifiable reason the Chicago art scene has not taken on the habit of tweeting its guts out to the world unlike peeps in places like New York, Texas and even Puerto Rico. However, there are a few exceptions in Miguel Cortez, director of Antena Gallery (@lapsus5), and the Museum of Contemporary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best basement gallery</title>
		<link>http://best.newcity.com/2011/12/15/best-basement-gallery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture & Nightlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logan Square]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amber Thomas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Lebofsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Parrot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Josh Reames]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manifest Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Hull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tyson Reeder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Manifest Exhibitions Run by SAIC graduates Josh Reames and Amber Thomas, this quaint and cold underground space in Logan Square has been the talk of the town. So what’s so special about it? Respected artists like Richard Hull, Eric Lebofsky, Jeff Parrott and Tyson Reeder have graced its walls—but it’s the affordable prices that have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best gallery showing Chicago artists</title>
		<link>http://best.newcity.com/2011/12/15/best-gallery-showing-chicago-artists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture & Nightlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[River North]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Printworks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Printworks Since 1980, Printworks has been exhibiting mostly works on paper by Chicago artists in an intimate setting. Many of the Printworks artists have been showing in Chicago for decades. This level of sustained commitment and support is rare and indispensable. Printworks 311 West Superior #105 (312)664-9407 printworkschicago.com Best of Chicago 2011]]></description>
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		<title>Best controversy where there was none</title>
		<link>http://best.newcity.com/2011/12/15/best-controversy-where-there-was-none/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture & Nightlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Tribune]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seward Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zeller Realty Group]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe sculpture at Pioneer Court Seward Johnson’s gargantuan sculpture of Marilyn Monroe showing off her panties was an ode to masochism and kitsch. A tourist trap set by the Zeller Realty Group channeled through the Chicago Tribune’s incessant PR campaign to promote it across the globe gave stark proof that controversy always sells and they got you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best new gallery of the future</title>
		<link>http://best.newcity.com/2011/12/15/best-new-gallery-of-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://best.newcity.com/2011/12/15/best-new-gallery-of-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture & Nightlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humboldt Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brandon Howe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Megna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jake Edinger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kelly Reaves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peanut Gallery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Peanut Gallery Don’t be fooled by the funky name. Peanut is not a comedy club but an artist’s collective; think of them as a punk band formed by artist and writer Kelly Reaves and artists Charlie Megna and Brandon Howe. The type of art they promote is gutsy, crafty and hardcore—didactic conceptualism has no place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best public art failure</title>
		<link>http://best.newcity.com/2011/12/15/best-public-art-failure/</link>
		<comments>http://best.newcity.com/2011/12/15/best-public-art-failure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture & Nightlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Loop Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kay Rosen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kay Rosen’s “Go Do Good” If you thought Tony Tasset’s giant fiberglass eyeball was nothing more than an expensive roadside attraction in a time of austerity, then you must have been unpleasantly stoked by the unveiling of the Chicago Loop Alliance’s new public art extravaganza &#8220;GO DO GOOD,&#8221; Kay Rosen’s six-story mural above the Old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best solo art show (in the last year or so)</title>
		<link>http://best.newcity.com/2011/12/15/best-solo-art-show-in-the-last-year-or-so/</link>
		<comments>http://best.newcity.com/2011/12/15/best-solo-art-show-in-the-last-year-or-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture & Nightlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Loop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ebersmoore Gallery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heidi Norton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindy Rose Schwartz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ThreeWalls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a tie! Mindy Rose Schwartz and Heidi Norton We should be so lucky. On one hand we had Mindy Rose Schwartz’ odd pottery, large vintage credenzas and ceramic water fountains occupying the whole of Threewalls, and on the other Heidi Norton’s impressive fossilized plants, encrusted in heavy glass plates, proved that it was time for Ebersmoore to aim higher and [...]]]></description>
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