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Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant - it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers market...

Do you hate the commercials before movies? We were always sure to yell "Why do we have to pay to watch commercials?" when we'd see them during our Kalle Lasn/Naomi Klein phase. But now we think they have at least one redeeming quality. Anger is an emotion everyone experiences at one time or another, and what better way to express it than with a group spit-and-seethe session before a movie? It's refreshing to walk out afterwards, greet your fellow movie-goers and say, "Wasn't that great when we all got really mad about those commercials at the beginning? I sure do hate them capitalists, but I sure do love you fellow human being."