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We’re not feeling bad about missing Coachella or Bonnaroo or Virgin or any of the other music festivals going on this year, because Chicago continues to be ground zero for ass-kicking musical fun in the summer sun. Continental, open barely a year and already the all-night hangout for hipsters all over the city (full disclosure: we spin there occasionally) is leveraging some of the goodwill they’ve formed with local DJs and bands to benefit a...

The Chicago Film Critics Association announced its awards for best films and performances of the year with The Departed picking up three awards for best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay. You can view the full slate of winners here. While we enjoyed The Departed, it felt too much like a mix tape of Scorcsese’s previous films with the themes of corruption and redemption set against urban grit with yet another use of “Gimme...

The This is Grand photo contest deadline is tonight at midnight. Jonathan tells us that the crackpot team at TiG has been getting lots of great photos so far, but that they're going to be hanging 12 shots, so there's still room for your photographic brilliance. Aw yeah. Winners will be notified by October 14, but don't fret—even if you don't win, you're still eligible to be published on the site.

Has the funniest director-film critic feud in history (er... the funny director-film critic feud in history) been resolved? New City's Ray Pride reports that after the recent Chicago critics' screening of The Brown Bunny, one of the most critically maligned films in history after its Cannes Film Festival premiere, director/asshole extraordinaire Vincent Gallo and Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert, perhaps the film's most vocal opponent, emerged from a closed-door meeting "with quiet smiles, seeming to have buried the scalpel."

A number of the most important figures in the world graphic novels (a more artsy and less-juvenile way of saying “comic books”) are hometown boys. Dan Clowes – author of the Eightball series and the Ghost World comic and screenplay – and Chris Ware – who has a weekly strip in the Reader and just edited McSweeney’s comics-only issue (oh, Dave Eggers, you so crazy!) – are two of the most prominent examples. And while their contemporary Adrian Tomine doesn’t hail from the shores of Lake Michigan – he foolishly spends his time on the coasts instead – at least he’ll be in town tonight promoting his latest collection, the odds-and-ends anthology Scrapbook.

Chicagoist stumbled upon Ray Pride’s fotolog a few weeks ago, and we’ve been hooked ever since. Ray is a Chicago-based movie critic and film maker who takes blurry candids around downtown, lots of concert pics, and plenty of shots of old timey Chicago signs. Even more importantly, he updates all the time. Some of Chicagoist's favorites are the oh-so-eerie street sign and the weirdly sad sandwich sign. Mmm, fish sandwhiches.