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		<title>Smashing the Resistance: Billy Corgan is Back in a Whole New Arena</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2012/05/10/smashing-the-resistance-billy-corgan-is-back-in-a-whole-new-arena/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 09:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beth Phoenix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billy Corgan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Barker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Nowinski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chuck Palahniuk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eve Torres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florence Henderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabe Baron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gennifer Flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jaques Baron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jay Bradley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Basedow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Bobbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maria Menounos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melanie cruise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mr. 450]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mr. T]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muppets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pee Wee Herman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serenity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheri Shaw]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steven Walters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Smashing Pumpkins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By John Moss Two young women showed up to the Excalibur nightclub one Friday evening in January. Each paid a $20 admission to the “#1 Mega Club &#38; Party Castle” in Chicago, but neither had come to dance. “Do you see him? Is he here?” the blonde asked her friend as they looked over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martial Arts, Victorian Style: Bartitsu at Forteza Fitness brings back the lost fighting art of Sherlock Holmes</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2012/03/07/martial-arts-victorian-style-bartitsu-at-forteza-fitness-brings-back-the-lost-fighting-art-of-sherlock-holmes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Irving Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asylum Stunts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bartitsu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E.W. Barton-Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forteza Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gregory Mele]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Jennings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Chicago Swordplay Guild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Wolf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Kristen Micek Forteza Fitness has an unassuming entrance set at the back of a small lot, but the recently opened center for physical fitness and traditional European martial arts is not something to be overlooked. The school, founded by Gregory Mele and Keith Jennings, has brought together various forms of unique martial arts to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ring Leaders: The unlikely odyssey of a boxer, his manager and the woman who promotes them</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2012/03/01/ring-truth-the-strange-odyssey-of-a-boxer-his-manager-and-the-woman-who-promotes-them/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2012/03/01/ring-truth-the-strange-odyssey-of-a-boxer-his-manager-and-the-woman-who-promotes-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bobby Hitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Fight Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Fight Club Promotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cynthia Tolaymat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dicky Ekland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dominic Pesoli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donovan George]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fres Oquendo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illinois Boxing Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irvine Welsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Linenfelser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Campuzano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John O’Brien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Owinogya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mickey Ward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Illg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osumanu Adama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roman Karmazin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Puccillo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sean Eckland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sibley Supplies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wasfi Tolaymat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yosif Sal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Hillmann When middleweight boxer Osumanu Adama represented Ghana in the Sydney Olympics, he was overcome by the pressure of the event and lost his very first bout. Adama turned pro and became the International Boxing Organization African light-middleweight Champion. He then left Africa and fought in Europe before he made his way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Goal: The Chicago Red Stars aim to capitalize on U.S. Women&#8217;s World Cup success</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/07/26/one-goal-the-chicago-red-stars-aim-to-capitalize-on-u-s-womens-world-cup-success/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/07/26/one-goal-the-chicago-red-stars-aim-to-capitalize-on-u-s-womens-world-cup-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lisle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Red Stars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elise Weber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Litke]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“If Americans don&#8217;t fall in love with soccer after this, well, maybe they never will,” said Jim Litke, the sports columnist for the Associated Press, after the US women’s soccer team defeated Brazil in a dramatic comeback in the quarterfinal of the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup earlier this month. (They lost the final in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrigley Field&#8217;s Summer of Love: Welcome to the best pickup venue in sports</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/05/04/wrigley-fields-summer-of-love-welcome-to-the-best-pickup-venue-in-sports/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/05/04/wrigley-fields-summer-of-love-welcome-to-the-best-pickup-venue-in-sports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 16:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lakeview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love & Sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Casey Moran's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin O'Keefe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cubs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danielle Holmes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ernie Scatton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabe Clark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Dodd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murphy's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shannon Newsome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sluggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephanie Mierau]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Scoop Jackson It’s Year 103 of the Drought and by the initial look of things, nothing’s changed. It’s cold, raining, damp, wind blowing&#8230; perfect baseball weather for opening day on the North Side. Baseball’s “other” worst team has come to visit, but the place is still packed. Like Carnival off the Lake. For the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Boys of Sliotar: They make you want to hurl</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/04/29/the-boys-of-sliotar-they-make-you-want-to-hurl/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/04/29/the-boys-of-sliotar-they-make-you-want-to-hurl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uptown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colm Egan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaelic Athletic Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurling at the Lakefront]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Cusack Hurling Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Sheehy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As he explains the ancient Gaelic sport of hurling, Colm Egan spits on his hands, rubbing them over the leather-covered cork ball, the size of a baseball, called a sliotar. Behind him, a few men in brightly colored jerseys unwrap long metal poles to set up as end posts on opposite sides of the field, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ski for Yourself: Whipping winter on its own terms</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/02/01/ski-for-yourself-whipping-winter-on-its-own-terms/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/02/01/ski-for-yourself-whipping-winter-on-its-own-terms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anne Sather’s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garfield Park Conservatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hala Kahiki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harold Washington Library]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although Chicago is a superior city in most respects, I suspect that Minneapolis, a much colder, snowier town, is actually a place where more people enjoy the winter. This is because residents of the Twin Cities, with their strong Scandinavian heritage, know how to embrace the season, donning cheerful woolen clothing and diving into cold-weather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mani-a-Mani: Reporting from the Lady Arm Wrestlers title bout</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/01/25/mani-a-mani-reporting-from-the-lady-arm-wrestlers-title-bout/</link>
		<comments>http://newcity.com/2011/01/25/mani-a-mani-reporting-from-the-lady-arm-wrestlers-title-bout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allison MacWilliams-Bricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Phillips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CAPE (Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Wohlberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gilda's Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Brown Health Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Harris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Leash on Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicole Richwalsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Duche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rock for Kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Season of Concern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sideshow Theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I make my way through the crowd I am accosted by a petite woman wearing a banana costume and thigh-high fishnets, shouting at me to put all my money on her. She is The Banana Split, and she has come to dominate. &#8220;Potassium gives you strength,&#8221; she says, with steely determination. &#8220;And I&#8217;m full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>411: There Are Packers Among Us</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2011/01/17/411-there-are-packers-among-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lakeview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Bay Packers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Kruse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Will's Northwoods Inn]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcity.com/?p=2772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past twenty years, a dark scourge has thrived in the heart of South Lakeview, mere blocks away from Wrigley Field. This twisted secret society gathers in the shadows nightly: drinking Leinenkugel, eating pickled herring and participating in bizarre rituals involving Muskies and some sort of card game known only as &#8220;Sheepshead.&#8221; They proudly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The One-Man Gang: How Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago became America&#8217;s first Heisman Trophy winner</title>
		<link>http://newcity.com/2010/10/19/the-one-man-gang-how-jay-berwanger-of-the-university-of-chicago-became-americas-first-heisman-trophy-winnner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chicago History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyde Park]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amos Alonzo Stagg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Cooper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bronco Nagurski]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clark Shaughnessy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ellmore (“Ell”) Patterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Halas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerald Ford]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jane Temple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jay Berwanger]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Red Barber]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Maynard Hutchins]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Warren Skoning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Martin Northway He lives on in crackling 1930s football footage: a running back in a long, Homeric dash ranging from sideline to sideline, on a field so muddy water stands in visible pools; he is a speeding human gyroscope, maintaining his balance while he evades and breaks tackles. Every defender seems to have a [...]]]></description>
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