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Blogs, Bleader Mar 6, 2017
‘What’s Next for Illinois?’ with Ameya Pawar, the International Dinner Crawl, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Cinema Slapdown, First Tuesdays with Mick and Ben, Gender Breakdown, and more happenings from March 6-9.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, What's Next for Illinois, Heartland Cafe, Ameya Pawar, Cinema Slapdown, The Lobster, Film Row Cinema, First Tuesday With Mick and Ben, Hideout, Tuesday Funk, Hopleaf, International Dinner Crawl, Rebellious Magazine, Onward, G Herbo, Lil Bibby, Metro, ThaWalls, Navy Pier, The Company You Keep, Uncommon Ground, JC Brooks, Gender Breakdown, Collaboraction

Blogs, Bleader Feb 6, 2017
Winter Mix-Off, Chicago Theatre Week, and more things to do in Chicago this week

Deadpool at Cinema Slapdown, the dance party Black Girl Magic, and more happenings from February 6-9
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, We Warm Chicago, Revolution Brewery, Winter Mix-Off, Roof, Tuesday Funk, Hopleaf, Lemuria, Subterranean, The Grelley Duvall, Hideout, Chicago Is Not Broke, Quimby's, Cinema Slapdown, Deadpool, Film Row Cinema, Disco Demolition, Book Cellar, Black Girl Magic, Berlin, Chicago Theatre Week, Men on Boats, Blizzard '67, Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 2014
Reader's Agenda Tue 3/18: Story Week Festival of Writers, Pocket Guide to Hell Tour, and Portrait of Jason

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, March 18
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Story Week Festival of Writers, Barry Gifford, Cristina Garcia, Film Row Cinema, Harold Washington Library, Paul Durica, Streeterville, Museum of Contemporary Art, Pocket Guide to Hell Tour, Gene Siskel Film Center, Portrait of Jason, Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke

Blogs, Bleader Oct 9, 2013
Reader's Agenda Wed 10/9: Cinema Slapdown, Birgit Ulher & Eric Leonardson, and George Saunders

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, October 9
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Girls, Columbia College, Cinema Slapdown, The Huffington Post, Maureen Ryan, Michael Niederman, Film Row Cinema, Hamburg, Birgit Ulher, Chicago, Eric Leonardson, The University of Chicago, Bond Chapel, George Saunders, Tenth of December, Art Institute of Chicago

Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2013
Remembering Peter Thompson at Columbia College

Noting a memorial service for the local professor and filmmaker, who passed away last week
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: RIP, Education, Film, Peter Thompson, Columbia College, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Film Row Cinema

Blogs, Bleader Oct 2, 2012
Meet "the best Chicago filmmaker you've never heard of"

Previewing a program of short films by Chicago filmmaker and professor Peter Thompson
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Do This, Film, Peter Thompson, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Lowlands, Universal Hotel, Universal Citizen, Columbia College, Film Row Cinema, Bruce Sheridan

Blogs, Bleader May 4, 2011
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Veins in the Gulf

In their documentary "Veins in the Gulf," Elizabeth Coffman and Ted Hardin document the ecological and cultural loss of Louisiana's wetlands, exacerbated by the BP oil spill and hurricanes. They screen the film for free Wednesday 5/4 at Columbia College.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Environment, Eco, Swag, Elizabeth Coffman, Ted Hardin, Martha Serpas, BP, oil, spill, gulf, mexico, louisiana, wetlands, hurricane, katrina, gustav, cajun, veins in the gulf, columbia college, loyola university, film row cinema, nancy tuchman, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 12, 2010
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Byte This

Asian American Showcase presents the panel Byte This: Surviving the Digital Age, Tuesday 4/13 at 6 p.m. at Columbia College.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Film, Music, Free Shit, Swag, Books, Asian American Showcase, Columbia College, Film Row Cinema, Byte This, Surviving the Digital Age, Giant Robot, Eric Nakamura, Goh Nakamura, Tadashi Nakamura, A Song for Ourselves, Yellow Brotherhood, Pilgrimage, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 12, 2010
School of Nature: The Children of Satoyama

Children "get injured, play rough and get covered in mud" at the Kisarazu Community Nursery School profiled in Masaki Haramura's documentary School of Nature: The Children of Satoyama, screening Friday 3/12 at Columbia College
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Environment, Eco, Swag, Sea Shepherd, Peter Bethune, whaling, The Cove, Japan, Tokyo, Chiba, Children of Satoyama, Kisarazu Community Nursery School, Masaki Haramura, documentary, School of Nature, The Children of Satoyama, Film Row Cinema

Blogs, Bleader Feb 18, 2010
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Miyori in the Sacred Forest

A Tokyo girl befriends forest spirits threatened by a dam project in the animated "Miyori in the Sacred Forest," screening for free, Thursday 2/19 at Film Row Cinema.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Environment, Eco, Swag, Miyori in the Sacred Forest, Japan in Nature, film series, Japan Information Center, anime, Japanimation, dam, Tokyo, Columbia College, Film Row Cinema, Nizou Yamamoto, Hiyao Miyazaki, Castle in the Sky, Princess Mononoke, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 15, 2010
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Eatrip

Yuri Nomura explores culinary rituals across Japan in her documentary "Eatrip," screening for free Monday 2/15 at Columbia College's Film Row Cinema.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Food & Drink, Swag, Eatrip, Japan, Yuri Nomura, Tadanobu Asano, Jurgen Lehl, UA, Columbia College, Film Row Cinema, Japan Information Society, tea ceremony, sustainability, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2009
Dinner & A Show: Tuesday, 12/22

Recommended events, paired with nearby restaurants.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Dinner & A Show, Hideout Annual Holiday Sale, Luc Thang Noodle, Icarus, Lookingglass Theatre Company, The Drawing Room, Le Passage, Il Trovatore, Columbia College, Film Row Cinema, Chicago Curry House, Nepalese cuisine, New York I Love You, Pipers Alley, Old Town Social, Jared Van Camp, charcuterie, Twisted Sister Bakery

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2009
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Il Trovatore

Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore" screens live from Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona on Tuesday 12/22 at Columbia College.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Performing Arts, Arts, Giuseppe Verdi, Il Trovatore, Opera, Opera in Cinema, Fiorenza Cedolins, Marco Berti, Luciana D’Intino, Roberto Frontali, Paata Burchuladze, Barcelona, Columbia College, Emerging Pictures, New York, Film Row Cinema, Video

Film, Movie Sidebar Aug 12, 2009
Bicycle Film Festival

It's all about bikes at the five-day festival.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Sidebar, Bicycle Film Festival, Metro, Fat Bald Men, Columbia College, Film Row Cinema, bikes, Where Are You Go, The Third Wheel

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Cinema Slapdown, First Tuesdays with Mick and Ben, Gender Breakdown, and more happenings from March 6-9.

Deadpool at Cinema Slapdown, the dance party Black Girl Magic, and more happenings from February 6-9

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, March 18

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, October 9

Noting a memorial service for the local professor and filmmaker, who passed away last week

Previewing a program of short films by Chicago filmmaker and professor Peter Thompson

In their documentary "Veins in the Gulf," Elizabeth Coffman and Ted Hardin document the ecological and cultural loss of Louisiana's wetlands, exacerbated by the BP oil spill and hurricanes. They screen the film for free Wednesday 5/4 at Columbia College.

Street fairs, art fairs, neighborhood fests, and much more

Asian American Showcase presents the panel Byte This: Surviving the Digital Age, Tuesday 4/13 at 6 p.m. at Columbia College.

Children "get injured, play rough and get covered in mud" at the Kisarazu Community Nursery School profiled in Masaki Haramura's documentary School of Nature: The Children of Satoyama, screening Friday 3/12 at Columbia College

A Tokyo girl befriends forest spirits threatened by a dam project in the animated "Miyori in the Sacred Forest," screening for free, Thursday 2/19 at Film Row Cinema.

Yuri Nomura explores culinary rituals across Japan in her documentary "Eatrip," screening for free Monday 2/15 at Columbia College's Film Row Cinema.

Recommended events, paired with nearby restaurants.

Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore" screens live from Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona on Tuesday 12/22 at Columbia College.

It's all about bikes at the five-day festival.

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