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Columns & Opinion, On Politics Sep 29, 2020
Be like Rose

Channel that anxiety and put it to use, Democrats.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Rose Colacino, Indivisible Illinois, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Monroe Anderson, Vince McMahon, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Electoral College, New York Times, tax fraud, J.B. Pritzker, Al Capone, Allen Ginsberg, Howl

Film, Movie Review Sep 24, 2014
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All Is By My Side reveals a less pleasant Jimi Hendrix experience

André Benjamin stars in a chronicle of the guitar god's rise to fame.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Jimi: All Is By My Side, John Ridley, Jimi Hendrix, Bag O' Nails, Kathy Etchingham, Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix, 12 Years a Slave, Linda Keith, Keith Richards, Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Queen, Frost/Nixon, Lincoln, Capote, Howl, Chas Chandler, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Hayley Atwell, Bill Cosby, Imogen Poots, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 21, 2013
Reader's Agenda Tue 5/21: Israeli jazz, immigrant stories, and a JC Brooks listening party

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, May 21
- By Tosten Burks
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Gilad Hekselman, Anshe Emet Synagogue, Anchee Min, The Cooked Seed: A Memoir, Red Azalea, Harold Washington Library Center, Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, Saki, Howl, Bloodshot, WXRT, Marty Lennartz

Blogs, Bleader Mar 21, 2013
Best shows to see: Local Natives, Howl, Ana Moura, Martha Wainwright

Indie darlings moving on up, a metal band pushing the boundaries of doom, and two singer-songwriters worth paying attention to
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Do This, Music, Local Natives, Howl, Ana Moura, Martha Wainwright, Twin Peaks, KMDFM, Rihanna, A$AP Rocky, the English Beat, JD Samson, GLC, Tree, Darwin Deez

Blogs, Bleader Nov 20, 2012
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Video Drone: What Happened to Kerouac?

A wealth of newly released interview footage gives a kaleidoscopic sense of the Beat Generation's legacy
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Books, Television, Film, Gregory Corso, What Happened to Kerouac?, Richard Lerner, Lewis MacAdams, Shout! Factory, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, On the Road, Walter Salles, Cannes Film Festival, John Krokides, Kill Your Darlings, Jack Huston, Ben Foster, Daniel Radcliffe, The Steve Allen Show, William F. Buckley, Firing Line, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, John Clellon Holmes, Edie Parker Kerouac, Carolyn Cassaday, Herbert Huncke, Jan Kerouac, The Beverly Hillbillies, Political Fallout of the Beat Generation, Naropa Institute, Paul Krassner, The Realist, Abbie Hoffman, Timothy Leary, Howl, Naked Lunch, Beat Generation, documentaries, counterculture, movies, Video

Film, Movie Review Apr 4, 2012
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Beaten to death

Burroughs, Ginsberg, and company are exhumed one more time in Alan Govenar's routine documentary The Beat Hotel
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Allen Ginsburg, Howl, Alan Govenar, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, the beats, Harold Chapman, Elliot Rudie, George Whitman, Peter Golding, Brion Gysin, poetry, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 20, 2011
Dinner & a Show: Thursday 1/20

Recommended entertainment paired with nearby restaurants.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, ThinkArt, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, Kevin Coval, Howl, Yony Leyser, Ilko Davidov, Gunner's Bar, Wicker Park, Algebro, Thom Cathcart, The Algebro Record, Mountain Goats, Ween, Hideout, the Hideout, Marrakech, Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields, Gene Siskel Film Center, Kerthy Fix, Gail O'Hara, Roof, the Wit, Todd Stein, the Dance COLEctive, Pull Taut, Margi Cole, Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Chicago Q

Blogs, Bleader Oct 1, 2010
Video
Howl

"Howl," an experimental dramatization of Allen Ginsberg's landmark poem starring James Franco, opens tonight at the Music Box.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: LGBT, Film, Howl, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Neal Cassady, James Franco, Jon Hamm, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Suicide, poem, obscenity, trial, Gus Van Sant, Milk, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 2, 2010
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Local Burroughs doc coming to theaters, PBS

Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's Oscilloscope Laboratories will release local filmmaker Yony Leyser's documentary "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within."
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: LGBT, Lit & Lectures, Film, Music, Books, William Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, Junky, Yony Leyser, A Man Within, Allen Ginsberg, Howl, James Franco, Adam Yauch, Beastie Boys, Oscilloscope Laboratories, Queer, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Sonic Youth, Gus Van Sant, John Waters, James Grauerholz, Lawrence, Kansas, Kansas University, IndieWire, Slamdance, Chicago Movies and Music, Film Festival, CIMMfest, Video

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Be like Rose

Channel that anxiety and put it to use, Democrats.

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All Is By My Side reveals a less pleasant Jimi Hendrix experience

André Benjamin stars in a chronicle of the guitar god's rise to fame.

Reader's Agenda Tue 5/21: Israeli jazz, immigrant stories, and a JC Brooks listening party

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, May 21

Best shows to see: Local Natives, Howl, Ana Moura, Martha Wainwright

Indie darlings moving on up, a metal band pushing the boundaries of doom, and two singer-songwriters worth paying attention to

Video
Video Drone: What Happened to Kerouac?

A wealth of newly released interview footage gives a kaleidoscopic sense of the Beat Generation's legacy

Video
Beaten to death

Burroughs, Ginsberg, and company are exhumed one more time in Alan Govenar's routine documentary The Beat Hotel

Dinner & a Show: Thursday 1/20

Recommended entertainment paired with nearby restaurants.

Video
Howl

"Howl," an experimental dramatization of Allen Ginsberg's landmark poem starring James Franco, opens tonight at the Music Box.

Video
Local Burroughs doc coming to theaters, PBS

Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's Oscilloscope Laboratories will release local filmmaker Yony Leyser's documentary "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within."

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Channel that anxiety and put it to use, Democrats.

André Benjamin stars in a chronicle of the guitar god's rise to fame.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Tuesday, May 21

Indie darlings moving on up, a metal band pushing the boundaries of doom, and two singer-songwriters worth paying attention to

A wealth of newly released interview footage gives a kaleidoscopic sense of the Beat Generation's legacy

Burroughs, Ginsberg, and company are exhumed one more time in Alan Govenar's routine documentary The Beat Hotel

Recommended entertainment paired with nearby restaurants.

"Howl," an experimental dramatization of Allen Ginsberg's landmark poem starring James Franco, opens tonight at the Music Box.

Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's Oscilloscope Laboratories will release local filmmaker Yony Leyser's documentary "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within."

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