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Blogs, Bleader Jun 26, 2015
In Saint Mazie, Jami Attenberg fleshes out Joseph Mitchell's downtown dame with a heart of gold

Jami Attenberg probes the source of her heart of gold in her new novel.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Books, Arts, Saint Mazie, Jami Attenberg, Mazie P. Gordon, New Yorker, Mae West

Blogs, Bleader Jun 17, 2015
The Reader's guide to the Chicago Jewish Film Festival, which starts this weekend

The second editon of the annual festival opens Saturday at Century 12/CineArts 6 in Evanston.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Chicago Israeli Film Festival, Chicago Jewish Film Festival, Century 12/CineArts 6, Victory Gardens Theater, Illinois Holocaust Museum, Landmark's Century Centre, David Chack, Friends From France, The Dove Flyer, Mr. Kaplan, Night Will Fall, Julie Cohen, The Sturgeon Queens, Russ and Daughters, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Morley Safer, Calvin Trillin, The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, William Gazecki, Bing Crosby, Mae West, Bette Midler, Madonna, Bert Tucker, Paul McCartney, Beatles, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Fanny Brice, Nora's Will, Mariana Chenillo, Little White Lie, Lacey Schwartz, Compass Cabaret 55, Mark Siska, Second City, film festivals, Jewish culture, movies

Arts & Culture, Feature Oct 2, 2013
The migration of the hipster

A Chicago history, 1898-present
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Feature, hipsters, Flat Iron Building, Bridgeport, neighborhoods, New York Times, next Seattle, Richard Lloyd, Jeff Huebner, history, Real World, Ed Marszewski, Lumpen Times, Liz Phair, Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Smashing Pumpkins, Tom Handley, Joe Judd, Shane Bugbee, Elliot Dicks, gentrification, Clem Jaskot Jr., Phyllis' Musical Inn, bars, Gold Star Bar, Nelson Algren, Wicker Park, HotHouse, Double Door, Pontiac, Subterranean, Flat Iron Building, Myopic Books, Quimby's Bookstore, Autonomous Zone Infoshop, Buys Bee, Earwax Cafe, Urbus Orbis, commercialization, bohemia, brohemia, Sarah Crawford, Fine Arts Building, artists' colonies, coffeehouses, nightclubs, The Little Room, South Loop, artists, tea, Auditorium Hotel, Ralph Clarkson, Henry Blake Fuller, George Ade, Hamlin Garland, Lorado Taft, Jane Addams, Bertha Palmer, Jackson Park, Hyde Park, Midway Studios, Floyd Dell, Evening Post, Evening Post's Friday Literary Review, Paul Durica, Margery Currey, salons, Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, Margaret Anderson, The Little Review, Richard Lloyd, Chicago winters, Towertown, Bauhaus, Bauhaus School, River North, Maxwell Bodenheim, them restaurants, Gold Coast House of Correction, Big John's Coal Scuttle, Jake Loeb, Thomas Dyja, Tree Studios, Prohibition, tearooms, Green Mask, Ballyhoo Cafe, drag shows, Dil Pickle Club, Washington Square Park, Newberry Library, Bughouse Square, Jack Jones, Tooker Place, Mae West, Ben Reitman, Chicago Tribune, alcohol, Charles Collins, Mitchell Dawson, Harriet Monroe, Clarence Darrow, Emma Goldman, Theodore Dreiser, Ring Lardner, Edgar Lee Masters, Joseph Weil, Bill Haywood, Jack Johnson, Chicago Literary Times, Michigan Avenue Bridge, douchebags, yuppies, bros, Alfreda Gordon, Chicago Sunday Times, development, beatniks, hippies, New Yorker, Emily Hahn, Slim Brundage, College of Complexes, Piper's Alley, Lincoln Restaurant, Maury's, Cholly Wendorf, Bill Smith, Steve Goodman, John Prine, Bonnie Koloc, Hairy Who, Will Leonard, University of Chicago, Old Town School of Folk Music, Bill Savage, Northwestern University, Frank Ryan, Norman Mailer, Dee Paira, Gavin Morrison, Rainbo Club, Logan Square, Jason Hammel, Logan Beach, Lula Cafe, Amalea Tshilds, Joe Bryl, Longman & Eagle, Reno, Bang Bang Pie, Parsons Chicken & Fish, Cozy Corner, Cole's Bar, Helen's, Two-Way Lounge, Whirlaway Lounge, The Whistler, Scofflaw, Weegee's Lounge, Logan Square Farmers Market, Dill Pickle Co-Op, Cafe Mustache, New Wave Coffee, Abraham Conlon, Adrienne Lo, Matthias Merges, Jared Wentworth, Paul McGee, Maria Jaimes, Fireside Bowl, The Mutiny, John McDermott, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Latinos, buying property, Bridgeport, Pilsen, Jason Vincent, Bruce Finkelman, Thalia Hall, Modern Cooperative, furniture stores, Nightwood, Co-Prosperity Sphere, public transportation, mass transit, Version Fest, Mash-Tun Festival

Blogs, Bleader Sep 7, 2012
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A Tony Scott memorial and this week's other notable screenings

A roundup of local screenings happening this week
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Unstoppable, Tony Scott, Music Box Theatre, Bone, Larry Cohen, Seeing the Light, South Side Projections, Poetry Magazine, The Crowd, King Vidor, Compliance, King Vidor, Love in Another Language, Turkish cinema, Green, Sophia Takal, The Possession, Sam Raimi, Queen of Hearts, Valerie Donzelli, Samsara, California State of Mind, Big Trouble in Little China, repertory screenings, Cinema Borealis, John Carpenter, I'm No Angel, Mae West, The Searchers, John Ford, Fred Camper, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 13, 2011
Video
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Alex Gibney, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, Client 9 The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Jack Abramoff, Freaknomics, Another Year Mike Leigh, The Illusionist Sylvain Chomet, The Triplets of Belleville, Jacques Tati, Marwencol, Brother & Sister, Country Strong, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, The Dilemma, Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, The Green Hornet, Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Jews and Baseball An American Love Story, Norberto's Deadline, Season of the Witch, Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Strange Powers, Stephin Merritt, Magnetic Fields, Doc Films, Elaine May, Ishtar, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Onion A/V Club, Nathan Rabin, Facets, Cluny Brown, Gene Siskel Film Center, David Lynch, Eraserhead, Music Box, Hamlet Grigori Kosintsev, Mae West, I'm No Angel, D.W. Griffith, Orphans of the Storm, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 6, 2011
Video
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, My Dog Tulip, J.R. Ackerley, Secret Sunshine, Lee Chang-dong, Country Strong, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, Damien Chazelle, The Klezmatics On Holy Ground, The Legend of Pale Male, My Uncle, Jacques Tati, Mon Oncle, Season of the Witch, Nicolas Cage, Martin Scorsese, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Buster Keaton College, Dennis Scott, Music Box, Tod Browning Freaks, Mae West, She Done Him Wrong, Doc Films, Douglas Sirk, The Tarnished Angels, D.W. Griffith, Way Down East, Black Gold, DuSable Museum, Flow For Love of Water, Chicago Filmmakers, Radical Disciple, Michael Pfleger, Unitarian Church of Evanston, Bob Hercules, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 23, 2010
Video
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Death at a Funeral, Chris Rock, Andrea Gronvall, Secret in Their Eyes, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Cliff Doerksen, Joshua Katzman, Peter Margasak, Back-up Plan, Jennifer Lopez, Everything Strange and New, Frazer Bradshaw, The Losers, Zoe Saldana, Jason Patric, Pomegranates and Myrrh, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Rebuilding Hope, 22 Years From Home, Lost Boys of Sudan, A Shine of Rainbows, Aidan Quinn, Connie Nielsen, Soundtrack for a Revolution, John Legend, Wyclef Jean, Joss Stone, Richie Havens, the Roots, Blind Boys of Alabama, Otto Preminger, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Northbrook Public Library, Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Gene Siskel Film Center, I'm No Angel, Mae West, Bank of America Cinema, Louis Malle, Vanya on 42nd Street, Doc Films, film festivals, movies., Video

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In Saint Mazie, Jami Attenberg fleshes out Joseph Mitchell's downtown dame with a heart of gold

Jami Attenberg probes the source of her heart of gold in her new novel.

The Reader's guide to the Chicago Jewish Film Festival, which starts this weekend

The second editon of the annual festival opens Saturday at Century 12/CineArts 6 in Evanston.

The migration of the hipster

A Chicago history, 1898-present

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In Saint Mazie, Jami Attenberg fleshes out Joseph Mitchell's downtown dame with a heart of gold

Jami Attenberg probes the source of her heart of gold in her new novel.

The Reader's guide to the Chicago Jewish Film Festival, which starts this weekend

The second editon of the annual festival opens Saturday at Century 12/CineArts 6 in Evanston.

The migration of the hipster

A Chicago history, 1898-present

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A roundup of local screenings happening this week

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