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Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Sep 22, 2016
Parachute Men, You on the Moors Now, and eight more new theater reviews

This week's stage highlights include three losers who (hopefully) make good and four 19th-century fictional heroines battling their would-be betrotheds.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Agnes of God, Aleatoric Theatre, Lisa McConnell, Courtney Stennett, Joette Waters, Carroll Gardens, A. Zell Williams, Ann Filmer, Gregory Geffrard, Minita Gandhi, Red Theater, The Feast, Celine Song, Pavi Proczco, Grizzly Mama, Sarah Palin, Megan Carney, George Brant, Taylor Blim, Tara Mallen, Akvavit Theatre, Hand in Hand, Sofia Fredén, Breahan Eve Pautsch, Jae K. Renfrow, Chad Eric Bergman, Writers Theatre, Julius Caesar, Fritz Lang, Thomas Vincent Kelly, Michael Halberstam, Scott Parkinson, Misalliance, George Bernard Shaw, ShawChicago, Miss Holmes, Sir Arthus Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Katie McLean Hainsworth, Mandy Walsh, LifeLine Theater, Ashley Ann Woods, Mandy Alvarado, Ricardo Gutiérrez, the Hypocrites, You on the Moors Now, Brontë sisters, 19th-century novels, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Jo March, Lizzy Bennet, Heathcliff, Mr. Darcy, Laurie, Mr. Rochester, Theodore Laurence, Jaclyn Backhaus, Devon de Mayo

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jun 8, 2016
Steppenwolf's Constellations and Voice Lessons, and 13 more new stage shows

An endless meet-cute and an off-key farce are among this week's notable plays.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Caught, Sideshow Theatre Company, Christopher Chen, Seth Bockley, Ben Chang, Helen Young, Victory Gardens Theater, Cocksucker, The Annoyance Theatre, The Box, Jeff Blim, Jon Matteson, Eric Schinzer, Steppenwolf Theatre, Constellations, Jon Michael Hill, Jessie Fisher, Nick Payne, Jonathan Berry, Slimtack Theatre Company, Cowboy Mouth, Sam Shepard, Patti Smith, The Cure, Walkabout Theater Company, Emma Stanton, Dana Murphy, Nigel Brown, Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, The Good Doctor, Neil Simon, Anton Chekhov, Organic Theater Company, Josh Anderson, Sara Copeland, Jim Heatherly, Cuckoo's Theater Project, Carlo Gozzi, The Green Bird, commedia dell'arte, The Love of Three Oranges, Amber Lee Olivier, Hillary DePiano, Kegan Witzki, My Fair Lady, Light Opera Works, Lerner and Loewe, Elizabeth Telford, Roger Bingaman, Rudy Hogenmiller, Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen, Robert Kauzlaric, Lifeline Theatre, George Howe, Stephanie Stocksill, Will Burdin, Out of the Blue, Vladimir Zaytsev, Sherlock Holmes, Portage Park, Filament Theatre Company, Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Portage Park, Voice Lessons, Laurie Metcalf, French Stewart, The Program, Jamie Brew, Clickhole, The Onion, Sameena Mustafa, Anthony Bourdain, Joe Schermoly, First Floor Theater, World Builders, Johnna Adams, Carmen Molina, Andrew Cutler, Jesse Roth, American Theater Company, PJ Papparelli, Xanadu, Lilli-Anne Brown, Landree Fleming, Arnel Sancianco, Jim DeSelm, Olivia Newton-John

Blogs, Bleader Sep 4, 2015
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Elisabeth Moss goes bananas, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Alex Ross Perry, Joe Swanberg, Queen of Earth, Ben Sachs, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, Alex Gibney, Danny Boyle, Michael Fassbender, I Touched All Your Stuff, Meru, Rosenwald, Stray Dog, Debra Granik, 7 Chinese Brothers, Bob Byington (RSO (Registered Sex Offender), A Walk in the Woods, Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu, Padre Padrone, The Night of the Shooting Stars, Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita, John Waters, Female Trouble, Dziga Vertov, The Man With the Movie Camera, Fred Camper, John Boorman, Zardoz, Sherlock Holmes, William Gilette, Essanay Studio, Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2015
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Mama-rama, plus the rest of this week's new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Xavier Dolan, Tom at the Farm, Reeling: The Chicago LGBT International Film Festival, I Killed My Mother, Mommy movie, Tokyo Tribe, Sion Sono, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Phoebe Gloeckner, Fantastic Four, The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Guy Ritchie, Snatch movie, Sherlock Holmes, Phoenix movie, Christian Petzold, Jerichow, Prince movie, The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran, Tomm Moore, Bill Plympton, Nina Paley, Tango Negro: The African Roots of Tango, White Water, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2014
What horrible things are we doing to children who learn Bible stories?

A new study on religion raises the question: If kids have trouble with reality—so what?
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science, "Judgments About Fact and Fiction by Children From Religious and Nonreligious Backgrounds, " Kathleen H. Corriveau, Eva E. Chen, Paul Harris, Facebook, Huffington Post, rawstory.com, Americans Against the Tea Party, Army Corps of Engineers, Sherlock Holmes

Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2013
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Sherlock Holmes meets Sigmund Freud in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

The movie adaptation of Nicholas Meyer's best seller comes to Blu-Ray.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Books, Arts, Film, John H. Watson, Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, Herbert Ross, Shout! Factory, Time After Time, Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan, The Night That Panicked America, Orson Welles, War of the Worlds, E.P. Dutton, Universal Pictures, Joel Grey, Samantha Eggar, Vanessa Redgrave, Lawrence Olivier, Professor Moriarty, Robert Duvall, Nichol Williamson, The General Buster Keaton, Go West Marx Brothers, Nigel Bruce, Basil Rathbone, Jude Law, Robert Downey Jr., Billy Wilder, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Blu-Ray releases, DVD releases, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 19, 2012
Video
Besides Batman, what to see this week

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, The Dark Knight Rises, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Trishna, Brave movie, Farewell My Queen, Marie Antionette, A Tout de Suite, First Position, Into the Wake movie, The Magic of Belle Isle, Sherlock Holmes, Soundings: Films by James Herbert, Beetlejuice, Howl's Moving Castle, One Two Three movie, Princess Mononoke, The Steel Helmet, Cinemapocalypse, Vice Squad movie, Lady Terminator, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 16, 2012
Sherlock Holmes opens the Silent Summer Film Festival

John Barrymore stars as the great detective in a rarely screened silent feature
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Silent Film Society of Chicago, Portage Theater, Sherlock Holmes, John Barrymore, George Eastman House, Hugh Hefner, Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows, Guy Ritchie, Robert Downey Jr., Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia, William Gillette, Harold Lloyd, The Kid Brother, Fritz Lang, The Spiders movie, Douglas Fairbanks, The Gaucho, Stella Dallas, Joan Crawford, Our Dancing Daughters, silent movies, silent cinema, film festivals

Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2012
Pole dancers and playground injuries: the Reader's latest performing arts reviews

Fresh opinions from Reader critics
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Dance, Crowns, Three Sisters, Butley, Disney, musicals, Beauty and the Beast, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Hound of the Baskervilles, Anton Chekhov, Sherlock Holmes, Love Thy Neighbor Till It Hurts, Windy City Burlesque Festival, Audible Odyssey, Sound + Resound

Reader, Matches blog Nov 22, 2010
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Simply Pathetic If I Call You Anymore

Investigation reveals people realistically devolving while technologically evolving, the safest sex ever, and proves you can still learn a lot riding the bus.
- By Heartbroker
- Tags: The Biggest Loser, root beer floats, monkeys, gum, Le Bron James, Chicago Bulls, CTA, Groupon, The Nerves, sexting, texting, technology, paint, brains, exploding, banana, Lincoln Park Zoo, Christmas, Pauly Shore, Rudy, computers, iPhone, Blackberry, Droid, sleeping, premature ejaculation, venereal disease, cyberspace, reality, soda, cream pie, future, ex-girlfriend, world's greatest mysteries, immature, ghosts, education, the English language, emotion, pant-suits, cougars, party, sweatpants, goatee, Facebook, it's complicated, Sherlock Holmes, Lethal Weapon, slut, Lagwagon, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 31, 2009
Sherlock Holmes, Bee Raiser

What you'll learn from The Sherlock Holmes Handbook: The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Film, Books, Sherlock Holmes, J.R. Jones, Guy Ritchie, Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes Handbook, Quirk Books

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Parachute Men, You on the Moors Now, and eight more new theater reviews

This week's stage highlights include three losers who (hopefully) make good and four 19th-century fictional heroines battling their would-be betrotheds.

Steppenwolf's Constellations and Voice Lessons, and 13 more new stage shows

An endless meet-cute and an off-key farce are among this week's notable plays.

Video
Elisabeth Moss goes bananas, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Video
Mama-rama, plus the rest of this week's new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

What horrible things are we doing to children who learn Bible stories?

A new study on religion raises the question: If kids have trouble with reality—so what?

Video
Sherlock Holmes meets Sigmund Freud in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

The movie adaptation of Nicholas Meyer's best seller comes to Blu-Ray.

Video
Besides Batman, what to see this week

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

Sherlock Holmes opens the Silent Summer Film Festival

John Barrymore stars as the great detective in a rarely screened silent feature

Pole dancers and playground injuries: the Reader's latest performing arts reviews

Fresh opinions from Reader critics

Video
Simply Pathetic If I Call You Anymore

Investigation reveals people realistically devolving while technologically evolving, the safest sex ever, and proves you can still learn a lot riding the bus.

Sherlock Holmes, Bee Raiser

What you'll learn from The Sherlock Holmes Handbook: The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective

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This week's stage highlights include three losers who (hopefully) make good and four 19th-century fictional heroines battling their would-be betrotheds.

An endless meet-cute and an off-key farce are among this week's notable plays.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

A new study on religion raises the question: If kids have trouble with reality—so what?

The movie adaptation of Nicholas Meyer's best seller comes to Blu-Ray.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

John Barrymore stars as the great detective in a rarely screened silent feature

Fresh opinions from Reader critics

Investigation reveals people realistically devolving while technologically evolving, the safest sex ever, and proves you can still learn a lot riding the bus.

What you'll learn from The Sherlock Holmes Handbook: The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective

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