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Film, Small Screen Dec 13, 2019
The L Word: Generation Q could use more Black love

The reboot is the chance for the notoriously white series to broaden its queer horizons.
- By Janaya Greene
- Tags: Small Screen, The L Word, Generation Q, Showtime, queer love, Studville, LGBTQIA+, Easy, How to Get Away With Murder, Vida, One Day At A Time

Film, Small Screen Dec 4, 2019
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Six degrees of Abby McEnany

How a network of local creatives brought a queer, authentically Chicago story to Showtime.
- By Marissa Oberlander
- Tags: Small Screen, Abby McEnany, Showtime, Work in Progress, iO Theater, Lilly Wachowski, Tim Mason, Karin Anglin, Theo Germaine, Julia Sweeney, queer, television, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 29, 2017
Judge blocks last-minute conservative attempt to prevent new Illinois abortion law from taking effect Monday, and other Chicago news

Also, Alderman Howard Brookins Jr. is running for a Cook County judgeship.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Bruce Rauner, abortion, Thomas More Society, Jeanne Ives, Peter Breen, City Council, Howard Brookins Jr., abortion issues, Election 2018, Lincoln Park Zoo, Rahm Emanuel, Luis Gutierrez, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Election 2019, Grace, restaurant closings, Michelin, The Chi, Showtime

Blogs, Bleader Oct 20, 2017
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Rauner is fighting to keep details of a lawsuit filed by former business partner under wraps, and other Chicago news

Also, the long-awaited Apple flagship on the Chicago River is opening Friday.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Bruce Rauner, Harreld "Kip" Kirkpatrick III, Kirkpatrick Capital Partners Fund, Apple, retail openings, Apple Store, food deserts, The Chi, Lena Waithe, Showtime, John Lausch, U.S. Senate, Donald Trump, Senate Judiciary Committee, Kirkland & Ellis, Patio Theater, Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart, Museum of Broadcast Communications, Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels, exhibit openings, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 18, 2017
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Judge blocks Trump administration threats to defund sanctuary cities, and other Chicago news

Also, Kwame Raoul, Gery Chico, others express interest in replacing Lisa Madigan as attorney general.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Jeff Sessions, immigration issues, Donald Trump, Rahm Emanuel, Lisa Madigan, Kwame Raoul, Gary Chico, Jesse Ruiz, Jack Franks, Election 2018, Emmy Awards, Masters of None, Lena Waithe, Aziz Ansari, The Chi, Showtime, Netflix, Illinois General Assembly, Steve Andersson, Wyndham Lathem, Andrew Warren, Trenton Cornell-Duranleau, Peoria, public art, Abraham Lincoln, Video

Film, Small Screen Jun 1, 2017
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Twin Peaks: The Return is a bizarre and brilliant retrospective

It’s not so much a TV show as an oblique survey of Mark Frost and David Lynch's careers.
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Small Screen, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: The Return, Showtime, Mark Frost, David Lynch, ABC network, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Laura Palmer, Agent Dale Cooper, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr., Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Frank Silva, Black Lodge, Michael J. Anderson, Catherine Coulson, Michael Horse, Hill Street Blues, The Patty Duke Show, The Secret History of Twin Peaks, Inland Empire, Eraserhead, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Apr 11, 2017
Video
Report: Judge shot to death outside his home was previously beaten in road-rage incident, and other Chicago news

Also, how the feds built a case against former U.S. House speaker Dennis Hastert.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, gun violence, Chicago Police Department, Dennis Hastert, FBI, Yorkville High School, Cook County, United Airlines, O'Hare International Airport, Chicago Public Schools, selective enrollment schools, David Schwimmer, Lookingglass Theatre, Northwestern University, Common, The Chi, Showtime, Lena Waithe, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 10, 2017
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After Sundance, the impact of the Chicago Media Project’s films continues

After backing seven films at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, CMP focuses on the future.
- By Leah Pickett
- Tags: Film, Moviegoing, Education, Chicago Media Project, Sundance, Paula Froehle, Icarus, Trophy, Step, Bending the Arc, Whose Streets, Strong Island, CNN, Netflix, The Orchard, documentaries, DOC10, Davis Theatre, Hot Docs, Tribeca, Showtime, HBO, PBS, POV, Independent Lens, The Newburgh Sting, Meet the Patels, The Eagle Huntress, Good Pitch Chicago, The Homestretch, Cause Vox, Blueshift Education, Picture Motion, Romeo Is Bleeding, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 11, 2017
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Obama’s making a ‘last-minute push’ to reform Chicago police before Trump’s inauguration, and other news

Also, Showtime has picked up a new scripted show about the lives of young black men on the south side.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Barack Obama, Department of Justice, Chicago Police Department, Laquan McDonald, Jason Van Dyke, police brutality, Chicago, Michelle Obama, David Axelrod, Affordable Care Act, University of Chicago, Lena Waithe, Common, Hollywood, Showtime, television shows, The Chi, Stumptown Coffee, restaurant openings, coffee, Ace Hotel, Portland, Oregon, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 5, 2015
The Smithsonian has a dreamy new magazine

Smithsonian Journeys publishes issue one.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Smithsonian Journeys magazine, Smithsonian Enterprises, Victoria Pope, Barbara Rehm, Paris, print journalism, Illinois Times, Quincy, U.S. News & World Report, National Geographic, DoubleTake, Showtime, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio News

Blogs, Bleader Dec 16, 2014
The last hour of The Newsroom is beyond criticism

Leave the room if you want to snicker about the excellent finale of The Newsroom
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Television, Media, News, The Affair, The Newsroom, Showtime, HBO, Don Quixote, the romance of journalism, Charlie Skinner, Tom T. Hall, "That's How I Got to Memphis"

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Jun 19, 2014
Polyamory prep

Plus: Fantasy fucking your partner, and reconsidering the #NotAllMen hashtag.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, Dan Savage, Savage Love, monogamy, polyamory, cheating, Polyamory: Married & Dating, Showtime, Diana Adams, open relationship, fantasy, Isla Vista, Yes All Women, Not All Men, Elliot Rodger, sexism, gun violence, Phil Plait, Slate, misogyny

Blogs, Bleader Nov 15, 2013
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Wild Chicago, lost Chicago, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Wild Chicago, WTTW, Ben Hollis, John Davies, Patio Theater Chicago, Comfort Station Chicago, Chicago Film Archives, Vanishing Neighborhoods, The Armstrong Lie, Alex Gibney, Lance Armstrong, The Book Thief, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Museum Hours, Jem Cohen, R.E.M., Benjamin Smoke, No Time for Love, Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Northern Lights, Cannes film festival, Voices of the Gods, Al Santana, Terence Malick, Days of Heaven, Gene Siskel Film Center, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Flowers of Shanghai, University of Chicago Doc Films, Todd Haynes, I'm Not There, John Cassavetes, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, F.W. Murnau, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, Gus Van Sant, To Die For, Raoul Walsh, The Thief of Bagdad, Pickwick Theater Park Ridge, Jay Warren, Jaromil Jires, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Music Box Chicago, Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler, TheGirl With the Dragon Tattoo, Polish Film Festival in America, Facets Cinematheque, Society for Arts, Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick, Showtime, The Untold History of the United States, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 16, 2010
Toronto International Film Fest Review: Tabloid

J.R. Jones reviews Errol Morris's Tabloid, screening as part of the Toronto International Film Festival.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Toronto International Film Festival, Errol Morris, Mr. Death The Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter Jr, Vietnam war, The Fog of War Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. MacNamara, Abu Ghraib, Standard Operating Procedure, Joyce McKinney, Gates of Heaven, Vernon Florida, Showtime, Mormonism, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, film festivals, documentaries, movies

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The L Word: Generation Q could use more Black love

The reboot is the chance for the notoriously white series to broaden its queer horizons.

Video
Six degrees of Abby McEnany

How a network of local creatives brought a queer, authentically Chicago story to Showtime.

Judge blocks last-minute conservative attempt to prevent new Illinois abortion law from taking effect Monday, and other Chicago news

Also, Alderman Howard Brookins Jr. is running for a Cook County judgeship.

Video
Rauner is fighting to keep details of a lawsuit filed by former business partner under wraps, and other Chicago news

Also, the long-awaited Apple flagship on the Chicago River is opening Friday.

Video
Judge blocks Trump administration threats to defund sanctuary cities, and other Chicago news

Also, Kwame Raoul, Gery Chico, others express interest in replacing Lisa Madigan as attorney general.

Recommended
Twin Peaks: The Return is a bizarre and brilliant retrospective

It’s not so much a TV show as an oblique survey of Mark Frost and David Lynch's careers.

Video
Report: Judge shot to death outside his home was previously beaten in road-rage incident, and other Chicago news

Also, how the feds built a case against former U.S. House speaker Dennis Hastert.

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After Sundance, the impact of the Chicago Media Project’s films continues

After backing seven films at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, CMP focuses on the future.

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Obama’s making a ‘last-minute push’ to reform Chicago police before Trump’s inauguration, and other news

Also, Showtime has picked up a new scripted show about the lives of young black men on the south side.

The Smithsonian has a dreamy new magazine

Smithsonian Journeys publishes issue one.

The last hour of The Newsroom is beyond criticism

Leave the room if you want to snicker about the excellent finale of The Newsroom

Polyamory prep

Plus: Fantasy fucking your partner, and reconsidering the #NotAllMen hashtag.

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Wild Chicago, lost Chicago, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Toronto International Film Fest Review: Tabloid

J.R. Jones reviews Errol Morris's Tabloid, screening as part of the Toronto International Film Festival.

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The reboot is the chance for the notoriously white series to broaden its queer horizons.

How a network of local creatives brought a queer, authentically Chicago story to Showtime.

Also, Alderman Howard Brookins Jr. is running for a Cook County judgeship.

Also, the long-awaited Apple flagship on the Chicago River is opening Friday.

Also, Kwame Raoul, Gery Chico, others express interest in replacing Lisa Madigan as attorney general.

It’s not so much a TV show as an oblique survey of Mark Frost and David Lynch's careers.

Also, how the feds built a case against former U.S. House speaker Dennis Hastert.

After backing seven films at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, CMP focuses on the future.

Also, Showtime has picked up a new scripted show about the lives of young black men on the south side.

Smithsonian Journeys publishes issue one.

Leave the room if you want to snicker about the excellent finale of The Newsroom

Plus: Fantasy fucking your partner, and reconsidering the #NotAllMen hashtag.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

J.R. Jones reviews Errol Morris's Tabloid, screening as part of the Toronto International Film Festival.

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