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Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 12, 2021
Parvesh Cheena invites you into his home

From a call center in India to the socially distant confines of video chat, he's starred in television shows that have defined an era.
- By Vignesh Ramachandran
- Tags: Feature, Parvesh Cheena, pandemic, zoom, outsourced, television, comedy

Film, Small Screen Jul 23, 2020
Video
We love TV: Ramy

Two television addicts chat about the Hulu comedy.
- By Rima Parikh and Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Small Screen, Ramy, Ramy Youssef, Hulu, comedy, television, Mahershala Ali, Muslim, Uncut Gems, Video

City Life, Stay at Home Apr 11, 2020
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The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 22 and 23

What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Stay at Home, COVID-19, coronavirus, pandemic, stay-at-home, shelter-in-place, stay home, social distancing, reading, listening, Ann Jillian, television, tv shows, Joan Didion, birds, astrology, AstroTwins, Blue Nights, Chicago Public Library, The New-York Ghost, South Side Home Movie Project, University of Chicago, It's a Living, Jennifer Slept Here, Video

Film, Small Screen Dec 4, 2019
Video
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

Film, Small Screen Dec 2, 2019
Chicago webseries to watch now

A mockumentary about gardening, scenes from a hospital waiting room, and more streaming shows to binge this holiday season.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Small Screen, Chicago webseries, webseries, television, Damaged Goods, VAM Studio, Vincent Martell, K.B. Woodson, Zak Payne, Abena Boamah, Nosakhere Cash O’Bannon, Aashvi Patel, Chufue Yang, Garden Doc, Laura Nelson, Evelyn Landow, Pre-Existing, Dana Quercioli, Robel Arega, Catharine Savage, Uneverything, Tracie Roberson, OTV

Music, Music Feature Sep 25, 2019
Video
Piecing together the story of midwest punk’s great lost talent

Before he died at 24, Peter Laughner cofounded Rocket From the Tombs and Pere Ubu. Had he lived, he could’ve rivaled Patti Smith or Richard Hell—and a new box set shows why.
- By Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: Music Feature, Peter Laughner, box set, Smog Veil, Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu, The Day the Earth Met the Rocket From the Tombs, Dead Boys, Stiv Bators, Cheetah Chrome, Ain’t It Fun, Take the Guitar Player for a Ride, Terry Hartman, Cleveland, punk, Charlotte Pressler, Creem, Zeppelin, Lester Bangs, Adele Bertei, Television, Peter Laughner Is Dead, Nick Blakey, Andrew Russ, Nocturnal Digressions: 1977, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Cinderella Backstreet, Baudelaire, Amphetamine, Wilco, Video

Music, Gig Poster of the Week May 22, 2019
The tiny TV technicians arrive on the gig poster of the week

This week's featured gig poster was designed by local musician, artist, and filmmaker Sean Whittaker for his band Kill Scenes.
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Gig Poster of the Week, Chasms, Devon Church, Kill Scenes, Empty Bottle, gig poster, gig poster of the week, television, DJ Philly Peroxide, opiate of the masses

Film, Movie Review Sep 27, 2018
In Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company, Jean-Luc Godard contemplates the transition from celluloid to video

Originally broadcast on French TV in 1986, it's having a rare Chicago screening at the Siskel Center.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company, Jean-Luc Godard, movie history, video, television, TV, Soft and Hard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Marie Valera, moving images, technology, analog video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2018
Five big-screen movies obsessed with the small screen

Five movies remind us that filmmakers have always been fascinated with the box in the living room
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Media, Moviegoing, On Video, Television, Unfriended, Gene Siskel Film Center, Accumulator 1, Network, Paddy Chayefsky, Sidney Lumet, television, TV, Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, Beatrice Straight, Jonathan Rosenbaum, The King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Taxi Driver Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard, Dave Kehr, Videodrome, David Cronenberg, James Woods, Deborah Harry, Kenneth Anger, Star Wars, Spin, Brian Springer, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, George Bush, Pat Robertson, Jerry Brown, Larry King, Dan Rather, Saddam Hussein, Ted Turner, PBS, POV, Bill Stamets, The Truman Show, Jim Carrey, Andrew Niccol, Peter Weir, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor

Blogs, Bleader Jan 31, 2018
Pulitzer winner Mark Konkol to lead Chicago Reader

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Konkol is named executive editor of the Chicago Reader.
- Tags: News, Media, Behind Our Scenes, Mark Konkol, Chicago Reader, John J. Kim, Frank Main, 2011 Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize, executive editors, Chicago Reader, Edwin Eisendrath, Sun-Times Media LLC., DNAInfo, Chicago Sun-TImes, Daily Southtown, television, CNN, Jake Malooley

Blogs, Bleader Aug 18, 2017
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Chicago jazz bassist Joe Policastro shares a love for film and TV themes on his new trio album

The Joe Policastro Trio's Screen Sounds transforms score and soundtrack music with energetic imagination and a charmingly Catholic sensibility.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Jazz, Music, Post No Bills, Joe Policastro, Dave Miller, Mikel Avery, jazz, film, television, Screen Sounds, Yojimbo, Video

Music, Pitchfork Jul 12, 2017
Pitchfork loves TV, so Pitchfork loves Survive

The retro horror-synth group from Stranger Things get a boost from the site’s eagerness to court the prestige-television audience.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Pitchfork, Survive, Stranger Things, Pitchfork Media, Pitchfork, Pitchfork Music Festival, Netflix, TV, television, Brown Girls, Jamila Woods, Aziz Ansari, Master of None, Condé Nast, Kyle Dixon, Michael Stein, Twin Peaks, Michael Cera, Broad City, Wayne’s World, Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, Atlanta, Fatimah Asghar, Austin, The Guest, Relapse Records, Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Coachella, Moogfest, Primavera Sound, FYF Fest, Panorama NYC

Best of Chicago, Reasons to love Chicago Jun 22, 2017
Crime Story is quintessential Chicago television

The short-lived 1980s police drama was created by Michael Mann and shot largely in Chicago.
- By Lee Bey
- Tags: Reasons to love Chicago, Crime Story, TV, Dennis Farina, Michael Mann, television, NBC, Miami Vice, King of New York, Bad Lieutenant, Abel Ferrara, Thief

Arts & Culture, Feature Apr 20, 2017
Women of the Now advances Chicago as the center of intersectional media

The new platform follows in the footsteps of Open TV as a more inclusive and diverse enterprise for the city’s growing film and television industry.
- By Ashley Ray-Harris
- Tags: Feature, Women of the Now, Open TV, Brown Girls, Brujas, Laura Day, intersectional media, television, webseries, Layne Marie Williams, Aymar Jean Christian, Women’s Film Festival, Jennifer Reeder

Film, Small Screen Mar 23, 2017
CBS’s Superior Donuts serves up nothing but holes

The TV series based on Tracy Letts’s Steppenwolf stage comedy is a corn-syrup north-side minstrel show.
- By Christopher Piatt
- Tags: Small Screen, Superior Donuts, CBS, television, Tracy Letts, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

Blogs, Bleader Feb 6, 2017
More than 73 percent of the CPD's 16,500 new applicants are nonwhite, and other Chicago news

Also, a 29-year-old political novice from Skokie is running for governor in 2018.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Chicago Police Department, Rahm Emanuel, Leslie Munger, Susana Mendoza, Bruce Rauner, budget impasse, Illinois, Alex Paterakis, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Heather Mack, crime, Bali, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, Anti-Defamation League, anti-Semitism, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, A.P.B., The Chi, television

Blogs, Bleader Jan 25, 2017
Video
Rahm to Trump: 'You didn't get elected to debate the crowd size at your inaugural,' and other Chicago news

Also, a southwest side resident is sentenced to nine months in prison for his role in 'Celebgate' nude photo hacking.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, Donald Trump, cyber security, hacking, phishing, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, Chicago Justice, NBC, television, filming in Chicago, Women's March on Chicago, fitness, trends, Chicago Blues Festival, Millennium Park, Grant Park, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 19, 2017
Video
Former CPD chief Garry McCarthy gets a surprise subpoena in the Sandi Jackson-Jesse Jackson Jr. divorce case, and other Chicago news

Also, a lot of Illinois elected officials are skipping the Trump inauguration.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Sandi Jackson, Garry McCarthy, Chicago Police Department, Jesse Jackson Jr., Bruce Rauner, Mike Quigley, Luis Gutierrez, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton, Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional, Oscar Lopez Rivera, PrivateBank Theatre, Independent Police Review Authority, police shootings, homelessness, television, NBC, Dick Wolf, Chicago P.D., Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, Chicago Justice, Video

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 4, 2016
Five best bets for fall TV

The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, and more
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Fall Preview, High Maintenance, HBO, The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey, CBS, The Good Place, NBC, Easy, Netflix, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, television, small screen

Blogs, Bleader Jan 22, 2016
Judge drops cop from Cedrick Chatman suit, Chicago Law gets fast-tracked, and other Chicago news

Also, a suburban show choir survives a bus fire, and the Bulls memories we may want to forget.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: Did You Read __________?, News, winter weather, Cedrick Chatman, Chicago Police Department, Humboldt Park, Wheaton, Dick Wolf, television, Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan, Derrick Rose, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman

Blogs, Bleader Oct 12, 2015
Art imitates life—badly—in The Good Wife's riff on photographer Sally Mann

The CBS drama tackled an art scandal, minus the media attention.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Arts, Media, News, Television, The Good Wife, Sally Mann, nude photography, media, television, law, art vs. life

Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2015
The time I almost found a show that explained my cancer perfectly

But then Chasing Life ended up doing anything but.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Things I Hate, Television, Small Screen, Arts, Chasing Life, ABC Family, Leukemia, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, cancer, television

Blogs, Bleader Jan 21, 2015
Man Seeking Woman brings magical realism to the streets of (not real) Chicago

The FXX comedy is really surreal and occasionally funny.
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Arts, Television, Small Screen, man seeking woman, fxx, jay baruchel, simon rich, television, pilsen, eric andre, bill hader, hitler

Blogs, Bleader Jan 14, 2015
A motley crew of cohabitants do not a gimmick make on Togetherness

The Duplass brothers' new HBO series presents a simple, charming story in a shiny package.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Television, Small Screen, HBO, Togetherness, Duplass brothers, Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass, Steve Zissisi, Melanie Lynskey, Amanda Peet, Comedy, television

Blogs, Bleader Sep 14, 2014
Riot Fest day two: Sunshine, bees, the Descendents, Dashboard Confessional, and more

Folks still needed boots for the mud, but the sunshine on Riot Fest's second day made the good sets even better.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Riot Fest, Music, Riot Fest, Flaming Lips, Say Anything, Wu-Tang Clan, Pizza Underground, Lemuria, Tokyo Police Club, Buzzcocks, Television, Orwells, the National, Die Antwoord, Dashboard Confessional, Jessica Hernandez, Deltas, Anti-Flag, Samiam, Say Anything, Saves the Day, Descendents

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