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Film, Movie Review Mar 22, 2017
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The movie that made heroin fun gets a sequel for a less heroin-friendly time

T2: Trainspotting reunites the Edinburgh junkies from the beloved British black comedy.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, T2: Trainspotting, Danny Boyle, Trainspotting, Iggy Pop, Lust for Life, Ewan McGregor, Kevin McKidd, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Anjela Nedyalkova, Kelly Macdonald, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, heroin addiction, opioid crisis, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Feb 15, 2016
Irvine Welsh talks Trainspotting, the Secret History of Chicago Music live, and more things to do this week

Sauced Night Market, Empty Bottle Book Club returns, and more happenings from February 15-18
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Winter Group Show, Vertical Gallery, Annoyance Theatre, Awkward Phase, A History of Vellum, Camp/Us Gallery, Black Market Caviar, Empty Bottle Book Club, Empty Bottle, Are You My Mother, Alison Bechdel, Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh, Music Box, Afro-Futurism, Second City, Steve Krakow, Philip Montoro, My Kind of Sound

Blogs, Bleader Feb 12, 2016
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Zoolander returns, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Opening, Zoolander No. 2, Arabian Nights, One Thousand and One Nights, Bridgend, Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds, Hail, Caesar!, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, How to Be Single, In the Shadow of Women, Philippe Garrel, Misconception movie, Marjorie Keller, Mustang movie, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Wednesday May 9, Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore, Martin Scorsese, The Age of Innocence, Michael Curtiz, Casablanca, Andy Warhol, The Chelsea Girls, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Easter Parade, Masaki Kobayashi, Kwaidan, Gus Van Sant, My Own Private Idaho, Rob Reiner, The Princess Bride, Bong Joon-ho, Snowpiercer, Danny Boyle, Trainspotting, movies, Video

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Jun 10, 2015
Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh bullshits with Chicago writer Bill Hillmann

The Scottish transplant to Chicago interviews his friend on the occasion of the Chicago native’s new memoir, Mozos: A Decade of Running With the Bulls of Spain.
- Tags: Lit Feature, Irvine Welsh, Bill Hillmann, Trainspotting, Mozos: A Decade of Running With the Bulls of Spain, Fiesta de San Fermin, boxing, bullfighting

Blogs, Bleader Apr 10, 2014
Reader's Agenda Thu 4/10: Words + Music, Everything Is Terrible!, and Juana Molina

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, April 10
- By Lisa Schulz
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Words + Music, Megan Stielstra, Tim Kinsella, Curbside Splendor, Let Go and Go On and On, Once I Was Cool, Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh, Tony Fitzpatrick, Walking Bicycles, More Gorgeous, Empty Bottle, Everything Is Terrible, Doggie Woggiez, Poochie Woochiez, Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Holy Mountain, Gene Siskel Film Center, Juana Molina, Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall

Arts & Culture, Lit Critic's Choice Jun 26, 2013
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Workshopping with Irvine Welsh

The Trainspotting and Skagboys author joins Don De Grazia for a staged reading of their script in progress.
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit Critic's Choice, Irvine Welsh, Skagboys, Trainspotting, Theater Wit, October, Printers Row Lit Fest, Filth, White Sox, Blackhawks, Public House Theatre, Put 'Em Up, Second City, John Cates, Pat McKenna, Don De Grazia, The Public House Theatre, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Apr 19, 2013
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The long and short of it, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Art House, Opening, Film, Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Logan Theater Chicago, Music Box Chicago, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, Magnolia Pictures, The Color of Lies, Claude Chabrol, The Condemned, Emma Mae movie, L.A. Rebellion, Marriage movie, No Place on Earth, To the Wonder, Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life, Uncle Nashaat, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Ceremony Claude Chabrol, Gene Siskel Film Center, Elaine May, Ishtar, Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer’s Day, Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, Franc Roddam, Quadrophenia, Richard Linklater, The School of Rock, Danny Boyle, Trainspotting, Michelangelo Antonioni, Zabriskie Point, Ken Russell, Altered States, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, John Corigliano, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 16, 2013
Style wars: Trance vs. Welcome to the Punch

Comparing two recent British thrillers starring James McAvoy
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Trance, Welcome to the Punch, James McAvoy, Danny Boyle, Eran Creevy, British thrillers, Hong Kong action films, American musicals, 127 Hours, Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary, Rosario Dawson, style, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Dave Kehr, Douglas Sirk

Blogs, Bleader Apr 12, 2013
Video
GIFs of love, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Aimee Levitt, Twohundredfiftysixcolors, Eric Fleischauer, Jason Lazarus, Chicago Latino Film Festival, 42 movie, 42 Jackie Robinson, The Company You Keep, Robert Redford, Disconnect movie, Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, The Last White Knight, Delay De La Beckwith, Trance movie, Trance Danny Boyle, James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Upstream Color, Shane Carruth, Primer movie, Welcome to the Punch, Mark Strong, Werner Herzog, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, University of Chicago Doc Films, The Ceremony Nagisa Oshima, Federico Fellini, 8 1/2, Patio Theater Chicago, Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day, Gene Siskel Film Center, Bert Stern Original Mad Man, John Stahl, Leave Her to Heaven, Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons, Music Box, John Frankenheimer, The Manchurian Candidate, Northbrook Public Library, Alex Cox, Repo Man, Trainspotting, Steven Ungar, All Roads Lead to Aubervilliers, University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, Best of Rural Route Film Festival 2012-2013, Columbia College Hokin Hall, Chicago Festival of Bosnian Herzegovinian Film, Loyola University Sullivan Center, First Nations Film and Video Festival Spring Program, Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, William Friedkin, The French Connection, The Exorcist, Harold Washington Library Center, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 30, 2012
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Irvine Welsh on Skagboys, Trainspotting, and . . . Miami

The Scottish writer talks about his latest novel, a new theatrical adaption of Trainspotting, and life in the Sunshine State.
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Books, Arts, Irvine Welsh, Skagboys, Trainspotting, books, Norton, Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs, Theater Wit, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Wed 9/12

What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, September 12, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, Glue, Skagboys, Smart Bar, Wrigleyville, Lincoln Park Zoo, Wild at Heart, Heart Health Across Species, California Wives, Leor Galil, Lincoln Hall, Santah, Deserters

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The movie that made heroin fun gets a sequel for a less heroin-friendly time

T2: Trainspotting reunites the Edinburgh junkies from the beloved British black comedy.

Irvine Welsh talks Trainspotting, the Secret History of Chicago Music live, and more things to do this week

Sauced Night Market, Empty Bottle Book Club returns, and more happenings from February 15-18

Video
Zoolander returns, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh bullshits with Chicago writer Bill Hillmann

The Scottish transplant to Chicago interviews his friend on the occasion of the Chicago native’s new memoir, Mozos: A Decade of Running With the Bulls of Spain.

Reader's Agenda Thu 4/10: Words + Music, Everything Is Terrible!, and Juana Molina

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, April 10

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Workshopping with Irvine Welsh

The Trainspotting and Skagboys author joins Don De Grazia for a staged reading of their script in progress.

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The long and short of it, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Style wars: Trance vs. Welcome to the Punch

Comparing two recent British thrillers starring James McAvoy

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GIFs of love, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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Irvine Welsh on Skagboys, Trainspotting, and . . . Miami

The Scottish writer talks about his latest novel, a new theatrical adaption of Trainspotting, and life in the Sunshine State.

The Reader's Agenda: Wed 9/12

What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, September 12, 2012

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T2: Trainspotting reunites the Edinburgh junkies from the beloved British black comedy.

Sauced Night Market, Empty Bottle Book Club returns, and more happenings from February 15-18

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

The Scottish transplant to Chicago interviews his friend on the occasion of the Chicago native’s new memoir, Mozos: A Decade of Running With the Bulls of Spain.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, April 10

The Trainspotting and Skagboys author joins Don De Grazia for a staged reading of their script in progress.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Comparing two recent British thrillers starring James McAvoy

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

The Scottish writer talks about his latest novel, a new theatrical adaption of Trainspotting, and life in the Sunshine State.

What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, September 12, 2012

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