- Movies, Movie Critic's Choice, Feb 26, 2013
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Spaces in the heart in Like Someone in Love
A Tokyo college student turns tricks for cash in Abbas Kiarostami’s latest film.
- Movies, Movie Feature, Dec 19, 2012
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People Issue 2012:
Ehsan Ghoreishi, the filmmaker"I knew my potential. I knew my limits. I knew that I had to work my ass off."
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 22, 2012
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Bears-Lions or Obama-Romney?
Which to watch tonight, the debate or the football game?
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 14, 2012
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The presidency: take this job and love it
If Obama's so smart, why does he want four more years?
- Movies, Movie Review, Jan 26, 2012
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One marriage, under Allah
The superb new Iranian drama A Separation looks at family life in a theocracy
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 24, 2011
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Sex and the city edition
Take our news quiz today and get lucky tonight.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 16, 2011
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The Circle
Facets Cinematheque joins the international movement to free jailed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, with a free screening Sunday 1/16 of his 2000 film "The Circle," about women navigating oppressive institutions.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 25, 2010
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Rapping in Tehran
Hassan Khademi goes inside the the illegal recording studios and interviews the renegade practitioners of the nascent Persian-language rap scene in his 37-minute documentary "Rapping in Tehran," screening Saturday 2/27 in the Peace on Earth Film Festival and Saturday 3/6 in the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival.
- Music, Soundboard, Sep 17, 2009
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The List, September 17-23, 2009
Critics' Choices and other notable concerts: Laura Barrett, Circulatory System, Health, the Fruit Bats, Obituary, and more
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 18, 2009
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Green with... what?
Tweeters and bloggers are going green for the Iranian elections... but why? Should you?
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 30, 2008
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U.S. missile-tracking radar arrives in Israel thanks to congressman Mark Kirk
The X-band radar system championed by Congressman Mark Kirk has been deployed in Israel.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 9, 2008
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Video: making mirza ghasemi at Masouleh
Watch Masouleh's Azim Nassiri make the northern Persian eggplant dish mirza ghasemi.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 5, 2007
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Seize the Day!
If the Sun-Times thinks the possibility of war in Iran has nothing to do with Chicago, it isn't thinking very hard.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 27, 2007
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A conservative's view
A conservative dissects the foolish hysteria for war with Iran.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 28, 2007
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The driver is crazy
Declare war, declare victory, lose, declare another war: a pathetic and suicidal excuse for a foreign policy.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 24, 2006
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Prudent self-interest is the new good
Comments on war and terrorism from Howard Zinn, Charles Krauthammer made simple, and more.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 22, 2006
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Ever lived in a pariah state?
A retired Air Force colonel spells out the lunatic path Bush is already following.
