- Blogs, Bleader, May 7, 2013
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Haile Gerima answers for Bush Mama at Logan Center for the Arts
The venerable indie filmmaker returns to Chicago this Thursday.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 12, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Fri 4/12: Henry Darger, Oyez Review, and the Asphalt Orchestra
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, April 12, 2013
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 9, 2013
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Abused by a teacher? Decades later, what does justice look like?
Delving further into a New Yorker story on sexual abuse at Horace Mann
- Movies, Movie Review, Mar 27, 2013
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Return of the L.A. Rebellion
A citywide retrospective looks at the Afrocentric filmmakers who emerged from UCLA.
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Mar 12, 2013
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Charities drowning in city water fees
Mayor Emanuel sticks it to the poor to collect a few million bucks a year.
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Mar 11, 2013
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Heroes of civil disobedience: Gandhi, Rosa Parks, Aaron Swartz?
A Northwestern prof argues that the late "hacktivist" did the right thing.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 25, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Mon 2/25: Polar Bear Awareness Week, Michael Hainey, and Amos Guiora
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, February 25, 2013
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 14, 2013
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The Save Prentice Coalition gives up the fight to preserve Prentice
Say bye-bye to Bertrand Goldberg's unique hospital building.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 8, 2013
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The landmarks commission stages a Prentice do-over, with the same result
The Commission on Chicago Landmarks votes again to dump protection for Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 31, 2013
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Raoul Walsh's Wild Girl blazes into Evanston on Friday
Previewing the 1932 comic western playing Friday at Northwestern University's Block Cinema
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 28, 2013
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Groundhog Day: Landmarks Commission will vote on Prentice
The Commission on Chicago Landmarks plans a do-over on its vote to rescind landmark status for Prentice Hospital.
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Jan 15, 2013
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"Whose idea was this?"
A judge's dismissal of the Prentice preservationists' case leaves a window open.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 11, 2013
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Judge: One month for another try at saving Goldberg's Prentice Hospital
A Cook County judge gives preservationists until February 15 to revise a lawsuit aimed at saving Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital from imminent destruction
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 2, 2013
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A list of 20 notable classics and rediscoveries that screened in Chicago in 2012
The year in revival screenings
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Reviews, Dec 12, 2012
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Senegalese soul food shines at Badou
The west side meets West Africa (with some Mississippi Delta thrown in) at Badou Diakhate's eponymous restaurant
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 5, 2012
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Prenticegate: a trip to the inside of Mayor Rahm's brain
Thanks to a scoop in the Daily Northwestern, we now know Mayor Rahm never really planned to preserve Prentice Women's Hospital
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 28, 2012
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Against the summarized Web
Is the Internet being driven to abstraction?
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 20, 2012
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NU's plans, groupthink, and the legendary Building 20
NU's new research building won't be much like MIT's legendary Building 20
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Nov 20, 2012
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Not so fast, Northwestern
Prentice's reprieve from the wrecking ball allows a look at NU's tear-down rationale—and the alternatives
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 20, 2012
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A decade under the influence of terrible movies
The ten biggest turkeys I've reviewed
