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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 20, 2012
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Video Drone: What Happened to Kerouac?

A wealth of newly released interview footage gives a kaleidoscopic sense of the Beat Generation's legacy
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Books, Television, Film, Gregory Corso, What Happened to Kerouac?, Richard Lerner, Lewis MacAdams, Shout! Factory, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, On the Road, Walter Salles, Cannes Film Festival, John Krokides, Kill Your Darlings, Jack Huston, Ben Foster, Daniel Radcliffe, The Steve Allen Show, William F. Buckley, Firing Line, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, John Clellon Holmes, Edie Parker Kerouac, Carolyn Cassaday, Herbert Huncke, Jan Kerouac, The Beverly Hillbillies, Political Fallout of the Beat Generation, Naropa Institute, Paul Krassner, The Realist, Abbie Hoffman, Timothy Leary, Howl, Naked Lunch, Beat Generation, documentaries, counterculture, movies, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 11, 2012
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Weird things customers say in bookstores, another blog-based book, and Seminary Co-op on the move

Two new books on books, both based on blogs, and the Seminary Co-op gets a new home
- by Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Books, Arts, Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores, Overlook Press, Dan Sinker, F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel, blogorrhea, This Is Not the Six Word Novel, Book Cellar, monkeys, typewriting monkeys, Jen Adams, The Books They Gave Me, Free Press, cleavage, blog, blogs, Seminary Co-op, Max Brooks, Zombie Survival Guide, Nabokov, Lolita, Plath, Milan Kundera. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Neil Gaiman, Sandman, Tolkien, Hobbit, Walker Percy, Moviegoer, William S. Burroughs, Possible Side Effects, Julia Child, Joy of Cooking, Audio

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Blogs, Bleader, May 1, 2012
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12 O'Clock Track: Steven "Jesse" Bernstein, "No No Man (Part Two)"

A posthumous 1992 release by Seattle poet Steven "Jesse" Bernstein, the anti-Thax Douglas
- by Philip Montoro
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Steven Jesse Bernstein, Prison, Sub Pop, No No Man (Part Two), Seattle, 12 O'Clock Track, Thax Douglas, William S. Burroughs, Video

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Movies, Movie Review, Apr 4, 2012
Beaten to death

Burroughs, Ginsberg, and company are exhumed one more time in Alan Govenar's routine documentary The Beat Hotel
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Allen Ginsburg, Howl, Alan Govenar, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, the beats, Harold Chapman, Elliot Rudie, George Whitman, Peter Golding, Brion Gysin, poetry

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 12, 2011
Best of 2011, number 7: The Elephant in the Living Room

J.R. Jones on The Elephant in the Living Room, his number 7 movie of 2011.
- by J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Ben Sachs, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Michael Webber, The Elephant in the Living Room, Tim Harrison, Terry Brumfield, exotic animal sanctuary, Zanesville, William S. Burroughs, exotic animals, animal rights, movies

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 25, 2011
Morning Art: William S. Burroughs

Part of a show of work by William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, on display at ThinkArt.
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Chicagoland, Visual Art, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, ThinkArt

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 21, 2011
Dinner & a Show: Friday 1/21

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, Mondo Drag, Dr. Strange, DayGlo, Hideout, Taxim, Zeniople, Matt Christensen, Brian Harding, Mike Weis, John Twells, Xela, Dan Mohr, DRMWPN, Gleaming, Abbey Pub, Shokran, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, Yony Leyser, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Andy Warhol, the Music Box, Music Box Theatre, Cafe Orchid, Lakeview, pre-Ottoman cuisine, 12th and Delaware, Fort Pierce, Florida, Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing, Jesus Camp, Sunshine Cafe, Carmilla, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Aly Renee Greaves, Storefront Theater, Gallery 37 Center for the Arts, Philip Ghantous, cubano, Cafecito

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 20, 2011
Dinner & a Show: Thursday 1/20

Recommended entertainment paired with nearby restaurants.
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, ThinkArt, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, Kevin Coval, Howl, Yony Leyser, Ilko Davidov, Gunner's Bar, Wicker Park, Algebro, Thom Cathcart, The Algebro Record, Mountain Goats, Ween, Hideout, the Hideout, Marrakech, Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields, Gene Siskel Film Center, Kerthy Fix, Gail O'Hara, Roof, the Wit, Todd Stein, the Dance COLEctive, Pull Taut, Margi Cole, Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Chicago Q

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 2, 2010
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Local Burroughs doc coming to theaters, PBS

Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's Oscilloscope Laboratories will release local filmmaker Yony Leyser's documentary "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within."
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: LGBT, Lit & Lectures, Film, Music, Books, William Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, Junky, Yony Leyser, A Man Within, Allen Ginsberg, Howl, James Franco, Adam Yauch, Beastie Boys, Oscilloscope Laboratories, Queer, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Sonic Youth, Gus Van Sant, John Waters, James Grauerholz, Lawrence, Kansas, Kansas University, IndieWire, Slamdance, Chicago Movies and Music, Film Festival, CIMMfest, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 27, 2010
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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

Yony Leyser's documentary "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within" and Thomas Woschitz's "Universalove" open the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival on Thursday, March 4.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Film, Music, Books, William S. Burroughs, Slamdance, A Man Within, Yony Leyser, CIMMfest, Ilko Davidov, Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Thomas Woschitz, Universalove, Naked Lunch, Junky, Thee Majesty, Penny Arcade, Andy Warhol, superstar, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Patti Smith, John Waters, Iggy Pop, Jello Biafra, Gus Van Sant, Iggy Pop, David Cronenberg, Amiri Baraka, Sonic Youth, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 23, 2009
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Free elctro-funk, film and whisky at the Chopin

Chandeliers play a live score to "Junky's Xmas," "Aleph," and "Oramunde," Wednesday 11/25 at the Chopin Theatre.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Music, Free Shit, Swag, Chandeliers, William S. Burroughs, Francis Ford Coppola, Hunter Husar, Junky's Xmas, Wallace Berman, Aleph, Elmen Etting, Oramunde, Cinema 16, spiced whisky, Video

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News & Features, Our Town, Aug 28, 2009
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William Burroughs, Unabridged

Jonathan Leyser works to finish the first documentary covering the literary icon's entire life.
- by Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Our Town, Jonathan "Yony" Leyser, Jonathan Leyser, William S. Burroughs, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, Junky, Queer, Naked Lunch, James Grauerholz, John Waters, Gus Van Sant, Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Jello Biafra, Amiri Baraka, Peter Weller, Yony Leyser, David Cronenberg, Bill Ayers, Anne Waldman, Errol Morris, Hal Willner, Maysles brothers, Elgin Mental Health Center, Northern Illinois University, ThinkArt, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 27, 2009
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William S. Burroughs: The man, the movie, the party
- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Lit & Lectures, Film, Visual Art, Books, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, Jonathan "Yony" Leyser, Jonathan Leyser, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 11, 2009
Performances mark 50th anniversary of "Naked Lunch"
- by Albert Williams
- Tags: Chicagoland, Onstage, LGBT, Lit & Lectures, Film, Visual Art, Performing Arts, Arts, Books, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, Daniel Mejia, Maya Jensen, Thinkart Salon, William Ayers, Peter Weller, Penny Arcade, John Giorno, Anne Waldman, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

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