- Blogs, Bleader, May 6, 2013
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Hey, the Reader won some awards this past weekend
A James Beard award and three Lisagor awards were bestowed upon Reader staff on Friday.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 3, 2013
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Alex Espinoza talks about Latino actors in old Hollywood and The Five Acts of Diego León
A new book tells the story of a Mexican actor in Hollywood in the 1930s.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 18, 2013
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Michelle Shocked aftershocks: SPACE cancels her upcoming concert
SPACE in Evanston cancels an upcoming show by Michelle Shocked following antigay remarks she made at a concert last night in San Francisco.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 6, 2013
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Yossi, the latest from Eytan Fox, a director with "heart" problems
On the frustrating career of an Israeli filmmaker who chronically doubts his better instincts
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 19, 2013
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WBEZ's spring ad campaign: You've come a long way, babies
Is interestingness genetic?
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 24, 2013
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Speaking of porno culture, Fred Halsted's L.A. Plays Itself (1972) screens this weekend
Previewing the groundbreaking gay hardcore film, which screens this weekend in a new digital restoration.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 10, 2012
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Now playing: The Ignorant Fairies (2001), which sounds much better in Italian
Noting the Italian Cultural Institute's revival of Ferzan Ozpetek's melodrama
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 10, 2012
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What makes for a good introduction to a film screening?
They make you want to see more
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 28, 2012
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A poem written by a teenager to the mother she never knew
"My World Inside the Womb," a poem by 18-year-old Isis Cook
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 18, 2012
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Gay tattoos and Samuel Steward
What makes a tattoo gay?
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 5, 2012
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Preparing for a Whale of a class
Announcing my six-week class on the versatile James Whale, director of Frankenstein, Show Boat, and much more
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 30, 2012
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Show Boat and the neglected legacy of James Whale
Remembering the great British director, whose 1936 Show Boat screens this week from a restored print
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 25, 2012
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Moreno fights to keep Chick-fil-A out of his "hipster ward"
Alderman Joe Moreno plans on halting a plan to build a Chick-fil-A in the first ward
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 12, 2012
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A Gchat about sexuality, gender, and how they're relevant to our writing
A couple of Reader staffers talk it out: Do we want to write about ourselves? Should we?
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 5, 2012
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Rebecca Kling's busy time: new gender, new book
Albert Williams's update on Rebecca Kling
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 25, 2012
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Sights and sounds of Dyke March
A report, with video and photos, from Dyke March
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 22, 2012
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Horrors historical (Eastland) and theatrical (Dancing Queen): the week in performing arts
Fresh performing arts reviews from Reader critics
- Blogs, Bleader, May 30, 2012
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Jenny McCarthy says men in California are total pussies
I read the Sun-Times's celebrity columnists so you don't have to
- Blogs, Bleader, May 22, 2012
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Reeling Film Festival to go on hiatus
The world's second-oldest LGBT film festival has announced there will be no 2012 edition
- Blogs, Bleader, May 17, 2012
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Punch my Mancard!
Like a gift from God
