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Film / Music / Free Shit Caught in a Mosh
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:26 PM
- Anthrax
Caught in a Mosh, a BBC concert film of Anthrax performances at the Hammersmith Odeon and the Donington Festival during their 1987 "Among the Living" tour, screens Tuesday 1/5 at Delilah's.
Chicagoland "No one threw up in the cab. In other words, the most fervent wish for the night had come true."
Posted by Whet Moser on Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:13 PM
Dmitry Samarov recounts New Year's Eve from the driver's seat of a Chicago cab.
Bad News From the Past Evil laughter is the best medicine
Posted by Cliff Doerksen on Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:30 AM
Chicagoland / Visual Art Morning Art: Sarah Hadley
Posted by Julia Thiel on Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:02 AM
Media / News Bites Would Otto Kerner's Conviction Actually Have Been Expunged?
Posted by Michael Miner on Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:00 AM
Anton Kerner believes his father, the late goveror Otto Kerner, should be remembered as a good and decent man. Anton holds as an article of faith that if his father had lived long enough to file the petition himself, the mail fraud conviction that stains his legacy would have been expunged more than two decades ago.
But it’s likely that Anton Kerner is wrong.
Ink Well
Your City Council Now more than ever, it's important to follow what our 50 aldermen are up to. Are our representatives up to the task of telling the mayor "no" once in a while, or, better yet, of coming up with an alternative vision of Chicago government? Read our guide and decide for yourself what their prospects are.
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Movies To See Today
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Precious
With Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey as executive producers, this drama about an obese, illiterate black teen in Harlem practically guarantees some emotional uplift. But
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Chatham 14, Ford City, Pipers Alley, Renaissance Place and River East 21
Panic in the Streets
This best and most neglected of Elia Kazan's early features (1950) is an expert and taut thriller about a public health doctor (Richard Widmark) trying
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Gene Siskel Film Center
Broken Embraces
Another Pedro Almodovar movie, another blast of critical hyperbole hailing his Cukor-style alchemy with star Penelope Cruz. Normally I would just cover my head and
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Century 12 and CineArts 6, Landmark's Century Centre and Renaissance Place
» More Critics' Choices and other Recommended Movies
My Favorite Things: Aughties Edition Because no list of albums could sum up what’s happened to music in the past ten years
The List: December 31-January 6 Critics' Choices and other notable concerts: Black Keys, Girl Talk, Prefuse 73, Von Freeman, and more
The Secret History of Chicago Music: Truth The convoluted story of the Irish R&B rockers
What's New Big Star's perfect drinking food, the Hearty Boys' retooled comfort dishes, and unbalanced burgers from a steakhouse scion
New Too Eight more recently opened restaurants
Best Bites of 2009 And a few sips too
Pure Fiction Our 2009 fiction issue, featuring stories by Benjamin Kumming, Stephen Markley, Natalie Edwards, Will Fletcher, and Robert Cass
Take-No-Shit Sherlock Guy Ritchie turns the world’s favorite superbrain into another action hero.
When Princesses Grow Up The Young Victoria puts a reality check on the Disney fantasy.
What's Wrong With Up in the Air Only in a year of mediocre movies would this patronizing Clooney vehicle be Oscar material.
Holiday Theater Shows running through Christmas and beyond
The Fragility of Family The Icarus tragedy from a parent's point of view
The Delusions of Losers Mamet's hard look at a hopeless pursuit of the American Dream
Western Exhibitions Two shows, "Suitable Video" and "The Power of Selection," run at the West Loop gallery.
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