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On Culture
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Project Greenlight winner Pete Jones couldn't get anyone to buy his new script, so he scrounged up the money to produce it himself. Guess what he did when he couldn't find a suitable leading man.
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: The Arts, The Business
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Performing Arts Review
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Even in his entertaining play about the disastrous filming of "The Misfits," Arthur Miller's keeping her for himself.
- by Albert Williams
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Festival
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- by Meredith Brody, Pat Graham, Andrea Gronvall, Jim Healy, J.R. Jones, Joshua Katzman, Dave Kehr, Shelly Kraicer, Patrick Z. McGavin, Reece Pendelton, Richard M. Porton, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Hank Sartin and Ronnie Scheib
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Festival
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The offerings of the 40th Chicago International Film Festival let us peek out of our shell. Dubya should see a few.
- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Tags: Festival, Film Fest Intro
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Our Town
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The subjects of a new documentary were pin-down girls in the pinup age.
- by Rob Walton
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Our Town
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Getting bounced around the globe like he did, it's no wonder Konstantin Milonadis is interested in "the forces that affect motion."
- by Jeff Huebner
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Our Town
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Local Democrats who don't know their own ward committeemen are hoofing it around Wisconsin to beat Bush.
- by Ted McClelland
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Media
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Do the dailies look noble or just out of it for staying away from Maya Keyes's sexuality?
- by Michael Miner
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Tags: Media, Hot Type
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Chicago Antisocial
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In which R. Kelly blows off his expensive afterparty, vanilla cognac is marketed to the "transcultural consumer," and electroclash perseveres with the queers.
- by Liz Armstrong
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Essay
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As a fresh recruit out of college, Chicago Public Schools Teacher Lauren Handley found Arne Duncan's rhetoric inspiring. But even she can't see how Renaissance 2010 is going to attract more like her.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Essay, The Works
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Miscellany
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Especially in complex systems, like a nuclear power plant or the airline industry, says Richard Cook, an expert in "safety culture." And when it does, the fattest manual in the world won't save you.
- by Harold Henderson
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Tags: Miscellany, Scientists
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This Week at: Simon's
- by Richard Knight Jr. and Stephen Gruhn
