From the “photo booth” at our Best of Chicago 2010 party, July 9.
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ChiPubLib.org Design Contest Polls Open Through Sunday
by Bruno Pieroni “Books” Speaking of voting, the Chicago Public Library’s “Not What You Think” design contest is up and running and features designs submitted from some great Chicago graphic designers. You can cast a vote in the”People’s Choice Award 2010” poll through Sunday, May 23, by clicking “add to faves” on the Flickr pool. […]
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New on DVD: Kurosawa Freebies, Austrian Prostitutes, and the Plight of the Elderly
Toshiro Mifune in The Idiot, 1951 Akira Kurosawa would have been 100 this month and to celebrate the Japanese director’s posthumous centennial, the Criterion Collection is posting trivia questions on Facebook and Twitter and rewarding masters of Toshiro Mifune minutiae by giving away away a different Kurosawa poster, DVD, or Blu-ray disc every weekday in […]
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New on DVD: Paper Heart, Terminator Salvation, and Gremlins on Blu-ray, plus other films recently released on DVD
A list of films recently released on DVD.
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Test: On Simple Human Decency
Before I attempt to fill these pages with my disgust, which the odd reader who knows me will surely expect, I am obliged to address a preliminary concern, which that same odd reader may safely ignore. Some time has passed since I last raised my voice to the multitude, and whereas literary taste does not […]