Andrew Bird talks to Brett and Rennie Sparks of the Handsome Family.
Tag: cancer
Posted inArts & Culture
The life and death of Brooks Golden
Even in death, street artist Brooks Golden continues to make a mark on Chicago.
Posted inArts & Culture
Comics artist Matt Freedman sketches his survival
Comics artist Matt Freedman sketches his cancer survival in Relatively Indolent but Relentless.
Posted inNews & Politics
This week’s Chicagoan: Ed Dzialo, actor
This week’s Chicagoan: Ed Dzialo, actor
Posted inNews & Politics
In the weeds of the state’s medical marijuana law
Illinois’s new cannabis program will help some ill patients, but its many rules, restrictions, and uncertainties are a real buzz kill.
Posted inMusic
The Secret History of Chicago Music: Terry Callier
RIP to Terry Callier, who developed a unique hybrid of folk, soul, and jazz
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Babe Didrikson: the greatest Olympian
On a steamy track in Evanston 80 years ago, Babe Didrikson qualified for the Olympics in unparalleled style.
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The terminal illnesses of poverty and segregation
On the persistent poor health of African-Americans
Posted inFilm
Cancer is better funny than mawkish
50/50 plays cancer for laughs; Restless is Stage IV stupid.
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House Republican Leader Tom Cross Explains Why He Supports a New Medical Marijuana Bill
Tom Cross, the Republican leader of the Illinois house, discusses his support for medical marijuana legislation.
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Block Four: Chernobyl 2011
Local filmmakers Julian Hayda and Father Myron Panchuk document the squatters living within the “Zone of Alienation” around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and the failed reactor’s crumbling container, in their documentary “Block Four: Chernobyl 2011,” screening Thursday 4/28 at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Savage Love: February 24, 2011
Her increased arousal could be cancer; dealing with a big hooha and a small wee-wee, and return of santorum
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Lefty
Todd Looby’s Lefty may be the last film to shoot at the South Side Irish Parade. The independent drama, the iO-trained Looby’s second after his semi-autobiographical construction manager comedy The Site, follows the reunion of two childhood buddies returning to their old Beverly haunts – one an artist facing cancer (co-writer Thomas Madden), the other […]