Cliff Doerksen takes home the James Beard award for best newspaper food feature for his Reader cover story on mince pie.
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Mike Sula, Cliff Doerksen: 2010 Beard Award Finalists
The Reader is a finalist for two 2010 Beard Awards, for feature stories by Mike Sula and Cliff Doerksen.
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This Week’s Movie Action
New reviews and recommended revivals in this week’s Chicago Reader.
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Madam, I’m Adam
In this week’s issue, Cliff Doerksen reviews Max Mayer’s romantic comedy Adam, with Hugh Dancy as a young man who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome and Rose Byrne as the young woman who finds him attractive. “Like many films of its genre,” Cliff writes, “it’s less interesting as a movie than as a map of gender […]
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Afric-a-go-go
The African Diaspora Film Festival opens today at Facets Cinematheque. Plus, this week’s Critic’s Choices and new reviews.
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Size Does Matter
Masaki Kobayashi’s ten-hour WWII epic “The Human Condition” opens tonight at Film Center. Would you trust a movie about the human condition that wasn’t at least five or six hours?
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Anvil rocks the Box
The Canadian speed-metal band, fresh from its Wednesday gig at Metro, drops in for Friday screenings of the critically acclaimed “Anvil! The Story of Anvil” at Music Box. Also this week: “The Informers,” final weeks of the Latino and Palestine film festivals, and new reviews by Cliff Doerksen, Andrea Gronvall, Josh Katzman, and Michael Wilmington.
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Spend this lovely day in a darkened room
This week: the Latino and Palestine film festivals, the latest from the writer-directors of “Half Nelson,” a pair of political prison dramas, and lawyers gathering at 9 AM to talk “12 Angry Men.”
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A space called Hope
At his new blog The Hope Chest, Reader contributor Cliff Doerksen exhumes yesterday’s news of the weird.