George Lucas talked about the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art at Chicago Ideas Week.
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Show us your Ibsen, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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The Lucas museum brings a vanity project to the lakefront
Whatever else George Lucas’s proposed museum is, it’s a vanity project, something its predecessors were not.
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Darth Vader at the Hideout! Or at least a couple of aldermen
Aldermen Rick Munoz and Danny Solis join Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke at the Hideout on Tuesday to talk about everything from the George Lucas Museum to Karen Lewis’s potential mayoral campaign.
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Donald Trump, watch and learn from George Lucas
If George Lucas can win Chicago over with a museum, why can’t Donald Trump?
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Chicago doesn’t have to rubber-stamp the Lucas Museum
Just because Mayor Rahm wants to put the George Lucas museum on lakefront land doesn’t mean you, the people, have to let him do it.
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Lucas Museum headed to Chicago
Chicago beats out San Francisco for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
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A short list of reasons we shouldn’t want the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum
A short list of reasons we shouldn’t want the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum—and a really short list of reasons why we might.
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Daddy mayors: Protecting Chicago
If Mayor Daley treated Promontory Point like Mayor Rahm treated La Casita, George Lucas and Mellody Hobson couldn’t have been married there.
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 1/8: George Saunders, an 80s double feature, and drag queens
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Tuesday, January 8, 2013
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George Lucas and Woody Allen: daydream believers
THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS ★★Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe MIDNIGHT IN PARIS ★★★Directed by Woody Allen Fantasy geeks have become a topic of increasing interest to indie documentary makers. Trekkies (1997), which recorded the rituals of Star Trek fanatics, was followed in the past decade by such low-budget productions as Comic Book: The Movie […]
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The surprisingly strange story of “Lapti Nek”
John Williams’s lost space-funk classic from “Return of the Jedi.”