When it comes to budgets, TIFs, taxes, and other financial matters, the last people we should turn to for advice are the mayor’s City Council rubber-stampers.
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Spring Books Issue: Secrets
Spring Books Issue: How Julia Glass, Colson Whitehead, and other writers are harnessing the power of the unknown in their latest books.
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In Laurence Anyways, love anyways
Xavier Dolan’s drama Laurence Anyways explores the fallout when a heterosexual man loves a woman—and is one.
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Secrets of The Shining
Rodney Ascher’s documentary Room 237 reveals the hidden meanings in Kubrick’s horror classic.
Posted inBlogs
The Shining at midnight: am I Blu?
Thoughts on a recent midnight show at the Logan Theater
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What’s new again: Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail (1973)
Revisiting the New Hollywood classic in light of Steven Soderbergh’s 70s homage Magic Mike
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This Week’s Movie Action
New reviews and recommended revivals in this week’s Chicago Reader.