Journalist, playwright, screenwriter, theater critic, arts editor, and novelist Adam Langer was born in Chicago, grew up in West Rogers Park, went to school in Evanston, and spent the early part of his career here writing and editing for various Chicago publications, including the Reader, Inside Chicago, Book Magazine, and the alternative music magazine Subnation. […]
Tag: John Hughes
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An immersive John Hughes-themed film festival is coming to Chicago this summer
The Shermer Club: A John Hughes Fest will take place June 22-25 in the city and suburbs where Hughes’s classic 1980s teen movies were filmed.
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Jason Diamond’s Searching for John Hughes is really a journey of self-discovery
The Brooklyn author’s North Shore adolescence was a different kind of teen movie.
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Chicago’s North Shore fuels architecture fantasies
The curving streets of the affluent north suburbs are lined with midcentury-modern marvels and the locations of John Hughes movies.
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Ferris Bueller’s bedroom has been meticulously recreated inside Chicago’s Virgin Hotel
Artists save Ferris’s room and take it to Ferris Fest.
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The melting pot heats up in this year’s Asian American Showcase
The Asian American Showcase presents two weeks of movies by Asian expatriates in the U.S.
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The Chicago Palestine Film Festival and CIMMFest highlight this week’s new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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12 O’Clock Track: The hyperchiptune of Anamanaguchi’s ‘John Hughes’
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track, “John Hughes,” comes from chiptune band Anamanaguchi.
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Printers Row Lit Fest preview
Printers Row Lit Fest’s 30th year brings hundreds of authors and booksellers to the South Loop.
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On reflection, Private Fears in Public Places is a great title for a movie
Memories of Alain Resnais, my paternal grandparents, and John Hughes’s Curly Sue, though not necessarily in that order.
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Bhopal bests Bilbo, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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“His upscale Yoknapatawpha of teenage angst”
“Hughes films are mostly about finding love, but they’re also a little about finding the shortcut to upward social mobility.” Lyons native and former Reader editor Mark Athitakis on class resentment, John Hughes, and Dave Eggers.
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Some Kind of Wonderful Wardrobe Department
John Hughes’s movies helped define the 80s for a lot of people, and one underappreciated way they did that was through the characters’ clothes. Wardrobe was rarely front-and-center in his flicks, but many a teenage girl yearned to look as adorable as Molly Ringwald in her vintagey, off-kilter ensembles. Here’s a short appreciation of the […]
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The Love of a Lousy Buck
Last month Karl Malden died at age 97, and a few hours later Michael Jackson stole the spotlight away. Yesterday screenwriter Budd Schulberg died at age 95, and a few hours later teenpic director John Hughes stole the spotlight away again.