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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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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6/26-6/27 — Free performances at Chicago Pride Fest
More than 20 free performances Friday and Saturday at Chicago Pride Fest.