Chicago throughout the 20th century is the setting for Lauren Beukes’s creepy novel, The Shining Girls.
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Memorial Day: “Losing the War”
His father opened his mouth to answer — and then his jaw worked, his face reddened, and, without saying a word, he got up and walked out of the room. That’s the truth about the war: the sense that what happened over there simply can’t be told in the language of peace. It’s sort of […]
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Free screening of Freedom on the Fence Tuesday
At 6 PM Tuesday, the DePaul University Art Museum (2350 N. Kenmore) will host the Chicago premiere of Freedom on the Fence, a 40-minute documentary following Polish poster design from WWII through the fall of Communism. A 5 PM reception will have a selection of Polish posters from the museum’s collection on view and will […]
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Music, Myth and the American South
Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers front man J.D. Wilkes’s documentary “Seven Signs” screens tonight at Sonotheque.
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A Midnight Clear
Writer-director Keith Gordon sustains rather than fulfills the interesting promise of his first feature (The Chocolate War, 1988) in another taut novel adaptation that shows the influence of Stanley Kubrick. The novel this time is by William Wharton, who also wrote the source novels for Birdy and Dad; it’s a semiautobiographical account of the members […]