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'She Kills Monsters' conjures D&D cool
You'd easily think that "She Kills Monsters" the clever, funny, moving, lively and delightfully geeky standout at this year's Garage Rep at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, was entirely created by Buzz22 Chicago, a very young theater company created by...
Tags: Central Park, Arts and Culture, Steppenwolf Theatre
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Green Day's 'American Idiot' Comes To The Bushnell
The Hartford CourantTom Kitt remembers seeing punk-pop group Green Day for the first time. He was a student at New York's Columbia University in the '90s and saw them in concert on MTV. "I just knew they were special," he says over a lunch interview in Manhattan recently....Tags: Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Theater, Politics, Awards and Prizes, The Beatles (music group)
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Movie review: 'Lay the Favorite' a bad bet
What has happened to director Stephen Frears? The filmmaker of so many satisfying and sophisticated comedies and dramas has seemed a bit off his game since his best picture Oscar nomination for 2006's brilliant "The Queen," with Helen Mirren as Queen...
Tags: Stephen Frears, Please Give (movie), Rebecca Hall, Elizabeth II, The Town (movie)
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City Lights: A list for why this recovering list addict is going list-less (from now on)
Now that Christmas is over, I have a new seasonal tune stuck in my head. Maybe it wasn't intended as a holiday song, but it's one I often find myself humming around the end of December and start of January: "Nothing Was Delivered," an obscure Bob Dylan...
Tags: Citizen Kane (movie), Argo (movie), Heroin, Drama (genre), Mary Tyler Moore
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Teen fashion maven Tavi Gevinson is 16 going on 30
Tavi Gevinson, for whom we will all work one day, was walking home from school, books pressed to her chest, skirt swishing. It was a portrait of suburban idyll, the first day of class at Oak Park and River Forest High School. And yet, during the first two...
Tags: Taylor Swift, Travel, Teaching and Learning, Trips and Vacations, Social Media
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The funky soul of Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon's new novel, "Telegraph Avenue," is like a child's bedroom overflowing with '70s pop culture — with used vinyl records and Motown name-dropping and cheesy blaxploitation movies, and set against a backdrop of racial identity in...
Tags: George Benson, Washington, DC, Kill Bill (movie), Entertainment Events, Fiction
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A funky throwback
Archy Stallings, the African-American record store merchant at the center (or slightly off center) of Michael Chabon's grand new novel "Telegraph Avenue," lives by his belief that the decade after his 1968 birth "corresponded precisely with the most...
Tags: Literature, Salt, Culture, Maury Povich, Entertainment
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Feedback: If you could dine with an author, who would it be?
Definitely Christopher Fowler, who writes the "Peculiar Crimes Unit" and "Bryant & May" series. He has such a great sense of humor and knows so much about the history of London. His books are so much fun to read. — Rena Gorman, Aurora I would...Tags: Marquis de Sade, Christopher Hitchens, World War I (1914-1918), Literature, Entertainment Events
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Theater review: 'Hands on a Hardbody' is a fun ride
"Hands on a Hardbody," the new musical based on S.R. Bindler's 1997 documentary film about a nutty endurance contest at a Texas auto dealership, pulls off something most pundits would have considered impossible today: This is a Red State musical that Blue...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Theater, Black Swan (movie), International Military Interventions, Wars and Interventions
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New Musical Based on Julie Andrews-Daughter's Book Set For Goodspeed
Hartford CourantJulie Andrews will direct a new musical, "The Great American Mousical," based on a children's book the award-winning actress wrote with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton. The show will receive a workshop production Nov. 8 to Dec. 2 at Goodspeed...Tags: Theater, Disney Channel (tv network), The Sound of Music (movie), Snow White (fictional character), Entertainment
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Eddie Brandt dies at 90; Hollywood's go-to guy for film history, memorabilia
Eddie Brandt's obsession with the movies was evident in his North Hollywood home, which he transformed into an indoor-outdoor theater by installing a film projector on a tiny loft with windows and pointing it toward his yard.
Saturday night was movie...Tags: Armed Forces, Photography and Video, Defense, Steven Spielberg, Kill Bill (movie)
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