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'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo': Craig, Mara star in sleek, slick, sick adaptation -- 3 stars
Director David Fincher's deluxe edition of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is the most coldly compelling version yet of the tale dreamed up by the late Stieg Larsson, whose "Millennium" trilogy of pulp novels remains the time-killer of choice in...Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, Steven Berkoff, Stellan Skarsgard, Entertainment, Se7en (movie)
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No blank check for criminals
Some people should not be trusted with access to firearms. On that point almost everyone agrees, the only debate being where to draw the line. But no one thinks that if the Unabomber had his sentence commuted, the Second Amendment would entitle him to...
Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Personal Weapon Control, Criminals, Wayne LaPierre, Crime, Law and Justice
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John Landecker: One heck of a life
Being John Landecker might have been a great deal more fun decades ago than it is today, but if you had led the raucous and substance-abusing life that Landecker lived decades ago, you might not be around today. But here is Landecker, looking fit and trim...
Tags: Weight, Radio, Radio Industry, Authors, Fiction
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Rushing Headlong
Are we rushing headlong into new technology with breakneck speed at our own peril? I ask this because I often think we are. It could be I’m just becoming the curmudgeon I thought my dad was. Now I wonder if I’m just becoming that worst of...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Entertainment, Gaming, Henry Ford
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Holocaust Museum's message: Don't bully
The little girl is only 8, and so she does not yet read newspapers or watch or listen to the local news. But she knew of the death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton — some of the older kids she knows had been talking about it. So last Sunday, some...
Tags: Dave Barry, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Sam Harris
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Taking on Hitler, and our perceptions
Back to Back Theatre, the Australian company passing through Chicago this weekend at the Museum of Contemporary Art, is a theater group comprising almost entirely of actors perceived to be intellectually disabled. Such an endeavor can paralyze a critic...
Tags: Celebrities, Arts, Arts and Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
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Being numb to it all no longer big shock
Sometime in the next few weeks, if you're walking down Fullerton Avenue around DePaul University and have 15 minutes to spare, duck into the tidy brick building alongside the CTA station. Here you will find the DePaul Art Museum, an institution so...
Tags: Goodman Theatre, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Bars and Clubs, Chicago Transit Authority
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Lyric's take on 'Meistersinger' adheres to tradition
The stunt involving a fire-spitting stilt walker that went awry at last week's dress rehearsal for Lyric Opera's new production of "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" threatened to steal the thunder from the show itself. That it did not was a tribute to...
Tags: Music Industry, Andrew Davis, Arts and Culture, Culture, Entertainment
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Both sides at fault on gun control controversy
So the nuts are falling from the left and from the right, and this strange winter of discontent on the issue of gun control has led to the cancellation of North America's largest consumer-oriented outdoors show: not gun show, mind you, but outdoors show....Tags: Weaponry, Personal Weapon Control, Allentown, NBC (tv network), Wayne LaPierre
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Reawakening the ghosts of Skokie
To me, a kid growing up in the 1960s and '70s, Skokie seemed like any other suburb, its tidy houses sitting on impeccably manicured lawns. Sure, on Friday nights and Saturday mornings you'd sometimes see Hasidic Jews strolling to and from synagogue....Tags: Richard Speck, Arts, U.S. Supreme Court, Skokie, PBS (tv network)
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'Everything Is Illuminated': A complex work on Next's stage
You've doubtless pondered the role that chance plays in life — who wins, who loses, who lives, who dies. “Everything is Illuminated,” the moving new play on offer at the Next Theatre in Evanston, ponders an especially intriguing piece of...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Ukraine, Human Interest, Judaism, Religion and Belief
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Richard Wagner: Separating the man from the music
"Just because he may have been a nasty little man and a nasty anti-Semite doesn't mean that his music is not as supreme as it is." That assessment comes from a Richard Wagner scholar in the documentary "Wagner & Me" (at the Siskel Film Center through...
Tags: Israel, Entertainment Events, Festive Events, BBC, Barbara (movie)
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