Do you like it? It’s sure got a ring to it
Just the other day I was sitting at my desk, thinking of new and innovative ways to save journalism, when I stumbled, as one tends to do when one is...
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Even now, life’s lessons still flow freely from ‘Free to Be’
By most accounts, historical and otherwise, 1973 wasn't a particularly stellar year. The Watergate scandal was unfolding. Gas stations were low on gas. And the New York Mets lost the...
This man at his best
George Clooney danced with 10 slightly giddy women. LeBron James played basketball -- using his own avatar -- on an Xbox. David Chang and four friends got monumentally, rip-roaringly, take-your-shirt-off...
‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2’ stars America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn, Blake Lively, Alexis Bledel
In the current popular culture, female friendships—at any age—are generally considered secondary to life's "important" relationships, the romantic bonds between men and women. Nowhere is this depressing trend more evident...
Siskel Center hosts international buffet
The dollar may not be much against the euro these days, but your dollar can buy a very impressive line-up of films offered by the Gene Siskel Film Center's 11th...
A HERO IN FULL
As a child, Orville Vernon Burton had two heroes: Abraham Lincoln and Jesse James. "I'm almost ashamed of the second one," Burton laughs through his rich Southern drawl. "But for...
THE PULL OF BATTLE
Robert Olmstead never meant to write "Coal Black Horse," his stunning Civil War novel about a boy and a horse on a quest. Growing up in New Hampshire, Olmstead was...
‘Flying’ filmmaker’s many issues lighter than doc’s charms
'Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman' ** 1/2 We all have one: that friend who is so profoundly narcissistic, so unabashedly self-involved in her admittedly entertaining life, that we occasionally...
Edgy ‘Them’ a satisfying horror treat
'Them' *** Clementine and Lucas (Olivia Bonamy and Michael Cohen) are French ex-pats living in a sprawling, dilapidated house on the outskirts of Bucharest, Romania. She teaches her native tongue...
Plenty violent ‘Live Free’ one with its franchise
'Live Free or Die Hard' *** The following is a recap of Tribune staff reporter Jessica Reaves' review of "Live Free or Die Hard," which ran in Wednesday's Tempo section....