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CIFF TV Awards tip hat to top creatives
Luminaries from Chicago's television, advertising and filmmaking communities filled the ballroom at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel for the 49th Chicago International Film Festival Television Awards gala April 23. More than 300 people were on hand as...
Tags: Bill Kurtis, Arts and Culture, Leo Burnett, Entertainment Events, Culture
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Good Pitch Chicago forum will connect documentary filmmakers with supporters
Chicago's documentary film industry is getting its own high-profile Demo Day. Running concurrently with the Chicago International Film Festival, a group of corporate and nonprofit executives will showcase up to eight unfinished documentary films at a...
Tags: Netflix Inc., Tribeca, How to Survive a Plague (movie), Apple iTunes, The Invisible War (movie)
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Treat Chicago's homicide surge as an epidemic
For once, Chicago has beaten New York in a competition that the Windy City had no desire to win. Chicago ended 2012 with more homicides than New York. No one cheers for that. Chicago, with only a third of New York's population, ended 2012 with 506...
Tags: Interior Policy, Charles Dickens, Crime, Law and Justice, National Rifle Association of America, Politics
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Billy Corgan's salon hopes to inspire conversation
For an establishment called Madame ZuZu's, the host is pretty dressed down: no flowing silk robe or pointy painted fingernails. And even if Billy Corgan could qualify for madame-hood, he wouldn't be going for extravagance. At least not at 6 p.m. on a...
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'Head Games' assesses the price of football ★★ 1/2
Based on the 2006 book of the same title, Steve James' wide-ranging documentary wonders how much we're willing to gamble in our kids' pursuit of sports, to say nothing of the adults, particularly regarding the concussion magnet known as football. "Head...
Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Entertainment, Head Games (movie), Steve James, Sports
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It came from Ray Bradbury
Though known primarily as an author, Ray Bradbury had a fixation with Hollywood. It was inevitable that his skills as a science fiction writer would eventually land him work in the movies. His first gig was with Universal Pictures in the early 1950s,...
Tags: Steven Zeitchik, Higgs Boson Search, Head Games (movie), Cinema Industry, Arts and Culture
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There are no children in Annawadi
Special to Tribune newspapersI've long been a fan of Katherine Boo's writing. In one of my favorite New Yorker stories, about efforts to get the poor to marry, her opening line is a treasure: “One July morning last year in Oklahoma City, in a public-housing project named Sooner...Tags: Entertainment, India, Authors, Chicago Tribune, Steve James
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Stand-up doc 'Bully' is more than a sum of its parts ✭✭✭
There are a hundred reasons "Bully"is a good film instead of a great one, but Lee Hirsch's blood-boiling documentary will very likely end up doing more than its share of good in this world. However sentimental that may sound, this is a film quite...
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Like/dislike: Mike Lowry, drummer, Big in Japan
For Baltimore rockers Big in Japan, having a live show known for improvised music is both exhilarating and nerve-racking.
"The best part is not knowing what's coming next and actually having it turn out to be something transcendent," said drummer Mike...Tags: Bolton Hill, Crime, Law and Justice, The Thing (movie), Apple iPod, Charles Village
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'The Interrupters': Trying to stop the street violence
Zap2ItIt's a war without national boundaries, military uniforms or state-sanctioned weapons. But it is a war and an epidemic of violence raging on the streets of one of the largest U.S. cities. Yet the shootings in Chicago often go ignored. PBS' gripping...Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Jeff Fort, Movies, Harriet Tubman
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