by Christopher Hudgens | Sep 16, 2009 | Blog
The Chicago Public Library “Sound Off” is holding a music contest that is open to everyone who can apply for a library card (14+). From rappers, crooners, punk, rock, indie, ska, professionals, amateurs, the Library is looking to showcase the best that...
by Christopher Hudgens | Sep 16, 2009 | Blog, TV
Some people know a Rube Goldberg by the game Mousetrap but the idea is how can you take a simple action like turning on a lamp or closing a door and make it the most complicated elaborate and complex action posible where you still only do one human action and momentum...
by Claudine Isé | Sep 16, 2009 | Blog
Looks pretty intense. The film looks at the 1954 CIA coup in Iran from the perspective of two different women. It won Neshat the best director award at the Venice Film Festival, but apparently some of the initial newspaper reviews are coming in mixed. (Via L.A....
by Claudine Isé | Sep 16, 2009 | Blog
Remember the “North Carolina Sewer Monster” from last Spring (which turned out to be not a monster exactly but a roiling pile of worms)? Yes, I know you tried really hard to burn the image of that creature out of your memory through heavy drinking and a...
by Claudine Isé | Sep 16, 2009 | Blog
Here’s our midweek summary of this n’ that and other chit-chat happening in the world of art and beyond. *Keith Olbermann gives Christopher Knight “Best Person in the World” status for pointing out potentially communist imagery in right-wing...
by Meg Onli | Sep 15, 2009 | Blog
Let me preface this by saying that I am not stoned. But, I seriously wished I was when I watched this week’s pick. Be prepared to be entranced by the skills of Michael Moschen, a fit man with some serious juggling skills. Who knew there was such a thing as...
