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LATEST ARTICLES ( 49 )

• Les Misèrables

  

  , the musical based on Victor Hugo’s epic novel, is not subtle. It’s all pomp and bombast, every song rising to an explosive crescendo, every performer... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Chris Bowen

  

  is a playwright and a screenwriter. He is a recent graduate of Northwestern’s Writing for the Screen + Stage MFA program, and has had four plays produced in... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Django Unchained

  

  B+Here’s the thing about Django Unchained, the latest adrenaline-fueled film from genre-savant Quentin Tarantino: it’s a fine time at the movies, as... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Michael Van Ness

  

  is a screenwriter currently living in Los Angeles with two dogs, two babies, one wife, and an amorphous pile of chew toys that may have become sentient. Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2013 BOOKS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ben Around: Skyfall

  

  A-CASINO ROYALE brought a little juice back to James Bond, but did Daniel Craig ever actually feel like the 007 we'd known for 50 years? Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ben Around: Zero Dark Thirty

  

  ASome felt Kathryn Bigelow and her emotionally draining Osama bin Laden manhunt thriller "Zero Dark Thirty" got the shaft during Thursday's Oscar nomination... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Graham Flanagan

  

  is a producer for Bloomberg Multimedia in New York City. He is a frequent contributor to the website filmnerds.com and a staff writer for the New York Jazz... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

  

  When director Peter Jackson first pitched his idea to adapt the sprawling, three-book Lord of the Rings series for the big screen, he intended to make two movie... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dan Selcke

  

  is an attorney and freelance writer living in Chicago, IL. He worked at comedy magazine The Onion as part of The Onion Labs, where he submitted jokes,... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• David Kukoff

  

  is a 17-year veteran of the entertainment industry, has 11 produced film and television credits to his name, including the production polish on the hit... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ben Around: Flight

  

  CPardon the pun, but Robert Zemeckis' first live-action film since CAST AWAY manages to nose-dive almost as soon as it takes off because the director forgot... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Liz Ellison

  

  is a Chicago-based playwright. She is a 2012-2013 Core Apprentice at the Playwrights’ Center. Her screenplay FAULT ZONE won a grant from the Alfred P. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Peter Papachronopoulos

  

  A New Hampshire native, Peter Papachronopoulos currently lives in Chicago and works as a staff writer in Groupon's Editorial department. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ben Around: Argo

  

  B+Ben Affleck's best directorial effort (and it's not even close) feels less cinematic than it does like damn good television. And that isn't necessarily a... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Who's Driving This Flying Umbrella?

  "PROTAGONIST PROBLEMS"BUILDING PLOT AROUND YOUR MAIN CHARACTER FADE IN:INT. IN FRONT OF YOUR COMPUTER - NOWSCRIPTED WHIM Be consistent. Your main character is... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Gedalya Chinn

  

  is a storyteller (and so are you). While pursuing a BFA in Acting at the University of Maryland Baltimore County(UMBC), he performed in numerous productions... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 CULTURE

• Maria Ferrari

  

  is a writer and supervising producer on "The Big Bang Theory." Her other television-writing credits include "The Bill Engvall Show" and "How I Met Your... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Jordan Faber

  

  is from Des Moines, Iowa and lives in London, England. She is a screenwriter, fiction writer, playwright and filmmaker. She received her BA in Creative Writing... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2012 BOOKS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Felicia Spahr

  

  Felicia's aspirations are nothing short of being a badass. She's a Long Island native who has city hopped from Chicago to LA and now to San Francisco where she... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Audrey Francis

  

  has acted, directed and taught in Chicago for over 7 years. She is one of the co-founders and proud owners of Black Box Acting, home of The Studio and The... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2012 BOOKS, SELF EXPRESSION