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¶ ¶ Thanks to Peanuts and baseball fan and old pal Mike Jones, head of the Illinois State Lottery.
¶ ¶ Thanks to Peanuts and baseball fan and old pal Mike Jones, head of the Illinois State Lottery.
Cold Dead Hand with Jim Carrey from Jim Carrey
The eve of the birth of the great horse Secretariat, as recounted by William Nack, his bigrapher: The story of Grandpa Joe and Secretariat. I was never, however, as sentimental about Yo-Yos as I later became about movies and Yo-Yos…
Click here for a page of the 2013 CAFC full speeches from the Award Ceremony. And click here for the Honor Roll of Chicago Film Critics' complete list of winners of the 2013 Awards.
Marie writes: You never know know what you'll find each week inside The Ebert Club, such is the multifarious nature of its often gleeful content, not to mention the God-like power of Adobe Photoshop when inspired by casting rumors re:…
Click here to enter this week's contest. A group of my losing entries, plus my one Winner, and the entry the cartoon editor said online that he liked but it didn't quite clear the bar on New Yorker's taste standards.
On St. Patrick's Day in Chicago, back in the day, it seemed as if a good portion of the revelers cycled through O'Rourke's Pub on North Avenue in Chicago. The juke box was loaded with the Clancy Brothers and Tommy…
On St. Patrick's Day I fell to thinking of Shay Duffin, who became a bit of a pal back in the 1970s when he came to Chicago with his one-man show, presenting an evening with Bendan Behan. I found this…
The web site claims: "This Tea Party science fiction movie trailer is better than both 'Atlas Shrugged' movies put together." ¶ ¶ From io9, an often-provocative website, the story of how this trailer is the hit of the current conservative…
