Navy Pier, Chicago’s iconic cultural destination,will host Chicago LIVE Again!—a free, two-day outdoor festival to celebrate Chicago’s arts and entertainment industry as it makes its triumphant return to live stages…
Read moreMelvin Van Peebles was a bridge between the French New Wave and Blaxploitation. His independent classic, the highest grossing self-produced film to that point, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” without hyperbole,…
Read moreI was with Kate on an early summer day in Times Square when I got the call. It was Mick LaSalle, the movie critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. He…
Read moreThe documentary “The Most Beautiful Boy in the World” opens on a disturbing note: an aged Björn Andrésen, now 66 years old, walks slowly down a dilapidated, empty, blue-lit hallway.…
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