As we honor Martin Luther King, Jr., this national holiday weekend, I’d like to focus on his mentor and adviser Bayard Rustin (1912-1987), whose 100th birthday we mark this year. For both African American men, Chicago served as important preparatory gr... »
Michael W. Phillips is going all out for Friday night’s South Side Projections event, hosted by Pilsen’s Roxaboxen Exhibitions. The night kicks off at 7:00 PM with a screening of Jack Smith’s avant-garde masterpiece Flaming Creatures (1963), followed b... »
Throughout December, Ben Sachs and I will take turns writing about our ten favorite films that had their Chicago premieres this year. No movie in 2011 inspired more debate than Terrence Malick’s metaphysical epic The Tree of Life: people either loved i... »
Michael W. Phillips is going all out for Friday night’s South Side Projections event, hosted by Pilsen’s Roxaboxen Exhibitions. The night kicks off at 7:00 PM with a screening of Jack Smith’s avant-garde masterpiece Flaming Creatures (1963), followed b... »
