Rod Blagojevich’s Hair Diaries: First Day in Prison
SKETCH BOOK: Blago reports to prison—and where the ex-gov goes, his hair must follow
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John Carter of Mars? He's from Chicago
Disney’s new blockbuster has its origins at an office at Monroe and Wacker, where failed businessman and pencil-sharpener-agent Edgar Rice Burroughs churned out the serialized tale A Princess From Mars in order to put food on the table.
Chicago Gang-Violence Documentaries Online
The Interrupters hits the Web courtesy of PBS’s Frontline. Plus: The Heart Broken In Half, an old doc by Taggart Siegel and the late Dwight Conquergood; and the eerie, low-budget Great American Youth, a quasi-encomium to the Gaylords.
The History of House Music and Other Things to Watch
Sonali Aggarwal follows up “Whatever Happened to Hip Hop?” with a documentary about Chicago dance music; Jeanne Gang at the Chicago Humanities Festival; William Gibson on the decline of cyberspace.
Five Things to Do This Week
On your agenda: Gorilla-masked feminist avengers swoop into Columbia College … Béla Fleck gets the band back together … A Tennessee Williams classic takes a strange road at Goodman … plus, what the Columbia College associate professor and indie publisher Zach Dodson is doing this weekend.
Reel Chicago Rescues Long-Forgotten Films
REAL TO REEL: With the release of a new DVD series, a school of gritty Chicago filmmaking flickers back to life
Black Composer Florence Price, Rediscovered Again
The New Black Music Repertory Ensemble of Columbia College plays the work of Florence Price, the first black woman to have a composition performed by a major symphony orchestra.
Adam Levin’s ‘Hot Pink’ Book Review
Chicagoan Adam Levin’s new book is a different type of fiction from his debut novel, 2010’s The Instructions, which clocked in at 1,030 pages and took a decade to write. A collection of ten short stories (some previously published in the likes of Tin House and McSweeney’s), Hot Pink’s longest entry tops out at 38 … Read more
Five Best Things to Do in March
THE SHORTLIST: A few musts from this month’s culture calendar
For Fans of Street Photography, All the Charles Cushman You Could Wish For
For years, the Chicago businessman traveled the city and country documenting America (and some of its attractive women) on impossibly vivid Kodachrome. Now Oxford University Press has a celebration of his vast work.