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Celluloid and Cellulite

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Two things everybody around here is talking about: fashion and film. We’re coming upon Fashion Focus Chicago, a week of hoopla surrounding local designers and local retailers. I’ll be blogging the whole thing, camera in tow. It’s also time for the Chicago International Film Fest. And since I can’t possibly be two places at once, I’m thrilled that Chicago‘s web editor, Esther Kang, will be scouting the fest. So for the next few weeks of Coda, you get two bloggers instead of one! Read her scoop on opening night…

Windy Indies

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October brings cinema paradiso for film buffs. But for the rest of us, there is a sudden superabundance of esoteric imagery, offbeat venues, and C-list directors and actors. Where’s the best stuff? Chicago asked a film fest vet to draft a cheat sheet.

A Classic Act

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With a passion for tradition, the investment guru Richard Driehaus has become one of the city’s most dedicated advocates for historic preservation. This fall, he takes his commitment further by opening a museum of decorative arts in a phenomenally lavish 19th-century mansion on the Near North Side.

To Mexico, with Love

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Forty years later, through writing The Defiant Muse, Chicago playwright Nicholas A. Patricca has finally accomplished his goal of getting to know Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.