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On a cool November night, we meet south of Chicago at Bachelor's Grove Cemetery in the
Rubio Woods Forest Preserve in Midlothian, Ill. Unless some observant driver hurtling
through the evening fog on the Midlothian Turnpike happened to spot the muted flashlight
beams jousting on the side of the road, no one probably knows we are there.
Read the full story By Christi Ravneberg
UpFront
Putting beauty on the big screen
Kevin Richey became a believer last week.
Read the full story By Andrew Green
Right Next Door
Medical school, here I come
SATs on steroids, the Medical College Admission Test — MCAT for short — is
the standardized test that can make or break a student's application to medical school.
After hours and sometimes entire summers spent preparing for the exam, most premedical
students breathe a sigh of relief once they complete this foreboding and necessary part of
the journey to become a doctor during their junior or senior year of college.
Read the full story By Lauren Taiclet
Cityscape
Pages of wisdom
Elderly Jewish ladies indulge their cravings for apple-cinnamon rugelach at Gitel's
Kosher Bakery, hungry Russians feast at the Georgian bakery, Indian and Pakistani families
search for authentic spices at the Patel Brothers grocery store and Indian boys glimpse
the beauty of Aishwarya Rai at Bombay Video.
Read the full story Ari Berman Column
Artspace
Wonder woman
With "Candida," George Bernard Shaw created the perfect woman. The show's
namesake is level-headed, frank and intuitive, a far cry from the typically portrayed
passive matron of Victorian times. So of course, the two men in her life — her
husband and her husband's protégé — are both in love with her. Talk about a
problem. These love entanglements seem to be at the center of Shaw's heartwarming comedy,
which opens Friday in the Josephine Louis Theatre at The Theatre and Interpretation
Center.
Read the full story By Erin Verkler
Steaming up Shanley
It's sexy. It's steamy. It's a story of one eccentric film director and his 21 women.
It's "Nine."
Read the full story By Abbie Vansickle
Veteran of the scene
Sam Prekop wears many hats as an artist, but he's best known as the lead singer of
Chicago's The Sea and Cake. Along with bandmates John McEntire, Archer Prewitt and Eric
Claridge, Prekop has led a movement of what critics lazily call "post-rock,"
which tends to include equal doses of clean-tone guitar intricacies, electronic samples,
bossa nova rhythms and engaging pop sensibility. When not playing with the band, Prewitt
moonlights as a solo artist and a well-regarded painter. This Friday, both Prekop and
Prewitt will perform solo sets at the Empty Bottle to benefit the Chicago Women's Health
Center. nyou talked with Prekop to get his take on the show, his new record and his
influences.
Read the full story By Liz Bangs
East or West, action movies are cheesey
Let's get this out of the way. When I say I'm from Korea, please don't ask, "Which
one?" North Koreans generally aren't allowed out.
Read the full story By Hana Kim
Comedy Central's effort is less than heroic
I'm not a black comic, I'm not a white comic, I'm a comedian." With this
statement, Bernie Mac gets to the root of Comedy Central's new Black History Month
documentary series.
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Smaller clubs show Chicago's other side
Abbey Pub and Restaurant
Read the full story By By Ellen Carpenter, Lee Overtree and Dylan Ris
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