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Pushing buttons: Chicagoans help us wear our pride

Dave Hoekstra: A playful twinkle dots the eyes of Christen Carter, owner of the Busy Beaver Button Co. She is sitting at the kitchen table of her Logan Square apartment with the company's operations manager, Alex White. They...

Review: Tegan and Sara - Riviera Theatre, Chicago

It’s a Thursday night at the Riviera Theatre. I’ve never been in a room so plum full of estrogen before in my entire life—all-girl freshman college dormitory included. It’s pretty intense. Somewhere between 8 and 8:30 pm the...

BACKFIELD EMOTION

'THE Express" is a decent football movie, just about good enough to be the 40th best episode of "Friday Night Lights" . . . which has aired 39 episodes. Rob Brown, a likable if bland actor with an eager apple-pie face, plays...

Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Nick and Norah's Knocks Vicky Down

Last week, we predicted that New Yorkers would defend Woody’s honor against the latest onslaught of fall films and keep Vicky Cristina Barcelona safely ensconced in the top ten. We weren’t entirely wrong. Though Vicky’s...

Shlachter & Co.: Ross store will be named in honor of Allan Saxe

Arlington’s Allan Saxe has a park, dental clinic and art gallery named in his honor, so why not a store? Saxe, a popular political science professor at the University of Texas at Arlington and a community activist and...

WRY FIDELITY TO A GENRE

FIFTEEN years after this city was reborn, it's about time we had a "Dazed and Con fused" or "Sixteen Candles" or "Superbad" set in Man hattan. "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" is in the special ed class compared to those...

GONE WITH THE WINDSHIELD-WIPER LAWSUIT

GREG Kinnear, one of the most underrated utility players in contemporary Hollywood, shines with an awards- caliber glow as an inventor fighting the system in "Flash of Genius." Currently in first-rate form as a sarcastic spirit...

RICH & FAMOUS BUT NO LIFE, STYLE

ANY movie in which the hero accidentally kills a Chihuahua can't be a total loss, but "How To Lose Friends & Alienate People" comes pretty darned close. Very loosely based on Toby Young's dishy exposé about his brief,...

Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Shia LeBeouf and Eagle Eye No. 1

We knew it couldn’t have lasted for long, and neither, surely, did the Coens. The brothers’ Burn After Reading fell to second place after just two weeks atop Manhattan’s box office charts. The responsible parties: D.J....

Manhattan Weekend Box Office: Coens Laughing All The Way To The Bank

It’s a sad day in Gotham—The Dark Knight has finally fallen. After an unprecedented nine weeks in Manhattan’s box office top ten, Christopher Nolan’s landmark film fell from seventh place to the hinterlands beyond the...

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