Saturday, May 19, 2012
Lots of great options for taking in a movie are nearby.
New major releases in theaters this weekend include Battleship, What to Expect When You’re Expecting and The Dictator. Here are some links to local showtimes to make a date of it. Earlier: Golf lessons, military history, plant/bake sale, Spring Fun Fair and more. Also on the list of new movies in theaters this weekend are more limited releases including Chimpanzee, playing at Century 12 in Evanston on Saturday, May 19, at 11:20 a.m. and Mansome, playing six times throughout Saturday at AMC River East 21 in Chicago. Find Patch on Facebook; click like. Stay connected: Receive a daily email from Patch with local headlines. It's free.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
John Sullivan currently teaches investigative reporting at Northwestern University.
The following information was submitted by Oakton Community College. Former Oakton student John Sullivan co-led the team of Philadelphia Inquirer reporters that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service journalism on April 16. Sullivan and his team won the Pulitzer for the seven-part series “Assault on Learning” revealed that violence in the city’s schools was widespread and underreported, with 30,000 serious incidents over the last five school years. Earlier: Maine West students recognized by organization that seeks to prepare emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management. Prior to Oakton, Sullivan worked at an upholstery store for four years and he credits Oakton for putting him on his …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Based on a Danish film, 'Brothers' will challenge the viewer with its strong subject matter. It's a complex drama, centered on the idea that wartime can change a person--and family dynamics--forever.
A tough film to sit through, Brothers is a powerful drama that stays with you long after it ends. My appreciation for this film only increased as I thought more and more about its messages and meaning. Based on a Danish film from 2004, Brdre, this intense story revolves around two brothers. At the beginning of the film, one son, Tommy, is just released from prison. He, naturally, is the black sheep of the family. The favorite son, Sam, is soon to be heading off to Afghanistan for another tour of duty. Earlier: Cecilia reviews another post 9/11 film While in the Middle East, Sam is presumed dead in a helicopter accident. This family, naturally, makes do the best they can to pick up the pieces and Tommy really steps up and helps out Sam’s …
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Check out local movies and showtimes, courtesy of MovieFone.
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
The movie opens at midnight tonight, and a Patch writer dishes on the action. Plus--Who's your favorite Marvel Superhero? Tell us in our poll.
You can see The Avengers when it opens at one minute after midnight tonight at the Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge, AMC Showplace Niles 12 and AMC Showplace Village Crossing 18 in Skokie. I saw the movie at Liberty Theater in Libertyville in a sneak preview hosted by Acura of Libertyville. It delivers with non-stop action interspersed with comedic relief. Expect many of the one-liners to be quoted this summer. This Marvel Film directed by Joss Whedon and expected to be this summer's blockbuster, is great entertainment and not just for comic book fanatics. Take it from someone who easily tires of long action scenes. The superheroes with their unique skills and personalities and the stunning visual effects keep this movie interesting. …
The work of Steven Jay Urry will be featured from May 10 to July 19.
The following information was submitted by Oakton Community College. In the first show that covers Chicago artist Steven Jay Urry’s entire career, Steven Jay Urry: A Retrospective, his sculptures, drawings, paintings, and experimental pieces will be presented in the context of his time. View his life’s work at an exhibition that runs May 10 to July 19, at Oakton’s Koehnline Museum of Art. Steven Urry (1939-1993), born in Chicago, had a brilliant career as an artist constructing abstract welded steel and aluminum sculptures of biomorphic forms. Earlier: Opening day at Arlington Park is on Friday. Urry also lived and worked in San Francisco, New York, Miami, and Arizona. He first drew serious attention in 1966 during his first solo show of …
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Saturday's Craft Supply Swap, held at Morton Grove's Civic Center, attracted about 150 crafters who came to get rid of unused arts-and-crafts items and find new ones.
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Tuesday, April 24
It was a busy morning at Morton Grove’s second Craft Supply Swap, held Saturday at the American Legion Memorial Civic Center. Thirty minutes into the event, about 60 crafters were eagerly checking out tables piled high with boxes of yarn, fabrics, embroidery kits, wreathes, holiday ornaments, scrapbooking paper, patterns and more. In all, nearly 150 attendees took part in the Swap. The Craft Swap, co-sponsored by the Morton Grove Public Library and the Morton Grove Department of Family and Senior Services, encourages the free exchange of crafting supplies between people in need of new materials and people in need of storage space. The Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County—SWANCC—also supported the event. And since attendees were asked…
Thursday, April 19, 2012
The collapse of a large investment bank on Wall Street creates the perfect atmosphere for suspense.
Margin Call is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that I understood very little of. Yes, you read correctly. Let me explain. I am not a finance person. NOT. I know that to save money, you have to set it aside. In a bank. Or under your mattress. Or in a fund. Or in stocks. See, I can handle the first two (bank and mattress). After that, that’s when I encounter the problems. Funds and stocks. Might as well be rocket science and astrophysics. And even though Margin Call deals with figures and facts and all sorts of stuff like that, it still, for a financial dummy like me, holds up as a great, tense thriller. So, basically what I’m saying is I got the gist of the suspense without understanding WHY there WAS suspense. A great …
Friday, March 30, 2012
Reviewer Greta Ulrich of the Niles Library says 'Women of the Silk' chronicles a female silk worker's difficult life, made bearable only by the camaraderie of fellow workers. It's a well-written description of China a century ago, she says.
Book Review: Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama This moving novel is set in China in the early 20th century. Pei, a daughter from a poor, rural family, is sent away by her family to be a silk worker so she can support them with her wages, which will be sent home to them. Pei is considered “too curious” by her family. They think her older sister, Li, has better prospects for a marriage. When Pei is eight years old her father takes her on a long journey to a silk factory and leaves her there. It will be many years before she sees her family again. Pei is initially traumatized to be so far from her family and to have to work from dawn to dusk …
Friday, March 23, 2012
Action, action, and more action.
Not all boys like books (at first, anyway). So, how to get a boy hooked on reading? One way: find out what he likes, give him a book on that, and then introduce him to similar books. Plenty of time later to push for higher reading levels or character-driven books we call “literature.” Boys tend to like action or topics they find exotic (say, trucks or snakes), and there are plenty of such plot-driven and nonfiction books in the Niles Public Library’s Youth Services Department. Let’s start with a book for the very youngest… What boy could resist a zoo animal’s making a dash for freedom? This classic plotline (Curious George did it, for example) gets a new twist in Stephen Savage’s Where’s Walrus? Savage uses no words, only pictures, in this…
Glenn Posner
9:30 pm on Sunday, May 20, 2012
Kudos John...nice job. This recognition absolutely must be satisfying in many ways. Quite frankly, I'm taken back however with even the suggestion that violence in inner city schools (south and west sides in other words) is "underreported." That's all you hear. That's all you read about. There are only so many prime time spots to report these actions. There is only so much journalistc space … more ›