Evanston RoundTable, July 19, 2012 When Byron Wilson moved to Evanston in 1930, there were no streetlights, the first dial telephone service had just been — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, July 19, 2012 If you love good movies, thank Steven Soderbergh for saving your summer. Yes, the season that brings you, year after — Read More
Every life is unique, of course, but the generation now rapidly passing from us – the so-called Greatest Generation, those born in the first part of — Read More
Chicago Sun-Times, December 14, 1980 The faded signs, the old-fashioned grocery and soda fountain and the muted grays and browns of a three-story walkup are — Read More
Evanston Roundtable, Oct. 11, 2011 There’s a key scene near the end of “Moneyball” when Oakland Athletics’ general manager Billy Beane (played with great energy — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 5, 2012 Silent movies all but disappeared 80 years ago, replaced not by something better, but by something newer, the talkies. Now — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 27, 2011 Steven Soderbergh’s movie “Contagion” manages to do for global pandemics what porn does for sex: make it look phony. Not — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 22, 2011 He built one of the nation’s most important law-enforcement agencies, routed the Bolsheviks and anarchists in the 1920s, jailed scores — Read More