Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 7, 2013 “Captain Phillips” tells the true story of Richard Phillips, the Merchant Marine officer whose U.S. cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama, was hijacked by Somali pirates

Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 24, 2013 Legendary jazz pianist Junior Mance left his native Evanston more than half a century ago, but the last time he performed here, in 2011, he

Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 10, 2013 The award-winning director and longtime Evanston resident Jonathan Wilson’s path into the theater world was unusual. In 1967 he was an undergraduate at the formerly

Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 10, 2013 “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
 mere anarchy is loosed upon the world…” “Mere” anarchy? Had William Butler Yeats seen “Gravity,” he would have

Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 26, 2013 The great Zen puzzle of life ­is how to balance living in the moment, mindful and focused on now, versus the need to plan ahead

Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 12, 2013 Call it “The Curse of Woody Allen.” Seemingly talented filmmakers are inspired to clone Allenesque characters whose neurotic, awkward, sometime loutish, usually semi-oblivious and often

Evanston RoundTable, August 29, 2013 Several dozen doggies got in the swim of things at the McGaw YMCA on Aug. 24 at the Y’s first canine swim-in, a fundraiser for

Evanston RoundTable, Aug. 15, 2013 In “Blue Jasmine,” Woody Allen’s latest movie, Cate Blanchett plays Jasmine French, a down-on-her-luck New Yorker forced to move in with her sister in San

Evanston RoundTable, Aug. 1, 2013 It’s ironic and sad that “Fruitvale Station” appeared in movie theaters just days after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin