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Byron Wilson: Evanston’s ‘Class Act’
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 installed and the original city
‘Magic Mike’ Review: Magical Indeed
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 year with depressing regularity, comic
Surviving a Nazi Firing Squad: Serge Ross’s Story
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 the last century – may
‘Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’: Checking Out
Evanston RoundTable, June 6, 2012 This seems to be the alta cocker feel-good movie of the year. A passel of British geezers on a tight budget move to a colorful
Why We Ride
Letter sent to sponsors after the 500-mile AIDS fundraising bike ride in 2002. There was a small sign above the tent with the jugs of Gatorade and boxes of Power
A Revealing Look Under the Finery of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
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 all part of the setting
Review of “Moneyball”
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 and charm by Brad Pitt)
Review of “Hugo” and “The Artist”
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 it seems we’re talked out.
Review of “Contagion”
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 that there aren’t the requisite