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Pinball Wizard Writes the Tunes, Also Beeps and Boops
Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 11, 2012 Everyone of a certain age will remember the sprightly synthesizer tune that played as Mario scooted along in the wildly popular 1980s video game “Super
Review of “The Intouchables”
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 27, 2012 Hospice training sometimes includes an exercise in which participants are asked to list the 10 activitites that give them the most pleasure, such as hobbies,
“The Swerve” – A Joyful Ride Through Intellectual History
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 13, 2012 In the winter of 1417, Poggio Bracciolini set out for a remote mountain-top monastery to seek out a manuscript he thought might change Western civilization.
‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’: A Universe Apart
Evanston RoundTable, August 16, 2012 “To see a world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower/Hold infinity in the palm of your hand/And eternity in an
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