Filmmaker, writer and photographer John Waters turns 70 this Friday, April 22, so for this Throwback Thursday, let's take a look at his long career. Waters got his start making wild transgressive camp movies in the 1970s. Using a cast of regulars and a Baltimore setting, his black comedies featured desperate people doing outrageous things. In Pink…
Quiz: Test Your Chicago Movie IQ
Chicago has been the setting and the star of more movies than we can count. How well do you know Chicago in the movies? Test your expertise with our quiz by Tuesday, November 3, and you'll enter a drawing for a free book. We're giving away three copies of The Third Coast, this year's One Book, One Chicago…
Remembering Those Wilder Years on the Tube
I was reading The Wilder Life by Chicagoan Wendy McClure the other day and discovered McClure’s book is one of many attempts to relate how those tales have affected us. One of the observations that McClure makes is that there are essentially two cultures who relate to the stories: those who read the books and those…
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