I was a weird kid. When I was in high school, I discovered Harold Pinter and fell in love with his plays. When I auditioned to get in to Rockford College’s theater program I did the en…
SOURCE: Fragments at 02:41PMIt was evening and I decided to go to a bar in Milwaukee I had read on Yelp had a good karaoke night. The bar is located in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood, home of the A…
SOURCE: Fragments at 01:36AM“Why hospital architecture, in particular?” I looked at that question on my Blackberry as my train sped through middle-of-nowhere Michigan. The question came from Neil Steinberg,…
SOURCE: Fragments at 08:40PMAmong the more interesting things I’ve written in my life is a post for Punching a Jayhawk, the blog I write with my sister, entitled “A Review of Drinking a Non-Alcoholic Bevera…
SOURCE: Fragments at 03:09PMThis is the second part in a series of blog posts examining major works of theater that handled AIDS. The previous parts looked at “Angels in America” and “Falsettos.” Th…
SOURCE: Fragments at 11:56PMThis is the second part in a series of blog posts examining major works of theater that handled AIDS. The previous part looked at “Angels in America.” Other blog posts will exami…
SOURCE: Fragments at 01:22AMThis is the first part in a series of blog posts examining major works of theater that handled AIDS. Other blog posts will examine “The Normal Heart,” “Rent” and R…
SOURCE: Fragments at 01:43AMI decided to actually update my blog and since there is a new Disney film being released this month a Disney-related list felt appropriate. (Note: I’m still trying to figure out if I w…
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:35PMMy two main activities this weekend are reading plays and reading about Jane Byrne for a play I’m writing. Among the plays I checked out was “Red Angel” by Eric Bogosian. I…
SOURCE: Fragments at 12:02AMAfter a couple of years of writing about bad music videos for Punching a Jayhawk, the blog I write with my sister, I have learned there are things people consistently do in music videos that…
SOURCE: Fragments at 05:35PMWBEZ has an article on their website about a Kickstarter to create a geek bar in Chicago. (thanks to Anna Tarkov for tweeting about it.) This is a bar for “geeks” to enjoy geeky …
SOURCE: Fragments at 07:40PMI went to Teavana on Thursday while at the mall and after trying tea I found a tea I wanted to get a cup of to go. Plus, Starbucks bought Teavana so my Starbucks card works there. I told the…
SOURCE: Fragments at 02:11PMPreviously: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Cinderella Sleeping Beauty Beauty and the Beast Pocahontas Hercules Atlantis: The Lost Empire The Little Mermaid The Princess and the Frog Brave T…
SOURCE: Fragments at 09:02PMFor a while there’s been talk on the internet of making Rahm Emanuel a mayor who only serves one term because people are displeased with what he’s done while mayor, most recently…
SOURCE: Fragments at 12:00PMThe Tony Awards are a week away and I’m more excited than usual for the Tony Awards because something I saw is nominated. (Well, I saw it in Chicago) As people who watch the Tony Award…
SOURCE: Fragments at 01:59PMThe Congress Plaza Hotel strike ended on Wednesday, almost ten years after it started. The strike is believed to be the longest strike in American history. The end of the strike is a bit of …
SOURCE: Fragments at 03:29PMNews broke yesterday that six have been arrested in an alleged kickback scheme at Sacred Heart Hospital on Chicago’s West Side. According to the Tribune, the hospital was performing un…
SOURCE: Fragments at 06:55PMGood theater moves you. When I was a theater critic I always asked myself if the play moved me emotionally. (The last play to move me emotionally was “The Birthday Party” at Step…
SOURCE: Fragments at 09:20PM(I read this at The Paper Machete on March 10, 2012. With the news of a new strain of bird flu, I felt the time was right to finally post this on my blog.) According to an article in Tuesday…
SOURCE: Fragments at 06:52PM(All data for this post comes from the Illinois Department of Public Health.) The graph above looks at the amount of charity care given by teaching hospitals in Chicago during the 2011 Fisca…
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:09PMPreviously: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Cinderella Sleeping Beauty Beauty and the Beast Pocahontas Hercules Atlantis: The Lost Empire The Little Mermaid The Princess and the Frog Brave F…
SOURCE: Fragments at 11:09PMOver the past two weeks the Chicago Transit Authority has been dealing with a backlash and revelations regarding their new fare system, Ventra. At first glance, Ventra seems like a great ide…
SOURCE: Fragments at 08:30AMThis post, which you are currently reading, is on the Miramax Release of “The Thief and the Cobbler,” which is the one that I imagine most people will leap for since it’s a…
SOURCE: Fragments at 09:42PMPreviously: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Cinderella Sleeping Beauty Beauty and the Beast Pocahontas Hercules Atlantis: The Lost Empire The Little Mermaid The Princess and the Frog As time…
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:54PMPreviously: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Cinderella Sleeping Beauty Beauty and the Beast Pocahontas Hercules Atlantis: The Lost Empire The Little Mermaid Disney released “The Prince…
SOURCE: Fragments at 11:22PMPreviously: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Cinderella Sleeping Beauty Beauty and the Beast Pocahontas Hercules Atlantis: The Lost Empire “The Little Mermaid” was the first film …
SOURCE: Fragments at 11:54PMPreviously: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Cinderella Sleeping Beauty Beauty and the Beast Pocahontas Hercules Disney decided in 2001 to try something new by releasing a movie that was dark…
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:59PMPreviously: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Cinderella Sleeping Beauty Beauty and the Beast Pocahontas Mulan, the titular character of the film “Mulan,” is part of the official D…
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:45PMPreviously: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Cinderella Sleeping Beauty Beauty and the Beast My opinion of “Pocahontas” is known as I nearly eviscerated it when writing The Great …
SOURCE: Fragments at 11:10PMPreviously: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Cinderella Sleeping Beauty After a string of flops in the ’80s, Disney had started to turn things around with the massive success of “…
SOURCE: Fragments at 08:56PM(Due to a long wait for “The Little Mermaid” and “Aladdin” to come from Netflix as well as an inability to obtain a copy anywhere, I’m going to look at movies I…
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