Tuesday, June 4, 2013
For 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…
Linked From Fragments at 02:07PMSunday, June 2, 2013
The 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…
Linked From Fragments at 02:01PMSaturday, June 1, 2013
The 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 …
Linked From Fragments at 07:58PMThursday, April 18, 2013
News 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…
Linked From Fragments at 12:39AMSaturday, April 13, 2013
(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…
Linked From Fragments at 12:26AMGood 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…
Linked From Fragments at 12:26AMThursday, April 4, 2013
(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…
Linked From Fragments at 12:06AMFriday, March 29, 2013
Previously: 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…
Linked From Fragments at 11:52PMMonday, March 25, 2013
Over 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…
Linked From Fragments at 11:36AMSunday, March 24, 2013
This 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…
Linked From Fragments at 11:35PMSaturday, March 23, 2013
Previously: 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…
Linked From Fragments at 11:32PMSunday, March 17, 2013
Previously: 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…
Linked From Fragments at 05:06AMMonday, March 4, 2013
Previously: 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 …
Linked From Fragments at 04:29AMFriday, March 1, 2013
Previously: 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…
Linked From Fragments at 04:23AMSaturday, February 23, 2013
Previously: 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…
Linked From Fragments at 04:07AMMonday, February 18, 2013
Previously: 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 …
Linked From Fragments at 03:54AMSunday, February 10, 2013
Previously: 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 “…
Linked From Fragments at 09:42PMSaturday, February 9, 2013
(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…
Linked From Fragments at 03:36AMFriday, February 8, 2013
Previously: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Cinderella “Sleeping Beauty” is the final film of the Storybook Trilogy, a term I’m using to describe the three Disney Princess …
Linked From Fragments at 03:32AMSaturday, February 2, 2013
Previously: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs All I could remember of watching “Cinderella” when I was little is that I was bored, found the mice annoying and thought that the line…
Linked From Fragments at 03:08AMWednesday, January 30, 2013
The story of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and the story behind the movie are fairly well-known. As many people know, this is the first full-length animated film and the firs…
Linked From Fragments at 02:58AMSaturday, January 26, 2013
In a style similar to my previous blog post series “The Films of Pixar” and “The Great ’90s Animated Film Project,” I will be embarking on a new series of blog …
Linked From Fragments at 08:45PMSaturday, January 12, 2013
Note: This post contains spoilers for all ten seasons of “Law and Order: Criminal Intent.” There was a point in time when the “Law and Order” dominated NBC’s sc…
Linked From Fragments at 07:56PMWednesday, January 9, 2013
Currently the hospitals of Chicago, as well as other cities in Illinois, are seeing such a large amount of flu patients coming in that some are among the 11 hospitals in Illinois that will o…
Linked From Fragments at 07:44PMMonday, December 31, 2012
For the past week-and-a-half I’ve been visiting my mother and sister at their home in the Milwaukee area. This isn’t abnormal at all since I usually visited them during breaks fr…
Linked From Fragments at 07:12PMFriday, November 23, 2012
It’s Thanksgiving in Delta Township, Michigan and the parking lot at Wal-Mart is packed at a little after 9 p.m.. The big box retailer decided to start its Black Friday sales at 8 p.m.…
Linked From Fragments at 10:54PMThursday, November 8, 2012
I love Charles Isherwood’s theater reviews. I don’t always agree with him and there are moments where I do think, “No, Charles. That was not a good move,” but overall…
Linked From Fragments at 09:58PMMonday, November 5, 2012
This is a quick post to answer a question I keep getting in recent days. That question is if Michigan will pass Proposal 2, which would make collective bargaining constitutionally protected …
Linked From Fragments at 03:45PMFriday, September 7, 2012
In the past month, the debate over the old Prentice Women’s Hospital seems to have fired up again. According to Deanna Isaacs of the Chicago Reader, Northwestern University sent out an…
Linked From Fragments at 01:20PMTuesday, August 21, 2012
In 1985, Disney would release an animated film based on Lloyd Alexander’s The Chronicles of Prydian. It would get the first PG rating to ever be given to a Walt Disney film and it woul…
Linked From Fragments at 12:25AMSaturday, August 11, 2012
Disney has a history of taking stories and books and changing them to make them more family friendly. Cinderella lost the cutting off of body parts and added in talking mice. Robin Hood had …
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