Saturday, 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…
SOURCE: Fragments at 01:14AMThursday, February 7, 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 …
SOURCE: Fragments at 11:05PMFriday, February 1, 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…
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:35PMTuesday, January 29, 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…
SOURCE: Fragments at 11:12PMSaturday, 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 …
SOURCE: Fragments at 03:17PMSaturday, 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…
SOURCE: Fragments at 03:02PMWednesday, 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…
SOURCE: Fragments at 03:57PMMonday, 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…
SOURCE: Fragments at 03:51PMFriday, 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.…
SOURCE: Fragments at 07:00PMThursday, 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…
SOURCE: Fragments at 09:33PMMonday, 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 …
SOURCE: Fragments at 03:37PMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:10AMMonday, August 20, 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…
SOURCE: Fragments at 09:23PMSaturday, 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 …
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:37PMMonday, June 25, 2012
Previously: Mulan, The Swan Princess, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, The Prince of Egypt, Anastasia, Quest for Camelot, Tarzan, The Iron Giant, The King and I, The Lion K…
SOURCE: Fragments at 01:08PMThursday, May 24, 2012
In the past six months I’ve had the unfortunate pleasure of watching two colleges in two different states go through a process to eliminate various programs. The two colleges are Colum…
SOURCE: Fragments at 02:32PMThursday, May 10, 2012
At one point, the Brown Line of the Chicago “L” had numerous ads urging riders to do something to save Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital, which used to be…
SOURCE: Fragments at 07:48PMMonday, May 7, 2012
Previously: Mulan, The Swan Princess, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, The Prince of Egypt, Anastasia, Quest for Camelot, Tarzan, The Iron Giant The King and I The final po…
SOURCE: Fragments at 02:57PMTuesday, May 1, 2012
Catharsis is what the Greek tragedians wanted at the end of the play. The word in Greek is κάθαρσις. It means to purge or clean. In this case it means a purging of emotions. The a…
SOURCE: Fragments at 08:18PMWednesday, April 4, 2012
On April 1, I became eligible to upgrade from my then-current phone, an HTC Evo 4G. I had many problems with the Evo, including its battery life, small hard drive space, tendency to put apps…
SOURCE: Fragments at 12:37AMFriday, March 30, 2012
After I moved back to Iowa in 2010 I got a job working as a sales associate for Younkers, a department store that anchored the local shopping mall. The department I frequently worked in was …
SOURCE: Fragments at 04:22PMFriday, February 3, 2012
Previously: Mulan, The Swan Princess, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, The Prince of Egypt, Anastasia, Quest for Camelot, Tarzan, The Iron Giant Shall I tell you what I thi…
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:22PMWednesday, January 11, 2012
When I glimpse at the homepage on Facebook, which is currently closed on my browser while I have Reuters, the Tribune and the New York Times open, I tend to see a lot of news-related links t…
SOURCE: Fragments at 11:11AMSunday, December 25, 2011
For the past two weeks there has been an uproar over Lego’s new line, Lego Friends. The line is targeted towards girls and includes characters that are vetranarians and horse groomers.…
SOURCE: Fragments at 11:42PMThursday, December 15, 2011
If you aren’t friends with people from Iowa, you may have missed Stephen Bloom’s Atlantic piece on Iowa and the fury it is inciting. The issue is mostly that Bloom, who is a teac…
SOURCE: Fragments at 11:49AMWednesday, December 7, 2011
I realize it might be my ignorance because I stopped seeing four plays a week more than a year-and-a-half ago, but I have no clue what the term “Chicago-style” theater means. I k…
SOURCE: Fragments at 01:08PMTuesday, December 6, 2011
The big Chicago media news today is that the Sun-Times will now be using a “metered method” for views of their articles. Readers will get 20 free views before they will require a…
SOURCE: Fragments at 08:34PMSaturday, December 3, 2011
La Cage Aux Folles, is coming to Chicago at the end of the month for a run from Dec. 20—Jan. 1. I will miss it since I will be in Milwaukee for a much-needed vacation, even though it is on…
SOURCE: Fragments at 08:39PMMonday, November 7, 2011
There were some awards presented at tonight’s Jeff Awards that felt like someone was robbed, such as Jennifer Lim not winning for her outstanding performance in Chinglish, which was on…
SOURCE: Fragments at 11:10PMWednesday, November 2, 2011
At the beginning of Cars 2, the audience is treated to a spy and espionage opening where Finn McMissile (Michael Caine) comes onto a cargo ship in search of one of his operatives, Leland Tur…
SOURCE: Fragments at 01:57PMThursday, September 29, 2011
Yesterday I posted a quote on my Tumblr discussing “What Would Be America’s National Theatre?” and then proceeded to say, “The Goodman Theatre is not better than Step…
SOURCE: Fragments at 10:13PM 
