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Filmmaker Malik Bader and the Making of “Cash Only”
In just one month with a budget barely big enough to make a music video, Malik Bader directed a film about an Albanian slum-lord in Detroit called “Cash Only.” A Chicago native, Bader was working on a teen film in Los Angeles when he got an email from Nickola Shreli, an Albanian actor from Detroit. […]
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Black Aldermen Question Dash-cam Video as City Braces for Protests
November 25, 2015 Comments Off on Black Aldermen Question Dash-cam Video as City Braces for Protests
Chicago City Council’s Black Caucus reacted Wednesday to the release of a video showing the shooting of a black teen by a white police officer. A dash-cam video was released Tuesday showing Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald as he walked down the street, away from the officers. McDonald was shot […]
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Pat Boyle Talks Sports and Journalism
November 25, 2015 Comments Off on Pat Boyle Talks Sports and Journalism
Comcast Sportsnet Chicago anchor Pat Boyle won the Midwest Emmy award for Outstanding Achievement for his piece “Individual Excellence on Camera” in 2006. Boyle graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in telecommunications. He worked at ESPN for 4 years until he moved to the Windy City, where he has spent the last 11 […]
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Town Hall Examines Teen Mental Health
November 23, 2015 Comments Off on Town Hall Examines Teen Mental Health
As a child, Kelvin Roston Jr. never invited any friends over to his house. He wasn’t anti-social and he had friends, but his mother had a mental illness and he wasn’t sure how guests would react to her. Beyond the feelings of others, Roston didn’t know how to navigate his own feelings about his mother. […]
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Uptown Residents Use Positive Loitering to Take Back Streets
November 20, 2015 Comments Off on Uptown Residents Use Positive Loitering to Take Back Streets
Residents in the city’s North Side neighborhood of Uptown have launched a new campaign designed to counter panhandlers, street crime and prostitution. They call it Positive Loitering. Positive Loitering is designed to eradicate pubic occurrences of what they call “negative loitering” in the gentrifying Chicago neighborhood. The Uptown Chicago Commission sponsors the program along with […]
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Chicago Board of Education Votes to Close Three Charter Schools
November 19, 2015 Comments Off on Chicago Board of Education Votes to Close Three Charter Schools
As they waved signs displaying witty slogans, passionately chanted phrases, and gave emotional testimony, students, teachers, and parents protested at the Chicago Board of Education meeting Wednesday demanded the board vote against closing four South Side charter schools. In the end the board voted to close two charter schools, the Amandla Charter School and the Barbara […]
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Galati’s East of Eden Showing at Steppenwolf
November 18, 2015 Comments Off on Galati’s East of Eden Showing at Steppenwolf
In celebration of its 40th anniversary, the Steppenwolf Theater Company is presenting its new adaptation of John Steinbeck’s complex novel, “East of Eden,” which focuses on the essence of evil, and mankind’s ability to do good. Adapted by Frank Galati, a director, writer, actor, two-time Tony Award winner, and Steppenwolf ensemble member, “East of Eden” […]
