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SOMETHING UP HIS SLEEVE A new Muppet series at the Siskel pays ode to Jim Henson’s legacy.
THE FIVE
Don’t-miss picks for Wed 11.04.09 through Tue 11.10.09:
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film Muppets, Music & Magic: Jim Henson’s Legacy ALSO THIS WEEK: Reeling, the world’s second-oldest lesbian and gay film fest, returns with flicks including closing night’s Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!, starring cinema’s go-to melodramatic mom Lainie Kazan (Beaches, My Big Fat Greek Wedding); plus, Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema and Polish Film Festival in America broaden our movie-going horizons. |
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lit Margaret Atwood ALSO THIS WEEK: The curtain rises on the 20th annual Chicago Humanities Festival, with bigwigs from the worlds of movies, TV, and theatre: filmmaker Harold Ramis (Nov 4), Simpsons creator Matt Groening (Nov 5), playwright Tony Kushner (Nov 8), and Daily Show correspondent John "I’m a PC" Hodgman (Nov 10). |
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concerts Stefon Harris ALSO THIS WEEK: Top jazz improvisers from Chicago, New York, and Europe converge at the Umbrella Music Festival to shake the remaining leaves from the city’s trees; the immensely talented Dee Dee Bridgewater offers a fearless ode to the most imposing of jazz’s big three ladies in To Billie with Love. |
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dance River North Chicago Dance Company ALSO THIS WEEK: Timeline Theatre stages When She Danced, a portrait of the modern dance matriarch Isadora Duncan as a middle-aged woman; the avant-garde French choreographer Anne Collod revisits Parades & Changes, a seminal experimental work by the 89-year-old and still vital American counterculture dancemaker Anna Halprin. |
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architecture A Conversation with the Critics: Imagining the Future of the City ALSO THIS WEEK: Score insider views on an architecture tour of the Spertus; these behind-the-scenes peeks are even rarer now that the museum has drastically cut back its public hours. |
FREEBIE OF THE WEEK
lit Adam Langer
If you missed writer Michael Chabon’s moving talk a few weeks back on his new book, Manhood for Amateurs, and the art of being a dad, don’t make the same mistake when the local son and Crossing California author Langer reads from his own new book, My Father’s Bonus March, a portrait of both Langer’s father, Seymour, and Seymour’s Depression-era generation.
GO: Nov 5 at 6. Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, Harold Washington Library, 400 S State. chipublib.org
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