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6 Days / 49 Films

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Richard Guzman

FILM CENTRAL Second Annual Fall Festival, Sept. 16-21, presents 49 films from 6 states and 16 countries. For the second year in a row North Central College will be one of the four sites of the Fifth Annual Naperville Independent … Continue reading →

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A second look at Fox News

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Richard Guzman

I’m mostly—though not entirely—liberal, and for me that means I have not watched Fox News for more than a few minutes at a time for many years. Even if you’re just moderately liberal, you have to be more patient than I am to … Continue reading →

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Sterling Plumpp salutes Von Freeman

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Richard Guzman

Von Freeman, one of Chicago’s titanic tenors, passed away this August, and his passing brought to mind the most beautiful lines ever written about him: “Be-Bop is precise clumsiness.       Awkward lyricism       under a feather’s control. A world in a crack. … Continue reading →

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