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Marcusist, if your bike helmet weren't so gaudy and IN THE WAY of the two lanes of traffic behind you, I bet you wouldn't get so condescending to your readers. I interpreted his comment as that of, "...

I think Hollywood is pretty attuned to our love of the ironic bad, and and has been offering its own versions—some good (the Jason Statham Crank series) and some bad (Snakes on a Plane). So, I would...

I see where the confusion is. Instead of highlighting It's been years since Wicker Park was actually ground zero for good music I should have highlighted: Wicker Park Fest Finally Gets A Cool Line-...

It's a street festival. Lame crowds are a given. It's about a surprising as calling a Neo-Nazi gathering "overwhelmingly white." I Godwin's Law'd that Godwin's Law!...

Oh, the point I was trying to make is that the Wicker Park Fest—despite the neighborhood's reputation for "yupster" hell—always manages to fill its line-up with pretty solid choices. And this is comin...

When I was 15, Ian Mackaye wrote me a check. It never made it to the bank, but was promptly tacked to my bedroom wall....

It's been years since Wicker Park was actually ground zero for good music Really? I always thought the Wicker Park Fest actually went far deeper (and much more informed) than the rest of the summer f...

At the San Diego Comicon, Max Records preceeded the preview clips with a message from Maurice Sendak that he had wrote on his hand: "I love this film very much, and I hope you like it too. If not, th...

I was hoping for them to get Haneke's The White Ribbon in there. Oh well. The CIFF certainly has an extensive line-up, but I always get a little bummed out with the programming when they release the ...