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Chicagoist's Reading Round-Up: All About Attitude

Chicagoist's Reading Round-Up: All About Attitude

While there are plenty of memoirs, wannabe epic love stories, and bildungsromans emerging with the craze of spring fever, there are some books here to stave us away from the puff pieces, or at least to keep our sarcasm in tact. more ›

From the Vault of Art Shay: Mentors Amongst the Raptors

       

Today, Art looks back at those who mentored him and those he's mentored over his life. more ›

A Self-Portrait from the Outside

A Self-Portrait from the Outside

Filmmaker Taylor Greeson was twelve years old in 1993. That summer, three things occurred: he was ordained with the priesthood in the Mormon church, he lost his virginity to an older man and his older brother Charlie was murdered. Using montages of family photographs and pastoral footage of Montana, where he lived at the time, Greerson revisits that summer in Meadowlark. He uses a cool, seemingly-detached perspective that drains any traces of sensationalism from the events. His unflappability extends even to sequences where he interviews his brother's killer in prison. It's a horse of a different color compared to daytime TV. more ›

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