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Last year when we posted about Crispin Glover coming to Chicago with his film What Is It?, we had no idea it would trigger a rather heated discussion about the nature of art and of provocation's role in art. We were also surprised that, well, that many other people saw the film; after all, a film with a naked woman in a monkey mask jacking off a man with severe cerebral palsy isn't exactly aiming...

Crispin Hellion Glover's appearance in Chicago this weekend at The Music Box promised to be a unique experience, but even a full knowledge of the man's past history, and a genuine appreciation for his independently released book and recordings, could not prepare us for his film What Is It?. Glover's slideshow/book reading was entertaining for the most part, though he could've cut two or three selections and tightened the whole thing up a lot more....

Plenty to do on this lazy Sunday, and oh yes, this includes toys and circus cats. As always, feel free to add more events in the comments section. From 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. today the 2006 Chicago International Toy and Game Fair takes place at the Schaumburg Convention Center. There will be a giant 8-foot jenga, a moonwalk, other giant board games, and huge slides. We don't feel we offer enough kid friendly events...

Most of us know Crispin Glover from the role which he will be forever associated with: that of Marty McFly’s dad in Back to the Future. (His most famous line of dialog, of course, “Get your damn hands off her!”) But aside from the dozens of quirky performances he’s given over the years (the Christmas-obsessed weirdo in Wild at Heart being our favorite), Mr. Glover is also an accomplished artist, writer, musician and filmmaker. He...

While we're always a bit apprehensive about lending too much credence to polls, the latest USA Today/CNN Gallup poll reports that 54 percent of the sample agrees that "the United States made a mistake in sending troops to Iraq". That percentage is as high as it's ever been. In the second half of June 2004 the same percentage of respondents agreed that the U.S. had made a mistake in Iraq. That was approximately a year...

He�s Illinois� newest celebrity, video-camera-toting, senate-candidate-stalking, Justin Warfel. �The Jack Ryan for Senate aide actually gets paid to follow Democratic U.S. Senate Nominee Barack Obama across the state, and to video tape his every move. �Oppo research is a plum job for ambitious young campaign staff, and this kind of thing isn�t all that unusual in major campaigns these days. �But Warfel has gotten too close for Barack�s comfort, so Chicago City Council mover-n-shaker Ald. Ed Burke (14th) wants to fix that by creating a 20-foot �zone of personal privacy� around anyone who doesn�t want to be photographed. �We at Chicagoist immediately see benefits to this new ordinance, since we are constantly dragged down by our many fans attempting to photograph our every move. �Imagine this conversation: