Two days after undergoing brain surgery for a stroke, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk is alert and breathing on his own, doctors say. In fact, he asked for his Blackberry back, Dr. Richard Fessler told reporters at a news conference at Northwestern Memorial Hospital... 

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain , a psychedelic trip about Jesus searching for enlightenment, has attained cult status as much for the story of how Jodorowsky prepared himself and his actors for filming as much as for the film’s... 

Seven of the teens appeared in juvenile court today, and a judge placed them all on electronic monitoring. An eighth teen will be charged as an adult and is held on $100,000 bond. [ more › ] Here is the original post:  8th Teen Arrested For Brutal... 

Spielberg’s out as Best Director? Good! And how did “The Help” and “Extremely Loud” get placed in the same echelon as “The Tree of Life”? Dann Gire’s take-down of the Oscar nominations begins here. Read... 

“Hugo,”director Martin Scorsese’s nostalgic reflection on the early days of movies, led the pack of this year’s Academy Awards nominations with 11, but the real front runner, with 10 nominations, is another movie in love with an... 

In the early 1990s, Joe Principe could usually be found at McGregor’s in Elmhurst or at Metro in Chicago, seeing punk rock bands like Bad Brains, Bad Religion, Green Day, Screeching Weasel or Naked Raygun. “We would go see any band play, whether... 

THEATER REVIEW: “Race” at the Goodman Theatre ★★★½ David Mamet figured out that the one problem with all those careful plays about racism is that many of them are, well, boring. See the original post: Arguments in ‘Race’... 

Scrap metal thieves used two semi-trucks to dismantle and haul off an entire building in the Chicago suburb of Shorewood. [ more › ] View original here:  Scrap Metal Thieves Dismantle An Entire Building  Read More →

Eric Fisher has a keen interest in “understanding the workings of cities.” Fisher uses geotagging to get a bearing on how people in urban areas travel from one place to another. [ more › ] Excerpt from:  Geotagging How We Move  Read More →

A DuPage County judge sentenced 39-year-old Robert Lyons to 40 years in prison for killing his mother after she wouldn’t use a hookup to score him Avril Lavigne tickets in 2008. [ more › ] Read the original post: Man Who Killed Mother Over...