Founded in 2008, the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women is a charter school with a goal of seeing all its graduates succeed in college. Its educators and administrators set high standards and expect greatness from the girls in their charge. Academics are paramount, and failure is not an ...
Review: The Big Sick
Two pieces of information preceded my screening of The Big Sick, Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon's adaptation of their real-life, unconventional love story, and I'm afraid those two pieces of information ultimately impacted my enjoyment of this quite lovely, quite wonderful, modern romantic ...
The Shape of This Thing
Though I left my last employer at the end of February, I only formally announced my latest professional endeavor a couple of weeks ago. Which means in the intervening weeks and months, I didn't really have a lot going. Sure, I was working here and there. And I did take a trip to Paris. But ...
Review: Baby Driver
In the opening credits of Baby Driver, the latest from filmmaker Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim v. the World) there's a choreographer acknowledged among the various producers and crew. After a spectacular opening heist scene - a three-man bank robbery and a getaway of masterful stunt ...
Alright, so we’re doin’ this.
Over the last couple of months, I've been working on something. Yesterday, I finally put it out into the world. I officially launched 11th Street Lot, my one-woman marketing and publicity agency. It's scary and thrilling and empowering and daunting, and I know it's exactly the right next move for ...
Chicago List: Out of Hibernation
It's been a while since I drafted a new list of things to do around the city. With summer ramping up, it seemed a perfect time to build out something fresh, a brand new list of what I'm looking forward to doing and seeing and experiencing as the city comes out of hibernation. ...
Extra, Extra
As I look for creative ways to fill my time (and pay my rent), I finally looked into a link a coworker had sent me once, for an agency called 4Star Casting. Based here in the city, they're an extras and background casting agency that provides warm bodies for everything from emergency scenes in ...
Review: Band Aid
I don't remember exactly when I became a fan of Zoe Lister-Jones, but it happened at some point, because now I follow her on Instagram. Last July, she posted a headline that she'd be making her directorial debut with Band Aid, a feature she also wrote and would produce and star in. By January, ...
Walk With Me
I recently made a change in my employment status, stepping away from the formality of full-time office work in order to pursue my own client work (and preserve my sanity). It's been a great few months, and things are starting to come together (though not to the point that I'm ready to blog about it ...
Preview: Chicago Critics Film Festival
Though the heyday of Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel has passed, Chicago boasts a strong showing in film criticism these days. The guys (because it's mainly guys) who make up the Chicago Film Critics Association work hard across outlets to cover film releases and happenings around the city. On ...
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