In just over a week, I head off for a long weekend in NYC. Returning just about a year after I moved away, it's the first time I'll be back to the Big Apple since then (with the exception of a whirlwind 24 hour trip for a film event late last summer). I've stayed away until now for several reasons, ...
Content here, there…everywhere!
I was an early cord cutter, a combination of my nomadic lifestyle of late and the limited funds with which I've been living it. After the first year or so without basic cable, I not only didn't miss it but I was grateful to not have that time suck on my radar, a DVR filling up with hours of ...
Dinner and a show – for one
January was a slow month for me. Blame it on the weather, coupled with some soul-searching I'd rather not get into here (yet). Regardless, I couldn't quite find the motivation to get out and about even as the days started getting longer, if only by minutes. So as a new month rolled around, I ...
On Renewal
This time last year, I was in conversation about a potential new job that would have me move back to my hometown for work I'd spent a decade preparing for. All the puzzle pieces fit nicely together and at the end of March I bade farewell to my dear New York City, making the cross-country trek back ...
Chicago Adventure: Next Level
Last year as I settled into my new life in Chicago, I set about discovering what kind of adventures I could explore in my (new again) hometown. The result was an extended list of lists, what I called my Chicago Lists - interesting and slightly off the beaten path ideas for getting out and about in ...
2015 [in films]
When you've seen 160 films in the span of 365 days, you'd think it'd be easy to pick your favorites. You've seen enough that the cream should theoretically rise to the top, leaving all the mediocre movies to fade into memory. I suppose when I get down to it, that's true. I can tell you what my ...
2015 [in films – foreign]
As you may've already heard, I saw 160 films in 2015. And thanks to some seriously geeky tracking, I can tell you that a whopping 73 of them (46%!) were foreign films. By that I mean they were produced in a country other than the US and are most likely not performed in English (though some, of ...
2015 [in films – documentary]
Of the 160 movies I watched in 2015, 44 of them were documentaries. That means that roughly one third (28%) of the hours of film I absorbed were factual accounts of the world around us. From finally watching 1990's groundbreaking Paris is Burning to cramming in as many of the Oscar Documentary ...
2015 [in books]
I thought I'd seen a sorry amount of theater in 2015, then I looked at the list of books I'd read in the course of the year. Can 5 books even be called a list? How sad that's all I made it through! But if I think about it, though the number of books I read is low, my eyes were not short for words ...
2015 [on stage]
Despite spending a lot of time at the movies this year, I managed to fit in a handful of live theater, too - shows that stretched from Broadway to London and back to Chicago. I saw nine shows in all, which puts my theater attendance at less than once per month...maybe I was busier with movies than I ...
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