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It takes a particular mindset to be a Renaissance man, someone willing to wear the hats of playwright, music producer, freelance writer, radio personality, spoken-word performer, photographer and self-promoter. All those descriptions would fit Orlando...

"You didn't really have (to) think much for yourself," a nun says of her early years, in the new documentary "Band of Sisters," which has its world premiere at the Siskel Film Center this week. "All that went unchanged for years and years and years...

“Veronica Mars” star Kristen Bell, and the show's creator Rob Thomas know you probably have some questions about how their ......

Holy cow marshmallows: You sure do love your “Veronica Mars.” On Wednesday morning, the show's creator Rob Thomas, and its ......

The thing you'll remember most about Kwesi Kankam is his voice. Oh, his guitar playing is solid — he coaxes a lot of expressiveness out of some deceptively simple-seeming plucking and strumming. And his lyrics are personal and poetic and......

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Increasingly, websites such as Kickstarter and its chief rival, Indiegogo, are helping ultra-low-budget productions make their way into movie theaters. Looking to raise money to finance a movie's production or distribution, a filmmaker will take his or...

One short story will be curated and delivered weekly, electronically, by Recommended Reading, an Electric Literature project. Editor Benjamin Samuel explains what readers can expect....

Not every Kickstarter film-funding effort ends in multimillion-dollar success, a la actor-writer-director Zach Braff's recent campaign or that achieved by the cast and creators of the canceled CW show "Veronica Mars." Just ask actress Melissa Joan Hart,...

Butcher paper represents a number of things for Harlem, N.Y., artist Dianne Smith. "It's at once durable and yet there's a fragility to it," she said. She has used it in her art as a way of representing the treatment of black people in America through...

CANNES, France--Most of the attention at the Cannes Film Festival this week centers on the big names--Nicolas Refn, Alexander Payne, James Gray. But the springtime cinema gathering can sometimes makes room for someone a little different. Someone, say,...

Olympic weight lifter to have local seminar Chad Vaughn, an Olympic weight lifter, is slated to hold a seminar June 22 in Bloomington. He will be at B-Town Barbell, at 418 S. College Ave., providing seven hours of instruction suitable for beginners or...