Chicago Days
Blown Away by the Windy City
“You can’t go home again,” Thomas Wolfe wrote. But after half a century, I thought I’d try it anyway and make a hit-and-run visit to my hometown of Chicago. No, not to my Old Neighborhood, which is 100 blocks south of downtown, but to the Loop and Near North, as the area north of the backward-flowing Chicago River is known. (Backward? Years ago, city fathers reversed the river to keep pollution from flowing into Lake Michigan, then and now the main source of Chicago’s drinking water.)
Barney grabs an interview with a man who is used to doing just that, with all the main movers and shakers in the film business. Find out what it’s like to be Emmanuel Itier.
With the Film Festival fast approaching, Barney give the low-down on which screening to attend and why. That’s not to mention the cinematic gems that won’t be playing at the Film Festival, however. All this plus the musical side of Anthony Hopkins and the sold-out side of Steely Dan.
It’s cold. You don’t need Barney to tell you that. What Barney can do for you, however, is explain where the hottest spots to escape the weather will be this weekend. From movies to music to the always adorable snowy plover, Barney can tell you where to be.
