The CTA Motorman
After 37 years as a CTA motorman, what retired train operator Elwood Flowers remembers most about the Loop isn't the vast cityscape. Steering several tons of steel at 55 miles...
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“Metallica: Some Kind of Monster”
No rating. Who's in it: James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett What's it about: A documentary following the members of Metallica through group therapy after bassist Jason Newsted left the...
`Metallica’ meets its metal demons
For those not interested in the trials of navel-gazing millionaire rock stars in crisis, stop reading now. Those willing to grant heavy metal legends Metallica this indulgence will find documentary...
The Student
Living in the Loop, says 19-year-old architecture student Mary Lou Ibadlit, is like living "on a movie set." "It's always so clean." But living on a movie set has its...
The CTA Motorman
After 37 years as a CTA motorman, what retired train operator Elwood Flowers remembers most about the Loop isn't the vast cityscape. Steering several tons of steel at 55 miles...
Shopping: Unexpected adventures in retailing
One of the things we love about shopping in the Loop is the adventure of it. Here are some unusual places and things. Antiquities. Indulge your inner Cleopatra with a...
Shopping: Unexpected adventures in retailing
One of the things we love about shopping in the Loop is the adventure of it. Here are some unusual places and things. ---------- - Antiquities. Indulge your inner Cleopatra...
Location, location, location
Since the early 1900s, the Loop has provided compelling backdrops for hundreds of television shows and movies. Here are five of the best. "The Blues Brothers" (1980). In perhaps the...
Location, location, location
Since the early 1900s, the Loop has provided compelling backdrops for hundreds of television shows and movies. Here are five of the best. "The Blues Brothers" (1980). In perhaps the...
Does fact play a role in ‘Arthur’ legend?
Q. The new movie "King Arthur" links the Arthurian legend to a half-British, half-Roman soldier named Artorius (Clive Owen), who holds up the democratically minded theologian Pelagius as a mentor...