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  Raising and lowering Chicago’s bridges

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  For many of us, Chicago’s bridges are just an everyday part of life, rarely considered outside those unfortunate and annoying moments when we find ourselves waiting for a bridge to lift to let boats pass. It becomes so easy to forget how impressive these bridges are, not only as amazing pieces of complex engineering, but also as a defining part of what makes Chicago unique. Chicago is reputed to have more movable bridges than any other city in the world, […]

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  Happy Birthday, Irv Kupcinet

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  Today would have been the 101st birthday of the Chicago legend Irv Kupcinet (1912-2003) Thanks to Robert Feder for alerting us. More Kup at Media Burn.

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  Gyros: a Chicago fast food tradition

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  First introduced to the U.S. in Chicago the mid-1960s by Greek immigrants, the gyro quickly became a popular dish. Although the sandwich’s appeal has since spread throughout all the United States, it nevertheless remains a distinct part of Chicago cuisine. In 1993, videographer Andrew Jones went to Zeus Carry-Out in Chicago’s Greektown to get a behind-the-counter look at how gyros are made. The footage was originally recorded for the show Chicago Slices, but never used until now. It’s another local […]

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  Taste of Chicago, 1993

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  If you still need a reason to join us at our free screening tomorrow, listen to what WBEZ had to say about it on the Morning Shift: https://soundcloud.com/morningshiftwbez/mj-film-fest   Out of Bounds: In the Shadow of His Airness Saturday, July 13 at 7pm South Side Community Art Center 3831 S. Michigan Ave. Free admission Presented by South Side Projections Featuring: The Other MJ (Tom Weinberg, 1999, 28 min., DVD) + More Than a Game (Joe Angio and Joel Cohen, 1992, […]

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  7/13/13: In person: Michael Johnson, from 1999 doc “The Other M.J.”

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    Michael Johnson in “The Other M.J.” (1999) Out of Bounds: In the Shadow of His Airness Saturday, July 13 at 7pm South Side Community Art Center 3831 S. Michigan Ave. Free admission Presented by South Side Projections Featuring: The Other MJ (Tom Weinberg, 1999, 28 min., DVD) + More Than a Game (Joe Angio and Joel Cohen, 1992, 48 min., DVD) Joel Cohen, Michael Johnson, and Tom Weinberg in person!   A message from Tom Weinberg August, 1996.  Democratic […]

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  Jane Lynch and Andy Richter in The Real Live Brady Bunch, 1991

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  Everybody gets their start somewhere, and for a lot of comedic actors, that place is and has been Chicago’s improv comedy scene. In this video, we look back at a time when Jane Lynch (now well known as one of the regular actors in the Christopher Guest mockumentaries and for her role on Glee) and Andy Richter (comedian and Conan O’Brien sidekick) were relative unknowns, playing the roles of Carol and Mike Brady in Annoyance Theatre’s production of The Real […]

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  Look, see, this is our history

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  A letter from Andrew Seeder I worked at Media Burn the past 18 months as a cataloger and digitizer. This is my last week here, so I’d like to describe to you why Media Burn is important while the experience is still fresh in my mind. There’s what we know will be important 50 years from now: Our 1992 presidential election collection, our 1982 technology collection “Wired In,” or our Cabrini Green collection, among others. We point to these and […]

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  Do you still have untransferred 1/2″ open reel videotapes?

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  (If you don’t know what this question means, you definitely don’t!) If you were a portable video pioneer who was active in the late 1960s and/or early 1970s, you might still have some lurking around somewhere that you never got around to transferring. Time is almost up… We are in the process of applying for a grant to transfer our remaining 1/2″ reels. We know that many wonderful tapes from this quickly vanishing era of video experimentation remain untransferred and […]