The Power of Music

Alice Herz-Sommer won’t know whether the film of her life, The Lady in Number Six, receives the Oscar for Best Documentary Short this Sunday but hopefully she had more than an inkling of the indelible mark she left on the world. The oldest living Holocaust survivor and renowned concert pianist died yesterday at the age… Continue reading The Power of Music

Veterans’ Stories

Since 2008, more than one million veterans have returned home to pursue post-secondary education or a certificate (MVCC’s Veterans Information webpage has helpful information for student veterans). This Fresh Air interview with Iraq War veterans Roy Scranton and Jacob Siegel, editors and contributors to the new fiction anthology Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the… Continue reading Veterans’ Stories

Food and Democracy

As part of its continuing Democracy Commitment, the college will present the upcoming panel presentation “The Politics of Food: Building Community Through Local and Sustainable Food,” on Wednesday, October 23, 2013, from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. in Moraine Room 2. Speakers include local growers, farmers, and activists focusing on sustainable food systems, agriculture, and… Continue reading Food and Democracy

Burgers or Wheatgrass on Monday? It May Depend on the Bears

You may have heard this story on NPR this morning, but it just seemed too good to not post. Especially with the Bears playing Pittsburgh this weekend. Researchers at INSEAD, the business school in France, “tracked the eating behavior of people in cities with NFL teams and measured how eating changed after victories and defeats.”… Continue reading Burgers or Wheatgrass on Monday? It May Depend on the Bears

Angels in America This Weekend

This weekend Angels in America opens at the Moraine Valley Fine & Performing Arts Center, twenty years after Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama debuted on Broadway. The play, which runs this weekend and next, is set in the 1980s, against a backdrop of “greed, conservatism, sexual politics, religious identity and the discovery of an awful… Continue reading Angels in America This Weekend

West Side Story Redux

In case our resident film blogger Sarah Ando’s Valentine’s Day post on big-screen love stories left you pining for a larger “West Side Story” experience than what our DVD allows, Chicago’s Music Box Theater has you covered. The historic Southport theater kicks off its 70mm Film Festival tonight with a showing of Hitchcock’s “Vertigo.” “West… Continue reading West Side Story Redux

The Writing Behind the Writing of “Lincoln”

With Tony Kushner’s recent Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay for “Lincoln,” there have been numerous media references to its only official source, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. But some critics have pointed out that the overlap between the book and the movie is only slight. So,… Continue reading The Writing Behind the Writing of “Lincoln”

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