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Well, it's that time of the month again, and this particular month is very special to me. The second Wednesday of every month means another 'Nick's Pix' screening at the beautiful Lake Theater in downtown Oak Park, where Classic Cinemas basically lets me take over the giant Theater 2, get up onstage, and show whatever movie I want. I've been doing these screenings for more than two years now, and they have become one of my favorite things I get to do. I love introducing the m

Imaginary friends... everybody knows them. Everybody’s heard of them. Everybody knows somebody who had them. And honestly, imaginary friends go back way further than people think. Psychologists were studying imaginary companions back in the 1890s, and even before that, adults throughout history had their own versions: guardian angels, household gods, muses whispering in their ears. These weren’t “imaginary friends” in the modern sense, but they filled the same role, to provid