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So it’s my favorite time of year and that would be the fall. Yes, Autumn. The best season of the year. Hands down. I am not a summer guy. Never have been. I hate the summer. I despise hot weather. I hate it when it’s humid and muggy, and here in Chicago, we get slammed with humidity and ridiculous heat all summer long. Those dog days of August? Pure misery. This past year was even worse, with multiple 90+ degree days that sucked the life right out of me. By the end of summer,

With the release of Bono: Stories of Surrender  on Apple TV+ , I found myself diving back into the music of U2 —one of the most important, influential, polarizing, and flat-out fascinating bands of the last 50 years. The new film, directed by the great Andrew Dominik  ( The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford —an absolute masterpiece), captures Bono ’s intimate 2023 stage show at the Beacon Theatre . It’s reflective, theatrical, personal. And it got me thin

By Revista Panorama Número 297 de Enero, 1973. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=125206575 With the release of Luca Guadagnino's outstanding  film version of William S. Burrough's novella "Queer, " we're seeing wonderful, renewed interest in Burroughs and his connection to cinema and art. BURROUGH'S INFLUENCE Like many of my generation, I discovered William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) when I was around 18 or 19, in the early 1980s. From the moment