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Hand Me the Mike #05: Groundhog Day with Caitlin Durante

...Wrestlemania!

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Hand Me the Mike #04: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead with Vincent Mollica

'Sorry' ain't gonna pay the bills, Chico!

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Hand Me the Mike #03: Man of Steel with Jack McCoy

You are not alone...

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Hand Me the Mike #02: Take Shelter with Isaac Feldberg

There is a storm coming...

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Hand Me the Mike #01: What is it about Michael Shannon?

Werner Herzog once called Shannon, “arguably the most important [actor] of his generation.”

A group of characters in the film Nashville stand on a stage, watching a performance off camera.

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Working Hard in a World That's Hardly Working

Nashville, NEA cuts, a podcast about Michael Shannon, and the state of journalism.

Eva Victor in a still from Sorry, Baby, looking at a window taped up with pages of a paper.

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Check-ups, Follow-ups, and 'Sorry, Baby'

There’s that old adage about how our cells completely replace themselves every seven years.

A screencap from the film Prometheus. The character played by Noomi Rapace makes a face of pure horror and disgust as a squid-like alien is held over her abdomen in a surgical pod.

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Uterus For All of Us: A neutral, independently fact-checked, objective, personal account of indisputable facts about a uterus and the American Dream, all starting with the movie Prometheus.

Man, I fucking love the alien abortion scene.

A still from The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man, showing the titular character donning a construction helmet and waving while holding a turned over bucket lined with a brown substance.

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The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man: His name is my name, too.

If you had been in Chicago recently and noticed several eye-catching yellow flyers plastered around Logan Square and Wicker Park, one question may be on your mind: “Who — and/or what — is the Pee Pee Poo Poo Man?” The first answer to that question is perhaps the more bizarre response:

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A New and Improved 'Room Tone'

The newsletter is back and better than ever, baby.

A monarch butterfly as seein in May December.

Letting Them Go: 'May December,' Butterflies, and the Role of a Steward

Reflections on the symbolism in Todd Haynes' latest work from a gal who learned how to raise butterflies. It isn’t until halfway through Todd Haynes’ prickly melodrama May December that we finally get a glimpse into Joe’s inner life. In a film riddled with suggestion, sensuality, and

I Love the Passing of Time

Love, Talking Heads, and celebrating an anniversary. Only a few months into dating, Joe was at my apartment helping me take care of laundry or I’m sure some desperate chore I had been putting off. It’s funny how memories of such a crucial time between us become shaped