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WATCH: Mobile Farm Aims To Kickstart Second Annual Tour

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 05.14.2012

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Last year, Truck Farm Chicago was born. A mobile farm that travels to schools, festivals and farmers markets, Truck Farm Chicago brings urban agric...

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PHOTOS: Mobile Art Gallery Aims For Nationwide Tour

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 05.03.2012

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Chicago loves to put things on wheels. Despite the city's well-publicized attempts to thwart the growth of its small food truck community, many of the...

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WATCH: Bringing Wheelchair Basketball To War-Torn Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 04.28.2012

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Think of it sort as an updated take on "Hoop Dreams," except that its basketball-playing dreamers use wheelchairs. And they live in Afghanistan, not t...

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WATCH: Chicago Neighborhood Could Be Home To New Parklets

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 04.13.2012

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Life in a city as large as Chicago comes with plenty of oft-heralded perks, namely a seemingly endless plethora of dining, nightlife and cultural opti...

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Former Q101 DJs Fight For A Concert Comeback

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 04.10.2012

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When it launched in the 1990s, Chicago radio station Q101's Jamboree played host to some of the most thrilling acts to emerge on the post-Seattle alte...

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WATCH: Filmmakers At Work On A Gay Twist On 'A Christmas Carol'

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 03.08.2012

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For self-professed "movie addict" and long-time Chicago-based film critic Richard Knight, Jr., it was probably only a matter of time until he put down...

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Muslim Filmmaker Challenges Post-9/11 Islamophobia

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 02.23.2012

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The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 forever impacted the lives of every American -- but for Muslim Americans, their lives changed more than th...

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Bringing (Rooftop!) Urban Agriculture To Chicago's South Side

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 02.08.2012

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Last fall, when First Lady Michelle Obama came to Chicago to address where the city was coming up short in terms of food access for its residents, she...

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Filmmaker Explores Gender Equality In China

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 02.07.2012

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May Tchao wasn't always an aspiring filmmaker, but after working in the advertising industry for years, the Chinese-American Evanston, Ill. resident k...

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Bike-a-Bee: Chicago Urban Agriculture's Next Step?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 01.30.2012

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For one Chicagoan, an ideal community garden means so much more than patches of fruits, vegetables and plants. And Jana Kinsman has set about broadeni...

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WATCH: Film Tackles Scandal At Historic Black Cemetery

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 01.06.2012

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In the summer of 2009, three gravediggers and a cemetery manager in Alsip, Ill., 12 miles south of Chicago, were exposed in an elaborate money-grubbin...

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Woman's Quest To Meet All Her Facebook Friends Subject Of New Film

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 01.30.2012

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When Chicago filmmaker Benjamin Gonzales set out to create a film telling the story of his friend ArLynn Presser's ambitious goal to meet all of her 3...

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Public Art Project Aims To Reinvigorate Chicago's South Side

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 12.23.2011

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When Brooklyn-based photographer Emily Schiffer first arrived on Chicago's South Side, it wasn't long before the widespread desolation and vacancy ove...

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Local Dance Company Prepares For Tour Of Cuba

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 01.30.2012

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Chicago contemporary dance company Hedwig Dances has long been a staple of the local performing arts scene. The dance company in residence at the Chic...

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CPS Instructor Teaches Through Music

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 01.30.2012

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When Matt Baron, an ESL instructor at two Chicago public schools, began writing curriculum-based songs for his students, he came upon it somewhat acci...

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'Groupie Queen' Cynthia Plaster Caster Working On A Memoir

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 01.30.2012

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Cynthia Albritton, better known as Cynthia Plaster Caster, is inarguably one of the more fascinating pop culture personalities the Windy City has to o...

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A Leo-Free, Gender-Bending Take On 'Titanic'

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 01.30.2012

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The Chicago-based Cock & Bull Theatre company isn't afraid to embrace the avant-garde in the productions they choose to bring to life. Putting up play...

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Baker Launches Cross-Country 'Tour Of Pie'

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 01.30.2012

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Food can carry any number of different meanings to any number of people. And sometimes specific foods can carry an unmatched power to comfort -- as we...

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Can They Kick It? Filmmaker Documents Chicago's South Side

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 01.30.2012

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Chicago filmmaker Cyrus Dowlatshahi appears to approach his craft a bit differently than most, at least based on the footage he has released thus far ...

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Filmmaker Documents Life On Tour With A Punk Band

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 01.30.2012

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When Chicago filmmaker Jeremy Tubbs hit the road with his friends, punk band The Downtown Struts, he likely didn't expect their first U.S. tour would ...

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WATCH: Local Film 'Genrefinity' Aims For Kevin Smith-Style Laughs

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 12.23.2011

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In 2009, Chicago filmmaker Marc Buhmann, frustrated with the lack of a one-stop-shop news outlet for fans of genre (horror, sci-fi, fantasy), got toge...

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Can They Kick It? 'The Apocalypse Calendar' Counts Down To The Mayans' End Days

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 12.14.2011

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"So what are you waiting for? Your money's going to be no good in a year anyway. Buy this calendar," proclaims the Kickstarter video promoting "The Ap...

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'Pussy On The House' Spoofs Tennessee Williams

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 01.30.2012

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Tennessee Williams' 1955 play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" packs a whole lot of passion and drama into its Pulitzer-winning dialogue -- so it should come a...

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