The extremely cool, light-up, tropically-themed mirror over a light brown leather bar and barstools. Bob, the animated mascot for "Image Union" serves as "bartender" while "Do the Milly" (https://mediaburn.org/videos/do-the-milly/) plays on a TV/VCR combo.
Greetings from Media Burn's new HQ at 348 N. Ashland!!
Happy Opening Day from Studs Terkel!!
Media Burn Board member Prof. Antoine Haywood reflects on the impact of Michael Zinzun and the rich, varied, and woefully under appreciated history of Black creators of Public Access Television. mediaburn.org/celebrating-the-black-hi...
Be part of our team! Media Burn is hiring our first ever development staff person. Read on if you'd like to work with our growing nonprofit and this is your skill set! https://loom.ly/MDof9X0
Join us at the Music Box on Feb 1 for "In Another Light: Cinema of Memory." It is in partnership with @allarvickfund.bsky.social and @chicagofilmarchives.org and curated by Agata Zborowska.
Tickets: https://loom.ly/IS5DsLQ
We are so excited to be the newest member of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium! This group of 29 Chicago-based archives, libraries, and museums connects all who seek to document, share, understand and preserve Black experiences. Read more at: https://loom.ly/2WYYySA
Dec 18, 7pm CT, online! In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Cook County Hospital doctors strike, join Media Burn and Kartemquin Films for a virtual screening of the doc HSA Strike ’75 + a discussion with filmmaker Judy Hoffman and doctor/activist Howard Ehrman.
Tickets: https://loom.ly/-i_CypU
John Lewis from the doc "Mississippi America"
True change needs everyday courage, not just heroic moments. Freedom Summer’s legacy shows us this: a lifelong fight in streets, courts, and memory against injustice, a blueprint for today’s struggles.
More: https://loom.ly/MDLnUp4
SOLD OUT!
"Siskel & Ebert at 50" Live Show!
Nov 22 Chicago Cultural Center
A live event by Pocket Guide to Hell exploring the iconic TV show that changed film criticism. Post-show moderated by Geoffrey Baer w/ Thea Flaum, Michelle McKenzie-Voigt, and Rick Kogan.
Event Info: https://loom.ly/v0TOhEI
On Nov 19, 12 PM, join us at UIC: 909 S. Wolcott, Room 585. We're marking the 50th anniversary of the Cook County Hospital doctors' strike with a free screening of "HSA Strike '75" and a discussion on its legacy for healthcare and labor.
Event info:https://loom.ly/IhTLmVI
Excited to announce we got an FY26 IAC grant! We are so grateful to the Illinois Arts Council for supporting arts across our state.
RIP Tony Adler. Here's a lovely video of him teaching poetry to senior citizens from the 1970s.
Ratso the puppet interviews Sleater-Kinney for Chic-A-Go-Go, from July 2000. Carrie and Janet (aka "Mitzi") show off their juggling skills. Talk of favorite foods, their new album, and how many Grammys the band would win if Ratso joined.
Studs’ Place: The Lost Sitcom That Put Working-Class Life on TV. Our latest blog post by scholar and guest author Jason J. Nebergall offers an analysis of how Studs Terkel's radical, working-class ethos was translated into the emerging television medium. Read more at: https://loom.ly/JDD26kA
Watch the full episode of Chic-A-Go-Go's "Monster Party" Halloween episode here!
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AND a performance by the amazing rockabilly band Hoodoo Hoedown of their spookiest song, "Graveyard Stroll."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa_G...
The episode also features an introduction from the great Forrest J. Ackerman, of Famous Monsters of Filmland fame!
Spooky Halloween music from the legendary Chic-A-Go-Go. Dance along with Miss Mia and Ratso to Chicago's Team Satan!
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This Nov, celebrate Siskel & Ebert's 50th!
See their favorite "hidden gem" films each Wednesday (Nov 5, 12, 19, 25).
Don't miss a live "Sneak Previews" performance on Nov 22
Location: Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington St. Chicago, IL 60602
TICKETS: https://loom.ly/V2_oo_s
The world lost a special person this week. Read Media Burn founder Tom Weinberg's tribute to artist, poet, actor, and Chicagoan, Tony Fitzpatrick, “a roisterer, a prodigious giant with gigantic appetites.” https://loom.ly/CTAFD28
Don’t miss this special 20th anniversary screening of Forgiving Dr. Mengele with Media Burn board member Bob Hercules in person.
Event Details:
[October 16th ] [7:00 PM]
Wayfarer Theater, Highland Park
Tickets: $15 | FREE for Wayfarer Unlimited Members
More info: https://loom.ly/Ib_NkuY
We're so excited to be part of this special trivia night at the Hideout, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Sneak Previews, the legendary TV show that paired newspaper critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert to talk (and argue) about the movies. October 15, 7:30pm! https://loom.ly/IjsJPVQ
Throughout Media Burn’s recordings of performance art, few performers stand out as much as the untouchable Gurlene and Gurlette Hussey (Randy Esslinger and Doug Stapleton). Their drag is, in Gurlene’s words, 'Hairy, horny, tattooed, shameless, saucy, mischievous.” Read more: https://loom.ly/g40Hb1I
RIP Ryno
Last week, CBS announced that it would be canceling The Late Show, the ratings leader by a large margin. Its host, Stephen Colbert, had used his platform to criticize CBS’s “big fat bribe.”
Like so many other famous Chicagoans, Colbert shows up in Media Burn’s archive: https://loom.ly/WjJM5oY
Last month we lost P. Adams Sitney, unquestionably the most important and influential scholar of avant-garde film.
Here is a remarkable interview with him, recorded in 1974 just after the publication of "Visionary Film," on what makes avant-garde films unique.
ACT UP Goes Shopping!
Judith Binder follows ACT UP activists to the Sherman Oaks Galleria, where they pass out pamphlets about safe sex and HIV/AIDS, and condoms, until security kicks them out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UteQ...
While my grandfather suffered from being incarcerated without charges or evidence after Pearl Harbor, I hope to honor him by telling his story so that the courts will exercise their duty to check the Trump Administration’s overreach in their deportation zealotry.
Featuring clips from a newly digitized interview with Frank S. Emi, a civil rights hero who helped lead a protest movement while imprisoned in the Heart Mountain internment camp.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=af6G...
