The Chicagoland entrepreneurs seek to make everyday items more accessible for America’s growing Muslim population.
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Review: In ‘One Party Consent’ at First Floor Theater, student and adviser face off
Playwright Omer Abbas Salem’s latest world premiere debates questions of trust in a university’s fine arts program.
Amazon MGM takes creative reins of James Bond, ending an era of family control of 007
Amazon MGM Studios, Wilson and Broccoli formed a new joint venture in which they will co-own James Bond intellectual property rights — but Amazon MGM will have creative control.
Review: ‘Clue’ at the CIBC Theatre hasn’t much of one
Clue, or Cluedo in the country of its birth, is one of the best board games of all time. Colonel Mustard, Mrs. Peacock and Professor Plum have been brandishing their candlesticks, lead piping and other lethal weapons since the late 1940s. That’s when a British chap named Anthony Ernest Pratt rightly figured there would be […]
‘Zero Day’ review: Zero intrigue in this thriller starring Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro stars in another series that shoulda been a movie, as a former president called back into action to investigate a cyber attack.
‘The Monkey’ review: Stephen King’s killer toy becomes ‘Longlegs’ creator Osgood Perkins’ plaything
Filmmakers tinker with the question of tone from project to project, many not as much as they should. But writer-director Osgood Perkins has no problem with tonal adjustment.
Column: In the early ’30s, Hollywood’s ‘dictator craze’ offered a startling alternative to democracy
Hollywood loved the idea, though it had little use for words like “lighthearted” or “mild” in what the screen trade publications nicknamed the dictator craze.
Column: Football star, war hero, businessman … the many lives of Robert ‘Buck’ Halperin
Filmmaker Daniel Halperin hopes to make a movie about his father, Robert “Buck” Halperin.
How George E. Johnson made millions in the hair care industry while following the Golden Rule
The founder of Johnson Products Company, as he insists in his new memoir, “Afro Sheen: How I Revolutionized an Industry with the Golden Rule, from ‘Soul Train to Wall Street,” never thought of himself as a capitalist.
‘The Wild Mile: A River Reborn’ documentary explores the Chicago River’s floating eco-park
The Wild Mile is a series of floating boardwalks in the North Branch Canal of the Chicago River.