Do you ever get the feeling someone else is living inside you, giving insight into your actions? Matryoshkas, or Russian nesting dolls, know how you ...
Archives for “Art/Film”
Horror movie remakes have the tendency to more often stomp all over the corpses of their predecessors rather than enrich them. So, it is a ...
Dear bloggers, blog-readers and people who don't normally read blogs but like them, Have you ever seen your favorite blog on a piece of paper? Or ...
After having my fun with QuadCamera for awhile, I really wanted to see what Takayuki Fukatsu’s ToyCamera could do, and it’s just as kickass as ...
Mandatory Theater Presents: It Is a Big Deal by Natalie Edwards Directed by Patrick Reynolds, Michael Alan Rice, and William Collins It Is a Big Deal is a collection ...
Media artist Erik Loyer has released something totally awesome that we couldn't wait to tell you about: Ruben & Lullaby. It's a new kind of ...
From 1968's Rosemary's Baby to modern body-horror classic Teeth, films that focus on a personal horror affecting a female protagonist have always been disturbing because ...
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9E2D2PaIcI Gary Hustwit, producer and director of Helvetica, a documentary released in 2007 about the story behind the ubiquitous typeface, aims to answer that question with ...
Heckler (2008) is a straight to DVD comedy-documentary produced by Michael Addis and Jamie Kennedy that originally premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year. ...
Synecdoche is pronounced [si-nek-doh-kee]. I tell you this so you don’t miss pronounced it to the box office person, only to feel like a fool ...
Check out our top picks for art exhibitions this weekend. As always, check out Nerdy by Nature's Calendar page for daily events, showings, concerts and ...
The role of fantasy is to capture the imagination, presenting images from other people’s dreams for everyone to view. Amir Barda and Rob Walcott will ...
While the masses will surely be seeing Twilight this weekend, NBN had the opportunity to experience an entirely different vampire story— Let the Right One ...
Chicago has seen a glut of film festivals this year, from the grand dame International Film Festival, to the smaller-scale Underground Film Festival, to ethnic ...
Mark your calender for a fun event that benefits a great cause! Marts For The Arts takes place on November 6th and the proceeds from ...
In the latest from director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia), Rachel Getting Married is surprisingly gritty and raw. Demme is ...
One of the few positive things that I remember from my high school years was being able to go to all-ages shows at The Metro ...
NbN is extremely happy to announce that we should be receiving the new Adobe Creative Suite 4: Design Premium (wasn't CS3 just released last year?!) ...
Deceptive Design: Experiments in Furniture is an exhibition currently taking place at the Chicago Cultural Center featuring prototype furniture, functional objects and furnishings that challenge ...
Jeremy Wrenn's Take On Quarantine: Alright, let’s get the basics out of the way- Quarantine is a remake of the Spanish film [Rec] It will ...
One of the reasons we enjoy writing for NbN is that we can write about things that we would otherwise get made fun of for ...
Usually NbN tends to think animated movies starring Miley Cyrus and John Travolta are a bit creepy, but this one has an irresistibly cute hamster ...
NbN recently discovered a dude who brings some major skills to the Etch-A-Sketch. He started sketchin' in the early seventies and has been at it ...
The glassy, rubix-cubist Spertus building and the organization's rejuvenated curatorial agenda are coming up on their first birthday, but the celebration may be more about ...
