It’s easy to get bummed out about all of the Christmas in Chicago festivities that aren’t happening this year— many of us are separated from family and friends, and winters can start to feel pretty long in Chicago. Luckily, Chicagoans are tough, and can handle a little outdoor, well-ventilated merriment; even if it gets a little too frosty for you, there’s a wide variety of events and activities in which you can participate from the warmth and safety of your own home.
Now through Christmas Eve, visit the Dönermen Food Truck just outside DMen Tap, where you’ll be able to purchase all sorts of hot foods and drinks ordinarily available during Chicago’s beloved Christkindlmarket. You can even buy a vintage Christkindlmarket mug!
Stream Lookingglass’s acclaimed 2019 production of the Hans Christian Andersen tale The Steadfast Tin Soldier. The online event even features a “virtual behind-the-scenes lobby experience” before showtime!
This much-loved annual Goodman adaptation of Charles Dickens’ story has been reimagined and modified to stream as an audio play, which is available for free listening through the end of the year on the Goodman’s website.
Along with a Christmassy drive-in movie, attendees will see some North Pole VIPs— Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, elves, and a whole host of other characters will make appearances at the drive-in, located in the lot next to Replay Lincoln Park. Admission is charged per vehicle, so it’s up to you how many people can safely ride in your car.
The Nutcracker, another long-adored staple of the holiday season, can be streamed online this year. Over 100 Ballet Chicago dancers perform in the dance company’s archival presentations of the Christmas classic.
“There’s a lot of trust that’s been breached, and I know there’s a lot of trust in me that’s been breached, and I have a responsibility to build back that trust.”~Lori Lightfoot
I first moved into the city of Chicago in 1977. Richard J. Daley had been Mayor of the city from 1955, when I was three years old, until 1976, when he died of a heart attack. I missed my chance to vote against him by a year. Daley was replaced by Mike Bilandic.
In January 1979, Chicago was crippled by a blizzard. Thirty-five inches of snow hit the city over two days. The response was slow. Many streets weren’t cleared for a week. Trains were overfilled with citizens who had no other way to get to work. Chicago was pissed off and blamed Mike Bilandic.
When it was election time, Bilandic was challenged by Jane Byrne. Voters were still upset over the snow response. They took it out on Bilandic at the voting booth. I felt he was a victim of circumstances and voted for him. It was my first Chicago mayoral election. It was the first time I voted for a mayoral candidate who lost. It wouldn’t be the last time…far from it.
Since then I’ve voted in five other Chicago Mayoral elections. The main figures in the first four of them were Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel. I voted for their opponents all four times. Loser. Loser. Loser. Loser!! I’ve never felt bad about being on the losing side in any of those elections. In fact, I was proud of it.
In 2019, it was time for another election for the Chicago Mayor’s gig. Most of us figured Rahm was going to run again. We wondered who his next victim was going to be. Lori Lightfoot announced her candidacy on May 10, 2018. For a few months, it looked like she was going to be the main challenger/sacrificial lamb to Emanuel. But in the fall, Rahm announced he wouldn’t be running for a third term. That was followed by a group of higher-profile local politicians dropping in.
By the time of the primary election, there were twelve candidates running. I liked a lot of what I heard from Lightfoot, especially that she was new and somewhat unknown, but I didn’t think she had much of a chance, so I voted for someone who I figured might win. I think I put the jinx on Susana Mendoza. Another Mayoral election…another loss.
Lori won the primary but didn’t have enough votes to avoid a run-off election. It was Lightfoot versus Toni Preckwinkle to see who would become the next Mayor of Chicago. There was no question of who I was supporting. I was all-in on Team Lightfoot.
On April 20, 2019, I cast my vote for Lori Lightfoot. I wasn’t the only one…far from it. She won the election with seventy-three percent of the total vote. She captured the most votes in all fifty Chicago wards. Lori Lightfoot was going to be Chicago’s Mayor. My election jinx had ended. As it was said when Susan Lucci finally won an Emmy award in her nineteenth try, “The streak is over.”
It’s been about a year and a half since Lori Lightfoot took office and it hasn’t gone all that well. I gave her a break on the early issues. I figured it was due to her lack of governing and political experience. I figured she’d grow into the job. I figured wrong.
In the short time since she’s been Mayor, she’s had issues with the teacher’s union, the police department, the police superintendent, and the city council. Gun violence in the city continues at a high rate. On May 18, 2020, the city had eighteen murders. It was the highest total in sixty years.
But the worst was yet to come…..
2020 has brought us the Covid-19 pandemic. Governing during a pandemic isn’t easy. It’s not as if there are any books you can read on how to do it. The early “stay home-save lives” ads were kind of cute…kind of. As we got further along, her tactics became more heavy-handed. Threatening and bullying citizens and businesses doesn’t seem to be the way to make friends and win future elections.
And then came summer…
After the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police, protests and riots broke out throughout the country. Like many cities, Chicago was hit hard by looting in the downtown area. Lightfoot’s reaction was to shut off public transportation early. She also raised the bridges. That limited the ways you could get in and out of the downtown. Maybe it kept the looters away, but it also left the people who were still working there without a way to get home. It made a dangerous situation even more dangerous.
That leads us to this week. You most likely have seen the video where Chicago police broke into the wrong home to arrest a woman. She was changing at the time and police tried to handcuff her while she was still naked. The event took place before Lightfoot took office. She’s not responsible for that. But, her office tried to keep the body camera footage away from the victim. They also tried to block CBS-Chicago from showing the footage. She definitely is responsible for that.
When questioned about this, she went on the attack. It’s a lot easier to question the professionalism of a reporter than give a legitimate answer to a tough question. “Reporting has been reckless and irresponsible — unfortunately, now, a pattern of his stretching back many months.
It’s not the first time she’s attacked a reporter. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear the words “fake news” come out of her mouth before her tenure ends. That tenure doesn’t end for two more years. I’d say it’s impossible for it to get worse, but as we’ve seen in other local and national administrations, we know that isn’t true.
I have only minor regrets about my vote of two years ago. My biggest regret is that Lori has shown that she’s incapable of handling the responsibility of the office. To use her own words against her: Her governing has been reckless and irresponsible-unfortunately, now a pattern stretching back many months.
Although it’s still two years away, I’m sure the many suspects/contenders are already lining up to take their chances against the current officeholder. I have no idea who it will be, but I look forward to voting for them. Let’s hope that my current mayoral election winning streak stays intact.
My so called friends think it’s time to edit this section. After four years, they may be right, but don’t tell them that. I’ll deny it until they die!
I can’t believe I’ve been writing this blog for four years.
It started as a health/wellness thing and over the years has morphed to include so many things that I don’t know how to describe it anymore.
I really thought this was going to be the final year of the blog but then Donald Trump came along. It looks like we’re good for four more years..God help us all!
Oh yeah…the biographical stuff. I’m not 60 anymore. The rest you can read about in the blog.
When COVID and politics get to be too much, I turn to a Facebook Group “I Love the 60’s and 70’s Music.” It’s filled with lots of music videos that I don’t vid, and queries as to who was the third drummer on the fourth album by Purple Fudge, but browsing through the postings is a good escape and an excellent time-waster while waiting to take the dog out one last time in the evening.
Just for the fun of it, I posted twice to the page yesterday, offering two different questions
Who is a better story-teller, Springsteen or Mellencamp?
Saddest holiday song? For me it’s Dan Fogelberg’s “Another Auld Lang Syne”.
The results have been voluminous, rapid, and non-stop. Lots of thumbs up and hearts and LOTS of opinions.
In response to my first question, it appears evenly split whether the responders prefer Bruce’s Jersey stories to JCM’s Indiana ones. As many people want to drive down Thunder Road as live in little pink houses. What I was not expecting was the vitriol of the many responders who hate both. Posers! phony singers! yuck, inspiring! Then again this is Facebook; haters are part of the scene.
But there were also lots of constructive suggestions for better story-tellers. James Taylor, Warren Zevon, Johny Cash, Tom Waits, and Harry Chapin were all put forward. I can’t complain about any of those, though Taylor puts me to sleep, and it’s sad that Zevon and Chapin died too young.
Lots of good responses to my second posting also. I struck a chord with the Fogelberg song. It seems I am not the only one who can’t hear that song without tearing up, as the snow turns into rain… As a matter of fact, there are teardrops on my keyboard now.
That wasn’t the only sad seasonal song getting named. Elvis’s “Blue Christmas” has a lot of weeping fans, as does the John Lennon tune “So this is Christmas (War is Over.)” “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,” a song with special memories for my family was named a few times, probably in jest. A more serious frequently named contender for the saddest song was the charity donation appeal song “Do They Know It’s Christmas” with its closing chant feed the world.
So, ChicagoNow readers. What’ll it be? The Boss, The Cougar, or someone else. And what is YOUR favorite sad holiday tune?
Hi! I am Les, a practicing pathologist living in the North Suburbs and commuting every day to the Western ones. I have lived my entire life in the Chicago area, and have a pretty good feel for the place, its attractions, culture, restaurants and teams. My wife and I are empty-nesters with two adult children and a grandchild. We recently decided to downsize, but just a bit! I will be telling the story of the construction of our new home, but also writing about whatever gets me going on a particular day. Be sure to check out the “About” page to learn more about where we plan to go with this blog!
Konstantine is an adorable, talkative, active and fun, six-month-old, male smooth-coat chocolate and vanilla guinea pig looking for a loving guardian.
Konstantine came to Friends of Petraits Rescue when his human dropped him off at Chicago Animal Care and Control.
He came in on his own, but might do well with another companionable guinea pig. He does love squeaking and wheeking through the bars of his cage to all the other piggies.
Guinea pigs eat a diet of unlimited Timothy and Orchard hays; a handful of guinea pig pellets, and fresh vegetables including romaine, red leaf and green leaf lettuces, cilantro, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, etc. Guinea pigs, just like humans, can’t manufacture their own vitamin C, so they need to supplement with red pepper and many other vitamin C-rich foods. He LOVES his fresh foods and he begs for them!
Please read up on guinea pig care and diet before adopting by visiting this excellent web site http://www.guinealynx.info/.
He would love a home with people who will handle him daily, keep him well fed, and keep his habitat nice and clean.
If you’re interested in possibly adopting Konstantine, please fill out an adoption application at https://friendsofpetraits.com/guinea-pig-adoption-application/.
He is being fostered in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood.
His adoption fee of $60 benefits the Friends of Petraits Rescue. For an additional $75, we’ll include a package of absolutely everything you need to care for him including a large cage, litter, pellets, hay, hidey hut and water bottle.
And, yes … Friends of Petraits is handling masked, minimum contact, socially distant adoptions.
WFLD-Ch. 32 weekend news anchor and weekday reporter Natalie Bomke sold her five-bedroom, 4,000-square-foot house in Logan Square on Dec. 11 for $900,000. (VHT Studios)
A second person was charged in the fatal shooting of a retired firefighter early December during an attempted carjacking outside a Morgan Park popcorn shop.
Dwain Johnson, 18, is charged as one of the gunmen of a “carjacking crew” who confronted 65-year-old Dwain Williams, killing him in an exchange of gunfire, Chicago police said.
Johnson, of Gary, Indiana, was arrested Wednesday afternoon by the FBI’s Violent Crimes Task Force in suburban Oak Forest, police said.
He was expected to appear in court later Friday to face a count each of first-degree murder, attempted vehicular hijacking, unlawful possession of an automatic weapon and unlawful possession of a weapon.
Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan said the suspects were part of a group responsible for a number of other crimes in the area.
Two other suspects haven’t been arrested, police said Thursday.
On Dec. 3, the carjackers allegedly followed Williams as he drove to Let’s Get Poppin’, at 11758 S. Western Ave., with the intent to carjack him, prosecutors said during the teen’s bail hearing Thursday.
In surveillance video of the shooting, two people with guns are seen approaching Williams as he walks towards his Jeep with a bag in his hand, authorities said.
Williams then retreats behind his car as a suspect with a gun rushes towards him, authorities said. William fires his own gun and a suspect falls to the ground before returning to the car and fleeing.
Chicago police show surveillance video of the murder of retired Chicago Firefighter Dwain Williams in the Morgan Park neighborhood.Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times
Williams was shot in the abdomen during the exchange of gunfire and died at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, authorities said.
Williams was a Chicago Fire Department lieutenant who retired about two years ago, officials said. He was about to return to work as a civilian employee at the Office of Emergency Management and Communications.
A group of activists have put up a combined reward of $34,000 for information leading to any arrests in his killing.
It wasn’t immediately clear if someone claimed the reward.
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The playoffs are still well within reach for the Chicago Bears entering Week 15.
With their first victory in seven games, the Chicago Bears now have a little bit of momentum going into a huge game with the Minnesota Vikings in Week 15. The first go-around with Minnesota just a handful of weeks ago saw the Bears lose thanks to an embarrassing offensive performance.
In that first matchup, Chicago’s Nick Foles threw for just 106 yards before getting knocked out right at the tail end of the fourth quarter. The Bears also rushed for a grand total of 41 yards that night.
It was a true prime time letdown for Chicago, whose defense looked stout as usual, only giving up 19 points. The Bears still only lost by six points, despite the failure on offense. Now, after having gone back to Mitchell Trubisky, Chicago’s offense at least looks formidable. With the defense as good as they can be, the Bears really only have to score 20 points to consider themselves having a shot to win on any given day.
Believe it or not, the Bears are all but out of the NFC playoff picture. They still have a shot to sneak in. At the moment, the Bears sit in the 9th seed, just behind the Vikings. Both teams have a 6-7 record, so if the Bears win this weekend, they leap ahead of Minnesota at 7-7.
Minnesota had won five of six before losing to the Bucs last week, and they’re in must-win territory just like the Bears, so it will likely be a tight, hard-fought game. Chicago will have to slow down Dalvin Cook, who has rushed for 1,352 yards even after missing a little time. Cook has been on fire in 2020, and the Bears were luckily able to limit him to just over 3.0 yards per carry in the first meeting.
Funny enough, this one will be on the shoulders of Trubisky. If the offense continues to roll, the Bears have a great chance at coming away with their second victory in a row.
But, that won’t be enough. This weekend, for the Bears to continue to stay in the thick of the race, there are a couple other games we dive into which matter greatly. Who needs to lose? Let’s get to it.
The ChicagoBlackhawks have a stud in Patrick Kane, but is Artemi Panarin better?
The National Hockey League’s website, NHL.com, released its list ranking the top 16 forwards in the league. Of course, the usual suspects are on the list, especially at the top. Names like Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon, and Sidney Crosby round out the top three and there shouldn’t be much debate there. Where there is a debate to be had is down the list where you will find Chicago Blackhawks forward, Patrick Kane.
He has been near the top of the list before but at this point in the game, a top-ten forward is plenty of respect. The thing that stings about his spot on the list is who is ahead of him. Sitting at ninth is fine for a 32-year old that has already accomplished so much. He is even ahead of Auston Matthews who is on track to be one of the best players in the league.
The thing that stings is the fact that Artemi Panarin is one spot ahead of him. Regardless of if you agree with the ranking or not (you should), the fact that the National Hockey League posted it has to annoy any fan. The fact that he is in the same stratosphere as Patrick Kane makes it even worse that they traded him. It was a move that forced the Hawks to end their run of dominance earlier than they needed to.
Getting Brandon Saad back was cool but giving up Panarin was horrible because he is an all-world player. Stan Bowman has made so many bad trades lately and the Panarin one is the worst. He was good enough to be a Hart Trophy nominee in 2020 which shows he is one of the best players in the National Hockey League.
13 @NHLdotcom writers voted, with Connor McDavid (@cmcdavid97) getting 10 first-place votes and Nathan MacKinnon (@Mackinnon9) getting three. Agree?
Trading an NHL top-ten player for someone who would eventually be traded later for a depth defenseman would get any normal GM fired. For Stan Bowman, he received a promotion. He is now the Hawks President of Hockey Operations along with being the General Manager. It is sad because it feels like the Blackhawks have a long road of mediocrity ahead of them.
Regardless of what this list says, the trade is in the past and Patrick Kane is still an all-time great player. He is going to go to the Hall of Fame as the greatest player in the history of the team. It is a shame that a great player like that who was so good with Kane had to leave so soon but it is what it is. Hopefully, the Blackhawks are able to avoid more incompetence
It has been an absolute roller-coaster of a season for the Chicago Bears. They began the year 5-1 and were a game out of the No. 1 seed in the entire NFC. Unfortunately, that feels like a lifetime ago, even despite it coming in a year that in and of itself has felt like a decade. That’s because so much has transpired since that time.
The team proceeded to lose its next six games, before finally getting back in the win column with a dominating performance against the much-maligned Houston Texans. In that span, they also changed quarterbacks for the second time this year, going back to Mitch Trubisky.
Despite most fans calling for the jobs of everyone within a mile of Halas Hall, a single win against the lowly Texans has seemed to quell the insurrection, and the chatter has inexplicably turned to the idea of possibly bringing back Trubisky, Matt Nagy, and Ryan Pace.
Perhaps that has something to do with the fact that the team still finds itself in the playoff hunt. However, Sunday’s game against the Minnesota Vikings is tantamount to a playoff game. If you don’t like the concept of a “must-win” game, then too bad, because this is a must-win game.
If the Bears lose on Sunday, their chances to make the playoffs slip to a minuscule 3 percent. If, however, they find a way to get past a team that is like themselves in so many ways, their chances skyrocket to approximately 42 percent.
Even with a win, their chances of playing a playoff game this year are still worse than a coin flip, but a loss makes it all but impossible.
With that said, Sunday’s game will be full of emotion and the atmosphere (absent the fans) will feel like a playoff game. That’s because the Vikings are also in the playoff hunt, and are actually a game in front of the Bears in the playoff picture.
So it all comes down to Sunday. Can the Bears continue their offensive success against a better, albeit not great Vikings’ defense? Or will Mike Zimmer dial up a scheme that forces the Bears to throw the ball beyond the line of scrimmage? Sunday can’t get here soon enough.
You already know this has been the most unusual year in the 125-year history of commercial movies and you already know about the delayed releases of major blockbusters from “No Time to Die” to “Black Widow” to “Coming 2 America” and you already know about the devastating impact the pandemic has had on the movie business and theater chains, and we have fingers crossed and prayers sent that we’ll be back at the movies in full force in 2021, as soon as it’s safe to do so.
In the meantime, here’s my annual look back at the highlights and lowlights of the year in movies.
In numbers too big to ignore, movies including “I Am Woman” (a Helen Reddy biopic starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey) shared a word in their titles.Quiver Distribution
They are women, hear them roar
You could have a stellar one-day film festival just with 2020 movies with “Woman” in the title:
“I Am Woman”
“A Regular Woman”
“I’m Your Woman”
“Wonder Woman 1984”
“Pieces of a Woman”
“Promising Young Woman”
The love of two women played by Kristen Stewart (left) and Mackenzie Davis in “The Happiest Season” made some viewers (and faraway onlookers) unhappy.Hulu
Christmas wins the War on Christmas
Lightning-rod conservative commentator Ben Shapiro caused a tweetstorm when he got his undies in a bunch over “The Happiest Season” (a movie he hadn’t seen), a holiday love story featuring a lesbian couple played by Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis.
“I’m not saying it’s terrible to make … a lesbian romcom,” said Shapiro. “All I’m saying is if you’re a conservative with conservative sensibilities, at a certain point you might get sick that Hollywood only wants to make the kinds of movies that you despise. Right? [‘The Happiest Season’] is all about how a conservative family learns that all of their religious values have been a bunch of crap for years.”
Pro tip: See the movie before you critique the movie. That way, you won’t make a wildly off-base assertion concerning what the movie is actually about.
Also, it should be pointed out “Hollywood,” led by Hallmark, Lifetime and Netflix, is releasing more than 80 — EIGHTY — new holiday films and specials this year, including some 65 with the word “Christmas” in the title. The great majority of these movies and specials actually carry messages in keeping with the most important Christian values — you know, the whole “love thy neighbor,” Golden Rule school of faith and thought.
Never in the history of Hollywood have there been as many Christmas movies as there have been in recent years. Why, the characters are even allowed to say “Merry Christmas!”
The gold standard
It was a great year for former Oscar winners, many of whom will be adding at least another nomination to their resumes:
Anthony Hopkins in “The Father”
Meryl Streep in “Let Them All Talk” and “The Prom”
“Hamilton,” with Lin-Manuel Miranda (left) and Leslie Odom Jr., was the best of this year’s many musicals.Disney+
Singin’ on the screen
The streaming version of “Hamilton” is not eligible to compete for Academy Awards due to a 1997 rule barring films “that are essentially unfiltered records of performances.” Actually, that very language should mean “Hamilton” IS eligible for Oscar consideration. Yes, it is a filmed record of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s brilliant Broadway sensation — but it’s not as if director Thomas Kail stuck a few cameras around the Richard Rodgers Theatre and pressed “Record.” As the New York Times reported, the “Hamilton” you see on Disney+ was filmed over a three-day period, with nine cameras and more than 100 microphones capturing the production. In addition to the two full performances that were recorded, the cast performed 13 numbers with a crane, a dolly-mounted camera and a Steadicam to get close-ups. Then began the editing process.
That’s a movie.
Regardless of the label we affix to “Hamilton,” it’s the leader of a standout lineup of 2020 musicals and music performance films, from the colorful and rousing “The Prom” to the instant holiday classic “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey” to the old-fashioned and uplifting “Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square” to the masterful “David Byrne’s American Utopia” to Taylor Swift’s “Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions” to Beyonce’s “Black Is King” to the animated “Over the Moon” and even the hilarious “Eurovision Song Contest: the Story of Fire Saga.” Granted, 2020 also gave us the execrable “Valley Girl,” a tone-deaf musical update of the 1983 teen classic, but that lump of coal doesn’t take away from the bounty of fantastic musical presents under the tree.
“Wonder Woman 1984,” with Gal Gadot (left), and “Mulan,” with Yifei Liu, were made for theaters but moved to streaming services.Warner Bros.; Disney
Coming soon to a living room near you
To the dismay of big-canvas directors Christopher Nolan and Dennis Villeneuve, WarnerMedia announced all of its 2021 films would be released simultaneously in theaters and on its streaming service, HBO Max. In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, Nolan said, “Some of our industry’s biggest filmmakers and most important movie stars went to bed … thinking they were working for the greatest movie studio and woke up to find out they were working for the worst streaming service.”
Even before the pandemic, the gap between theatrical release and VOD was rapidly closing, and of course this year brought about the straight-to-video releases of films that normally would have opened on thousands of screens, e.g., “Mulan” and “Wonder Woman 84.”
All great respect to the filmmakers, I don’t believe releasing films in theaters and on video simultaneously is a sure recipe for disaster. Even after it’s safe once again to see films in theaters, there’s a substantial audience of a certain age (and financial comfort) who love movies but almost never go to theaters and wait for the home video release. Those folks will pay a premium to see “event” movies from home on the same day we hope millions of others will flock to their local cineplexes.
Seven friends played by Otmara Marrero (clockwise from top left), Ely Henry, Preacher Lawson, Shakina Nayfack, Keith Powell, Jill Knox and Parvesh Cheena stay in touch on group chat on “Connecting.”NBC
COVID material
Some of the first TV shows and movies shot after the outbreak of the pandemic were ABOUT the pandemic, including NBC’s smart and funny “Connecting,” the impactful Netflix dramatic series “Social Distance,” the bombastic action thriller “Songbird” and the HBO movie “Coastal Elites,” which came across as, well, a bit elitist.
Tom Cruise (pictured in “Mission: Impossible — Fallout) demanded compliance with COVID protocols on the set of the next “Mission” movie.Paramount Pictures
Are we clear? Crystal
Tom Cruise’s profanity-laced rant about crew members not following COVID protocols on the set of the latest “Mission: Impossible” movie went viral, with many praising Cruise for rightfully calling out the reckless behavior. As much as I agree with Cruise’s messaging, I disagree with his methodology. When you’re the undisputed Alpha King on the set of a movie that will gross you tens of millions of dollars, dressing down the working crew like a 1960s football coach is unnecessarily demeaning and will make for some tense days on the set. Why not address the troops in a firm but calm manner? The message can be the same — anyone who violates safe practices will be fired — but would probably have been even more effective if Cruise hadn’t been so strident and abrasive.
We’re gonna need a bigger boat — eventually
In addition to a mini-renaissance of drive-in theaters, some promoters floated the idea (so to speak) of “dive-in theaters,” with the movie screen dockside and moviegoers in the water or in boats. The Alamo Drafthouse, the theater chain that has held such screenings in previous years, planned summer screenings of all four “Jaws” movies in Lake Travis in Texas — but the event was canceled due to COVID concerns.
Amity Mayor Larry Vaughn would have been so disappointed.
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