{"id":5388,"date":"2006-09-27T11:23:54","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T15:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5388"},"modified":"2024-10-27T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T19:28:12","slug":"biograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5388","title":{"rendered":"Biograph Theatre: Historical Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow: marquee lights on at the Biograph Theatre<\/a> (great little news story there). The Biograph Theatre is, apparently, the new home of Victory Gardens<\/a> (a fact I did not know. I remember going to see movies at the Biograph – but then again, I am old Father William). Across the street from the Biograph was Lounge Ax <\/a>– great music club (you can see a bit of the interior in High Fidelity<\/i>) – and it has now closed (sniff – I am not alone in being sad <\/a>about the closing of that club). But there were a couple of years in my life when I was at Lounge Ax on a weekly basis. And one evening – a bit buzzed – a group of us went into the alley next to the Biograph and re-enacted, drunkenly, the gunning down of John Dillinger. I believe it was Ann, Mitchell, Phil, Kenny and M. I cannot remember the exact grouping, although I know Phil and Ann were there – but I do remember running down the alley and falling to the ground in a hale of bullets. I was wearing a short schoolgirl kilt, a leather jacket, saddle shoes, and thigh-high black stockings … just so you can get the full picture of my death throes. Why do I remember my outfit? If you were shot to death in a hale of bullets – wouldn’t you remember what you were wearing? I think we all “took turns” being Dillinger. Hahaha It was like one o’clock in the morning. So fun. It’s quite fitting that the marquee will light up on Sept. 28. Because Sept. 29, of course, is when we propel ourselves into the blazing star<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I am caring less and less if my posts make sense. They’re all written in code.<\/p>\n

Congrats to Victory Gardens for getting such a cool new venue … if I were living in Chicago now, I would totally go to watch the light-the-lights ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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