‘Runaways’ rock the silver screen
After depicting Cherie Currie’s journey from girl-next-door to drunken girl- passed out on the floor in “The Runaways,” it’s official that Dakota Fanning is all grown up.
“The Runaways” is not an average rise-and-fall rock star biopic, but The Runaways weren’t an average band, either. The film, an adaptation from Currie’s memoir, “Neon Angel,” focuses on the forming of Joan Jett’s all-girl rock band, that makes it from trailer parks to Tokyo, and the empowerment and exploitation the girls faced while climbing the billboard charts in a man’s world. (Read More...)
The new biopic starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning tells the story of female rockers Joan Jett and Cherie Currie. (Photo courtesy of photogallery.filmofilia.com)
‘Come grumpy, leave happy’
Hidden away on a side street of downtown Naperville lies a small bar, The Grumpy Bulldog. It’s hard to miss if you are not looking for it, but what the Bulldog doesn’t have in space, it makes up for in its atmosphere and cuisine.
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