Adam Carston
Adam Carston is a Chicago-based writer, archivist, and documentarian who specializes in cinema, pop culture, and modern American history. He curates the social media account Windy City Ballyhoo.
- Direct
The Trouble with Angels (1966), a playful comedy about mischievous girls at a Catholic boarding school, was a beloved film in my family. My grandmother took her daughters to see it in the 1960s, and it became one of my mother’s favorites, rivaled only by Grease (1978). Growing up as
VOLUME 3: ISSUE 3
SUMMER 2025
- Redux
It’s Alive premiered at Chicago’s Woods Theatre on April 26, 1974. To promote it, Cohen hired women to push strollers around the venue inside which snuggled tape recorders emitting growls. Audiences bit and there were strong ticket sales, but Warner Brothers executives found the film “distasteful” and hampered its
VOLUME 2: ISSUE 1
SPRING 2023