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AS she introduced Patti Smith, poet Alison Croggon remarked that it seemed as if anytime anything was happening, Smith was there.

Strange Brew: Cult Films at Schlafly Bottleworks: "Patti Smith: Dream of Life" , Steven Sebring's portrait of the musician, will be shown at 8 p.m. today-Saturday at Schlafly Bottleworks, 7260 Southwest Avenue.

After 10 long years in the making, director Steven Sebring's multi-award winning documentary, Patti Smith: Dream of Life is hitting the big screen.

Marc Farre returns to the Turning Point Cafe to present a concert of mostly new songs from his latest release "Secret Symphony." He unleashes a chain of passionate, cinematic pop/rock songs infused with raw ...

An iconic image of Patti Smith, created by Steven Sebring. Photo: Supplied September 26, 2008 Steven Sebring's camera finds the singer's core, writes Philippa Hawker.

Dream of Life is not your typical rockumentary. But then again, its subject, Patti Smith, is not your typical rocker.

Patti Smith: Dream of Life . Directed and written by Steven Sebring. Photographed by Sebring and Phillip Hunt.

It's a big one, all right. So to help you navigate the 2008 Fringe Festival, here's what we think will be just some of the best bets of the festival.

Seeing a bespectacled Malcolm Gladwell step inside Costume National 's party for Patti Smith this past Friday night piqued our interest.

Who were the lucky ones on Wednesday night? Tim Robbins and Rachel McAdams qualify; after the premiere of their film, The Lucky Ones , the actors looked social and completely at ease at Blowfish.

You didn't have to be an aging hippie, but it helped on Wednesday night when Joe Mimran , creative director of Joe Fresh, hosted a screening of Patti Smith: Dream of Life at the Gardiner Museum, directed by ...

"So tell me about Patti Smith," I asked my date to last night's party for Dream of Life , Steven Sebring's film about the singer.

ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES: A much younger Al Pacino, Kitty Winn and New York City star in Jerry Schatzberg's 1971 druggie romance almost-classic "The Panic in Needle Park." Tonight at 9:30, Sunday at 4:30 p.m. ...

Click photo to see more images. For more than a decade, fashion photographer Steven Sebring has been quietly filming punk's godmother Patti Smith.

I've liked Patti Smith ever since Detroit's legendary Creem magazine published her definition of rock and roll in the poem "We Don't Look Back!" So it's weird to see a looking-back film like Dream of Life, even ...

Rocking the World At 61, the so-called "Godmother of Punk" and poet Patti Smith still believes in the power of rock 'n' roll, even if the music has lost some of its clout in the recent decades.

Caption: Patti Smith Surprise performance at the closing night of the Philadelphia Film Festival 2008 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .... Punk icon PATTI SMITH has fond memories of the 16-years she spent away from ...

The reel deal Local filmmakers in spotlight at Atlantic festival By ANDREA NEMETZ Entertainment Reporter Thu.

Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network 2008-08-26 23:21:02 - Punk icon PATTI SMITH's 1978 album EASTER was almost banned from record stores because her own record company ...

The article "Bohemian Rhapsody: Patti Smith's 12-Year Take," about photographer Steven Sebring's documentary, Patti Smith: Dream of Life, appears in this print issue.