Beyond, Museums, Travel feature

On the Road: It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Super Air Museum Attractions

For today’s travelers, a trip to the airport can bring as much a sense of anxiety as anticipation. Outdated airline scheduling tools and ugly weather patterns can often mean long […]

Anne Siegel /
Art & Museums, Fiction, Gallery, Lit, Museum, Museums, Painting & sculpture, Sculpture

Review: Just Add Water, The Fountain, by David Scott Hay

The Fountain By David Scott Hay Whiskey Tit Jasper P. Duckworth is a critic in an alternate universe Chicago for Chicago Shoulders, a New City-like (or, if you will, Third […]

Patrick T. Reardon /
Art & Museums, Beyond, Event, Museum, Museums, Parks and zoos, Suburbs and exurbs

GALLERY: Chicago Botanic Garden’s 2022 Orchid Show, Untamed Brings a Burst of Beautiful Color to Your February

  [smartslider3 slider=”25″] The sun might be shining and the weather getting warmer (some days, right after a bunch of snow) but it’s still solidly winter in Chicago. Whether you’re […]

Marielle Bokor /
Beyond, Museums, Suburbs and exurbs

Wizard World Chicago 2021 Saturday Panel Catchup

We spent much of our day in panels at Wizard World Chicago on Saturday. There was a long list of programming that included fandoms that ran the gamut from Outlander […]

Marielle Bokor /
Art & Museums, Beyond, Museum, Museums, Suburbs and exurbs

Frida Kahlo: Timeless Opens Today at Glen Ellyn’s Cleve Carney Museum of Art

Whether you’ve studied Frida Kahlo and her works intensively or she exists as merely a name and notion in your mind, there’s a few concrete things that come to mind […]

Marielle Bokor /
Art & Museums, Beyond, Museum, Museums

Fall Museum Guide: What’s Open, How to Stay Safe, and How to Enjoy Chicago’s Museums From Home

UPDATE: Due to the sharply rising number of COVID-19 cases in Cook County, the city of Chicago is returning to Tier 3 mitigation beginning Friday, November 20th. Details of what […]

Marielle Bokor /
Art & Museums, Beyond, Museum, Museums

Support AND Enjoy Chicago’s Museums from Home-Part Two: Even More Great Museums!

We told you we’d bring you more of what’s happening in museums around Chicago in Part 2, and we’re back with some great ways to interact with all the great […]

Marielle Bokor /
Art & Museums, Beyond, Museum, Museums

Support AND Enjoy Chicago Museums From Home-Here’s How. Part One:”The Big Ones”

As we’re grappling with the news that the pandemic won’t peak until Mid May in Illinois and looking at an uncertain future for so many events and activities in and […]

Marielle Bokor /
Beyond, Museums, Music, Reviews

Review: Mesmerica 360 is a Kaleidoscopic Audiovisual Journey

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like being inside a kaleidoscope, look no further than James Hood’s Mesmerica 360, a multisensory experience that does, indeed, mesmerize. I caught a sold-out […]

Guest Author /
Art & Museums, Beyond, Event, Installation, Museums, Parks and zoos, Suburbs and exurbs

Chicago Botanic Garden Dazzles with New Holiday Show, Lightscape–Act Now if You Want to Get a Glimpse!

Tradition is typically king at the holidays, with meals, movies and destinations remaining the same year after year and creating that sense of cozy familiarity. This always seems particularly true […]

Marielle Bokor /
Art & Museums, Beyond, Museum, Museums

So Lit: The Museum of Science and Industry’s Christmas Around the World and Holidays of Light Shines, Educates

The turkey’s been made and eaten (mostly) and Black Friday’s come and gone. Welcome to Cyber Monday, and, much more importantly, the official start of the holiday season. Now, no […]

Marielle Bokor /
Art & Museums, Beer and wine, Chicago history, Food, Museum, Museums

First Day of Beer Culture Summit Delivers a (Nearly) Complete History of Beer in One Afternoon

The first full day of the Beer Culture Summit is in the books, and Third Coast Review was on hand at The Field Museum to take in a full day […]

Nicholas Blashill /