In a concert featuring African Americans performing African American composers, the Grant Park Festival Orchestra gave a wonderful concert at Jay Pritzker Pavilion on Wednesday evening. Jeri Lynne Johnson made […]
The bar tends to be raised pretty high when you mix unique and deep sounds together. Not only do you have to live up to multiple genre expectations, but you […]
To get to JK Entertainment’s new production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, start by going ’round back to the alley. Walk past the dumpsters. Skirt the piles of cardboard. […]
Depending on the times and the filmmakers, Homer’s foundational story The Odyssey has meant many things to many creative adaptors. Just two years ago, a version of the mythic action […]
This is a super-busy weekend with so many events, they are overflowing! It’s a cavalcade of street fests, concerts, and amazing literary events happening all month long! So put on […]
Taste of Chicago has been happening since 1980, but this year was my first attending the five-day festival. I went Saturday on a whim, excited to try restaurants I haven’t […]
This past weekend Ravinia Festival unveiled their newly renovated Hunter Pavilion to the public and the storied campus. The project’s completion comes right as Ravinia also celebrates reaching the $75 […]
The Mastermind is an indie flick, a heist movie, a period piece, and a meditation on American life, but what I failed to realize the first time I watched it […]
Authentic Chicago Ensemble’s Safe Landing: Coyote Embrace, written by Tim Kough, directed by Jordan Ratliff, playing at Theater Wit, begins with a video slideshow of coyote facts played over a […]
The 38th Chicago Duo Piano Festival kicked off at the Music Institute of Chicago’s Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston on Sunday. MIC faculty members Claire Aebersold and Ralph Neiweem, who […]
No Dogs in the Kitchen, a young company on Chicago’s storefront scene, is performing Oscar Wilde’s famous comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest, at the Facility Theatre. Leaning hard on […]
Demystifying the significance of the old Chicago Reader for today’s young urbanites recalls illustrator Doogie Horner’s flowchart “How to Explain the Internet to a 19th Century British Street Urchin.” First, […]