Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 5/26 and Beyond
Warm days are back again just in time for Memorial Day weekend (and the Memorial Day Wreath-Laying Ceremony & Paradeโฆ
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Review: The Bobโs Burgers Movie Is More of What Fans of the Show Already Appreciate
Less a feature film and more of an expanded episode of the television series (not a criticism, just an observation),โฆ
Review: A Styleless There Are No Saints Never Gets Beyond Crime Drama Tropes
The hook of There Are No Saints, the new film from director Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, is that heโs working fromโฆ
Review: Dancing with Joy at Broadway in Chicagoโs Ainโt Too ProudโThe Life and Times of the Temptations
That drumbeat hits and then you hear a voice like no otherโโI know you wanna leave me but I refuseโฆ
Review: Tragic Hunchback Is Grand Finale to Milwaukeeโs Skylight Music Theatre Season
Guest review by Anne Siegel. Milwaukeeโs Skylight Music Theatre ends its 62nd season with a musical that was nearly 30โฆ
Interview: Filmmaker Stefan Forbes on Toxic Masculinity, Hostage Negotiations and Finding the Story in Hold Your Fire
In the 2008 documentary Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, director Stefan Forbes painted a portrait of a political playerโฆ
Review: Top Gun: Maverick Features Impressive Flight Scenes But More Nostalgia Than Novelty
I recently had a wise person tell me that nostalgia is for those who are afraid to face the present,โฆ
Poem: A Note to the World From the Children of Ukraine
A poem by guest author Josephine Chaparro. WhispersWhispersWhispers We heardWe heardWe heard WhispersWhispersWhispers Soon the whispers turned into soundsThe soundsโฆ
Review: Sniper Elite 5 Has Refined Its Formula to Near Perfection
Iโve been playing Sniper Elite games since I stumbled across the first game on Steam during a sale or possiblyโฆ
Review: Where Camelot BeganโRose Kennedy at Renaissance Theaterworks in Milwaukee
Guest review by Anne Siegel Chicago-based actor Linda Reiter is bringing her acclaimed portrayal of Rose Kennedy to Milwaukee inย Rose:โฆ
Review: A Well Spent Evening with the Mountain Goats and Will Sheff
I think no matter how you try to measure it, the Mountains Goatsโ success over the past few decades isโฆ
Feature: Beautiful Bronzeville Explored byย TikTok Historian Dilla for the CHF
The Chicago Humanities Festival sponsored a bus tour of Chicagoโs South Side, the โBlack Belt,โ for the spring Public-themed series.โฆ
Review: The Billboard, by Natalie Y. Moore
In this pivotal moment in the struggle for reproductive rights, Natalie Y. Mooreโs The Billboard comes at a time whenโฆ
Review: Grossman Ensemble Gives a Dull Performance
One of the leading incubators of new music in Chicago is housed at the Chicago Center of Contemporary Composition atโฆ
Review: To Kill a Mockingbird Isnโt Your Parentsโ Mockingbird, But It Tells a Powerful Story
Aaronย ย Sorkinโsย To Kill a Mockingbirdย is not the same story you read in high school or reread last year. Itโs not theโฆ
Dialogs: Female Rock Talk withย Kim Gordon, Laurie Anderson, Sinead Gleeson at Chicago Humanities Festival
Theย Music Box Theatreย hosted music royalty as part of the spring Chicago Humanities Festival: Sonic Youthโs frontwoman Kim Gordon, her co-author,โฆ
Preview: Chicago Media Projectโs Doc10 Film Festival Returns with Acclaimed, Essential Filmmaking
Chicagoโs only all-documentary film festival, Doc10, has truly established itself over the last seven years as one of the top-tierโฆ
Review: The CSO Under the Baton of Karina Canellakis Delivers the Goods
What kind of concert starts with an 11-minute introductory piece that ends up getting two ovations? A Chicago Symphony Orchestraโฆ
Review: Despite a Slightly Dimmer Storyline, Downton Abbey: A New Era Captures Much of the Franchiseโs Charms Yet Again
If you had told me over a decade ago that a prim and polished television drama from PBS set withinโฆ
Review: In After the Blast, a Play About Environmental Disaster, a Robot Named Arthur Steals the Show
Zoe Kazanโs playย After the Blastย is set a few generations in the futureโunderground. An environmental disaster has made โupstairsโ unlivable andโฆ
