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, […]

Steps from Wabash and Michigan Avenues, near the water taxi and architectural boat tour embarkation stops on the Chicago River, sits Nic + Junior’s restaurant, which opened a year ago as a […]

Smart dialogue delivered at a brisk clip makes Dry Powder fit right into its Manhattan business office setting. The four-character play, now being staged by Gwydion Theatre, is the story […]

Sunda New Asian restaurant spans a sunny corner in Fulton Market, sharing a warm and cozy space that offers warm and cozy dishes. In addition to this location at 333 […]

The latest chapter in the decades’ old Evil Dead franchise might be its nastiest and meanest yet, and while that’s not inherently a bad thing, it does seem to stray […]

I’ll fully confess to knowing nothing about the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet Mary Oliver before watching this truly moving portrait of her: Mary Oliver: Saved by the […]

Canada. What makes so many of its genre films so different than your run-of-the-mill American nonsense? I wish I knew, but a prime example of that subtle but noticeable approach […]

Live-action remakes of beloved animated films are a mixed bag at best and totally unnecessary in every case. That doesn’t mean that a few of them aren’t good, but without […]