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 […]
The final shot of six-year-old Frida crying her heart out, as she finally realizes that her mother is dead, in Carla Simón’s moving autobiographical debut Summer 1993 (2017) is perhaps […]
Carlos Kalmar returned to the helm of the Grant Park Festival Orchestra at Jay Pritzker Pavilion on Wednesday night. He and the orchestra were joined by Chicago’s own Third Coast […]