Dear supporters of independent media, Our fundraising drive to support Chicago’s local independent media has been extended for three more days! You now can donate until midnight Monday, June 14, at SaveChicagoMedia.org. Thanks to support from local Feinberg, McCormick…
The Chicago Humanities Festival continued its Chicago Neighborhood Series with a panel of three journalists from Chicago’s community media, mainly focusing on the south side. The panel was moderated by Bettina Chang, cofounder and editorial director at City Bureau, a…
It’s triple match time, starting today and running through 11:59pm on Friday, June 11. There are only three days left in our second annual fundraiser for the Chicago Independent Media Alliance (CIMA). Thanks to a generous matching grant from the…
Dear readers and friends of indie media: We are only four days away from the deadline for the 2021 Chicago Independent Media Alliance #SaveChicagoMedia fundraiser. Our goal for this year’s campaign is $50,000, and as of this morning we’ve raised…
Is existential comedy a thing? If it is, then Monuments, a new film by Chicago-based filmmaker Jack C. Newell (Open Tables, 42 Grams), fits in that category—or maybe it’s just a road movie. Ted Daniels (David Sullivan, Primer, “Sharp Objects”)…
Hi Third Coast readers. Checking in with you today because we know you love Chicago indie media as much as we do. We’re not talking the big dailies or major TV stations. The media that reflect the color and diversity…
The Chicago Humanities Festival and host Geoffrey Stone set the stage for a lively, often heated, discussion on hate speech when it chose two panel members with opposing views on the First Amendment. This was the third and last segment…
I love iced coffee and drink it most of the year, not just in warm weather. Cold brew is my drink of choice, and I’ve made my own for years. But what a journey. I used to just chill and…
She likes to drive her car—fast. She’s a physician who practices at a small-town clinic. She’s smart and focused and speaks her mind. She also wears a head-to-toe black abaya that shows only her eyes. She needs her father’s permission…
We’re in the second week of our second annual fundraiser to #SaveChicagoMedia. You can read all about it and make a donation right now at the website for the Chicago Independent Media Alliance (CIMA). Third Coast Review is one of…
Bella likes her solitude. It’s a familiar feeling for some of us, as the pandemic revealed true differences between introverts and extroverts. Veteran Chicago actor Mary Beth Fisher fully embodies Bella, her life, career and battle with a serious illness.…
Do you love your local media? We think most Chicagoans appreciate our community’s array of local sources—neighborhood papers like the South Side Weekly and Bronzeville Life, specialized community papers like La Raza or the Polish Daily News, an indie radio…
A parade of artists and pop art, literary and music figures from mid-century America populate Louis Menand’s new book, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War. The book looks at the beginning of the Cold War era,…
Matei Vişniec’s plays are a bit bewildering and disorienting. They‘re theater of the absurd with a twist. But Trap Door Theatre can be counted on to turn the work of this Romanian/French playwright into intriguing visual productions. Their latest, Vişniec’s…
Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are private entities even though we may think of them as similar to public “marketplaces of ideas.” A panel of three experts on law and media discussed this and other social media issues…
Violet is pregnant with twin boys, due to arrive soon. She talks and sings to them constantly, introducing them to their family and friends and to their lives to come —and so does everyone else. Their father, Daniel, speaks to…
Modern art, death and trippy art talk, as only Tom Stoppard can write it. That’s the best reason to listen to Remy Bumppo Theatre Company’s latest production, a radio play about three aging artists, a bit of romance and mystery…
As if to prove his versatility as a writer and creator, George Saunders’ latest book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, is not a work of his own creation but a creative writing textbook on the structure of…
Another Day’s Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century By Howard Sherman Metheun Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Like most theater critics and theater lovers, I’ve seen Thornton Wilder’s Our Town more times than I can count. I’ve seen…
Fifty years ago, Daniel Ellsberg, an economist and military analyst, created a national controversy that resulted in a landmark press freedom decision by the US Supreme Court. He did it by leaking a 7,000-page government report, photocopied—by him—on an office…
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