Last month’s International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago at McCormick Place is an annual tradition for us at Third Coast. Every year it’s been in Chicago (since 1928), it’s brought the […]
Ten Great Things We Saw at IH+HS 2019
Review: The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt by Ken Krimstein
The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth By Ken Krimstein Bloomsbury Publishing Am I intelligent enough to critique the life’s work of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt? Highly […]
On the Road: Notre Dame’s Holy Half Marathon
Last Saturday morning marked the 15th annual Holy Half Marathon (informally called the Holy Half), a race around the campus of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. The annual student-run […]
New York Museums: Frida Kahlo at the Brooklyn Museum—Obsession With Self-Image; Plus MAD
The Brooklyn Museum is a grand art museum housed in an 1893 building designed by McKim, Mead and White. You enter the museum, not through its 19th century Beaux Arts façade, but […]
Gallery: Friday Flashback to C2E2’s Crown Championships of Cosplay
It’s no small feat to win the C2E2 Crown Championships of Cosplay. In fact, it’s no small feat to cosplay in general. While you can certainly buy costumes to walk around […]
C2E2 2019 Sunday Panel Catchup
We’ve finally reached the end of the biggest pop culture, comic and entertainment event within city limits, and this year it was bigger than ever, with Saturday selling out entirely and Friday […]
Gallery: Sunday Cosplay at C2E2 2019
Well, it’s been quite a weekend! Saturday was at capacity, completely sold out and packed from show floor to panel rooms (with some definite hiccups, to be sure), but Sunday was no […]
Review: The Art Institute’s Quartet of Rembrandt Portraits
This exhibit feels like it’s being billed as a big dealio, but, in fact, the Art Institute of Chicago’s Rembrandt Portraits, running through June 9, is merely four paintings, two of which are […]
C2E2 2019 Saturday Panel Catchup
Way back when we first heard there’d be two Doctors in the house for C2E2 2019, we warned you we thought that this might be the year that broke all the records. […]
Gallery: Saturday Cosplay at C2E2 2019
Today was the big day for C2E2. Saturday is always the busiest day of the con, and usually the best time to catch the best of the C2E2’s cosplay, not only because […]
C2E2 2019 Friday Panel Catchup
There was actual sunshine and not too terrible temperatures awaiting all those streaming into McCormick Place for C2E2 2019’s first day, and thus we got to bask in some great weather and […]
Gallery: Friday Cosplay at C2E2 2019
Has a full day of C2E2 already flown by? By the looks of things, yes, and this “epic” tenth year has already proven packed. Three day badges were almost entirely sold out […]
