It’s that time of year! Chicago’s ‘premier’ convention begins tomorrow with a Lord of the Rings cast reunion and continues with plenty of gusto through Sunday, April 13th. We’re excited […]

Music has an abundance of guitar gods, but who resides in Synthesizer Olympus? If you’re an ’80s kid, a small list of synth heroes suggests itself—Thomas Dolby, Herbie Hancock, Gary […]

Chicago is welcoming delegates, media, and guests for the 2024 Democratic National Convention this week. The city will also be welcoming protestors. If you are protesting, or if one of […]

It’s that time of year again! Convention season kicks off with C2E2 but of course doesn’t stop there. Fan Expo Chicago kicks off in just a few hours over in […]

Chicago’s largest and longest-running horror convention, Flashback Weekend, is throwing the spotlight on four legendary horror directors and three massive cast reunions for its 2024 outing, August 2-4 at the […]

Celebrating its 10th annual event, Chicago’s Lincoln Park hosted the 2024 Dîner en Blanc last week, a summertime tradition celebrating the city, gastronomy, community and the crisp look of all […]

Laura Chow Reeve’s debut short story collection A Small Apocalypse is, like any good collection these days, thematically rich. It is mostly about young queer characters in the present day, […]

It’s con and festival season and while some fests require proper attire, accommodations, and a good amount of water so you don’t pass out, others simply require you to kick […]

Four seasoned legal minds – all MSNBC commentators—have joined forces, like a Justice League of all Wonder Women, to discuss America’s pressing legal issues with plenty of fodder in this […]

Can you believe it? We were still under a freeze warning this week but it’s almost May. Oh yeah, and this weekend is C2E2!  This is not a drill, folks. […]

This week the Hellenic Museum presented its annual historic trial re-enactment. The Trial of Pericles: Hero or Tyrant? You Decide. was an imagined enactment of a trial for Pericles, the […]

As the fate of immigrants’ and refugees’ housing for the winter is debated in Chicago’s city council and by many aid organizations, a special guest is coming to town to […]