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 […]

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 […]

[soliloquy id=”48701″] Whether it feels like it or not, spring has officially arrived today. Eventually, parking restrictions lift, green will replace grey and we’ll be headed to the lakefront for […]

The great thing about being a nerd is that there are many things you can be a nerd about. Maybe you love comics, knitting or Dungeons & Dragons. Or maybe […]

The blockbuster exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art could be called Andy Warhol—From A to Z and Back Again. Because it’s a very comprehensive view of the life […]

  Third Coast Review’s chief theater critic is spending the month of March in New York. This is is the first of her dispatches on New York theater and other […]

Furniture. Textiles. Toys. Home goods. Buildings. Photography. Theater design. Typography and graphic design. It’s hard to exaggerate how much the visual design that surrounds us is influenced by the work of […]

Hundreds lined the streets along Wentworth and Cermak on Sunday for Chicago’s annual Lunar New Year Parade to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The parade featured colorful costumes, lion dances, […]

All too often, we hear the Midwest referred to as fly-over states. To some, the idea of escaping civilization and heading out into nature involves hopping on a plane. I’ve […]

By June Sawyers New Orleans may have had its Storyville but Chicago had the Levee, the infamous red-light district on the Near South Side that was known for drinking, gambling […]

While we’re still a few months out from the beginning of Chicago’s con season, that doesn’t mean we’ve been lax about keeping up with what’s to come. C2E2 is only […]

We don’t have to look far for a definition of a neighborhood. Jane Jacobs, the famous architecture writer who faced down Robert Moses’ efforts to demolish part of Greenwich Village […]