Preview: Grant Park Festival Opens This Wednesday
The Grant Park Festival kicks off its 2017 season this Wednesday with Vadim Gluzman wielding the violin in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s fiery Violin Concerto. Carlos Kalmar returns for his […]
Fresh Start to Your Week: 6/12 – 6/14
The sun’s out and it’s sweltering, so why not take advantage of the Chicago weather with some outdoors fun! Millennium Park’s music and film series start up this week as […]
Butterflies, Blooms and Corpse Flowers, Oh My! Chicago Botanic Gardens In Full Bloom
[soliloquy id=”14110″] We’re rounding the corner to summer, and the weather’s taking a turn for the best for once. Sunshine and blue skies have been abundant, so it’s high time […]
Fresh Start To Your Week: 5/5 – 5/7
Hopefully your weekend was spent enjoying our wonderful city under warm and sunny rays! While it won’t get as sweltering, you can still keep the fun times going with some […]
Fresh Start To Your Week: 5/29 – 5/31
It may be the end of May, but that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying a Fresh Start. This edition focuses primarily on concerts featuring the diverse range of artists that […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 5/25 – 5/28
It feels like I’ve been writing about rainy days and Twin Peaks for weeks now. Don’t let the upcoming wet days discourage you from enjoying this pre-Memorial Day weekend. Go […]
Hold Down The Fort at Chicago Children’s Museum Friday
Everyone needs a bit of a getaway from time to time. With current affairs quickly escalating from bad to worse it’s more and more appealing these days to think back to […]
Meat Puppets and Mike Watt Jam Econo
I’ve been jumping into the musical Wayback Machine to disappear into my post-college groove and deflect this post-apocalyptic shit storm. Since the 11/9 election terrorism attack, I’ve already taken a […]
Fresh Start To Your Week: 5/22 – 5/24
I’m still reeling from the new episodes of Twin Peaks that aired last night. I went in expecting little resolution, more questions, and David Lynch at his most unrestricted, no […]
Film Review – Alien: Covenant, Feels Like An Autopsy of Ridley Scott’s Original Masterpiece
In Ridley Scott’s 2012 foray into the Alien universe, the prequel Prometheus, the mission was to find the origin of humankind. But with his latest work, Alien: Covenant, Scott reveals […]
The Rise of Integrated New Media Installations: What It Means When Public Art & Architecture Go Digital
No new building in Chicago was as highly anticipated in recent times as the engineering marvel that is 150 N. Riverside Plaza. The 54-story glass office tower–noted for its sharply […]
Review: See You in the Morning by Mairead Case
“I think about that a lot. How if you are a bird, your nest is home. Absolutely everything else is the world. You stick out a wing, and there you […]