The 3CR Staff’s Guide to a Better July
If you’re like me and you don’t yet have your life together enough to live in an air-conditioned apartment, you are looking for any reason to leave your home. Look […]
OUT Chicago’s LGBTQ Visitor’s Guide
Windy City Times, the news source for the Chicago area Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans, and Queer community has released a print version of OUT Chicago’s LGBTQ Visitor’s Guide. This conveniently […]
Finding Dory, Central Intelligence, Genius, De Palma, Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made, The American Side, Our Last Tango
FINDING DORY If I were the type of critic—and I’m not—to rank films that come out of the same production house (in this case Pixar), I think I’d slot their […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend, 6/16-6/19
You know, I originally picked the Drake/Teletubbies sun photo hybrid to head up this column because I thought it was funny. I figured others, too, would delight at the introspective, […]
The Art of Falling’s Triumphant Return
The best of Chicago dance and the best of Chicago comedy joined together on the Harris Theater stage this June for the second installment of The Art of Falling, a […]
Cirque Italia Blends Old World Charm with High Tech Glitz
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin once said that circus was the people’s art, and by that he probably meant that people really need some slapstick and shocking good fun to take their […]
Giordano Dance Chicago Closes “Made in Chicago”
On Saturday, the Auditorium Theatre closes its “Made in Chicago” series with a company that has made this city home for more than five decades–Giordano Dance Chicago. “The ‘Made in […]
Chicago’s Main Farmers Market, Green City Market, Serves Up Locally Sourced Recipes with Cookbook
Green City Market has released a cookbook, which may seem like a normal thing to do, but like the market itself and all food that is produced and supplied outside […]
Four Ways to Prep for Physical Festival
You like theater and you think Physical Festival Chicago might be something for you and your friends, but you’re not sure how to prepare for it. Will you need to […]
CST Stages Mash-up of Shakespeare’s Bellicose History in Tug of War: Foreign Fire
Song montage of “Once I Was a Soldier” by Tim Buckley and Larry Beckett. Photo by Liz Lauren. From the get-go in Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s limited run, six-hour marathon mash-up Tug […]
Preview: The Dirty Nil to Kick Out the Jams on May 21 at the Beat Kitchen
When three shaggy-haired teenagers bonded over their Iron Maiden t-shirts and their shared love for all things rock ’n’ roll, they decided to do the only logical thing: They formed […]
Chicago Critics Film Festival Opens Friday With 26 Features, 2 Shorts Programs
I’ve been very fortunate in the 18 years I’ve been a film critic to be a part of some truly great events. But never in my time as a critic […]