The 56th Chicago International Film Festival officially wrapped up on Sunday, October 25 after more than a week of virtual screenings and events, not to mention a handful of in-person drive-in screenings […]
It’s spooktober, and everyone’s doing the scary thing. I’ve been having a hard time getting into the spirit of the holiday—which is too bad, because Halloween has always been my favorite. What’s […]
UPDATE: Due to the sharply rising number of COVID-19 cases in Cook County, the city of Chicago is returning to Tier 3 mitigation beginning Friday, November 20th. Details of what Tier 3 […]
It’s far more than a beautifully written mother-daughter conversation. Over the course of an evening at home, a young woman explains to her mother the list of things she will need to […]
When I was a kid, if I wasn’t playing some sort of first-person shooter, I was playing point and click adventure games. These games, at the time, were some of the best […]
“The Dwarves delved too greedily and too deep” is a line that’s always stood out to me from The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. That single line has stuck […]
When I was a kid and games started to feature more destructible objects and terrain, I dreamt of a game with fully reactive environments. I wanted a game where fire spreads, water […]
“Lovecraft Chicago: History, Horror & Afrofutures” is the theme of Chicago History Museum’s Halloween celebration on Saturday, October 31. Virtual tours and events will focus on the HBO series, “Lovecraft Country,” set […]
I love a good mystery—I think most people do. But the idea of going into a dead (or dying) person’s thoughts or memories has always made me feel uncomfortable. Memories are murky, […]
You may have seen Arthur Miller’s midcentury masterpiece, Death of a Salesman, many times. You may have seen some of the great versions. But even if you saw the 1998 Goodman Theatre […]
Cooking games are my jam, especially cooperative ones. I’m not talking about Overcooked, either. I’ve found some of the best cooperative cooking games in obscure titles like VR The Diner Duo. So […]
Reported by Carr Harkrader “Whoever heard of a revolution that came out singing, and not swinging,” Malcolm X asked about the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent civil rights strategy. In a […]
