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Review: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Wind Ensemble Excels Under Duress at Mandel Hall

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Review: In Michael Jackson Biopic, Michael Gets a Highlight Reel, Audiences Get the Greatest Hits, But No One Gets the Full Truth

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Review: The Elgin Master Chorale and Director/Conductor Andrew Lewis Produce a Masterful Performance of Stacy Garrop’s Terra Nostra in Elgin

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Recap: Fargo (S5, Ep3) — Series’ Third Episode Takes Its Time Setting Up Conflicts

Oh, I missed this show so much. I don’t think I can properly articulate how much I missed it, but if I could interpret the feeling that the claustrophobic, nightmarish […]

  • Sam Layton
  • January 3, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Centered by Authentic, Devastating Performances, All Of Us Strangers Confronts Grief, Passion and Connection

    There’s a magic to writer/director Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers, the kind that sneaks up slowly at first before becoming so powerful it’s impossible to ignore its pull. A […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • January 2, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    2023 in Review: Best Narrative Films of the Year

    It’s the last Friday of a pretty great year for film, so it’s time to reveal my Best of the Year list. As always, I was able to squeeze in […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 29, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    2023 in Review: Best Documentary Films of the Year

    As I am prone to do every year, I separate documentaries into their own Best of the Year list, not because I feel they should be judged any differently than […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 29, 2023
    • Film & TV , Review , Television

    Recap: Invincible (S2, Ep4) — Mark and Nolan Fight Their Toughest Battle in a Brutal Mid-Season Finale

    Where do we really come from? Invincible has been asking this question since its beginning. At first, Earth’s superpowered defender Nolan Grayson (J.K. Simmons) told his family he came from […]

  • Sam Layton
  • December 29, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Raging Grace Finds More Horror in the Immigrant Experience than Its Jump Scares

    This article was written by Zachary Lee. I did not realize the clever double meeting of the title of writer-director Paris Zarcilla’s Raging Grace until the credits rolled. The film […]

  • Zachary Lee
  • December 28, 2023
    • Front page

    Your Chicago Curated New Year’s Eve Weekend 2023 and Beyond

    Well this is it. 2023 is coming to a close this weekend and there’s a TON of things going on. Concerts, parties, light festivals, and so much more are waiting […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • December 28, 2023
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Review: Searching for Meaning in the Absurd World of Rajkamal Chaudhary’s Traces of Boots on Tongue and Other Stories

    The late Indian writer Rajkamal Chaudhary (1929–1967) came to prominence in the first two decades of independent India in the 1950s and ’60s, producing a prolific number of works in […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • December 27, 2023
    • Lit , Nonfiction , Suburbs and exurbs

    Review: An Artist/Photographer Analyzes the Wanderlust of Stray Shopping Carts

    The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification By Julian Montague Second edition, 2023, University of Chicago Press Julian Montague published his first edition of The […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • December 27, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: American Fiction Is a Smart Satire That Sends Up Race, Relationships and Literary Ambitions

    I have not read Percival Everett’s Erasure, the book on which Cord Jefferson’s hilarious and sharp send-up of literary culture and the Black experience, American Fiction, is based. But if […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 27, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review , Uncategorized

    Review: In Adapting Alice Walker’s Classic Novel (Again), the Latest The Color Purple Boasts an Impressive Cast If Chaotic Story

    Since Alice Walker’s The Color Purple was first published in 1982, it has been adapted into a film (in 1985, directed by Steven Spielberg), a stage musical (in 2005, which […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 26, 2023
    • Dance , Stages , Theater

    Review: A Harlem Reverie in Sugar Hill: the Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker

    Harlem. The name evokes a sense of place, time, and for some, the halcyon days of the Harlem Renaissance. Sugar Hill is a section of Harlem where the strivers lived, […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • December 24, 2023
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