Review: Cha Cha Real Smooth, On Learning the Dance Steps as You Go
Filmmaker Cooper Raiff (Shithouse) is only 24 years old, yet he’s delivered one of the most emotionally mature, fully formed…
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Review: Bottled Up’s Grand Bizarre Impressed at Empty Bottle
Guest review by Aviv Heart. Grand Bizarre, the new record from Washington DC’s Bottled Up, appropriately fulfills the promise of…
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 6/16 and Beyond
Week three of Pride month and the events just keep rolling in. There are events galore with Juneteenth celebrations happening…
Review: A Rowdy Metro Welcomed Post Animal Home
Frequent Chicago concert goers could probably tell you they know who Post Animal is. They are a staple of the…
Review: Kate Bollinger and Lael Neale Connected with a Sold Out Schubas Crowd
Last week before the blazing heat and storms took Chicago by surprise, a pair of singer songwriters took the stage…
Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
I can’t tell you how many hours I spent at home on NES and SNES or at the arcade playing…
Review: Giordano Dance Chicago—Exuberant, Urban and Avant Garde
When I think of modern or jazz-inspired dance, a few people come to mind. Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, and Katherine…
Preview: Chicago Commemorates Emancipation with Juneteenth Celebrations
On paper, the Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved Americans on January 1, 1863, during the middle of the Civil War. But…
Review: Myriad Chicagos, Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, edited by Donald G. Evans and Robin Metz
Summer mornings, in my West Side childhood, I would go out on our rickety second-story back porch, and, across the…
Review: Get a Cortisol Correction from Second City’s New Mainstage Revue, Do the Right Thing, But No Worries If Not
Politics are exhausting, but inevitable and important. People are exhausted, but continue to seek normalcy via social interactions. The Second…
Review: The Franchise’s Sixth Installment, Jurassic World Dominion Makes a Case for Sticking to the Original
When it was released in 1993, one of the reasons Jurassic Park became the mega hit it remains today is…
Review: In Card Shark Cheating Is Life and Death
I love video games. They’re able to give us experiences like Card Shark, where no other medium possibly could. I…
Review: Relative, a Genuinely Chicago Film, Tells the Story of a Rogers Park Family Going Through Change
Relative weaves together the stories of a Rogers Park family--the progressive parents, their adult children and their children--as change affects them all.
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 6/9 and Beyond
Week two of Pride month and the events just keep rolling in. There’re events galore with Fiesta Back of the…
Review: Hercule Poirot Unravels Murder Scheme Aboard Milwaukee Rep’s Orient Express
Agatha Christie mystery fans will want to climb aboard Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s production of Murder On the Orient Express, which opened last…
Giveaway: Post Animal Are Back in Chicago for a Hometown Show at Metro
It’s hard to believe that Post Animal have been blowing minds with their incredible sound since 2014. The band has…
Review: Adam Sandler’s Genuine Love of Basketball Shines Through in Hustle
Adam Sandler is not above surprising us every so often. He did it not too long ago in the hyper-real…
Review: Eclectic Full Contact Theatre’s Blithe Spirit Is a Frothy Comedy for a Summer Outing
Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward, a story of ghosts and seances set in a posh English home.
Review: Joffrey Ballet Shines with the Exuberance of Spain in Don Quixote
Don Quixote by the Joffrey Ballet
Interview: Fire Island Filmmakers on Inspiration from Austen, Casting Comedy Legend Margaret Cho and the Chance for a Trip Back to the Island
On a broader scale, director Andrew Ahn’s new comedy Fire Island is about a group of multicultural gay men who…