Snow in late March is usually the last thing anyone wants but it made for a magical night with Man on Man at Sleeping Village this past Thursday. After releasing […]

After having to take 2020 off, Out of Space (put on by the wonderful Evanston SPACE organizers) reignited it’s outdoor festival for an amazing outing. The fest featured a great […]

Sometimes, there’s nothing better than a good show on a Monday night. Walking into the Auditorium Theatre, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from drag queens Trixie Mattel and […]

Playing out like a faded photograph of a bygone era on the periphery of Paris, Gagarine comes courtesy of first-time feature filmmakers Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, who based the […]

Violin superstar and Chicago Symphony Orchestra artist-in-residence Hilary Hahn headlined a thoughtful chamber music performance at Symphony Center on Friday night. Ably accompanied by Seth Parker Woods on cello and […]

The Cornelia Arts Building recently held their spring open studio event where the public had the opportunity to see work by dozens of artists. The building, located at the corner […]

More than 80 years ago, Hungary’s most famous playwright not named Ferenc Molnar wrote a little comedy called Parfumerie, all about a fancy cosmetic shop and the clerks who work […]

At this point, I think it’s fair to say that any comic book character that has even the most remote stink of Spider-Man on them is fair game for a […]

File this one under the category: Documentaries I Didn’t Know I Needed Until I Watched It. From first-time filmmaker Lisa Hurwitz, The Automat tells the all-but-lost history of the Horn […]

Taking a crack at a bare-bones action-thriller B-movie, Chris Pine (Star Trek, Wonder Woman) plays Special Forces Sgt. James Harper in The Contractor. He finds himself in trouble with the […]

Using the same animation style (and lead animator Tommy Pallotta) he used in Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, writer/director Richard Linklater brings us the more personal tale of his […]

Apparently writer/director Judd Apatow and co-writer Pam Brady (Hot Rod, Hamlet 2, Team America) see the health-related restrictions put on film and television productions during the pandemic as creating both […]