Spring bloomed just in time for the Pollen tour to come through Chicago. The last time Denver Indie-pop duo Tennis played the Riviera Theater, they were opening up for HAIM […]

Winter is more or less behind us and the spring season is here. We’re rushing through the year as we enter a brand new month and that means another round […]

Ever wonder what happens to a film that breaks out of Lifetime/Hallmark Channel jail? Me neither, but apparently one such film is One True Loves, from director Andy Fickman (Paul […]

Lest you think that the new Owen Wilson-starring film Paint is some veiled biopic of public television superstar Bob Ross, let me assure you that any similarities between Wilson’s Carl […]

I don’t normally read press notes on a film before viewing it (and rarely after, other than to retrieve the occasional cast list), but I noticed in the outreach for […]

Contributing authors: Antal Bokor and Marielle Bokor. The end of a con is a weird thing. On the one hand, you’re sad it’s ending. It always goes by so fast […]

It’s a holiday weekend and the events are flowing in! Tons of egg hunts, brunches, markets, concerts, movies and more are waiting to make this week one to remember! While […]

Near the end of A Soldier’s Play, set on a segregated Army base in the Jim Crow South in 1944, a white captain says to his Black counterpart, “I was wrong […]

There are many excellent classical music concerts presented in Chicago every year. But Music of the Baroque’s performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s The St. Matthew Passion—conducted by Dame Jane Glover, […]

Writers: Pearl Shin, Antal Bokor and Marielle Bokor For the first time since the completion of the series, the main cast of Avatar: The Last Airbender reunited on the C2E2 […]

And I thought I was a little bit lost during the recent Dungeons & Dragons movie. I don’t live under a rock, so I know a little something about the […]

In the mid-1980s, Nike’s basketball shoe division was doing so poorly compared to Adidas and Converse that the company almost shut it down completely. They were struggling to find a […]