Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 3/2 and Beyond
It’s the first weekend of March, with plenty of amazing concerts, markets, restaurant weeks, and shows of all kinds are happening all weekend long. While it feels like the pandemic […]
Siskel Film Center Goes Abroad with Month-long Chicago European Union Film Festival and Opener Hilma
Spread throughout the entire month of March, the 26th Chicago European Union Film Festival continues the annual tradition of celebrating emerging voices and providing a showcase of provocative perspectives from […]
Review: Handel, Hadyn, a Little Mozart Propel Music of the Baroque’s London Calling Concert
Music of the Baroque’s enjoyable London Calling concert was performed at the Harris Theater on February 27 after opening the previous night at Skokie’s North Shore Center for Performing Arts. […]
On the Road: It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Super Air Museum Attractions
For today’s travelers, a trip to the airport can bring as much a sense of anxiety as anticipation. Outdated airline scheduling tools and ugly weather patterns can often mean long […]
Review: The Beths Continue to Be Experts in a Thriving Field at Thalia Hall
Like every year, 2022 brought about some great things and some not-so-great things. Seeing as though we’re all about the positives here at 3CR, let me quickly list one great […]
Review: I Can’t Shake the Feeling That Scars Above Is Just an Imitation
By now if you haven’t played a soulslike game, you know what they are, and have seen the many variations thereof. Scars Above goes the risk/reward gameplay route, but instead […]
Review: We Have a Ghost Is a Dead-On-Arrival Afterlife Comedy
With his previous films, writer/director Christopher Landon (Freaky, the Happy Death Day movies, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, and screenwriter on a bunch of the Paranormal Activity movies) seemed […]
Review: At the Factory Theater, The Kelly Girls Become IRA Warriors During the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Fianna and Regan Kelly are The Kelly Girls, teenagers living in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the 1960s. But don’t confuse them with the “Derry Girls,” who are happily obsessed with teenaged […]
Review: Maggie Rogers Kicks the Aragon into Maximum Overdrive
I can’t recall the last time I’ve been to such a large venue like the Aragon for a sold-out show. Walking around after Del Water Gap finished his set is […]
Review: Oscar-Nominated Short Documentary Films Explore Issues of the Environment, Community, Family and Politics
In order to qualify for the Academy Awards for short films (in the live action, animation or documentary categories), a film must meet two main criteria: one, it must play […]
Review: Oscar-Nominated The Quiet Girl Explores Family, Love and the Power of Secrets
The first-ever film in the Irish language to be nominated (or even short-listed) for an Academy Award for Best International Feature, writer/director Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl (based on the […]
Review: In Emily, an Author’s Life, Loves and Heartbreak Inspire a Classic Novel
Not being at all fluent in the writing or life stories of the Brontë sisters (Anne, Charlotte, or Wuthering Heights author Emily), I have no idea how much of the […]