Give Thanks and Buy Some Local Jams This Bandcamp Friday!
It’s the penultimate Bandcamp Friday of the year! What initially was a short term way to help bands affected by the pandemic shutting down touring has become this great on […]
Review: Gay Old Times, Last Call Chicago, by Rick Karlin and St. Sukie de la Croix
Last Call Chicago is not a narrative book. Rather it is an extensive listing with brief descriptions of 1,001 LGBTQ and LGBTQ-friendly bars and such. But it is also a […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 11/3 and Beyond
Halloween is behind us and the holiday season is in full effect! Get ready for all the markets and late fall/early winter events popping up! So whether you’re looking to […]
Review: The Entropy Center Has You Saving the World by Solving Puzzles
It’s so easy to compare one video game to another when writing reviews. While that’s something I try to avoid, it’s hard, especially when a game does little to hide […]
Review: Rousing Chicago Reunion for Irish Trad Legend Altan
Chicago played a crucial role in the survival of traditional Irish music. Our city in the 19th and early 20th centuries became home to a huge influx of Irish immigrants […]
Dialogs: How Chicagoans and Russians Write—CHF’s Chat with Author George Saunders
Oak Forest native to the “political left of Gandhi,” essayist and award-winning author George Saunders returned to Chicagoland to talk about writing with Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me host Peter Sagal. “The Art of the Short […]
Return of the Living Featured Creatures: Chicago Horror Creators Share Favorite Fictional Terrors
It’s Halloween, and everyone’s entitled to one good scare. Lucky you. Third Coast Review has once again asked several Chicago area horror writers and artists for their recommendations on the […]
Review: Chicago Shakes’ Measure for Measure, a Dark Comedy, Becomes an Adventure in Havana
Director Henry Godinez sets up his Havana-set Measure for Measure with a colorful nightclub scene, including singers and chorus girls, and closes it with a nod to the Cuban revolution […]
Review: Stage Left’s Man of the People Needs a Dose of Vigor and Chemistry
I was looking forward to Man of the People by Stage Left Theatre. Patent medicine and unbelievable ads in the back of my comic books were a particular fascination of […]
Review: Gift Theatre’s The Locusts Is a Haunting and Surreal Thriller Reflecting a Dark Reality
It is ironic how the stripping of women’s rights, banned books, and other atrocities live larger than life in Florida. The Sunshine State was the shiny tarpon leaping out of […]
Review: Comprehensive and Insightful, Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues Only Has One Flaw: It’s Too Short
From director Sacha Jenkins (Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James) comes this honest and sweeping look at jazz trumpet icon Louis Armstrong, a founding father of jazz and […]
Review: Animated Wendell & Wild Arrives Just In Time for a Perfect Halloween Watch
It’s difficult to wrap my brain around the fact that one of the most talented and twisted minds in stop-motion animation, Henry Selick, hasn’t made a new feature film since […]