Just before the release of her fourth album in four years, Tamar Berk posed the reasonable question, “So in your opinion when is the right time for a ‘greatest hits’ […]

For millions of would-be typing students in the late 1980s through the 1990s, the educational software known as Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing instructed people around the world using a digital […]

From the masterful writer/director Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room, Blue Ruin, Hold the Dark) comes Rebel Ridge, the story of ex-Marine Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre, The Underground Railroad), who comes to […]

Directed by the great Alex Gibney (The Inventor, Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and divided into two distinct parts, Wise Guy: David Chase […]

The things that bring family together, when simply being related isn’t enough of a reason to do so—this is the running theme of writer/director Azarel Jacobs’ (Terri, The Lovers, French […]

Say what you want about the debut feature from writers/directors Max and Sam Eggers (brothers of filmmaker Robert Eggers, who helmed The Witch and The Lighthouse, as well as the […]

Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth takes us back 40-some years … to an era when heavy-duty drugs were not only a path to pleasure (and sometimes pain) but the coinage of […]

It’s the first full weekend of September and it is packed! There are so many unique events this weekend from special food fests, ZINEmercado, great music, and tons of great […]

Filmmaker Tim Burton has garnered a reputation as a visionary and for being quite odd, and there’s nothing out there that says the two can’t be contained in a single […]

What I learned from my recent time spent with singer/actor/producer/model Tyrese Gibson is to expect the unexpected. Also, he’s a great talker when inspired to be one. Gibson was born […]

City Lit Theater is finishing off local playwright Mark Pracht’s Four-Color Trilogy—about key moments in the history of comic book publishing—with The House of Ideas. Directed by former artistic director Terry McCabe, it’s […]

The 2024 Chicago Jazz Festival ended on Sunday and was a great success. The weather cooperated beautifully with a hint of cooler days ahead. The Pritzker Pavilion stage had a […]