A few years ago, a couple of great World War II films were released; even more than 70 years after the war ended, it remains a deep source of narratives […]

I love deckbuilders. They weren’t always my favorite types of game to play physically—learning and keeping track of a set of often esoteric rules can be a drain mentally– but […]

The premise of Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor is the sort of sci-fi make believe that’s so outlandish, a bit of comfort can be found in this otherwise unsettling, intense film. The sort […]

It’s another great weekend in Chicago with plenty of things to do at home! Chicago has been opening up more and more, but that doesn’t mean you should take it […]

Looking back, I probably first saw the 1970 screen adaptation of playwright Mart Crowley’s 1968 off-Broadway play The Boys in the Band sometime in the late 1980s. And knowing me, […]

Despite all the bad news piling on in the past few weeks, the announcement of a new album from Rich Jones and producer Montana Macks is a breath of relief. […]

With the impending approach of October and all of the spookiness that brings, Free League Publishing is offering up some scary sci-fi tabletop role-playing to get the season started. I’ve […]

Update: Since this review was published in September 2020, Pacfica Quartet’s Contemporary Voices CD won  the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. Congratulations to Pacifica Quartet and everyone […]

One good turn deserves another, they always say, and with any luck, one good idea can turn into another too. In the relative normalcy of January 2020, change was already […]

The world is stressful, especially this year. We’ve all been doing our own thing to combat it—I’ve been listening to soothing music while working, and I try not to have […]

I admit, I didn’t know before I spoke with him last week that Mark Rylance had been knighted in 2017, and that my addressing him as anything other than Sir […]

Neurologist, author and generally wonderful human being Oliver Sacks died in 2015 after a months-long battle with cancer. On receiving the news that his prognosis was terminal, he wrote a moving […]