TCR Mixtape No. 41: Pitchfork Music Festival 2021
It’s two years since we’ve been able to put together a Pitchfork Music Festival playlist! And quite honestly, 2019 feels way further away that it truly is. But thankfully the festival […]
Review—Jane of Battery Park Escapes Evangelicalism and Finds Love
Jane of Battery Park By Jaye Viner Red Hen Press Jane, a nurse who escaped an ultra-conservative evangelical upbringing to live in hiding in LA, runs into her college crush […]
Preview: Fall Beckons and Chicago Gets Its Circus On (with Two Tours—CirqueUs and Midnight Circus)
“High-flying, knot-tying, gravity-defying aerialists, loopy jugglers, musicians that pull at your heartstrings, and comedy that will leave you in stitches!” It happens every summer now for the past few years […]
Who We’re Excited to See at Pitchfork Music Festival 2021!
It may be coming a little later than usual this year, but we’re massively excited for Pitchfork Music Festival this weekend! As always, PMF is bringing some of the best […]
Preview: Music Lives Here Pays Tribute to Chicago’s Legendary Music History by Marking 50 Historic Sites
Chicago now has a set of historical landmark markers arrayed all over the city that pay tribute to the spaces, places and people in the grand history of music in […]
Review: A Dynamic View of Social Justice Issues at the Swedish American Museum
In the latest exhibition, Reality Check, at the Swedish American Museum, Anna U Davis explores the concept of diffusion of responsibility and how it relates directly to social justice issues […]
Review: Fun and Challenging the Hunter: Call of the Wild Opens Up Hunting in the Southwest with Rancho del Arroyo
Hunting games have always been a hard sell for me. They have the tendency to lean too heavily towards realism at the expense of fun, or too much towards arcade-like […]
Review: Kay Cannon’s Modernized Cinderella Tries To Do So Much, It Doesn’t Do Any of It Well
About a decade ago, Kay Cannon’s script for Pitch Perfect became one of the most endearing, funny and commercially successful female-led films in recent memory. It’s a sharp screenplay, filled with […]
It’s the First Friday of the Month, So That Means It’s Bandcamp Friday!
If you arent aware, first Fridays aren’t normal Bandcamp Fridays! The monthly push for fans to buy music from their favorites artists and labels took a short break in June […]
Review: Visually Interesting with a Curiously Intriguing Story, Zone 414 Channels Ridley Scott Sci-Fi
As far as I’m concerned, the perfect blend of science fiction and film noir will and always will be Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Mine is hardly an original thought, but […]
Review: Character Actor Shea Whigham Shines in Gritty, Surprisingly Emotional The Gateway
There’s something about the presence of actor Shea Whigham in pretty much anything that makes me feel better about whatever it is I’m watching. With nearly 100 film and television […]
Review: Japanese Pop Star Masumi Leads a Bold, Brutal and Bloody Yakuza Princess
Right out of the gate during Brazilian filmmaker Vicente Amorim’s (Motorrad) latest work, Yakuza Princess, I learned something new and very interesting—that Sao Paulo, Brazil plays host to the largest […]