Review: Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Wizard of Oz Brings Family Classic Film to Life

By Katie Priest As many people’s first introduction to the world of Chicago theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater never fails to produce a memorable performance. The Wizard of Oz is one […]

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Bengt Lindström, The Sinful King

Review: Bengt Lindström Exhibition Explores the Magic of Nordic Mythology

The new exhibition at the Swedish American Museum—The Master of Ancient Mythology: Bengt Lindström—brings the public into the magical world of Nordic mythology. On display are 31 works by Bengt […]

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Review: Pomona at Steep Theatre Tells a Sci-Fi Horror Story

Zeppo (Peter Moore) is driving around the ring road in Manchester, eating Chicken McNuggets (he buys ’em by the hundred) and reeling off the entire plot of Raiders of the […]

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Pitchfork Music Festival 2019: Day 1 in Review

Ah, Pitchfork Music Festival. This is honestly one of my favorite festivals thanks to chill back atmosphere, but the weather decided throw a wrench into that. Temps in the high […]

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Lit,

Book Review—Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

Trust Exercise Susan Choi Henry Holt and Co. If high school didn’t exist, writers would have to invent it. A writer’s job is to articulate what others feel; and what […]

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Sword of Trust

Review: A Confederate Comedy of Errors in Sword of Trust

For more than a decade, filmmaker Lynn Shelton has been making relationship-driven dramedies with some of the independent film scene’s most talented actors from Mark Duplass to Rosemarie DeWitt, Ellen […]

Lisa Trifone /
Armstrong

Review: Armstrong Chronicles How an Ordinary Man Made it to the Moon

Sometimes with documentaries, you just let an incredible story unfold and don’t worry too much about the bells and whistles that surround it. Or in the case of Armstrong, a […]

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Review: A Family Affair, The Farewell Feels the Love

Awkwafina (née Nora Lum) made a splash last year as the boisterous, straight-talking sidekick to Constance Wu’s Rachel, visiting Singapore to meet her fiancé’s family. Her performance as a say-anything, […]

Lisa Trifone /
Art of Self-Defense

Review: Absurd, Intense The Art of Self-Defense Skewers Toxic Masculinity

Jesse Eisenberg has made a name for himself playing tightly wound, neurotic types, from future media moguls (as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network) to unsuspecting zombie fighters (as Columbus in Zombieland […]

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Lit,

“I Wanna Go on with That Next One Myself”: Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson

Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson By Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow Chicago Review Press Robert Johnson is a definitive legend, though the dead-at-27 bluesman […]

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A Few More Picks For Your Pitchfork Music Festival Weekend!

Like clockwork, it has stormed the day before Pitchfork, to make sure the grounds are squidgy. And it will apparently be oppressively hot the next couple of days. Perfect! That […]

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Two Decades Under the Influence: A Night with Taking Back Sunday

Somewhere in the kingdom of my memory there’s a small village dedicated to music from my youth. This community is populated with the essence of mallcore. The denizens wear To Write […]

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