Singer Tina Turner has spent a great deal of her life running away from things that made her feel like anything less than the powerhouse performer that she always has […]
I suspect that watching the latest film from Jeff Tremaine, the primary producer of both the Jackass franchise and Bad Grandpa, is going to have one of two impacts upon […]
I’ve always wanted a good space station management game. There have been a few I’ve played, but none have come close to giving me the feeling of operating a sprawling […]
There are few mobile games on my iPhone, even fewer that I still play. I took Tetris off my phone lest I get fired for not being able to stop […]
Ever since SNK has been releasing Neo Geo Pocket Color games on Nintendo Switch, I’ve been a huge fan. I never had a Pocket Color when I was younger, so […]
Things are starting to look a little brighter as the vaccine rollout continues to help the new case numbers stay low. Many venues are opening up now with limited capacity […]
Combining the action talents of Hardcore Henry director Ilya Naishuller and the writer Derek Kolstad, (all three John Wick movies as well as two upcoming episodes of “The Falcon and […]
Move on Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power By Aaron Cohen University of Chicago Press One of the pleasures of reading Aaron Cohen’s 2019 Move On Up: Chicago […]
There have been a lot of interesting genre mashups with lots of heart lately—haunting stories with poignant messages that usually subvert the norm of video games altogether, where killing everything […]
Strawdog Theatre’s final entry in their season of resilience celebrates Chicagoans and how they are blundering through and surviving a raging pandemic. How Do We Navigate Space? is a series […]
In 2016, for the second season of the groundbreaking British mini-series The Hollow Crown (adaptations of Shakespeare’s royalty-based history plays), director Dominic Cooke cast Benedict Cumberbatch to play one of […]
I’m no stranger to the Samurai Shodown series—it’s one of those fighting franchises that helped shape all of the fighting games that came after it. Its remake in 2019 showed […]
