Okay, I have a serious problem. This week is just packed with great releases. Doom: Eternal has been collecting dust as I spend time in Animal Crossing New Horizons, and […]

Even in the best of times, bookstores have it rough. Just last year the American Booksellers Association reported American bookstore sales were down by 7.6 percent from 2018, sales sliding […]

Sidelined by COVID-19 concert cancellations, Third Coast Percussion took their vibraphones and marimbas into their audience’s living rooms last Friday night with a live broadcast concert over YouTube. They will […]

If you know nothing at all about it, a film with the title Crip Camp might not immediately jump to the top of your Netflix queue. Rest assured, it should. An […]

When you’re looking for a good novel about Chicago, you’re most likely to turn to those writers identified as Chicago writers, such as Saul Bellow (The Adventures of Augie March), […]

It’s another week at home and we have plenty of new suggestions on how to spend your quarantined days! Dancing, plays, artists, and more are highlighted in this week’s curated […]

During the early days of modern consumer VR, I remember standing inside of an escape the room game, fumbling with some object, and thinking  of the fun I had playing […]

You either love it, hate it, love to hate it, or love to give it to some unsuspecting person to try without warning them how polarizing it is. Jeppson’s Malört […]

One of the genres of video games I like best are racing games. I have loved them ever since the first ones I got my hands on for NES and […]

I’ve had a lot of roguelikes coming my way lately. Well, it’s been more like non-stop roguelikes and rogue-lites for the past few years—and that’s a good thing. Deep Sky […]

Chicago Children’s Theatre has launched a Play@Home Contest for school children stuck at home to get creative and make their own 5-minute videos and enter them in CCT’s contest. The […]

As the film industry, like the rest of us, grapples with how to move forward in the midst of a global pandemic, studios that had plans to release new films […]