Review: A Styleless There Are No Saints Never Gets Beyond Crime Drama Tropes
The hook of There Are No Saints, the new film from director Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, is that he’s working from…
The hook of There Are No Saints, the new film from director Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, is that he’s working from…
That drumbeat hits and then you hear a voice like no other—“I know you wanna leave me but I refuse…
Guest review by Anne Siegel. Milwaukee’s Skylight Music Theatre ends its 62nd season with a musical that was nearly 30…
Warm days are back again just in time for Memorial Day weekend (and the Memorial Day Wreath-Laying Ceremony & Parade…
In the 2008 documentary Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, director Stefan Forbes painted a portrait of a political player…
I recently had a wise person tell me that nostalgia is for those who are afraid to face the present,…
A poem by guest author Josephine Chaparro. WhispersWhispersWhispers We heardWe heardWe heard WhispersWhispersWhispers Soon the whispers turned into soundsThe sounds…
I’ve been playing Sniper Elite games since I stumbled across the first game on Steam during a sale or possibly…
Guest review by Anne Siegel Chicago-based actor Linda Reiter is bringing her acclaimed portrayal of Rose Kennedy to Milwaukee in Rose:…
I think no matter how you try to measure it, the Mountains Goats’ success over the past few decades is…
The Chicago Humanities Festival sponsored a bus tour of Chicago’s South Side, the “Black Belt,” for the spring Public-themed series.…
In this pivotal moment in the struggle for reproductive rights, Natalie Y. Moore’s The Billboard comes at a time when…
One of the leading incubators of new music in Chicago is housed at the Chicago Center of Contemporary Composition at…
Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird is not the same story you read in high school or reread last year. It’s not the…
The Music Box Theatre hosted music royalty as part of the spring Chicago Humanities Festival: Sonic Youth’s frontwoman Kim Gordon, her co-author,…
Chicago’s only all-documentary film festival, Doc10, has truly established itself over the last seven years as one of the top-tier…
What kind of concert starts with an 11-minute introductory piece that ends up getting two ovations? A Chicago Symphony Orchestra…
If you had told me over a decade ago that a prim and polished television drama from PBS set within…
Zoe Kazan’s play After the Blast is set a few generations in the future—underground. An environmental disaster has made “upstairs” unlivable and…
June Sawyers wrote this poem—as a way to record her experience— after listening to a musician named Andrew perform in…