Preview: Live the Wyldlife at Liar’s Club This Saturday
The New York city scene regained dash of its danger in the early aughts during that era’s resurgence of rawk, but as the spotlight of fame softened those rough edges, […]
Review: Knives and Skin Is a Chicago-made Surreal Coming of Age Tale
Not to be confused with Knives Out, though sharing some thematic DNA with Rian Johnson’s earlier film, Brick, Knives and Skin is a stylized, teen noir meditation on suburban stagnation, […]
Review: A Familiar Cast—And a Few New Faces—Play the Same Game in Jumanji: The Next Level
I went into the last Jumanji film, Welcome to the Jungle, with such neutral expectations that I was pleasantly surprised to discover a funny, energetic adventure comedy featuring an array […]
Review: A Moving Portrait of a Quiet Life in Colewell
The sophomore effort from writer/director Tom Quinn (The New Year Parade) is exactly the kind of movie that could easily get lost in the shuffle of awards-season contenders and bigger-budget […]
Book Review: Take Me to the Rivers—Renny Golden’s The Music of Her Rivers: Poems
The Music of Her Rivers: Poems By Renny Golden University of New Mexico Press, 87 pages, $18.95 Reviewed by Patrick T. Reardon The Pueblo boy with “thick hair…the color of […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 12/12 – 12/15
We’re inching closer and closer to the last half of the month! Are you ready for all the fun markets and fun shows waiting for you in the city? Well […]
Review: American Dharma Doesn’t Offer Any New Insight into Steve Bannon’s Dangerous Political Influence
It’s true for all of us, to one degree or another, that we exist in a sort of information bubble when it comes to news, politics, current events and more. […]
GALLERY: Cosplay at Chicago TARDIS 2019
We had a fantastic time over Thanksgiving Weekend avoiding the mess that is Black Friday shopping and instead indulging in a lot of nerdy fandom goodness over at Chicago TARDIS […]
Review: The Heart of the TARDIS–Chicago TARDIS 2019’s 20th an Excellent Mix of Community, Celebrity and Creativity
We do well to look back at the beginnings of the things we love. Everything starts somewhere, and as nerds and fans, going back to the beginning can give us […]
Review: Clint Eastwood’s Style (and Politics) Put the Story of Richard Jewell Into Perspective
Like many of the films Clint Eastwood has directed in the last 10 years or so—since about Gran Torino on—his latest, Richard Jewell, is an expertly made movie with a […]
Review: Mike Rivera’s Timeless Views on Americana at Everybody’s Coffee
Americana is the latest exhibition at Everybody’s Coffee that showcases the work of photographer Mike Rivera. In this exhibition, Rivera’s photos of Volkswagen buses, vintage cars as well as an […]
Review: Chicago Philharmonic and Marcus Roberts Gift-Wrap Gershwin
My wife is off the hook this holiday season. The Chicago Philharmonic’s presentation of George Gershwin’s Concerto in F, featuring great jazz pianist Marcus Roberts and his trio, is all the […]