Review: Super Mario Party a Return to Form with a Few Fresh Features

Mario Party has been serving as a non-gamer point of entry into casual, party video game playing since its first release on the Nintendo 64.  Its board game setup hasn’t […]

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Review: Joey Dosik Bares His Soul at Sleeping Village

Y’all. If you haven’t been to Sleeping Village in Avondale yet, run, don’t walk. This music venue is quickly becoming a sought-after concert spot for me. And it was the […]

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Early Voting Expands, Trump to Visit Southern Illinois – TODAY 10-22-18

Early Voting Options Expand Citywide Chicagoans wanting to cast their ballots early have many more options to do so beginning Monday. Early voting began in late September at one “super […]

Aaron Cynic /

Review: Remy Bumppo’s Poetic Frankenstein Asks How a Lonely Creature Becomes a Monster

Frankenstein opens with an exquisitely staged birthing scene. The Creature is shrouded in a sheer fabric sac, a metaphoric womb. He struggles to free himself and emerges naked, covered in scars […]

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Review: Minus the Bear Says Farewell to Chicago

“It’s amazing how short 17 years is,” Minus the Bear singer Jake Snider told the soldout crowd at the House of Blues on Wednesday. Indeed, despite a career spanning six […]

Aaron Cynic /

Review: The Oath Is an Ideological Brawl, Part Dark Comedy, Part Thriller

I feel confident that when actor-turned-writer/director Ike Barinholtz began writing his directorial debut, The Oath, it felt like political satire wrapped in something like a science-fiction premise about a nation […]

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Lawsuit Alleges Discrimination in Pritzker Campaign, CTU Protests DeVos, IDOC Sued by Support Group for LGBTQ Prisoners – TODAY 10-19-18

Lawsuit Alleges Racial Discrimination in the Pritzker Campaign Ten staffers with the J.B. Pritzker campaign filed a lawsuit this week alleging racial discrimination and harassment towards people of color working […]

Aaron Cynic /
Studio 54

Review: Entertaining Studio 54 Is a Dance Party And Then Some

One imagines that Studio 54, the new documentary by Matt Tyrnauer about the infamous ’70s nightclub, played very well to NYC audiences when it opened there earlier this month. Chances are, the […]

Lisa Trifone /
Halloween

Review: Where Are the Scares? You Had One Job, Halloween.

I think we can all agree that at its core, a horror movie should be scary on some level. It can be many other things as well, but it needs […]

Steve Prokopy /
Beautiful Boy

Review: Carell and Chalamet Star in a Heartbreaking, Hopeful Beautiful Boy

You’ll watch most of Beautiful Boy with a lump in your throat. The story of a father and son (Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet) navigating the younger man’s battle with […]

Lisa Trifone /
Free Solo

Review: Major Risk—And Major Reward—in Tense, Impressive Free Solo

For those fortunate enough to see 2015’s mountain-climbing documentary Meru, you witnessed a prime example of high-stakes risk sports that seemed as unprecedented as it was majestic and serene. That […]

Steve Prokopy /

Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 10/18 – 10/21

The weekend is here, so it’s time to start planning how you’ll be spending it! There are concerts, markets, art, and a little bit of burlesque awaiting you in our […]

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