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Review: At Chicago Children’s Theatre, Goodnight, Moon Has a Talented Cast in Constant Motion and Merriment

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Review: Pianist Evgeny Kissin joins Andre Boreyko and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for an excellent Concert at Symphony Center

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Review: French Filmmaker François Ozon Adapts Albert Camus’ The Stranger with Haunting, Art-Filled Visuals

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Interview: Abbott Elementary’s Lisa Ann Walter Brings “Funny Complaining” to the Comedy Vault

There are two types of people in this world: those who associate Lisa Ann Walter with Chessy from the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap, the most beloved pop culture […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • September 26, 2025
    • Art & Museums , Gallery , Installation , Museum , Painting & sculpture , Photography , Review , Sculpture

    Review: City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago at the MCA

    The exhibition City in a Garden: Art and Activism in Chicago is currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA). The show is an archive, a meditation, […]

  • Carrie McGath
  • September 26, 2025
    • Classical , Music , Reviews

    Review: Palomar Ensemble Offers Wide Variety at the CheckOut

    Continuing the CheckOut’s Opening Festival, the Palomar Ensemble performed an interesting program before a nearly full audience on Wednesday evening. Founded by Access Contemporary Music, the CheckOut is a new […]

  • Louis Harris
  • September 26, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Skating over Seriousness, Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie Provides Plenty of Familiarity, Fun for Little Ones

    Based on the wildly popular Netflix series created by some of the creators of Blue’s Clues back in 2021, Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie is an extension of the show that […]

  • Alex Orona
  • September 26, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Paul Thomas Anderson Delivers a Great Action Pic in Timely, Insightful Adaptation One Battle After Another

    In any other action movie, the emphasis on a revolutionary would be on his/her glory days of radical acts, like blowing up buildings, freeing political prisoners, etc. But in writer/director […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 26, 2025
    • Cafes and restaurants , Food

    Review: Lawrence Fish Market’s Chinatown Location Keeps Legacy Alive with Added Sit-Down Service

    Lawrence Fish Market has been operating in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood for over 40 years. It’s a mainstay on the west side for its take-out sushi platters, which are perfect […]

  • Row Light
  • September 26, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Nonagenarian June Squibb Is a Leading Lady in Scarlett Johansson’s Directorial Debut Eleanor the Great

    June Squibb is having a moment. At 95 years old and with an acting resume that dates back to the mid-1980s, the longtime character actor is finally becoming a leading […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • September 25, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Emma Thompson Stars as a Survivalist Widow in Harrowing Dead of Winter

    In what could easily have been an entry-level thriller set in a frigid climate, the filmmakers behind Dead of Winter did an astonishing thing and hired Emma Thompson to play […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 25, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Fantastic Fest Review: The Strangers: Chapter 2 is a So-So Continuation of a Horror Saga Long in the Making

    In something that is more of an interesting experiment than an actual event worth celebrating, director Renny Harlin and screenwriters Alan R. Cohen & Alan Freeland announced they were taking […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 25, 2025
    • Festivals , Music , Reviews

    Photos: Riot Fest Closes Out the Weekend with All-Time Great Performances

    Riot Fest‘s 20th year was truly something special. Day one was wonderfully weird. Day two was wild and frantic. Both days delivered on everything you could want from a festival […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • September 25, 2025
    • Front page

    Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 9/25 and Beyond

    Well will you look at that! It’s the fall season in full effect as some wonderful autumnal festivities are starting to take over the events around the city. So let’s […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • September 25, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Dispatch: Two Thrillers from Fantastic Fest Put Groups of Men, Young and Older, to the Test

    Beast of War Shockingly enough, there are still a few fresh takes on the killer shark story, and the Australian film Beast of War gives us one of the stronger […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 24, 2025
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