Love Cecil

Review: Love, Cecil Chronicles Hollywood Success and a Search for Identity

Documentary filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland has made two films—Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, about the legendary fashion editor of Harpers Bazaar who also happens to be her grandmother-in-law; […]

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whitney

Review: A Legend’s Story Told With Love, Honesty in Whitney

As Whitney, the new, estate-approved documentary about Whitney Houston opens, we see clips from her video for “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” but with all the instrumentation stripped away, so […]

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Sorry to Bother You

Review: Visual Flair and A Hint of Sci-Fi in Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You

If you’ve been paying any kind of attention to films about the black experience in present-day America, you’ve probably figured out that the city of Oakland plays a central role […]

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Focus On: Logan Square’s Busy Beaver Button Museum

We Chicagoans have long prided ourselves on our many world-class museums. Famous institutions like the Field Museum , the Museum of Science and Industry, and the Adler Planetarium entice millions […]

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Preview: Glassjaw and Quicksand are Co-Headlining Concord Music Hall This Sunday

The perfect post-hardcore tour that consist of New York legends Glassjaw and Quicksand is coming through Chicago on Sunday July 8th, for one of 20 tour dates throughout the United […]

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MCA’s I Was Raised on the Internet Is an Eclectic, Dark and Deep Look at the Internet Age

Before the internet. Believe it or not, there are married people carting around children in minivans that never experienced a time without it. They wouldn’t, in fact,  even know what it was like […]

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Preview: 30th Chicago Duo Piano Festival Opens With a Russian Flair This Sunday

The Chicago Duo Piano Festival opens this Sunday with Russian Masterpieces, a concert of Russian music performed by Russian pianists Natalia Lavrova and Vassily Primakov at Nichols Concert Hall in […]

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Review: Being a Fantasy Shopkeeper in Moonlighter Feels Too Much Like Real Work

Moonlighter by developer Digital Sun is what you get if you take the typical roleplaying game formula and flips it on its head. Instead of questing, getting loot, and selling […]

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Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 7/5 -7/8

The Fourth of July landed right smack dab in the middle of the week, so you either took it easy and got ready for work today or went all out […]

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Peter Pan

Review: Chicago Shakespeare Theater Captures the Magic in Peter Pan–A Musical Adventure

—Last month, I was at Chicago Shakespeare Theater to see Macbeth, a brooding, dark tale produced at the Yard, their newest and most versatile stage. Co-directed by Teller (of Penn […]

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Mercury Theater’s Avenue Q Remount a Welcome Return for 2018

Since it first premiered in 2003, the hot-button topics of the puppet-based musical, Avenue Q, seem to have only become hotter and hotter. Racism, homophobia, even post-graduate, millennial strife seem […]

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First Purge

Review: Prequel The First Purge Manages Timely, Murderous Social Commentary

In a move from a franchise that I’ve always appreciated but thought was running out of steam, creator James DeMonaco’s Purge series takes a completely unexpected and even more primal […]

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