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Chicago Is Lit: May Literary Events in and Around Chicago and the Midwest

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Review: Star of the Sea Is a Revelation of Music for the Virgin Mary from Colonial Guatemala

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Review: Multidisciplinary Future Arrives at Harris Theater With “Icons and Innovators”

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Review: Spectacle and Story Collide in Lifeline’s Ambitious Rock Musical Loki—The End of the World Tour

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Review: Ambiguity as Antidote—Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature

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Playtime Radio: On the Air With Food and Jazz, a Perfect Combo

Here’s this week’s podcast for Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall, our radio arts partner. Third Coast Review news and reviews are highlighted and our writers sometimes appear on the […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • January 17, 2020
    • Game , Games & Tech , Preview

    Preview: Conglomerate 451 is Cyberpunk Meets Dungeon Crawl

      They just don’t make ‘em like they used to—and sometimes, that goes double for video games. Once-dead (or dying) western role-playing genres like CRPGs are making a comeback, but […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • January 16, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Dolittle Does Very Little with Its New Take on a Children’s Classic

    The new year is young, but thank goodness we didn’t have to wait more than a couple of weeks into it to hit our first big-budget, military-grade stink-bomb of 2020. […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 16, 2020
    • Front page

    Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 1/16 – 1/19

    This weekend is a music lover’s dream with the always fantastic Tomorrow Never Knows taking over the best venues in Chicago including Lincoln Hall, Schubas, the Hideout, and Sleeping Village! […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • January 16, 2020
    • Game , Games & Tech , Review , Tabletop

    Review: Star Trek Adventures Gamma Quadrant Sourcebook is a Great Resource for Star Trek Adventures

    Star Trek Deep Space Nine is my favorite Star Trek, and one of my favorite shows ever.  It’s not perfect, but it has some of the best character development, and […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • January 15, 2020
    • Beyond , Event , Preview , Stages , Suburbs and exurbs

    Preview: Jackson Galaxy at Waukegan’s Genesee Theatre Aims to Teach Humans to Deepen Feline Friendships

    When you think of a night out at the theater, you probably aren’t thinking much about your cats at home. When Jackson Galaxy thought about selling out theaters as a […]

  • Marielle Bokor
  • January 15, 2020
  • Bad Boys for Life
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A New Entry in the Bad Boys Franchise is Stuck in the Past

    Despite the fact that Bad Boys for Life (the third Bad Boys movie, for those counting, and the first since 2003) is meant to focus on its lead characters getting […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 15, 2020
    • Game , Games & Tech , Round-Up

    Best Video Games of the Decade, Part Two–The Most Important Games of the Decade

    As I mentioned in my previous Favorites of the Decade article, I originally planned for one list. But that list became so unwieldy I decided to break it down into […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • January 15, 2020
    • Fiction , Lit , Live lit events

    Book Review: Into the Light of a Dark, Black Night, Blackbird Blues by Jean K. Carney

    Note: Jean K. Carney will discuss Blackbird Blues at the Seminary Co-Op Bookstore (5751 S Woodlawn Avenue) on Thursday, January 16, at 6 p.m. Blackbird Blues; by Jean K. Carney Bedazzled […]

  • Guest Author
  • January 14, 2020
    • Stages , Theater Festival

    Preview/Review:  Gift Theatre Celebrates Its Birthday With Ten 10-Minute Theater Pieces

    Winter seems to be the season for stage fests in Chicago (Rhinofest, Musical Theater Festival, Pegasus’ Young Playwrights Festival, Fillet of Solo) and Gift Theatre, one of our fine storefront […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • January 13, 2020
    • Game , Games & Tech , Review

    Review: Lightmatter is a Fun Puzzler Where Shadows Kill

    This review contains mild spoilers. Lightmatter started as a university project, and then an overnight Reddit success.  Developer Tunnel Vision Games decided to turn their project into a full commercial […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • January 13, 2020
    • Features , Folk and Bluegrass , Music , Reviews

    Review: Le Vent du Nord at Old Town School of Folk Music: Tapez Du Pieds!

    Le Vent du Nord, which translates to North Wind, brought the rollicking traditional music of Quebec to the Windy City on January 8. In kicking off the Old Town School […]

  • Bob Benenson
  • January 12, 2020
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