Preview: Jonny Polonsky Returns Home for a Rare Show at Gman
Jonny Polonsky hasn’t lived in Chicago for a really long time, he currently lives in New York after a long stint in L.A., but we’ll always claim him as our […]
Review: Red Bull’s Peak Time Radio Catches Up with Chicago’s Underground Music Labels and Artists
On a blustery November night in Chicago, Young Chicago Authors (youth literary arts organization and host of Louder Than a Bomb poetry slam) opened its doors to Red Bull Radio […]
Interview: Filmmaker Sean Anders on How His Own Adoption Experience Influenced Instant Family
The cynical among us (you know who you are) will view a movie like Instant Family and think it’s some sort of propaganda material, encouraging selfish would-be parents to consider adopting or […]
Four Dead After Gunman Opens Fire at Mercy Hospital
Four people were shot and killed at Chicago’s Mercy Hospital & Medical Center on the South Side Monday afternoon. https://twitter.com/rickmajewski/status/1064643189515186178 Shortly after 3:00pm a man identified by police Tuesday morning […]
Interview: Jason Reitman on Making The Front Runner Like It’s the 1970s, and the Media Now and Then
Although many may not remember the details, Gary Hart’s 1988 presidential campaign was something of a milestone in both politics and the way the media investigates candidates’ private lives. Hart […]
Ike Holter’s Rightlynd Is a Story of Chicago Politics: It’s the City We Love Despite Its Flaws
“Once you’ve come to be part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never […]
Review: Hitman 2 Lets Anyone Become a Super Assassin Without Making It Easy
Hitman 2 is a stealth video game developed by IO Interactive. A sequel to 2016’s Hitman, Hitman 2 follows Agent 47 as he assassinates targets, including one referred to as the “Shadow […]
Interview: Last Friday Night, Jean Deaux Threw a Party
She told me to give her twenty minutes so I went back to the bar, picked up my fourth – or maybe fifth – drink, and waited for the crowd […]
Review: Miss Saigon at the Cadillac Palace Is the Epic Broadway Hit, Helicopter and All
Inspired by Giacomo Puccini’s massively influential Madame Butterfly, Boublil and Schönberg’s equally successful Miss Saigon originally premiered in 1989 in London’s West End. It would prove to be an international hit, becoming Broadway’s […]
To Try or to Buy? Third Coast Review’s Bourbon County Review
For Chicago beer nerds (at least those who haven’t written off Goose Island as corporate beer), Black Friday brings the annual release of Bourbon […]
Wrightwood 659 Exhibits Work of Tadao Ando and Le Corbusier in Stunning Ando-Designed Interior
Wrightwood 659 is a stunning new art gallery in Lincoln Park and its current exhibition is a great way to get acquainted with the new space if you have not […]
Review: Searching for Ingmar Bergman Delights in Discovering an Icon of Auteur Cinema
Last year, I had a bit of an adventure as an extra on a movie set. And not just any movie set, either. I ended up as an extra in […]