Review: Two Years Later Doom Remains Relevant
With Doom Eternal recently announced at this year’s E3, Guest author James Brod takes a look a 2016’s Doom, and examines how it has impacted action games over the last […]
Review: Aly & AJ Spread Nostalgia at Thalia Hall
The evening washed over with an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia when the sister-duo Aly & AJ performed at Thalia Hall – their first show in Chicago in over a decade. […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 7/12 -7/15
We are well into this year’s summer and it’s been pretty great! Tons of events going on this weekend to keep the fun going,so don’t stay in this weekend, get […]
From An Artist: 8 Affordable Ways to Bring Art Into Your Home
When we think of art collecting, we often think of wealthy art collectors. Yes, art is inherently expensive, and rightfully so—it’s the fruit of intellectual and creative labors, manifestations of […]
Internal Polling Shows Rahm Emanuel Vulnerable in 2019
Early internal campaign polls in the upcoming 2019 Chicago mayoral election show incumbent Rahm Emanuel is vulnerable, making another runoff similar to the 2014 election possible. A survey of 800 […]
VP Mike Pence to Visit Rosemont Friday for Roskam Campaign Event
Vice President Mike Pence will be in the Chicago suburbs Friday to speak at a fundraiser for Rep. Peter Roskam and promote Trump’s tax agenda, and will be introduced by […]
Review: Dwayne Johnson is Basically a Superhero in Entertaining Skyscraper
The premise of Dwayne Johnson’s latest disaster-based action movie is certainly intriguing: Under what circumstances would a sane man run into a burning building if he wasn’t an actual firefighter? […]
Viral Video of Police Harassment Prompts Investigation
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability says it’s investigating an incident where a Chicago police officer was captured on video using profane and threatening language in an interaction with two […]
Interview: How Boots Riley Fit All His Best Ideas into Sorry to Bother You
As much as many have written stories about how Sorry To Bother You writer/director Boots Riley “hacked” the Hollywood system to get his debut film made, the truth is he […]
Empty Bottle’s Strange Saturday with Shame, Corridor, and C.H.E.W.
The Empty Bottle is a staple for amazing shows and guaranteed to be a damn good time. I approached the door to find a rope outside of the entrance, much […]
Interview: Erin Rae on Her Dreamy Folk Music
When Brandi Carlile recently performed at the Chicago Theater, she said that it was not long ago that she was playing Schubas. Now selling out a theater with a capacity […]
In Red Theater’s Brutal Sickle, Four Village Women Try to Survive the Ukrainian Genocide
One of the missions of theater is to tell untold stories, as Elizabeth Lovelady points out in her director’s note for Sickle, the new production at Red Theater. The story […]