Day two of Pitchfork Music Festival started with a similar sweltering heat wave like Friday’s uncomfortable atmosphere, but a sudden downpour and thunder strikes changed things up late in the […]

By Katie Priest As many people’s first introduction to the world of Chicago theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater never fails to produce a memorable performance. The Wizard of Oz is one […]

The new exhibition at the Swedish American Museum—The Master of Ancient Mythology: Bengt Lindström—brings the public into the magical world of Nordic mythology. On display are 31 works by Bengt […]

Zeppo (Peter Moore) is driving around the ring road in Manchester, eating Chicken McNuggets (he buys ’em by the hundred) and reeling off the entire plot of Raiders of the […]

Ah, Pitchfork Music Festival. This is honestly one of my favorite festivals thanks to chill back atmosphere, but the weather decided throw a wrench into that. Temps in the high […]

Trust Exercise Susan Choi Henry Holt and Co. If high school didn’t exist, writers would have to invent it. A writer’s job is to articulate what others feel; and what […]

For more than a decade, filmmaker Lynn Shelton has been making relationship-driven dramedies with some of the independent film scene’s most talented actors from Mark Duplass to Rosemarie DeWitt, Ellen […]

Sometimes with documentaries, you just let an incredible story unfold and don’t worry too much about the bells and whistles that surround it. Or in the case of Armstrong, a […]

Awkwafina (née Nora Lum) made a splash last year as the boisterous, straight-talking sidekick to Constance Wu’s Rachel, visiting Singapore to meet her fiancé’s family. Her performance as a say-anything, […]

Jesse Eisenberg has made a name for himself playing tightly wound, neurotic types, from future media moguls (as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network) to unsuspecting zombie fighters (as Columbus in Zombieland […]

Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson By Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow Chicago Review Press Robert Johnson is a definitive legend, though the dead-at-27 bluesman […]

Like clockwork, it has stormed the day before Pitchfork, to make sure the grounds are squidgy. And it will apparently be oppressively hot the next couple of days. Perfect! That […]