Another year has come and gone for Spring Awakening Music Festival in Chicago. And boy, are we sure thankful it comes back year after year. This time around, SAMF hit […]

Typewriters, inkwells, Braille writers and more of the tools that writers use will be featured in the Tools of the Trade exhibit opening at the American Writers Museum on Saturday, June […]

The debut feature film from Joe Talbot (director) and Jimmie Fails (star), The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a labor of love in every sense of the word, a […]

I didn’t know it before seeing Late Night, but apparently jokes involving Doris Kearns Goodwin, the prolific and fascinating historian and author (Team of Rivals, The Bully Pulpit), are a sure-fire way to […]

Sweet Texas Reckoning is a family story set up as a kitchen culture clash. It’s the story of a biracial, same-sex couple from New York vs. religious, bigoted Texans. The script […]

Returning for another year of films and events, Cinepocalypse always promises programming that scares, thrills, and satisfies the legions of ardent genre fans dying to experience it. This year won’t […]

If circus be the food of love, play on. It’s a sentiment many experience in the presence of circus arts when masterfully displayed–and what if it also happens to have a […]

It’s looking like a great weekend for with some fantastic events! Movie lovers, concert goers, art fans and so many more will  find something wonderful to do in the upcoming […]

Director Martin Scorsese is certainly no stranger to documentaries about musicians, whether that’s more straight-forward biographies of Bob Dylan (No Direction Home) or George Harrison (Living in the Material World), […]

They say all you need to become a punk rock band are three chords and the truth. Punk songs are short, loud and not musically sophisticated. But they usually have […]

In what is quickly becoming a year of insane concert lineups, last week’s massive show at Huntington Bank Pavilion is gonna be one to top. Thundercat’s mind altering sounds, Noname’s […]

This Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, the 9th annual North Shore Chamber Music Festival will place in Northbrook with a wide ranging program of classical music standards and a contemporary work […]