In this cult of personality era, The Residents, part of the Bay Area’s Cryptic Corporation, played a refreshingly product, not person, focused set at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk […]

Well, I’m still reeling from this weekend’s Record Store Day this past Saturday. Great conversations with friends new and old helped while waiting in extremely long lines to get some […]

Police say Monday they apprehended an Illinois man accused of going on a shooting rampage which killed four people and wounded others over the weekend. Police allege that Travis Reinking, […]

Someone in the River North and Gold Coast neighborhoods has been anonymously leaving photos of President Donald Trump in piles of dog poop. It’s unclear what the intentions are of […]

Dueling demonstrations took place Sunday at Oak Woods Cemetery on the city’s south side over a confederate monument. A large monument topped with a bronze statue that lists the names […]

A middle-aged woman, her boyfriend and her teenaged son—all in one small apartment. That sounds like a formula for trouble and so it proves to be in William Inge’s Natural […]

From the moment I saw the bright pink cover of Secret Chicago by Jessica Mlinaric I was excited. Visions of the kinds of things I loved to see so much on […]

[soliloquy id=”26590″] NoMBe brought relaxing and catchy melodies to Wicker Park’s Chop Shop Wednesday, with his LA crew. Noah McBeth introduced himself a few songs through his set, and included […]

[soliloquy id=”26566″] There are few shows that are as exciting or memorable as Matt and Kim shows. Every time I’ve seen them live it’s not only been a worthwhile experience, […]

Debuting on Netflix today (but also getting a limited run at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema) is Kodachrome, the latest from director Mark Raso (Copenhagen) about a record company A&R man (Jason […]

In their beautifully realized 2015 horror work, Spring, the filmmaking team of Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson somehow merged a magnificent love story along the lines of Before Sunrise with […]

Super Troopers 2 is an exceedingly silly movie, which should come as no surprise since the first film is also very silly. But what separates the two films—besides more than […]