Fresh Start to Your Week: 4/2 – 4/4
New month, new events! It’s April, the first full month of spring and it’s getting off to a good start! There are so many bands, writers, and artists waiting for […]
Commune With the City’s Dead In New Book About Chicago Cemeteries, Chicago Eternal
Cemeteries remind us this is a city of change in multiple ways. Not just the impermanence and fragility of life, but in the ways the landscape of the city shifts […]
Men Freed After Wrongful Convictions to Sue City, Police
Two men recently exonerated from crimes they didn’t commit are suing the City of Chicago and several members of the police department they say were responsible for their wrongful imprisonment. […]
Pritzker Cuts His Campaign Another $7 Million Check
Democratic gubernatorial candidate and billionaire JB Pritzker has donated yet another $7 million to his campaign, bringing the total amount of money he’s given to his campaign effort to $76.5 […]
Chicago Gun Violence Rate Declines
Gun violence has declined in Chicago for its thirteenth consecutive month, according to the Chicago Police Department. Shootings in March of 2018 dropped by 17 percent and murders by 25 […]
Disturbing Theater, 20 Years Later: How I Learned to Drive Is About Drinking, Driving and Sexual Abuse
How I Learned to Drive isn’t a play for the squeamish. It’s a disturbing and ultimately sad story about pedophilia, sexual abuse, drinking and driving. It illustrates how the predator […]
The B-52’s Reimagined in Cindy Wilson’s Change
On Valentine’s Day, 1976, Cindy Wilson met her future husband Keith Bennett, and performed in her first B-52’s show. Her band mates were fellow Athens, GA, denizens Kate Pierson (vocals, […]
Screens Monthly: April
By April, it can be harder and harder to justify time spent in a movie theater. The days are finally getting longer and Spring is in full swing. In true […]
Northlight’s Beauty Queen of Leenane A Quietly Devastating Dark Comedy
Northlight Theatre’s production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Martin McDonagh’s quietly devastating dark comedy, takes place in the provincial town of Leenane. Directed by B.J. Jones, the Tony Award-winning […]
C2E2 2018: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Preview
Imagine, for a moment, that you can step inside the world of one of your favorite things. You’ll meet the creators, find out how they do it, talk to […]
Tension Builds as Ambiguity Becomes Retribution in hang at Remy Bumppo Theatre
We sit through 60 minutes of ambiguity and tension—about what? When hang finally reveals (almost reveals) its essential point in the final 25 minutes, we are caught up in the […]
Review: Aggravating, Dumb Birthmarked Totally Misses the Mark
This odd little family tale of two respected, married scientists, Ben Morin (Matthew Goode) and Catherine Morin (Toni Collette), is essentially an exercise in figuring out who among the characters […]