It’s just a plain old flip phone. Not one of those computer-in-your-pocket devices that runs your life today. But when Jean takes possession of the phone, it enables her to […]
Tucked away in an uninspiring strip shopping center is a gem of a place. While it’s not smack dab in the middle of the center, Smack Dab Chicago is a […]
Subnautica Below Zero has been one of my most anticipated releases this year. The standalone expansion to Subnautica—the widely acclaimed narratively driven survival game that landed a spot on our […]
Hundreds lined the streets along Wentworth and Cermak on Sunday for Chicago’s annual Lunar New Year Parade to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The parade featured colorful costumes, lion dances, […]
The pipeline in Dominique Morisseau’s play is the school-to-prison path followed too often by young people from disadvantaged backgrounds because of harsh school and police policies. The route is explored […]
The Father by French playwright Florian Zeller is a play about aging and dementia. But it’s not your typical touching human story designed to gain your sympathy for a troubled […]
The Ed Paschke Art Center presents the exhibition, Andy Paczos: The Eye and the Hand, which showcases the paintings of Andy Paczos. Paczos executes his landscape paintings by remaining on site […]
I first met Taraji P. Henson a little more than 10 years ago when she was promoting one of the most important roles of her career, that of Queenie in […]
The Red Rex Theatre Co. rehearses a play about characters drawn from their own Rightlynd neighborhood in Ike Holter’s play at Steep Theatre. They hope this will be the play […]
Rendezvous in Chicago, the new film by Chicago-based filmmaker Michael Glover Smith, promises to be a set of comedic vignettes about love and life in the Windy City, but it […]
When Danish acting powerhouse Mads Mikkelsen showed up for an extended cameo in last year’s Van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate as a priest providing comfort and advice to the […]
As good or bad as you may believe the state of movies and the movie-going experience may be, I thank my lucky stars every year around this time that someone […]
