It’s a brand new year! 2018 is behind us now, so let’s get focused on 2019. It’s that time of year when you buckle down and get started on your […]

The reason I separate out documentaries is not because I feel they should be judged differently than feature films, but because I want to put as many great doc titles […]

I’m the dummy who waits until the year actually ends before rolling out my Best Of… lists, and that’s because I’m often able to squeeze in about a dozen or […]

Ja’Mal Green Drops Out of Race for Chicago Mayor Activist Ja’Mal Green announced Monday he would no longer continue his bid for mayor of Chicago. Green, 23, was one of […]

2018 is now gone, so we’re going to take a look at some of our favorite games from a year full of great releases. It was a great year for […]

It’s been a pretty great year for music. So good in fact that a top 10, top 50, top whatever, wouldn’t have captured the magic of the year. It felt […]

The lead actors in If Beale Street Could Talk, the latest work from Moonlight filmmaker Barry Jenkins, had two very different paths that brought them to this extraordinary movie, adapted […]

Writer/director Barry Jenkins has made something bold and beautiful in his third feature, If Beale Street Could Talk, based on a book by James Baldwin that has long been labeled […]

The Neo-Futurists are staging their sad and fantastical romp based on the true story of Chicago’s 1903 Iroquois Theatre fire, in which 600 audience members were killed. This short run […]

This isn’t a “best theater of 2018” list. We didn’t see everything. Most of our writers are freelancers, all with other gigs, and it’s hard for us to cover the […]

  You’re in space, Earth has gone into nuclear disarray and one of the warheads is heading straight to your ship. You have 60 seconds to pack as many things […]

In early 1978, Bruce Springsteen embarked on the Darkness on the Edge of Town tour, in what would become a new benchmark for his brand of stadium epics. The Boss […]