By Gloria Rosemarin What better time than the holiday season to think creatively about food? I was planning my usual appetizers for Thanksgiving when I came across #ainttooproudtomeg on Instagram and […]
This year’s Game Awards were bigger than ever, with a nearly four hour run time chock full of awards, speeches, reveals, and tons of other awesome little surprises. In fact, […]
In what many publications are calling one of the year’s best records, Parquet Courts channeled angst into optimism on their fifth full-length album, Wide Awake. Their recent record almost reads […]
Mary Zimmerman’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier is the theatrical equivalent of a gift under the tree on Christmas morning; it’s warm, heartfelt, and wrapped nicely in a bright holiday bow. The […]
An evening of premieres took place on Friday night at the Logan Center Performance Hall as the Grossman Ensemble offered its first ever public performance to a large audience in […]
Wednesday night at Metro was filled with performance art. The Wrigleyville venue welcomed Stars, on tour in support of their latest single, “Are You With Me?,” released a few weeks […]
I attended The Play That Goes Wrong on a friend’s recommendation. I will never forgive him. The touring production runs at the Oriental Theatre, 24 W. Randolph St., through December 16, […]
Contributing Authors: Marielle Shaw and Antal Bokor This was the second year we headed to the Logan Theatre for their annual Playtest Party and found it as packed with people […]
I’m guessing that a number of you who follow cooking culture and prominent chefs may have caught wind of young Flynn McGarry, a so-called child prodigy from Los Angeles who […]
Certainly one of the stranger subjects for a documentary can be found in the latest work from director Hao Wu, People’s Republic of Desire, which attempts to make sense of […]
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes as a film critic—or simply as an audience member—you exit a film so extraordinary and emotionally stirring that words nearly fail you. Writer/director/cinematographer/co-editor Alfonso […]
The abstract paintings of Tomma Abts are on display at the Art Institute of Chicago in her first solo exhibition in the U.S. in ten years. Abts is a contemporary abstract […]
