It feels like I’ve been indulging in my biggest/nerdiest hobbies the past few weeks, from Record Store Day and C2E2 to the David Lynch Retrospective (which ends tonight with screenings of Meditation, […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 5/4 – 5/7
TCR Mixtape No. 24: April Showers Bring May Wallflowers
Spring has sprung, y’all! Despite the capricious weather’s best efforts, the flowers are flaunting their new blossoms, the grass is green again, and the sun beams a little brighter and a little […]
Young Emerging Filmmakers Take the Spotlight at the CineYouth Festival
Every October, Chicago film fans look forward to the Chicago International Film Festival, the city’s longest-running festival featuring independent and international premieres. What many festival-goers don’t realize, however, is that the festival […]
Magic Giant Make Their Mark at Lincoln Hall
Indie rock fledglings Magic Giant are already making a huge wave in the music world. Having formed in 2014, the trio released their self-titled EP the following year to critical acclaim. […]
“Wicked Game” Cover by m&e Casts Chills
Love can be a wicked wicked game, we know, and it couldn’t be better echoed in this cover of Chris Isaak‘s “Wicked Game” by the up-and-coming ethereal music duo, m&e. The song, repenting […]
Preview: Mamby on The Beach 2017
With Mamby on The Beach entering only its third year in Chicago, we cannot wait to see how they outdo themselves from last year, and the lineup has helped to provide some […]
Celebrating Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks Thursday May 4th at The Poetry Foundation
“We Real Cool” By Gwendolyn Brooks The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel. We real cool. We Left School. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing gin. We Thin gin. […]
City Lit’s Forty-Two Stories: Behind the Scenes at a High-Rise Condo Where Stuff Happens
Do you live in a highrise condo on Lake Shore Drive? Or spend time with someone who does? Then all your suspicions about what goes on behind the scenes will be fulfilled […]
Aladdin Grants All Your Wishes at the Cadillac Palace
Broadway’s Aladdin takes a magical carpet ride into the Cadillac Palace Theatre! (no promises but I’ll try to keep the Aladdin-themed references to a minimum). Director Casey Nicholaw alongside the incredible Bob […]
Minneapolis Monsters- Guillermo Del Toro Meets Mia
“Inside every creative person, there’s a Bleak House.” It’s something I said to Gabriel Ritter, the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia for short), when discussing my recent […]
On The Road: Minneapolis Institute of Art – A World Class Can’t-Miss
Though my heart remains buried in the mountains of the Wild West, my family has always been Midwestern. Though all of us are from Chicago itself originally, we’ve scattered a bit over […]
Presidential Library Project Imagines Black Presidency Through Obama’s Legacy
The Presidential Library Project: Black Presidential Imaginary, currently on view at Hyde Park Art Center, offers a conceptual framework through which to imagine The Obama Presidential Center, which will be built on […]