How can you not love Paddington Bear, or at the very least feel a strong sense of like for the little guy? The bear cub (again voiced by Ben Whishaw) […]

Let’s get the massive number of events rolling with this curated weekend! There is so much to do this weekend including the legendary Buddy Guy shows at his equally legendary […]

Okay, so the holidays have passed, the glitzy New Year’s garb is hung back in the closet, and those gaudy Christmas sweaters are starting to feel a little out of […]

The KLEO Art Residence, a four-story 58-unit mixed-use building is being built at the corner of Garfield Boulevard and South Michigan Avenue. Mayor Rahm Emanuel was on hand for the […]

State Sen. Daniel Biss has launched television ads for his campaign for the Democratic nomination for Illinois governor. The first two ads–“Personal” and “Honework”–introduce the candidate as a middle-class community […]

Chicago could see record setting temperatures – warm ones – on Thursday. The Chicago Tribune reports the temperature at O’Hare reached 56 degrees at 8:00a.m. this morning, and a bank […]

A meeting to allow community members to provide feedback on Chicago Public Schools’ plan to close four high schools (Harper, Hope, Robeson and TEAM Englewood) quickly became an angry shouting […]

Out on home video and several streaming platforms today is one of the more talked-about films out of last year’s Sundance Film Festival, writer-director Marianna Palka’s Bitch. Palka stars as […]

The annual Northwestern Winter Chamber Music Festival opens this Friday with the North American concert debut of a young ensemble hailing from the Netherlands, the Dudok Kwartet Amsterdam. Hosted by […]

I make no excuses about the fact that I adore every Paul Thomas Anderson film to varying (often excessive) degrees. And while all of them have felt very “adult” in […]

Black Button Eyes’ darkly gothic production of Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe makes good use of the Edge Theatre’s spacious proscenium stage. The six performers […]

After two men held a woman at gunpoint to rob her car in Hermosa, they crashed the car into a building on the 3000 block of North Laramie Avenue. Police […]