The last time I was in Chicago’s House of Vans was last October, when I waited in line for 2 hours to watch The National play a cohesive set that had […]

Red Faction has traditionally been about destruction in one form or another. Way back to the original, it was about destructible terrain. 2009’s Red Faction: Guerrilla, however, changed the formula up […]

P.A.M.E.L.A. released on Steam Early Access early last year, and despite early mixed reviews, has made several strides towards winning its intended audience. Now, I hadn’t played P.A.M.E.L.A. until the […]

Mamby on the Beach is where you go when you live in Chicago and are looking for a fun festival in the middle of June. Three-fourths of the month was […]

In a little storefront in Boystown, there is a tiny lush space that has been transformed into a magic den. Festooned in crushed velvet and dotted with antiques, the atmosphere […]

We’re at a high point in dinosaur hype right now, with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom stomping into the box office and raking in almost 2 billion dollars thus far, stores […]

“Tilikum, the infamous SeaWorld killer whale, has died.” That was the headline in the Orlando Sentinel on January 6, 2017. Sideshow Theatre’s world premiere production of Tilikum takes the story of that […]

Opening this weekend is Boundaries, the latest from writer/director Shana Feste, a filmmaker who has specialized lately in more romantically inclined works, including Country Strong and the 2014 remake of […]

Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido is one of those games that you could easily pass over for more familiar territory. E3 didn’t do it any favors, either, as it was released just […]

Thomas Fec makes music that will either give you nightmares or soothe you into a state of complete serenity. The nightmares tend to be closely related to his TOBACCO project, […]

Developer Bugbear’s previously titled (untitled?) Next Car Game was pretty impressive from the get-go—all the way back in 2014 when the Sneak Peak was released, which featured the impressive physics […]

Sondre Lerche has been at it for nearly two decades, spinning melodic confessional yarns across eight studio albums with his signature folk-rock-jazz-pop stylings and ever-clever wordplay. No stranger to invention, […]