Day four of the Chicago Blues Festival ended on a high note despite a rain delay and a highly anticipated act being cut. The reality is that Mavis Staples was […]
The most iconic baseball food is the hot dog. Double down on that in Chicago where there is literally a style of hot dog known to the city. The hot […]
Few artists have given me actual goosebumps, but Ann Wilson’s vocals and Nancy Wilson’s guitar playing delivered chills during Heart’s recent show at Ravinia Festival. The legendary first sisters of […]
Sometimes you just need the right show to pick up your spirits. Last week Samia and Raffaella made their way to Chicago for two nights of fantastic performances that not […]
While Hitch*Cocktails has been a staple of the Annoyance Theatre’s lineup for over a decade, the team behind Chicago’s most frighteningly funny drinking game is raising the stakes with the […]
Chicago Blues Festival #41 is shaping up to be one of the best I’ve seen in years. The day three lineup was mainly out of the Mississippi Delta. The park […]
We mostly remember movements through supernaturally charismatic entities who said the right thing at the right time, sparking action, winning souls, and rewriting history. In reality, every movement is made […]
Day two of the Chicago Blues Festival was a trip down memory lane—the days of big production concerts, tailored clothes, and memories of summers in Louisiana. The mainstage performers on […]
By this point, if you don’t know at least a bit of what to expect—the color schemes, the deadpan dialogue, the kooky costumes and haircuts—when going into a Wes Anderson […]
June 4 marked the close of Nova Linea Musica’s inaugural season with a flourish of whimsy and music that, for me, evokes stories and visions of Chicago. NLM is the […]
June 5 at the Ramova was my opening day to summer in Chicago. The Chicago Blues Festival has kicked off, and what a blast it was. The last time I […]
Life is not remembered in a straight, unbroken line; we remember moments: the best and the worst can be recalled vividly in most cases, but our brain holds onto what […]
