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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fresh Start to Your Week: 5/01 – 5/03
Your first Fresh Start of May is here to help you make the beginning of this month great. In case you somehow aren’t aware, the David Lynch Retrospective at the […]
Feeling Nostalgic? See Red Orchid’s 3C: R-Rated “Three’s Company” in ’70s Color
A Red Orchid Theatre’s new production, 3C, reminds me of two things I’d rather forget. The silly sitcom, “Three’s Company,” that aired on ABC for eight years, ending in 1984. […]
Prince Almost Resurrected by The Revolution at Metro
Dearly beloved We are gathered here today To get through this thing called “life” Electric word, life It means forever and that’s a mighty long time But I’m here to […]
Film Review: Voice from the Stone, Frequently Frustrating
This odd but sometimes captivating bit of Gothic psychological drama with a hint of a ghost story sprinkled in for added flavor is sneaking out into the world this week […]
Film Review – Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent, The Trials and Tribulations of a Master Chef
If the films were actually bad, I’d consider this onslaught of documentaries about world-renowned chefs and restaurants an epidemic. But so far at least, each one has had a unique […]