Film Review: Ghost in the Shell, Formidable and Visually Stunning
In a novel approach to reviewing this film, I’m going not going to compare it to the groundbreaking 1995 anime of the same name or the manga comic that was […]
In a novel approach to reviewing this film, I’m going not going to compare it to the groundbreaking 1995 anime of the same name or the manga comic that was […]
The phrase “Chicago record fair” is nearly synonymous with the nonprofit community radio station CHIRP. Just Google search it. In addition to spinning records for the city and introducing listeners […]
Richard Thompson is playing three sold out shows at Old Town School of Folk Music over Sunday April 9th and Monday April 10th. If you don’t know him, Thompson is […]
There are certainly great performers and choreographers in the world of dance, but Israel’s Ohad Naharin, artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company, manages to turn dance into an aggressive, […]
Sometimes the idea for an animated film is so out there that it actually works in an absurdist way. And in the world we’re living in right now, the idea […]
There came a point while watching The Zookeeper’s Wife where a nagging but fundamental question kept tapping at my brain. The Polish married couple at the center of the Holocaust-era […]
Imagine sitting down in the park on your lunch break about to dig into your sandwich when suddenly you notice movement out of the corner of your eye. You turn […]
It was a regular Thursday. I kept forgetting that I’d get to see someone so inspirational speak later, someone who had become a legend in the world of dance. It was […]
March is on its way out and April is just about to start! Don’t let the curated weekend pass you by, there are plenty of great events from film festivals, […]
How do we contend with the frustration of our desires, with our failure to achieve them? How do we access desires that have been submerged beneath the expectations of polite […]
[soliloquy id=”11084″] Photography is a medium of great power. It can show us things we’ve never seen before, transport us places, and capture a moment in time like an insect […]
[soliloquy id=”10903″] As Carl Sagan famously said, “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever […]