Fresh Start to Your Week: 1/8 – 1/10
This week’s curated list of events for the beginning of your week is huge! Each day has four amazing sections ranging from concerts, talks, and storytellers ready to make your […]
It’s My Penis and I’ll Cry If I Want To Confronts Gender Politics at Pride Arts Center
It’s My Penis and I’ll Cry If I Want To is a 45-minute one-man show exploring the nuances of gender, often humorously, always movingly and inextricably linked to the many […]
Chicago Bears Seeks New Head Coach After John Fox Dismissal
Chicago Bears General Manager Ryan Pace is looking to Philadelphia, Kansas City, New England, Minnesota and within the Chicago team itself, for a replacement for Former Head Coach John Fox. […]
CPS Unveils Plans to Build New Englewood High School, Replace Four
CPS Interim Chief Janice Jackson revealed renderings of a new high school in Englewood, to be equipped with outdoor sports facilities and health center, and a vocational training program. Architect […]
Chicago Experienced Sixth Warmest Winter on Record in 2017
Last year, Chicago hit highs in the 60s and 70s in the thick of its Winter, and an average of 41 degrees in February. Records that date back to 1895 […]
Film Review: The Master of Deadpan Comedy Returns with The Other Side of Hope
Editor’s Note: This review was also recently posted by our friends at Music Box Theatre. You can read it here. A master of comedic deadpan for more than 30 years, […]
Film Review: Quiet The Fencer Teaches Compassion At the End of a Sword
Nominated a year ago for Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globe Awards and also the official Finnish contender for the 2016 Academy Awards, The Fencer is a surprisingly […]
Film Review: Despite Predictability, Biopic Tom of Finland Draws Compelling Portrait of Gay Icon
At some point right around the time the artist Tom of Finland (real name Touko Laaksonen) died in the early 1990s, I remember seeing Daddy and the Muscle Academy, a […]
Film Review: Insidious: The Last Key Is Likely the Franchise’s Last—And Should Be
The Insidious films (this is the fourth one, for those counting) have always been a mixed bag. The first two chapters started strong with a quality director (James Wan), the […]
Film Review: Hostiles Is Filmmaker Scott Cooper’s Best Film Yet
Over the last decade or so writer-director Scott Cooper has amassed an impressive filmography of stories that are so bleakly human as to almost be horror films (or more precisely, […]
Film Review: Spielberg’s The Post Is an Important Story—And a Great Film
Taking a similar approach to earth-shattering news events as 2015’s Spotlight, Steven Spielberg’s The Post barrels through a lot of information, a small army of characters, and enough twists and […]
Same Dream Another Time Captures Gambling Centers from Another Era
When we think of Las Vegas and Atlantic City, clichéd images come to mind such as Elvis impersonators, showgirls, tough-looking mobsters and lounge lizard entertainers. Many of these images have […]