It’s not hard to have fun on Halloween. You can stay in, costumed or plain-clothes, and hand out candy to cute little kids in costumes.  There’s haunted houses and corn […]

In one of his most interesting roles in recent years, Ben Affleck takes on the persona of Christian Wolff, a math genius who also happens to be on the highly […]

Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees. For some movie fans these are the ultimate names in film horror and with Halloween approaching movie fans may want to rewatch their favorite […]

Last week I had lunch with Keng Sisavath, the man behind the Instagram account Strange Foods Chicago. Since the spring of 2015, Sisavath has attracted 37,000 Instagram followers, created a […]

The six-day Ear Taxi Festival (ETF), which concluded on Monday evening, was an extraordinary event that shined a bright light on Chicago’s contemporary classical art music scene. Our local scene […]

Every October, for an exhausting but enriching 24 hours, the Music Box Theatre unleashes some of the creepiest, bloodiest, scariest and just plain weirdest horror films in existence, most of […]

The 52nd edition of the Chicago International Film Festival is upon us, beginning tonight with the Chicago premiere of the highly acclaimed La La Land. This is the new project […]

For this week’s playlist, we’re mixing it up. Since the four brother act The Avantist is physically releasing their full-length debut album tonight at Township—a record that even features the Mars […]

It’s mid-October and the Cubs are still playing. I’ve been a fan of these lovable perennial losers since my friend’s dad, a firefighter with an injured shoulder, caught a ball […]

Whenever a friend would recommend a new band to me, I’d always be caustically optimistic. There’s nothing like the rush of discovering a new band, but we’re dangerously approaching “content […]

North America’s longest-running competitive film festival, the 2016 Chicago International Film Festival, begins on Thursday, Oct. 13 at the AMC River East 21 (where every single CIFF screening will be […]

[soliloquy id=”7254″] This past Saturday night around Wrigleyville was a madhouse. The noise coming from the friendly confines of Wrigly Field was loud and energizing, matching the excitement in the […]