Cauliflower Soup for Breakfast? Last Hurrah for Chicago’s Farmers Markets
One Day More…. This reminds me of the gorgeous song from Les Misérables–One Day More–sung on the eve of the 1832 Paris Uprising. The heroes sing of the fate that […]
Saturday Night Live: The Experience Is An Exhibit As Iconic As The Show
[soliloquy id=”19975″] Saturday Night Live is an institution. For 43 seasons, you’ve been able to tune to NBC at 10:30pm Chicago time and be in that same familiar […]
Hey! Play! Games in Modern Culture Celebrates the Art of Play
It’s Chicago Design Week, and the members of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, or AIGA, are embarking on week celebrating all things design. We were there Friday night as they kicked off […]
Game Review: Fire Emblem Warriors – Formulaic, Tedious, but Serviceable
The Nintendo Switch has finally gotten a Fire Emblem game… sort of. Well, okay, not really. Fire Emblem Warriors is actually a game in the long running Dynasty Warriors franchise, […]
Game Review: Gran Turismo Sport Sets its Own Pace
Gran Turismo has been a long staple of the racing genre. Developed solely by Sony’s in-house developer Polyphony Digital since the 90’s, there has been a Gran Turismo on every […]
On the Road: 1933’s Vision of the Future at the Century of Progress Homes
Tucked away on a stretch of Indiana dunes beachfront are five homes built to showcase innovation and industrial progress for Chicago’s 1933 World’s Fair, the Century of Progress International Exposition. […]
Brecht Deserves a Better Revolution in The Last Days of the Commune at Prop Thtr
Bertolt Brecht is an interesting, if often didactic, playwright. And so it is with The Last Days of the Commune, a play that was incomplete when he died in 1956. […]
Your Fresh Start to Your Week: 10/23 – 10/25
The fall weather is finally here with its cool temps and a few rain showers. Some events over the weekend had to be postponed at the last minute, but that […]
Lookingglass’ Hard Times a Dickensian Circus
Published in 1854, Charles Dickens’ Hard Times – For These Times satirizes English society in its depiction of economic and social hardship in a fictitious industrial town in Victorian England […]
Chicago Film Festival: Award Winners Announced
On the last Friday of the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival, programmers, juries and filmmakers gathered in a theater at AMC River East for the annual Awards Ceremony, where top […]
Film Review: In Chavela, Chronicling an Icon’s Rise and Fall and Rise Again
A decade ago, Marion Cotillard won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, Olivier Dahan’s biopic about the French chanteuse who enthralled a nation […]
Preview: Theater Wit Hosts Gala at Your Place, Black Tie and Pants Optional
It’s gala season. Galas are pleasant enough, with entertainment, drinks and food. You get to dress up, look your best and have a night out on the town. All that […]