I first heard Zoe Zolbrod read in a coffee shop in Logan Square a couple months ago. She was skinny, 40s-ish, and had arm tattoos and a mane of silver […]

Tickets are on sale now for Chicago Artists Coalition’s yearly benefit, “Starving Artist,”which will be held at Venue One on April 14. The tongue-in-cheek title of the event is indicative […]

The opportunity to draw silly comparisons to the work in the exhibition or use the title, Split Complementary — whose handsomely lacquered minimal sculptures and intricate handmade weavings drawings and books primarily […]

Remy Bumppo Theatre calls itself “think theatre.” And there couldn’t be a better tagline for this company, which takes on some of the most intellectually intriguing scripts in the theatrical […]

I recently had the opportunity to talk to book critic, author, and fellow Gapers Block alumnus, Adam Morgan, about his newly launched site, Chicago Review of Books. As a lit-loving […]

Carlos Kalmar returns to his 17th season with the Grant Park Music Festival for an interesting and varied program for the summer of 2016. From an opening display of Mussorgsky’s […]

The first-ever DOC10 documentary film festival is running this today through Sunday, April 1-3, at the Music Box Theatre and features a collection of 2015-16 high-profile docs from the likes of […]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGlsP_kZyYo&w=560&h=315] Ian Vanek started Howardian with his brother in 1993. He was 12 years old. Still, his early experiences seeing Nirvana perform and having the members of Mudhoney talk […]

EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! With Richard Linklater’s latest, Everybody Wants Some!!, I’ve never had more fun watching a film about guys I never would have hung out with in college. Set […]

I am a foodie, but the good kind, you know, who hates the word “foodie.” And Chicago is a foodie-who-hates-the-word-foodie kind of town, from its wet Italian beefs and deep […]

Stages As April shakes off the frost in our frozen town, things start to heat up in many amazing and terrible ways. Flowers spring out of the plastic-bag-encrusted earth, gang […]

Writer/director and weAREproductions co-founder Ricky W. Glore has set the Scottish play in a 70s radio station. King (Duncan, played by lanky Aaron Sarka) is the reigning disc jockey with […]