Game Review: Project Cars 2– Smooth Road Ahead for Ambitious Racer
Project Cars 2 is an ambitious follow up to the 2015 original that aims to expand into e-sports while taking on other racing franchise giants with impending releases, such as […]
Goose Island 312 Block Party 2017 in Review
What better way to enjoy an unseasonable hot weekend than with friends, food, beer, and amazing music at Goose Island‘s 312 Block Party! This year’s block party kept the fun […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 9/28 – 10/1
After last week’s intense warm weather, the next few days are looking a little more manageable. What better way to spend the weekend than with these amazing events including unique […]
Eclectic Theatre’s The Last Days of Judas Iscariot Mashes Up History, Fiction and Faith
The scene is Purgatory and it’s a big trial, presided over by a judge who was with Lee when he surrendered at Appomattox. Pontius Pilate takes the Fifth. A motley […]
Game Review: Divinity: Original Sin 2 – High Quality High Fantasy
Divinity: Original Sin 2 started out on Kickstarter, just like its 2014 predecessor. Developer Larian Studios has been making roleplaying games in the Divinity series for 15 years, and their […]
Dance Down the Highway to Hell in Lyric’s Orphée et Eurydice
Opening night of the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2017/18 season kicked off with Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice (Paris version), and included a first-time collaboration with the Joffrey Ballet. […]
Writers Museum Launches Two New Series: Surprise Bookshelf and First Books
Chicago’s American Writers Museum is launching two new program series this fall among their range of public programming relating to all forms of American writing. Tuesday First Books highlights the first […]
Audiotree Festival 2017: Day One in Review
Our Lit section editor, Emma Terhaar, and music writer, Colin Smith, traveled to Kalamazoo, Michigan, last weekend to catch the fifth annual Audiotree Festival. Here’s their report on day one. […]
An American Disaster in 2019: Building the Wall at Stage Left Theatre
If you go to the theater to get away from the nasty divisiveness of today’s news, then Stage Left Theatre’s new production, Building the Wall, is not for you. Robert […]
Move Over, Pumpkin Spice! A Third Coast Ode to Apples
A is for apples. It all starts with the glossy, tempting green and red jewels that adorn an orchard this time of year. Crunchy, juicy, sweet or tart, they’re all […]
Film Review: No Man’s Land Reveals Both Sides of Tense, Timely Confrontation
The second installment of the quarterly film series “Dinner & Docs @ The Davis” is happening Wednesday, Sept. 27 with a preview screening of the powerful new work No Man’s […]
TV Review: Star Trek: Discovery Boldly Goes with New Style, Old Trek Soul
It’s been a little over 12 years since Star Trek: Enterprise aired its final episode, which ended with a solemn farewell to all of the Trek that had come before […]