Although Riot Fest is over for another year, Chicago shows are still making your eardrums bleed. UK rock groups Kasabian and Slaves put on one hell of a show Tuesday […]

Developed by Bandai Namco, Pokkén Tournament started its life as a Japanese arcade game. Released in 2015, it was followed by a successful Wii U version released early last year. […]

The DePaul Art Museum presents Senga Nengudi: Improvisational Gestures,  an exhibition that surveys the sculpture, performance, and videos of American artist Senga Nengudi, with works dating from the 1970s to […]

When producers Brian and Jan Heiggelke, who together publish New City, and Eugene Park were looking for a Chicago movie project to back, they had one condition: it had to […]

This month the MCA Chicago unveiled an ambitious, $16 million architectural campaign designed by husband-and-wife team Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, of Los Angeles-based architecture firm, Johnston MarkLee. If those […]

[soliloquy id=”18714″] In the middle of the summer, Vagabon (the musical project Lætitia Tamko) of took the opening spot of the third day of Pitchfork and absolutely nailed it. She […]

It’s been over twenty years since developer Capcom combined together Marvel comic book heroes with Street Fighter characters to create the iconic fighting game X-Men vs. Street Fighter.  This merger […]

After sitting on the shelf since it completed shooting in 2014, the internet-based horror offering Friend Request has the further indignity of being released just two weeks after It, which […]

As disturbing or angst-ridden as they can get, I have a real affection for the works of Mike White, as both writer and director. His only previous time as a […]

Chicago composer George Flynn hosted the latest concert in the long running Chicago Soundings series on Tuesday night. Flynn was the head of the music composition department at DePaul University. […]

I absolutely adore this movie and all of its dark corners. This is my first exposure to the works of writer-director Ingrid Jungermann, who stars in Women Who Kill as […]

For reasons I can’t quite explain, I have an affection for films about the fashion industry, whether they’re about specific designers or tastemakers who run magazines, take photos, or otherwise […]