Signs and Portents? Chicago Botanic Garden Corpse Flower Blooms For Eclipse
Today, the sun will be blotted out in the middle of the day. At the same time, over in Glencoe, an unholy stench will fill the air at the Chicago […]
Fresh Start to Your Week: 8/21 – 2/23
Today’s the day! The solar eclipse will be happening later today! Whether it’s with special glasses, solar lenses on cameras, or through the old tried and true pinhole methods, I […]
Writers Theatre’s Trevor Polished, But Misguided
If the crux of your musical’s story centers around its 13-year-old protagonist’s attempted suicide, it may be best to forgo an Act II opener that dresses its young cast in […]
Your Solar Eclipse Pocket Guide – Everything You Need To Know For Today’s Solar Show
The day has finally arrived. Unless you’ve been very, very distracted, you’re probably aware that starting around 11:54 am today, local time, a total solar eclipse will occur. That’s rare […]
CAF’s No Small Plans Explores Urban Planning and Civic Involvement in a Graphic Novel
No Small Plans, a new graphic novel, tells the stories of three sets of teenagers and how they live in and try to understand their changing city in the past, […]
The Lemon Twigs: Slightly Older, Much More Confident
Chicago has a tax that we all pay. No, not the new soda tax. I’m talking about the dues we pay at the beginning of each August: the days before, […]
Chicago’s Literati Harmonize in Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology
Have you ever contributed to a church or neighborhood cookbook? Have you ever bought one? Are matriarchal communities still pooling their creativity into volumes of recipes as a testament to […]
Film review: Marc Webb Pays Homage to Woody Allen in The Only Living Boy in New York
Outside of his work on the two Amazing Spider-Man movies, Marc Webb has made some very good movies over the years, as well as a fistful of great music videos. […]
Game Review: Nidhogg 2 Where the Wurm Eats You
Fight for your right to be sacrificed to the titular worm in developer Messhof’s Nidhogg2. This quick-fire half tug-o-war, half race to the other side is a follow up to […]
Film Review: Ingrid Goes West Savagely Critiques the State of Social Media
One of the more pleasantly terrifying films I saw at Sundance this year was director Matt Spicer’s debut feature Ingrid Goes West, which won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award (U.S. […]
Film Review: Patti Cake$ is an Exhilarating Hip-hop Fairy Tale
Apparently being a crowd-pleasing film is a problem for some, and it is for me too when a work panders and manipulates with no shame. But Patti Cake$, feature film […]
Film Review: Good Time Rattled Us in All the Best Ways
With their most recent two features, Daddy Longlegs and Heaven Knows What, the brotherly directing team of Ben and Joshua Safdie have engaged in something they’ve referred to as hybrid […]