Direct from Death Row: The Scottsboro Boys fools you into thinking you’re getting a straight retelling of the events and trials of the nine young African-American men who were falsely […]
This August Kino Lorber will be releasing three socially aware documentaries addressing a smorgasbord of topics. BLOODSWORTH If you want to know what freedom is like, just have someone take […]
If you haven’t heard. this weekend is the 25th anniversary of Lollapalooza. The festival that has called Grant Park home since 2005 is a huge, over the top spectacle that […]
[soliloquy id=”6149″] Peppers are magic, be they bell peppers perfectly charred on the grill for your fajitas or the almighty chile pepper, small in stature but giant in heat […]
Poets and musicians from across the country will convene in Bronzeville, this Saturday, July 30, for the first ever Chicago Poetry Block Party. The event, which takes place in the […]
It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to start a new theater company in a city that might be considered saturated with storefronts. But Ron Keaton and Kurt Johns […]
Eclipse Theatre’s 2016 Stephen Adly Guirgis season was already off to a great start, and with Our Lady of 121st Street–the second entry of their playwright-centric season—Eclipse Theatre firmly cement […]
Guest Author Patrick McManus is a stand-up comic living and working in Chicago. Patrick is a real cool guy who won the 100 Proof Comedy’s Chicago’s Top College Comedian Competition […]
Thodos Dance Chicago’s New Dances 2016 program, which ran Saturday and Sunday at the Anthenaeum Theater, delivered a mixed bag of performances as eight company members and one guest artist […]
My ratings for War Paint: — Scene design and costumes? Four stars. — Performances of its leading actors? Three stars plus. — Sophistication and nuances of its story, smart dialogue, […]
STAR TREK BEYOND Before I dive into talking about Star Trek Beyond, can I just say how much it warms my heart to see Greg Grunberg have such a great […]
“At some point, we realize the horrible power we have over other living things. I think we reach a certain state of grace when we tire of extinguishing life, no […]
