Movie fans will be shouting viva la France this weekend as the 6th annual French Film Festival begins today at the Music Box Theatre. The festival, which runs July 22 […]

Hope everyone’s previous weekend was as fun as mine. Fellow 3CR writer Colin Smith and I had the chance to review the Pitchfork Music Festival and it was a blast. […]

[soliloquy id=”5984″]   The sun god answered our prayers on Sunday. Union Park was cooler than Saturday and sunnier than Friday, and it stormed long after Oneohtrix Point Never ended […]

In a city that is nearly saturated with street festivals–not a bad problem to have–July’s Wicker Park Fest is set to be one to prioritize.  The two-day festival will take […]

Author, former columnist, and story editor for the exceptional (and long running) animated series Adventure Time, Jack Pendarvis, has a gift for blunt, ironic, and forceful language. This is on […]

Thick-haired David Carl’s loony yet logical mash-up won the Outstanding Solo Performance Award at the New York Fringe, and adds a splash of pop culture irreverence to the litany of […]

[soliloquy id=”5921″]   Saturday at the Pitchfork Music Festival felt like a different place from Friday. Unlike the previous  cloudy and slightly rainy day, the sun warmed Union Park and […]

[soliloquy id=”5891″]   This year’s Pitchfork Music Festival features a rich lineup of new up-and-comers, maturing indie rockers and songwriters, and a few reunions. Unlike many previous years, this weekend is […]

GHOSTBUSTERS Here’s the bottom line: I laughed watching Ghostbusters…a lot. It’s as funny a movie as we’ve come to expect from director and co-writer (with his The Heat writer Katie […]

The Pitchfork Music Festival was our first alternative to Lollapalooza. It’s smaller, less expensive, and the lineups pretty much reflect the publication’s “Best New Albums” list with the addition of […]

On a hot midsummer’s night, two young couples stumble into a fairy forest and play out the mischief and trickery of knavish sprites and spirits, only to wake the next […]

Pokémon Go. It’s literally everywhere, hell it’s right here in this post. Over the weekend the game seemed to infiltrate every aspect of my life. Friends, family, strangers were walking […]