Preview: Loyola University Chicago to Celebrate Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems
“Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job […]
“Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job […]
I had to borrow a kid to go see Matilda. I also had to put aside my usual prejudice towards musicals. But no one was forcing Matilda on me. […]
Michael Patrick Thornton in The Gift Theatre’s Richard III. Photo by Claire Demos. The real Richard III perhaps wasn’t such a bad chap, not the “bottled spider” Shakespeare would have […]
[soliloquy id=”3199″] 1809–Thomasina and Septimus. Present–Valentine, Bernard, Chloe and Hannah. Photos by Michael Brosilow. Writers Theatre opened its spectacular new theater in Glencoe this week with an appropriately spectacular production […]
I’ve never been quite sure how to characterize CHON‘s music. Is it instrumental metal with jazz and classical tendencies? Is it lounge music played on electric guitars, backed by ferocious […]
When I looked at the gathering again, almost all of the heads were turned toward me. Nearly two hundred pairs of eyes stared at me. The band stopped playing suddenly. […]
The Chicago European Union Film Festival concludes this week, so if you love watching films with subtitles, this is your chance. See some of the best of European films at […]
BATMAN v SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE I’ll admit I had a tough time starting to write this one. It wasn’t any type of writer’s block or uncertainty about my option […]
Upon entering The Mission’s current show, Structural Adjustment, visitors are immersed in the orange and yellow glow from the front window collage, which serves as the most literal translation of […]
Gogol Bordello transformed the Metro Chicago stage Wednesday night into a street performance, as my preview for this concert predicted. Each band member had his or her own bottomless tank of […]
I love seeing how food and beverages are made. Sadly, the M&M Mars facility on Oak Park Avenue is locked up tighter than Willy Wonka’s and the Vienna Beef factory […]
Before we get to this weekend’s awesome events, a note on some changes I’ll be making to the Curated Chicago Weekend feature. As you may or may not have read, […]