We’re quickly approaching that time of year when record shops get ready for one of the biggest vinyl related days of the year. That’s right folks, it’s the about to […]

Richard Thompson started playing music professionally in 1967 with Fairport Convention. He was 18. Fifty years of performing, touring, and recording 40+ albums should leave a musician spent. Rather than […]

In his coffee table book, My Journey Into the Wilds of Chicago,  Mike MacDonald, photographer and author, explores one of his greatest passions, the natural world all around Chicagoland. Mike […]

According to the Chicago Film Office, there are more than 30 film festivals that call Chicago home. Now in its 33rd year, the Chicago Latino Film Festival, presented by the International […]

For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday is a gift by playwright Sarah Ruhl to her actor mother, Kathleen, who plays herself in this three-part family story. The 85-minute play […]

We’ve been curating your weekends for quite a while, how about we give the beginning of your week some love? These Fresh Start To Your Week posts will highlight some […]

Chairlift let its music speak for itself Friday night at Park West in Chicago on its farewell tour. Normally I would comment on lighting, costumes, size of the venue and […]

A bit on the dry side and a darling at the recently ended European Union Film Festival, Cézanne et Moi, the latest work from writer-director Danièle Thompson (La bûche, Avenue […]

I will never fully understand films that contribute to the deification of golf or other sports. In certain books but especially in cinema, golf is treated as if its players […]

Directed and edited by veteran British documentary editor David Fairhead, this exceedingly thorough, educational, and often quite nerve wracking documentary about NASA’s Houston-based Mission Control goes into a great deal […]

In many ways, it doesn’t seem fair to confront a man deep in his 60s about a something he did when he was just 19 years old. But not everyone […]

Celebrated French director François Ozon (The New Girlfriend, Swimming Pool, Under the Sand) turns his attention briefly away from France, toward a small town in post-World War I Germany, focusing […]