Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 3/2 – 3/5
March. I honestly can’t believe how fast the year is going by! Maybe it’s the weird weather that’s throwing me off balance. One week it’s near record breaking warmth and […]
Kings, Queens, Pinball Machines: The Art of Play at Elmhurst Art Museum
[soliloquy id=”10195″] It’s not exactly an austere art gallery environment. The walls are painted vivid colors, in keeping with the palette and imagery of the fanciful art displayed. The […]
The 3CR Staff Guide to a Better March
ART Standing Up for Landmarks: Protests, Posters & Photographs March 1- Sept 4 @ City Gallery, 806 N. Michigan Avenue A remounted and revised exhibition exploring the public activism, outreach […]
Sinkane Showed Lincoln Hall How to Live Life
[soliloquy id=”10056″] Sinkane, the main musical outlet of Ahmed Gallab, is a band of the world. His music evokes sounds from every corner of the earth, blending them together with […]
Ralph Coburn’s Random Sequence Is Colorfully Exciting Experience at Arts Club of Chicago
Random Sequence is a great choice of title for an exciting and vibrant show of mid-career abstraction by Ralph Coburn (b. 1923) at the Arts Club of Chicago. Organized around […]
Bookclub Pick: 47th Street Black, a Look into Chicago’s Painful Past
Mookie and J.C., two black boys from the South Side of Chicago, find the body of a notorious gangster in an alley. It’s the 1960s, and while heroin hasn’t yet […]
62 Feature Films to Be Screened at 20th Annual European Union Film Festival
The 20th Annual Chicago European Union Film Festival opens Friday at the Gene Siskel Film Center and runs through March 30. The festival, with 62 new feature films representing all […]
A Wonder in My Soul Is Provocative Feminist Black Theatre
“A black woman is both queen and warrior…” says Bell Grand Lake to her daughter. In heartbreaking lines of spoken word she explains the reason behind the uneven treatment she’s […]
Pitchfork Music Festival Headliners Have Been Announced!
Last week, Pitchfork teased announcement for their annual Pitchfork Music Festival, which has been taking over Union Park since 2006 with some of the most unique and interesting lineups of […]
Celebrate Gender Diversity in Cinema at the Chicago Feminist Film Festival
Last night at the Academy Awards, something odd happened. Brie Larson, who won an Oscar last year for Best Actress for her portrayal of a survivor of sexual assault in […]
The Columnist Revisits the Vietnam Era, When Journalists Were Not “The Enemy of the People”
It may be hard for today’s online news consumers to believe, but there was a day when newspaper columnists—certain newspaper columnists—were Masters of the Universe. The Political Universe anyway. The […]
Porchlight’s The Scottsboro Boys Shines Light on Judicial Injustice
Porchlight Music Theatre’s production of The Scottsboro Boys satirically presents a true story in the controversial style of the minstrel show. There is no doubting that the musical, which chronicles […]