A Few of the Best Things to See at North Coast This Year
We are one week away from Summer’s Last Stand, the North Coast Music Festival! Since 2010, the festival has called Union Park home and brought a wide array of musical […]
Free to Explore: Museums offer CPS Students Free Admission Week of August 29
Summer’s winding down in Chicago, and before long, school will be starting. And while that may not thrill everyone in your household, Chicago’s Museum Campus institutions are offering a fun […]
Theater, Critics and Perfomers: A Kill Your Darlings/3CR Night of Live Lit and Improv
Last night was the fourth night of seven Kill Your Darlings events this season. We celebrated by recounting theater stories, lamenting the current critical environment and telling personal stories about […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 8/25 – 8/28
The release schedule times, they are a changin’. While typical release schedules with months of promotion are likely not going away completely any time soon, a rash of surprise releases […]
Southport Corridor: An Empanada Mecca
I have a habit of showing up late to see movies at the Music Box with a bag of greasy empanadas hidden in my purse. I quickly duck into the […]
New On Blu-ray: The Spiders by Fritz Lang
The Spiders (1919 – 1920), directed by Fritz Lang, was once believed to be a “lost film.” It is in many ways the precursor for the action / adventure genre […]
Kubo and the Two Strings, War Dogs, Disorder, Down by Love
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS The fourth dazzling feature from the gifted and resourceful animators at Laika (following the largely stop-motion works Coraline, ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls) is about a […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 8/18 – 8/21
Well, what do we have here? Another curated list of amazing weekend events to help you enjoy this wonderful city? This weekend is pretty jam packed with some interesting events, […]
It’s Wizard World Weekend, Chicago! Here’s Your How-To on the Con
The X-Files. Star Wars. Star Trek. Daredevil. The Walking Dead. Back to the Future. Game of Thrones. Ash vs. The Evil Dead. Clerks. Gilmore Girls. Gotham. Chances are, unless you’ve […]
Food For Thought–A Kill Your Darlings 3CR Night of Improv & Live Lit
Last Wednesday night was the second Kill Your Darling evening, a time for laughs, improv, free pizza (thanks to the theme of food night and Giordano’s) and a big helping […]
Dreams Do Come True: LitCrawl Chicago Takes Andersonville This Thursday
What would happen if you crossed a literary festival with a pub crawl? No need to imagine, Lit Crawl Chicago is a real event happening this Thursday in Andersonville. Brought […]
Mary-Arrchie Theatre Ends Its Run with Abbie Fest XVIII
Mary-Arrchie’s theater space at Angel Island is gone, but the theater closes out its history with a final event in the spirit of “Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins.” The […]