PREVIEW: See stand up all weekend at The Comedy Exposition
Guest Author Patrick McManus is a stand-up comic living and working in Chicago. Patrick is a real cool guy who won the 100 Proof Comedy’s Chicago’s Top College Comedian Competition […]
New Dances 2016 Showcases Talent of Chicago Choreographers
Thodos Dance Chicago’s New Dances 2016 program, which ran Saturday and Sunday at the Anthenaeum Theater, delivered a mixed bag of performances as eight company members and one guest artist […]
Goodman’s War Paint Offers Glamour and Spectacle, Little Substance
My ratings for War Paint: — Scene design and costumes? Four stars. — Performances of its leading actors? Three stars plus. — Sophistication and nuances of its story, smart dialogue, […]
Star Trek Beyond, Lights Out, Café Society, Equals
STAR TREK BEYOND Before I dive into talking about Star Trek Beyond, can I just say how much it warms my heart to see Greg Grunberg have such a great […]
Tony Fitzpatrick and the Secret Birds
“At some point, we realize the horrible power we have over other living things. I think we reach a certain state of grace when we tire of extinguishing life, no […]
Viva la French Cinema! during July in Chicago
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 […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 7/21 – 7/24
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. […]
Pitchfork: Sunday in Review
[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 […]
Preview: Wicker Park Fest
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 […]
Book Review: Jack Pendarvis’ Movie Stars
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 […]
CST Channels the Befuddled Busey as the Melancholy Dane in David Carl’s Celebrity One-Man Hamlet
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 […]
Pitchfork: Saturday in Review
[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 […]