Chicago Critics Film Festival Opens Friday With 26 Features, 2 Shorts Programs
I’ve been very fortunate in the 18 years I’ve been a film critic to be a part of some truly great events. But never in my time as a critic […]
Music Institute of Chicago Academy Displays Student Talent, Training in Concert
The students from the Music Institute of Chicago’s Academy showed off their talent on Saturday night in a performance celebrating the academy’s 10 years of training in musical excellence. The […]
Northlight Offers Up Intellectual Delights with The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord
There’s just a rectangular metal table, two chairs—and intelligent discussion. An electronic screen high up on the back wall blinks us through the 13 scenes. One door. No color, no […]
Writers Theatre and Second City Skewer American Classics in Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf: A Parody.
This is the funniest play ever written. For anyone in any aspect of theater, for anyone who has a season subscription anywhere, for all American high school drama students. This is […]
Chance The Rapper Mixtape Review: A Jackson Pollock-Style Coloring Book
Carefree and optimistic despite the odds is 23-year-old Chance the Rapper. That’s been his message since his first appearances around Chicago only a few years ago, and he continues to […]
Stuart Dybek Reads Poetry Amongst the Art
If Rahm Emanuel solved all his critical problems and had time to think about something really important, he might decide Chicago needs a poet laureate. If so, there would […]
Money Monster, A Bigger Splash, High-Rise, Last Days in the Desert, Viktoria, Here Come the Videofreex
MONEY MONSTER There’s a brief set of shots near the end of director Jodie Foster’s Money Monster that are chilling. They almost seem like an afterthought, and one might assume […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 5/12-15
What a time to be alive in the city of Chicago. The following are the two best teams in Major League Baseball: Chicago Cubs (25-7) Chicago White Sox (23-12) You […]
Preview: Chicago Music Academy to Celebrate 10 Years of Musical Excellence
The Music Institute of Chicago’s Academy celebrates its 10th anniversary with a performance of its student orchestra featuring alumni Rachel Barton Pine and Matthew Lipman. The concert will take place […]
Preview: Patti Smith & Family at Old Town School of Folk May 14-15
Oh gosh, I feel like I’ve been anticipating this weekend and the chance to hear Patti Smith perform her poetry and music for my whole life. Well, I only found […]
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window: Nostalgia for Greenwich Village in the ‘60s
[soliloquy id=”4377″] Photos by Liz Lauren. Goodman Theatre opened its Lorraine Hansberry Celebration Monday night with a new production of Hansberry’s last play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window. The play, […]
This Ain’t No Disco. This Ain’t No Country Club Either. This Is a New Series on Chicago Cookbooks.
Hello. My name is Lauren Elyse, and I cook for fun. And now I write about Chicagoans who write books about cooking for fun. Confused? Follow me. Let me take […]