The Design Museum of Chicago is a vibrant, compact space just off the Mag Mile and is currently running the vibrant, compact exhibit Letters Beyond Form: Chicago Types through April 4. The […]
I’ve been to a fair number of sold-out shows at the Metro but never one so well attended as Horsegirl’s hometown album release show for their new album Phonetics On […]
Dear Cinnamon is a monthly column based on the idea that all of life’s questions can be answered by art, because, after all, art is the spice of life. To […]
“I grew up in a nest feathered with words, texts, and books,” Naomi Cohn writes in the first essay of her lyrical debut memoir, The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on […]
Based on the 2019 documentary of the same name, Last Breath (directed by Alex Parkinson, who co-directed the doc with Richard da Costa) tells the remarkable story of a trio […]
Valentine’s Day this year was a little more special as Phantogram made their way to Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom to warm up the city. With a big smattering of flurries […]
Acclaimed ’90s rockers Jerry Cantrell and Richard Patrick have every reason to rest on their laurels. On Sunday night at the Vic Theatre, they chose not to. Cantrell, best known […]
We’re in that miraculous false spring season so let’s take advantage of the warmer temps and brighter days! There’s so much coming up this weekend including all the fun concerts, […]
It uses a strange but fairly effective film device to tell the story of a young Army veteran’s struggle with PTSD; My Dead Friend Zoe could be looked at as […]
Filmmaker Dito Montiel has always worked on the outskirts of Hollywood yet has still found a way to pull together impressive casts for his humanistic stories, often about those living […]
“A force for good in the universe.” This was filmmaker Rian Johnson’s decree on Filmspotting, Chicago’s premier movie talk show of the century. Born as Cinecast in 2005, just months […]
The last time I saw Titus Andronicus, it was promenade-style, staged in the attic of an old Gilded Age mansion in Morgan Park. The audience walked through the play as […]
