Before a full house at the Fine Arts Building’s Studebaker Theater, singer-songwriter Neko Case appeared on stage in conversation with Lior Phillips, a Chicago-based South African music journalist. Case received […]
Th news is…a lot right now. Sometimes the easiest, healthiest decision is to just look away. To look inward, to make our circle smaller and focus on what’s right in […]
It’s almost not fair how filmmaker Josh Ruben (Scare Me, Werewolves Within) is both a knowledgeable cinephile, a gifted filmmaker, and very funny performer, but here we are. His latest […]
I’m genuinely excited that actor Ke Huy Quan is having a resurgence right now. His Oscar-winning turn in Everything Everywhere All at Once, as well as his supporting work in […]
Having re-emerged following the disbanding of underrated outfit Disappears, local trio FACS have been an integral part of Chicago’s punk scene for some time now. Now half a dozen albums […]
Tim Heidecker has too many talents to list from his storied career, so many that I’ll only briefly touch upon a few of them. I’m sure many of my peers […]
It’s the first full February Curated Weekend and it’s a doozy! So while we endure the remaining weeks of winter, let’s plan our weekend with some fun concerts, plays, literary […]
First impressions matter, and Sierra Spirit wanted to make a good one for her Chicago debut Sunday night. After commanding the Chicago Theatre crowd’s attention with the hypnotically assertive opener […]
James Baldwin is the greatest American writer. Period. Even more so during Black History Month 2025. Among Baldwin’s many, many gifts was prescience. As a gay Black midcentury man, he […]
Welcome (back) to Book Smarts, a semi-regular series profiling Chicago’s bookstores and their owners. We began the series way back in 2020…then the pandemic happened. As bookstores closed, the series […]
Chicago Restaurant Week wraps up this weekend on February 9. If you haven’t taken advantage of the special menus at a record breaking 500 restaurants yet, now is your chance […]
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 […]
