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Review: A Lovely and Touching Poem-Book, Northwoods Lullaby, by Mary Casanova and Jordan Sundberg

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Review: In Michael Jackson Biopic, Michael Gets a Highlight Reel, Audiences Get the Greatest Hits, But No One Gets the Full Truth

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Dispatch: Sundance Film Festival Continues with an Astonishing True-Crime Documentary, a Surprisingly Tense Story of Grieving Twins and More

André Is an Idiot Marking the feature directing debut from Tony Benna, André Is an Idiot tells the creative, funny and sometimes wildly inappropriate true story of André Ricciardi, whom […]

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  • January 26, 2025
    • Architecture , Art & Museums , Chicago history , Chicago history , Design , Lit , Museum , Nonfiction , Painting & sculpture , Sculpture

    Review: An Elegant Tour of Great Buildings, The Story of Architecture, by Witold Rybczynski

    The 1902 plan to revamp and expand the National Mall in Washington, DC, was the product of a commission of prominent Americans. Three of them worked closely together to produce […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • January 24, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest , Review

    Dispatch: 2025 Sundance Film Festival Opens in Park City, Kicks off a New Year in Independent Film

    The Third Coast Review film team is on the ground at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and will be bringing you periodic dispatches with reviews on the latest […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • January 24, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Fat Ham at Goodman Theatre Transports the Gloomy Dane to a Lively Southern Backyard Barbecue 

    Fat Ham, the prize-winning play by James Ijames, is now on stage at Goodman Theatre in a co-production with Definition Theatre. Ijames’ script was inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet and incorporates some of the original’s […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • January 24, 2025
    • Music

    Preview: Ready to Get Bowled Over by Bur?

    I’ve only seen Bur play once, for about 25 minutes, during an early night set at Montrose Saloon last spring and I still think about that show on a regular […]

  • Jim Kopeny / Tankboy
  • January 24, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Father and Daughter Reconnect and Go From Strangers to Spies on a Mission in Inheritance

    After nine months of taking care of her ailing/dying mother, Maya (Phoebe Dynevor, Fair Play, Bridgerton) has something of an emotional bender at the opening of director/co-writer Neil Burger’s Inheritance. […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 24, 2025
    • Fiction , Interviews , Lit

    Interview: “Body Horror at Every Turn”: Peter O’Keefe and Counted with the Dead

    Born in Detroit, writer Peter O’Keefe now lives in one of Chicago’s neighbors to the north, Racine. Through the years he’s written for everything from “word processing temp jobs” to […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • January 23, 2025
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    Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 1/23 and Beyond

    Three days of subzero weather and we’re hopefully past the coldest days of Chicago winter! So that means still cold, but more manageable outing into the city! This weekend features […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • January 23, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Porchlight’s Fun Home Sets a Complicated Family Story to Music

    Alison Bechdel released an autobiographical book in 2006 titled Fun Home, based on her life growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania. It was a graphic novel that told the story […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • January 22, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: City Lit’s Glassheart Reimagines Beauty and the Beast Set in a Chicago Apartment

    Glassheart is a show bursting with quirky charm, memorable performances and perhaps one too many ideas. This reimagining of Beauty and the Beast set in modern-day Chicago—helmed by newly minted […]

  • Devony Hof
  • January 21, 2025
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    Review: Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Features Stellar Cast and Potent Writing

    We are in a hair salon in Harlem, New York. Miriam (Bisserat Tseggai) is braiding Jennifer’s (Mia Ellis) hair. Hours have passed and there are still many more to go. […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • January 21, 2025
    • Food , Markets

    Interview: Moody Teas Tea for All Is a Brand We Can Get Behind

    Tea for all and all for tea, Moody Teas deep commitment to accessibility makes their brand—and exceptional product—something we can all root for year round. You may have seen their […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • January 21, 2025
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