Review: Rousing Chicago Reunion for Irish Trad Legend Altan

Chicago played a crucial role in the survival of traditional Irish music. Our city in the 19th and early 20th centuries became home to a huge influx of Irish immigrants […]

Bob Benenson /
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Dialogs: How Chicagoans and Russians Write—CHF’s Chat with Author George Saunders

Oak Forest native to the “political left of Gandhi,” essayist and award-winning author George Saunders returned to Chicagoland to talk about writing with Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me host Peter Sagal. “The Art of the Short […]

Karin McKie /

Return of the Living Featured Creatures: Chicago Horror Creators Share Favorite Fictional Terrors

It’s Halloween, and everyone’s entitled to one good scare. Lucky you. Third Coast Review has once again asked several Chicago area horror writers and artists for their recommendations on the […]

Dan Kelly /

Review: Chicago Shakes’ Measure for Measure, a Dark Comedy, Becomes an Adventure in Havana

Director Henry Godinez sets up his Havana-set Measure for Measure with a colorful nightclub scene, including singers and chorus girls, and closes it with a nod to the Cuban revolution […]

Nancy S Bishop /

Review: Stage Left’s Man of the People Needs a Dose of Vigor and Chemistry

I was looking forward to Man of the People by Stage Left Theatre. Patent medicine and unbelievable ads in the back of my comic books were a particular fascination of […]

Kathy D. Hey /

Review: Gift Theatre’s The Locusts Is a Haunting and Surreal Thriller Reflecting a Dark Reality

It is ironic how the stripping of women’s rights, banned books, and other atrocities live larger than life in Florida. The Sunshine State was the shiny tarpon leaping out of […]

Kathy D. Hey /

Review: Comprehensive and Insightful, Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues Only Has One Flaw: It’s Too Short

From director Sacha Jenkins (Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James) comes this honest and sweeping look at jazz trumpet icon Louis Armstrong, a founding father of jazz and […]

Steve Prokopy /

Review: Animated Wendell & Wild Arrives Just In Time for a Perfect Halloween Watch

It’s difficult to wrap my brain around the fact that one of the most talented and twisted minds in stop-motion animation, Henry Selick, hasn’t made a new feature film since […]

Steve Prokopy /

Review: All Quiet on the Western Front Gets an Intense Adaptation as a Gripping Cautionary Tale

“I’m a pair of boots with a rifle.” In many ways, this statement by one German soldier to another is the key to Erich Maria Remarque’s world-famous account of the […]

Steve Prokopy /

Review: Turnstile, JPEGMafia, and Snail Mail Turn Aragon into One Big Mosh

Every once in a while there is a show lineup that looks strange on paper but you know it will hit the spot. This was certainly the case when hardcore […]

Julian Ramirez /

Review: The Last Hero of Nostalgaia Is a Soulslike that Tries Something New: Humor

The soulslike genre is often very bleak, and stuffy.  Most soulslike games deal with a post-apocalyptic society, and there really isn’t’ much humor to be found there—despite The Last Hero […]

Antal Bokor /

Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 10/27 and Beyond

It’s Halloween Weekend! Time to enjoy the scariest and funnest weekend of the year with some great events! There’s a quick little rundown of bars and restaurants doing special Halloween […]

Julian Ramirez /