Chicago’s Physical Theater Festival returns for the ninth year with in-person, indoor and outdoor performances, plus four workshops by festival artists, July 16-24, following the 2020 virtual festival. The week features performances by […]
Riot Fest will turn 15 this year, just a few months after my solar clock hit 40. Chicago’s premiere punk festival has come a long way since its beginnings as […]
As far as summer music festivals in Chicago go, Lollapalooza is easily the most identifiable. Running yearly since 2005 and expanding to four full days of music in 2016, the […]
After a slightly rainy Friday made use of all the Lyft ponchos that were being handed out at one corner of Pitchfork Music Festival, Saturday felt a lot nicer. The […]
If you live in Chicago long enough the annual Pitchfork Music Festival feels like one big backyard barbecue. Fortunately, unlike my last one, we didn’t see much rain and the […]
Mamby on the Beach is where you go when you live in Chicago and are looking for a fun festival in the middle of June. Three-fourths of the month was […]
We got a nice taste of summer this weekend and it looks like it won’t being going away! The nice warm weather is a fantastic reminder that Mamby on the […]
[soliloquy id=”16498″] There’s a festival for everything in Chicago, and August boasts some of summer’s biggest. This past weekend alone you could have attended Chicago Hot Dog Fest, the […]
[soliloquy id=”16433″] Friday marked the beginning of the Chicago Hot Dog Fest. And though some clouds threatened when the festival first kicked off at Stockton and LaSalle near the Chicago […]
Summer signals street fair celebrations. This weekend, Do Division will span ten city blocks, and it will bring together local vendors and restaurants in between the stages. Speaking of the stages, Empty Bottle […]
What would happen if you crossed a literary festival with a pub crawl? No need to imagine, Lit Crawl Chicago is a real event happening this Thursday in Andersonville. Brought […]
Guest Author Patrick McManus is a stand-up comic living and working in Chicago. Patrick is a real cool guy who won the 100 Proof Comedy’s Chicago’s Top College Comedian Competition […]