Film, Film & TV, Interview

Interview: Bill Pullman and Jared Moshe on Western The Ballad of Lefty Brown

Bill Pullman Ballad of Lefty Brown

There have been almost as many Western sidekick characters as there are Western films, with the late, great Walter Brennan being chief among them. But with the new film The Ballad […]

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Features, Interviews, Music

Video Premiere + Interview: Sarah Q of Desert Liminal

As half of the dream-pop duo Desert Liminal and a few other music and non-music related projects, one wonders how Sarah Q has the time to write songs, record, and […]

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Film, Film & TV, Interview

Interview: Octavia Spencer and John Hawkes Talk Westerns and Making Small Town Crime

One of the most intriguing and captivating films to premiere at the SXSW Film Festival last year was a little crime drama called Small Town Crime, from the writing-directing brothers […]

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Film, Film & TV, Interview

Interview: Prolific Actor Michael Stuhlbarg Talks Chicago, Sam Shepard and Call Me By Your Name

Michael Stuhlbarg is the classic definition of a successful working actor, but almost more than that, he’s pure chameleon. You’ve likely seen him in quite a few movies by an […]

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Film, Film & TV, Interview

Interview: Sexual Assault Real Talk in Female-Centric The Light of the Moon

One of the standout films at this year’s SXSW Film Festival was from first-time writer-director Jessica M. Thompson, an Australian-born filmmaker who has spent most of her career as a […]

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Film, Film & TV, Interview

Interview: Gary Oldman Transforms into Churchill for Darkest Hour

Gary Oldman has been a fearsome force of acting for roughly 35 years, making his earliest mark in film with 1986’s Sid and Nancy, followed the next year by his […]

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Lit, Uncategorized

Interview: C. Spike Trotman of Iron Circus Comics

In 2009, Chicago webcomic cartoonist C. Spike Trotman, under her own publishing company, Iron Circus Comics,  created the Kickstarter page for her first crowdfunded comic, “Poorcraft.” Since then, Iron Circus has […]

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Art & Museums

Review and Interview of White Feelings at The Franklin

Guest writer Hiba Ali is a writer and digital media artist who holds two undergraduate degrees from the School of the Art Institute Chicago with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in […]

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Art & Museums, Installation, Photography, Sculpture

Interview with the Artists: Lauren Edwards and Eric Watts

In their recent exhibition Fanfare for the Times at Heaven Gallery, the Chicago-based artists Lauren Edwards and Eric Watts combined photography, projection, sculpture, and installation into a mysterious collection of […]

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Art & Museums, Sculpture

Interview with the Curator: William Cordova

Living between several major cities, William Cordova is an artist and curator who works with themes of transition, displacement, language, and culture. His drawings, installations, and sculptures, include ephemera that […]

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Interviews, Lit

An Interview with Jessa Crispin, the Bookslut

Jessa Crispin, world traveler and occasional Chicago resident recently shuttered her website Bookslut, a review and interview publication that’s been running hot since 2002 (full disclosure: I wrote for Bookslut […]

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Stages, Theater, Theater Festival

Stage 773’s Artist’s Lab Offers Emerging Artists More than Just a Credit

Now in its third year (and shedding its previously cumbersome, albeit whimsical title, “Scribble Bibble”), Stage 773’s Artist’s Lab offers emerging artists the opportunity to grow, connect, and collaborate in […]

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