Perhaps more than any other ’90s rock icon, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has remained unapologetically artistically adventurous three decades into his career—while the most recent Pearl Jam and Foo […]
Sometimes the biggest things go unnoticed. The Uptown Theatre, for example. For a full century it’s stood at 4816 North Broadway, always there but overlooked by passersby since it closed […]
It’s a Swiss town full of writers, where everyone is obsessed with getting published and winning a new literary prize. A Publisher arrives, eager to find new works to be […]
Let’s start here: Wicked For Good is a film that should not exist. Not just because it’s not a very good film, but more broadly speaking, it just shouldn’t be […]
Despite her fame as a rock and roll singer, Patti Smith is a poet at heart. Poetry has always been her passion. Even her prose sounds like poetry. At the […]
Tom Morello is no stranger to Chicago and the injustices going on in our fair town. Having been raised in Libertyville and having a keen revolutionary lean, Morello felt like […]
Coming through Chicago at about the halfway mark of her ambitiously extensive headline tour, the ever-charming singer songwriter King Princess made her Salt Shed debut last week. Bringing along the […]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Whenever I speak or hear the name, his glorious and stirring Requiem is the first thing that springs to mind. Sir Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus is now playing […]
Some people are born with an inner light that fills every room they enter. By all accounts, Chicago-born Mia Zapata, singer/songwriter for the Gits, had talent, presence, and charisma to […]
Herman Melville’s novella Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) is both mythic and intimate. So, too, are the woodcuts Barry Moser created for the centennial edition from the University of […]
He wore a black patch over his right eye while the other eye, the good eye, looked out towards the standing room only audience. Salman Rushdie wasted no time in […]
As someone who’s been meaning to visit Writers Theatre but was struggling to get out of the city and up to Glencoe, I can say that my trip was more […]