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Preview: Riot Fest Celebrates 20 Years with a Monstrous Lineup

If there ever was something to celebrate, it’s 20 years of unrelenting rock and punk music in Chicago! Riot Fest just released their 2025 lineup and it’s looking like perfect […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • April 23, 2025
    • Festivals , Music , Previews

    Preview: Evanston Folk Festival Returns for Their Second Outing at Dawes Park

    While we sit in the spring showers waiting for sunnier days, let’s look ahead to more festive times as the best summer events are starting to announce their lineups. One […]

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

    Review: Northlight and Theater Wit Join Hands for a Powerful Prayer for the French Republic

    “For not only one enemy has risen up against us to destroy us, but in every generation they rise up to destroy us….” That stark bit of liturgy—the V’hi She’amdah—is […]

  • Doug Mose
  • April 20, 2025
    • Classical , Music , Reviews

    Review: Jaap van Zweden and the CSO Give an Engrossing Performance of Mahler’s 7th Symphony

    Under the direction of Jaap van Zweden, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra gave an engrossing performance of a symphony that is challenging to all involved: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. In […]

  • Louis Harris
  • April 19, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Remake of a 1993 RomCom, The Wedding Banquet Modernizes the Story but Maintains Its Warmth and Heart

    You’d be forgiven if, like me (and based on the film’s marketing materials), you anticipated something of a more raucous, raunchy modern romcom from filmmaker Andrew Ahn (Driveways). Perhaps something […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • April 18, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Filmmaker Ryan Coogler and Actor Michael B. Jordan Pair Off for Fifth Time in Sinners, a Vampire Thriller Like No Other

    Across their five films together, filmmaker Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station, both Black Panther movies, and Creed) and actor Michael B. Jordan have elevated each other’s work in ways that are […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 18, 2025
    • Art & Museums , Installation , Mixed media , Museum , Review , Sculpture

    Review: Art Institute’s New Korea Gallery Examines the Country’s Long Historical Timeline of Art and Artists

    Review by Mitchell Oldham.  In a long pocket of space between the Art Institute’s Japanese and Chinese galleries, a brand-new exquisite new addition opened last fall. Supported by the National […]

  • Guest Author
  • April 17, 2025
    • Music , Reviews

    Review: Cursive and Bright Eyes Continue to Impress at Salt Shed

    It’s always a treat to see bands that ushered me into a completely new world of music at a young age. Both Cursive and Bright Eyes released some of their […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • April 17, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Filmmakers Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza on Using Memory, Sound and the Bond of Brotherhood to Make Warfare

    In 2006 Ramadi, Iraq, Navy SEAL team Alpha One took control of a multi-story residence, from which communications officer Ray Mendoza (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai) used air support to monitor their position […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 15, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Victory Gardens Stages Henry Johnson, a New David Mamet Drama About a Simple Man Who Fails…at Everything

    This is a review of a new play by David Mamet…. Although any mention of David Mamet today can turn into something else entirely. For instance, how many playwrights attract […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • April 15, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: At Writers Theatre, Brian Friel’s Translations Is Full of Heart

    Full Cast of TRANSLATIONS at Writers Theatre. Photo Credit: Michael Brosilow

    Yolland (Erik Hellman) and Maire (Tyler Meredith) have left the dance and come running into the clearing. As they try to catch their breath, they realize they are still holding […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • April 14, 2025
    • Folk and Bluegrass , Music , Pop/Rock , Reviews

    Review: Johnnyswim Leaves It All at the Vic

    The best thing about working with your significant other is being around your favorite person all the time. The worst thing about working with your significant other is…see above. But […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • April 14, 2025
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