Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is in its 47th year of cutting-edge performances and innovations in modern dance. The Winter Series at the Harris Theater Millennium Park opens with a dance that melds […]
If you only watch the Marvel movies and don’t mess with the adjacent Disney+ series, then the last time you saw Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) was when he was being […]
He’s cute, curious and loves marmalade, and that’s all we really need to know about the bear Paddington in order to make his adventures in London so damn entertaining for […]
Last year, Lauren Mayberry stepped out from Chvrches to release her debut solo album Vicious Creatures. While in the past solo albums have gotten a bad rap, something Mayberry seemed […]
The script of Sam Shepard’s romantic drama Fool For Love begins with the stage direction, “This play is be performed relentlessly, without a break.” The superb actors at Steppenwolf Theatre […]
Review by Mitchell Oldham. Coupling innovation and exploration in the sciences with those of the arts represents an enlightened approach to advancing childhood and adolescent development. And for more than […]
There’s no getting around the truth that Italian writer/director Paolo Sorrentino (an Oscar-winner for 2014’s The Great Beauty; The Hand of God) is in love with beauty. Often, he focuses […]
I have always viewed dance as an art of structure and discipline. Traditional ballet has an ethereal quality—tulle and tights with hands just so. Complexions Contemporary Ballet performed at the […]
There’s simply no way that Oscar-winning director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (Summer of Soul) would mess up a documentary about rock/funk/soul icon Sly Stone (real name Sylvester Stewart). But SLY LIVES! […]
Th news is…a lot right now. Sometimes the easiest, healthiest decision is to just look away. To look inward, to make our circle smaller and focus on what’s right in […]
It’s almost not fair how filmmaker Josh Ruben (Scare Me, Werewolves Within) is both a knowledgeable cinephile, a gifted filmmaker, and very funny performer, but here we are. His latest […]
Having re-emerged following the disbanding of underrated outfit Disappears, local trio FACS have been an integral part of Chicago’s punk scene for some time now. Now half a dozen albums […]