Review: A Dreamy Night with Iron & Wine and Andrew Bird
The hits just keep on coming at the Salt Shed. This past Friday the venue’s outdoor stage welcomed a sold-out crowd for a trio of wonderful performers for a cool […]
Review: Hundreds of Clocks Show the Beauty and Absurdity of Time in New Design Museum Exhibit
Wall clocks. Alarm clocks. Wristwatches. Decorative clocks and boring clocks. Glorious gaudy glass clocks. Cuckoo clocks and kooky clocks. Artist Barbara Koenen has gathered hundreds of clocks over the years, […]
Review: Bodies Bodies Bodies Gets Ruthless, Funny and Sometimes Bloody About Youth and Social Media Culture.
Quite frequently, I’ve knocked films that have supposedly smart people doing ridiculously dumb things in a movie just to keep the plot moving or just in the name of comedy […]
Review: My New Favorite Handheld Ever: Steam Deck Exceeded My Expectations and Gave Me a Reason to Play My Massive Backlog
So the Steam Deck is finally getting out to more eager customers, and with Valve announcing increased production, you can place an order and get a Steam Deck later this […]
Review: New Musical The Devil Wears Prada Needs More Tailoring Before It’s Runway Ready
Making its pre-Broadway world premiere in Chicago this month, the new musical version of Lauren Weisberger’s (and the 2006 film adaptation) The Devil Wears Prada has the feel of a […]
Review: Fleet Foxes and Uwade Delight a Packed Salt Shed
Anticipation has been growing for months for Chicago’s newest venue, The Salt Shed. Last week that eagerness was finally satiated with the start of their Outside the Shed series and […]
Review: Now Stars, Brandi Carlile and Her Band Renew Their Chicago Bonds
When Brandi Carlile and her band last played Chicago in June 2019, they were riding a breakthrough high. Carlile and twin bandmates Phil and Tim Hanseroth had spent nearly two […]
Review: Claydream Follows the Highs and Lows of a Creator’s Long, Eventful Career in Claymation
What I thought was going to strictly be a loving documentary tribute to the beloved Father of Claymation, Will Vinton (head of Will Vinton Studios), Claydream turned into something both […]
Review: All Those People, All Those Lives, Where Are They Now?, Graceland Cemetery, by Adam Selzer
Chicago is young. Compared with the large cities of Africa, Asia, and Europe—hell, compared with the Native American metropolis that occupied the Cahokia Mounds—Chicago is a mere toddler of 189 […]
Review: IDLES Stomps Through Metro
By guest author Aviv Hart Attempting to categorize British rock band IDLES into a genre is an exercise in semantics. Punk rock? Post-punk? No-wave? Noise rock? Take your pick, it […]
Review: Wildly Contorted and Reimagined: Don’t Make Me Do Something We’ll Both Regret, by Tim Jones-Yelvington
In his story collection Don’t Make Me Do Something We’ll Both Regret, Chicagoan Tim Jones-Yelvington zestfully recasts gay men and boys in the central roles of a surprisingly wide array […]
Review: At Spring Green, It’s Shakespeare—and More—in a Pastoral Setting
American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wis., opens with a summer bouquet of plays for every taste American Players Theatre, located in rural Spring Green, Wis., has attracted Illinois theatergoers […]