What little I knew about New York’s Fire Island (which runs parallel to the south shore of Long Island) before seeing director Andrew (Driveways, Spa Night) Ahn’s new film of […]
We learned this week that House Theatre of Chicago, a 21-year-old company, will cease to exist this summer. House will formally wind down its operations now that its North American […]
Chicago Philharmonic focused most of its 2021-22 season on great composers—such as Mozart, Copland, Brahms, Dvorak and Respighi—featured by most classical ensembles. But more than most orchestras, Chicago Philharmonic […]
The crowd at Makaya McCraven’s Friday night show at Lincoln Hall was as varied as the hometown artist’s take on jazz. The first of a two-night stint at the venue […]
There are two ways to tell history: the Big Men, Big Events timeline that Henry Ford once called “just one damn thing after another” and a more involving, intimate option […]
Less a feature film and more of an expanded episode of the television series (not a criticism, just an observation), The Bob’s Burgers Movie doesn’t grow to fit the big […]
That drumbeat hits and then you hear a voice like no other—“I know you wanna leave me but I refuse to let you go!” The Temptations were like no other […]
I recently had a wise person tell me that nostalgia is for those who are afraid to face the present, and I tend to agree with that. By that token, […]
I’ve been playing Sniper Elite games since I stumbled across the first game on Steam during a sale or possibly in a Humble Bundle. Either way, I was hooked on […]
The Chicago Humanities Festival sponsored a bus tour of Chicago’s South Side, the “Black Belt,” for the spring Public-themed series. Hosted by “TikTok historian” Shermann “Dilla” Thomas, the two-hour tour began […]
Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird is not the same story you read in high school or reread last year. It’s not the award-winning film you saw many years ago. In adapting Mockingbird for the […]
What kind of concert starts with an 11-minute introductory piece that ends up getting two ovations? A Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert that opens with Brio by Chicago-based composer Augusta Read […]