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Review: The Raw World of 13-Year-Olds Comes Alive in Steppenwolf’s Dance Nation

There is dancing in Dance Nation, now at Steppenwolf Theatre. It’s sometimes clumsy, sometimes graceful, and generally amateurish. Clare Barron’s play is about a crew of 13-year-old girls (and a […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • December 24, 2019
    • Architecture , Beyond , Chicago history , Design , Lit , Reviews

    Review: Deep South Side, Lee Bey’s Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side

    Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side By Lee BeyNorthwestern University Press, 192 pages, $30 Reviewed by Patrick T. Reardon When Lee Bey writes about Pride Cleaners, he […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • December 23, 2019
    • Game , Games & Tech , Tabletop

    Review: Discover Strange New Worlds with the Second Mission Compendium for Star Trek Adventures Role-Playing Game

      I love Star Trek Adventures. It’s a tabletop pen and paper role-playing game that takes place in the Star Trek universe of films and TV shows. In it, you […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • December 19, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: As It Ends an Era, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Gets Too Nostalgic for Its Own Good

    Star Wars Rise of Skywalker

    I think I went into this most recent (and supposedly final) Star Wars with the right attitude: I didn’t pin my hopes and dreams on the filmmakers bringing us back […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 18, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: See A Q Brothers Christmas Carol to Avoid Holiday Treacle

    I have a confession, I try to avoid theater this time of year because I don’t like the treacly sentimentality and predictability of most holiday plays. (It’s a good season […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • December 9, 2019
    • Lit , Reviews

    Book Review—Binga: The Rise and Fall of Chicago’s First Black Banker

    Binga: The Rise and Fall of Chicago’s First Black Banker By Don Hayner Northwestern University Press, 312 pages, $24.95 Reviewed by Patrick T. Reardon A hallmark of the black nationalism […]

  • Guest Author
  • December 2, 2019
    • Art & Museums , Beyond , Museum , Museums

    So Lit: The Museum of Science and Industry’s Christmas Around the World and Holidays of Light Shines, Educates

    The turkey’s been made and eaten (mostly) and Black Friday’s come and gone. Welcome to Cyber Monday, and, much more importantly, the official start of the holiday season. Now, no […]

  • Marielle Bokor
  • December 2, 2019
    • Feature , Game , Games & Tech , Round-Up , Tabletop , Technology

    Games and Tech Holiday Gift Guide 2019

      2019 was a big year for video games. It saw the release of Death Stranding, Red Dead Remption 2 got a PC port, and sleepers like Outer Wilds and […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • November 28, 2019
    • Music , Reviews

    Review: The Late Night Synths of Neon Indian

    Metro was in for a very special set Saturday night from Denton, Texas, synth-pop band, Neon Indian. It had been quite a while since any new material was released by […]

  • Andrew Lagunas
  • November 27, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Smart, Fun and Expertly Crafted, Knives Out Invites Repeat Viewing

    Knives Out

    With all of his films, writer/director Rian Johnson does something rather remarkable: he takes a genre he loves and studies it until he understands all of its working parts. He […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 27, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Ladysmith Black Mambazo Propels Lovely Lyrical Lindiwe

    Chicago and Durban, South Africa, have been Sister Cities since 1997, and spiritual siblings for far longer, as explored in the joyful world premiere of Lindiwe, written by Eric Simonson, […]

  • Karin McKie
  • November 24, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Martin Scorsese Mines Familiar Mafia Ground for a New Gem in The Irishman

    The Irishman

    Part reunion, part continuation, and part something new and unexpected from arguably the greatest American filmmaker working today, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a sprawling, decades-spanning, true-life tale of organized […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 7, 2019
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