The Grant Park Music Festival’s legendary luck held out as Wednesday’s stormy weather let up just in time for an excellent concert at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. […]
With classic hits like “Hey Jealousy” and “Follow You Down” to their name, the Gin Blossoms remain one of the most enduring acts of the 1990s. Tonight, they’ll perform those […]
Full transparency: before seeing this film, I knew nothing of the hit 2015 song, the accompanying music video, or the 2023 book Girls Like Girls, all of which were the […]
Anyone going into The Death of Robin Hood expecting a traditional telling of the Robin Hood legend is in for the rudest of awakenings. If anything, the latest from writer/director […]
Kenji Tanigaki is a Japanese-born stuntman, stunt coordinator, fight coordinator, and director whose latest work, The Furious, might be the greatest action movie in the last 20 years. After training […]
Following the release of his newest album, American Stories; singer-songwriter and producerRostam Batmanglij makes a momentous return to the stage after a five-year hiatus from releasing a fresh body of […]
We all know that classic moment in a romantic comedy when a partner meets the parents for the first time. There are often nerves all around. What if the parents […]
The Spinning Birds is a Chicago indie rock band, with a front-woman singer and songwriter. Susannah Felts’ new novel, The Come Apart, starts with the story of the band’s sophomore […]
It’s been a rainy month but that hasn’t stopped the events from pouring in week after week. This weekend includes some incredible music festivals like the Winnetka Music Festival, plenty […]
Dutch-American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) and his evolution as an important Abstract Impressionist and producer of a dynamic, seven-decade-long body of work is chronicled in the riveting new Art […]
While we’ve all be riding the high of the Riot Fest lineup announcement, the daily breakdown has kinda jumped out of nowhere! Daily lineups are incredibly pertinent for those looking […]
War movies that come out “too soon” are at the mercy of an understandably tender and sore audience. In turn, the genre’s greats are often poorly received during their initial […]