Review: WWII Drama Summerland Crafts an Endearing, Melancholic Portrait of Love and Art
Sometimes, having its heart in the right place is enough to make a good movie just a little bit more endearing. Case in point: the new World War II-era drama […]
Book Review: Relentless, Raw Outrage, Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore Harper, 306 pages, $26.99 Elizabeth Wetmore’s Valentine, set in 1976 rural West Texas, is a novel of relentless and brutally raw outrage. A fury-filled howl of […]
Rubbernecking Rich Living, Chicago Apartments: A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury
Chicago Apartments: A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury By Neil Harris with Teri J. Edelstein University of Chicago Press, 364 pages, $85 Reading Neil Harris’s Chicago Apartments: A Century […]
Choose Your Own Adventure Guide to Comic-Con@Home Day 5: Sunday
Well, we’re here. It might be cooler than it is out in California where one particular convention center would normally be packed to the brim with fans of all number […]
Review: Troublemakers Chronicles the Power of Social Activism in Chicago
Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art ShayBy Erik S. GellmanUniversity of Chicago Press In Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay, historian Erik S. […]
Review: The Tobacconist Can’t Decide What Kind of Film To Be, Falls Short at Both
As premises go, The Tobacconist has an interesting one: a young man moves to Vienna to apprentice in a tobacco shop, only to become friendly with one of the store’s […]
Your #StaytheFHome Chicago Curated Weekend: 7/2 and Beyond
It’s 4th of July weekend and while tons of locations are open with limited service, we need to remember to continue being safe this weekend and beyond. So if you’re […]
Review: House Music and Friendship at the Center of Pulsating Beats
If you check out Beats this weekend, the latest from Scottish filmmaker Brian Welsh (from a play by Kieran Hurley, who co-wrote the script), it will help greatly if you’re […]
Preview: Clarinetist Anthony McGill to Livestream This Friday
Chicago native Anthony McGill will be offering a livestream performance of works by Florence Price, Leonard Bernstein, and Carlos Guastavino this Friday evening, June 26. McGill grew up in Chicago’s […]
Preview: Hell Let Loose is an Immersive WWII Shooter with a Sharp Learning Curve
Guest Author: This article was written by guest contributor Andrew Struska The majority of shooters on the market fail to turn my crank. Highly competitive, fast-pacing, genre-veteran player bases and […]
Book Review: South Side Chick Lit, Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West
Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West Park Row Books, 312 pages, $27.99 In the closing pages of Catherine Adel West’s Saving Ruby King, two men and two women can […]
Review: An Unlikely Friendship Unfolds in Carefully Crafted The Painter and The Thief
As film premises go, the one for The Painter and the Thief is a doozy: an artist seeks out and befriends the man who stole her paintings. If it weren’t a […]