Review: With 444, Chicago-Based Hemlock Finds the Patience to Keep on Loving
Granted, it’s not the most common thing to have your album release show two months after your album came out, but we do things a bit differently in Chicago, and […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 12/12 and Beyond
ow through December 31, Third Coast Review is raising money to support the diverse roster of writers you know and appreciate for their thoughtful, insightful arts and culture coverage in Chicago and beyond. […]
Review: Blake Montgomery Becomes the Exhausted But Charming Author for Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs ‘A Christmas Carol’ Again
Now through December 22, one small corner of the Den Theatre, that bustling venue in Wicker Park, is home to Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs ‘A Christmas Carol’ Again, a cumbersome […]
Review: They All Stand Up, Louis Sullivan: An American Architect, by Patrick F. Cannon and James Caulfield
Can something be both overexposed and unseen? After years of black and white images of Louis Sullivan’s buildings being demolished or in the midst of eradication, we tend to think […]
Interview: Revisiting the Y2K “Crisis” with Kyle Mooney and Evan Winter, plus Monster Making and Creating a Late-90s Period Piece
During his nearly 10 years as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, Kyle Mooney dipped his toe into filmmaking as the co-screenwriter on the well-received 2017 film Brigsby Bear, […]
Review: A Testament to Survival and Listening, Also Here: Love, Literacy, and the Legacy of the Holocaust, by Brooke Randel
In 1944, at the age of 13, Brooke Randel’s grandmother Golda Indig was with her older sister in the German death camp of Auschwitz. They had been separated from the rest […]
Review: The Chicago Philharmonic Brings the Holiday Spirit Accompanying Love Actually
What makes a movie a Christmas movie? It could have a precocious kid left behind at Christmas while the family goes on a deluxe vacation—twice. It could have Bruce Willis […]
Events: Santa Baby Bar Pop-up in Bamboo Club
Now through December 31, Third Coast Review is raising money to support the diverse roster of writers you know and appreciate for their thoughtful, insightful arts and culture coverage in Chicago and […]
Review< At Theater Wit, Who’s Holiday Will Melt Your Frozen Heart With Laughter
It wouldn’t be a holiday season without the Whos of Whoville, but who would have thought that the Whos could be so judgy and mean when it comes to affairs […]
Review: Joffrey Ballet’s Nutcracker Is a Sparkling Tradition for a Chicago Christmas
Now through December 31, Third Coast Review is raising money to support the diverse roster of writers you know and appreciate for their thoughtful, insightful arts and culture coverage in Chicago and […]
Essay: Reading in Public and My Review of The Vegetarian, a Book That Started Conversations
Now through December 31, Third Coast Review is raising money to support the diverse roster of writers you know and appreciate for their thoughtful, insightful arts and culture coverage in Chicago and beyond. […]
Review: An Athlete Defeats the Odds in Uneven but Inspiring Sports Drama Unstoppable
Directed by first-time filmmaker and veteran editor William Goldenberg (Zero Dark Thirty, Air, an Oscar winner for Argo, Heat), Unstoppable is the story of real-life wrestler Anthony Robles (played by […]