This review was written by Zoe Blakeman. Stepping into the Chicago Theatre for a Squeeze concert felt like traveling back to the heart of 80s pop. With neon lights flashing […]

A Chicago audience got its first taste of a new musical organization at the PianoForte Studios on Saturday evening. The American Chamber Music Society introduced itself in a dramatic fashion […]

As a child, going to the library with my mother was a beloved weekly event. I vividly remember browsing through the hard-copy card catalog and wandering the stacks searching for […]

I saw myself as a character on the stage at the Den Theatre. It was weird and exhilarating to see the everyday struggles of a young Black woman making her […]

There are a select few bands in my life that are as special to me as The Gaslight Anthem. I was first introduced to them through my Mom constantly playing […]

Just before the release of her fourth album in four years, Tamar Berk posed the reasonable question, “So in your opinion when is the right time for a ‘greatest hits’ […]

For millions of would-be typing students in the late 1980s through the 1990s, the educational software known as Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing instructed people around the world using a digital […]

From the masterful writer/director Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room, Blue Ruin, Hold the Dark) comes Rebel Ridge, the story of ex-Marine Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre, The Underground Railroad), who comes to […]

Directed by the great Alex Gibney (The Inventor, Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and divided into two distinct parts, Wise Guy: David Chase […]

The things that bring family together, when simply being related isn’t enough of a reason to do so—this is the running theme of writer/director Azarel Jacobs’ (Terri, The Lovers, French […]

Say what you want about the debut feature from writers/directors Max and Sam Eggers (brothers of filmmaker Robert Eggers, who helmed The Witch and The Lighthouse, as well as the […]

Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth takes us back 40-some years … to an era when heavy-duty drugs were not only a path to pleasure (and sometimes pain) but the coinage of […]