Barbershops and beauty salons are important cultural hubs for communities of color. “In my day, a barber was more than just somebody who sit around in a FUBU shirt with […]

It’s technically speaking Valentines weekend and there are so many great markets, shows and food otiions for you to partake in! Don;t delay and head out and enjoy all the […]

From master photographer and Control director Anton Corbijn comes his documentary debut, Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis). The film is set in the days when album-oriented rock music […]

From producer Sofia Coppola and first-time feature writer/director Andrew Durham, Fairyland follows the true-life story of young Alysia, growing up in the 1970s with her single father Steve (Scoot McNairy), […]

If director Roger Ross Williams’s (Life, Animated) latest work, Cassandro, had been released last year, I firmly believe that its star, Gael Garcia Bernal would have easily snagged best acting […]

At times wildly uncomfortable and at others supremely empowering, director Lana Wilson’s (Miss Americana) new documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields takes a look at the entirety of Shields’ life and […]

Actor Jonathan Majors is about to have a substantial year. In addition to beginning his reign of multiverse-jumping terror as Kang the Conqueror in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the […]

The life of Richard Wayne Penniman (aka Little Richard) is one of almost constant, lifelong contradictions, mostly having to do with his embracing and then whole-heartedly rejecting his sexual identity. […]

The Chicago Philharmonic is known as “the People’s Orchestra.” They have regaled audiences with a variety of classical, jazz, gospel contemporary, and the music of young composers from their Donna […]

Review by guest author Lorenzo Zenitsky. I’m sure it’s getting pretty annoying lately as I shout from the rooftops about all my Chicago firsts and this review will be no […]

When somebody describes a film as a “Sundance movie,” my mind tends to envision works like director Rachel Lambert’s Sometimes I Think About Dying, a comedic and melancholic film a […]

My favorite film from the Midnight selections at Sundance this year is the feature debut of director/co-writer Laura Moss (who penned it with Brendan J. O’Brien), birth/rebirth, a science-fiction/horror work […]