Guest review by Aviv Hart. Grand Bizarre, the new record from Washington DC’s Bottled Up, appropriately fulfills the promise of its title as the appreciative crowd at Empty Bottle witnessed […]
Week three of Pride month and the events just keep rolling in. There are events galore with Juneteenth celebrations happening all weekend and so much more! There really is something […]
Frequent Chicago concert goers could probably tell you they know who Post Animal is. They are a staple of the Chicago indie artist scene, so it was more than perfect […]
Last week before the blazing heat and storms took Chicago by surprise, a pair of singer songwriters took the stage at Schubas. Kate Bollinger and Lael Neale brought their incredible […]
I can’t tell you how many hours I spent at home on NES and SNES or at the arcade playing Turtles beat ‘em ups like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: […]
When I think of modern or jazz-inspired dance, a few people come to mind. Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, and Katherine Dunham. Giordano Dance Chicago has established itself in my Hall […]
On paper, the Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved Americans on January 1, 1863, during the middle of the Civil War. But not all chattel slaves were immediately manumitted. Union General Gordon […]
Summer mornings, in my West Side childhood, I would go out on our rickety second-story back porch, and, across the alley, on the worn, gray asphalt of the parking lot/school […]
Politics are exhausting, but inevitable and important. People are exhausted, but continue to seek normalcy via social interactions. The Second City’s 110th mainstage show’s bifurcated title reflects those two realities: Do […]
When it was released in 1993, one of the reasons Jurassic Park became the mega hit it remains today is the sense of wonder and grand scale filmmaker Steven Spielberg […]
I love video games. They’re able to give us experiences like Card Shark, where no other medium possibly could. I would say the closest films come to the same feeling […]
Relative weaves together the stories of a Rogers Park family–the progressive parents, their adult children and their children–as change affects them all.
