The latest exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum, Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo, explores the legal and moral implications of torture and incarceration. […]
In the midst of war and plague, a good dose of literate snark is required. Noted curmudgeon and raconteur Fran Lebowitz visited the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, one of only […]
Current and former staff of the Chicago Reader, alongside friends and fans of the 51 year-old independent Chicago alt-weekly, members of organized labor, and others rallied in front of Reader […]
The Joffrey Ballet’s spring program will combine an iconic John Steinbeck story transformed into a modern ballet with Serenade, a classic George Balanchine ballet first performed in the 1930s. The program […]
It’s a little hard to believe, but we’re well into two decades, nearly approaching the third, of Spoon. The band first came together in 1993 and released their first tracks […]
If you told me that I was about to watch a movie with such immensely talented and interesting actors as Sam Rockwell, Zazie Beetz, Anthony Ramos, Craig Robinson, Marc Maron, […]
French filmmaker Celine Sciamma had her work cut out for her in following up her own masterpiece; 2019’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire was one of the most sensual, romantic […]
One of the best things about The French Dispatch, the latest quirky drama from filmmaker Wes Anderson, was the fact that Anderson decided to go, well, Full Anderson. The filmmaker […]
The latest from writer/director Gigi Gaston (Rip It Off), 9 Bullets is the story of Gypsy (Lena Headey), a former burlesque dancer who is leaving that life behind in order […]
If you grew up watching Disney channel in the mid 2000s, chances are you know who Aly & AJ are. After a long 10-year musical hiatus, sisters Aly & AJ […]
It’s going to be a warmer weekend than we’ve been accustomed to these past few weeks so it’s time to celebrate! There’s so much going this weekend and with the […]
The 49th annual Bach Week Festival will feature a series of concerts running three weeks in Chicago and Evanston starting this Sunday, April 24. Last year’s festival was my first […]
