Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 1/29 and Beyond
We’re still in the middle of these cold winter temps with some snowfall in our future. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun this weekend with all the […]
Review: Salome at the Lyric Opera Melts the Chicago Deep Freeze With Strauss and Suspense
In the Bible, the name of the Princess of Judea is never mentioned. In his 1893 play, Oscar Wilde gave the teenage seductress a name: Salome. In 1905, Richard Strauss completed […]
Review: Avec Offers Warm and Yummy Prix Fixe Dinner for Chicago Restaurant Week
In October 2003, Donnie Madia and Paul Kahan of 12-time James Beard Award-winning One Off Hospitality opened Avec in the West Loop, first conceived as a wine bar to assuage […]
Review: Seeing Beauty in the Ordinary, Chicago Homes: A Portrait of the City’s Everyday Architecture
One of the many joys of reading Carla Bruni and Phil Thompson’s Chicago Homes: A Portrait of the City’s Everyday Architecture is the way the book dazzles the reader with […]
Dispatch: International Puppet Theater Festival Launches With Innovative Shows Performed by Puppeteer Teams and Solos
It’s the first week of the 8th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival and this is our first dispatch with brief reviews of some of the shows we’ve seen so far. […]
Dispatch: Two Horror Films and a Haunting Drama as Sundance Film Festival Continues
Enjoy our latest dispatch from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival… Buddy What begins as a fairly generic but quite authentic kids television show circa 1999 (a la Barney, with a […]
Review: Dame Jane Glover, Demarre McGill, and Music of the Baroque Compare and Contrast Fathers and Sons
Music of the Baroque found a great excuse for bringing Chicago native and flutist extraordinaire Demarre McGill to the Harris Theater on Saturday night. Rather than simply performing a flute […]
Dispatch: Sundance Film Festival Kicks Off Final Event in Park City; Third Coast Review Is On the Scene (and at the Movies)
Third Coast Review film critics Steve Prokopy and Lisa Trifone are attending the 2026 Sundance Film Festival (which moves to Boulder, Colorado, next year), sharing their brief takes on festival […]
Review: Greg Freeman Gives Schubas a Night of Punky Pedal Steel and Power Stances
Gone can mean a lot of things, but not “sold out”. No, when a show is sold out, it’s sold out, and Greg Freeman sold out Schubas Saturday night for […]
Review: Nova Linea Musica Continues to Innovate in a Very Enjoyable Way
Nova Linea Musica continued its mission to create, present, and promote new music in an innovative and enjoyable fashion at Guarneri Hall on Wednesday evening. In a program entitled Threads […]
Review: DIIV Heats Up Lincoln Hall with an Intimate Set
It’s that time of year again when Chicago hosts the renowned winter festival Tomorrow Never Knows that spans across some of the city’s most iconic independent music venues. This year’s […]
Review: Suzy Eddie Izzard Talks Shakespeare N’Stuff at Chicago Shakespeare
Actor/comedian/marathoning fundraising activist Suzy Eddie Izzard (she/her) stopped by Chicago Shakespeare Theater for a chinwag with artistic director Edward Hall last week, also taking many audience questions in a freewheeling, […]