How does an old Chicago building survive? Public outcry and organized protest have saved a few, yes, but it usually comes down to owners and occupants continuing to give a […]
2025 is finally over, so it’s time to reveal my Best Narrative Films of the Year list. As always, I was able to squeeze in a couple dozen additional films […]
As I do every year, I separate documentaries into their own Best of the Year list, not because I feel they should be judged any differently than narrative films, but […]
During 2025 our theater team wrote almost 200 articles for our Stages page, which included opera, dance, comedy, magic, children’s theater and the occasional interview and theater book review. That […]
F. Baez – The trace
For over half a decade, fans of Chicago indie institution Twin Peaks have been treated to radio silence rather than radio-friendly garage rock jams. The last we heard from the […]
Founded as a progressive funky little fundraiser orchestra in 1994, Pink Martini is currently touring with a lively holiday concert called All-Stars: A Season of Stars, which stopped at the Auditorium […]
“There are many ways to do the work in this moment,” Women & Children First Co-Owner Lynn Mooney said by way of introducing prolific novelist and poet Margaret Atwood at […]
With a cast like this, how can you resist taking a peak at this Christmastime film that’s also a dying-elderly-mother piece? Featuring four of the most reliable actors of their […]
According to the legend established in this film, director Laura Poitras (an Oscar winner for Citizenfour and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed) asked Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh […]
It’s hard not to watch this new take on Anaconda and not think of Tropic Thunder, since both are about a group of filmmakers (one sanctioned by a studio, the […]
As Americans, most of us are suckers for stories about underdogs or comebacks or rising up from great adversity to triumph in the end, and certainly, the debut solo film […]
