South Chicago Dance Theatre (SCDT) is in season 9 and continues to dance close to the edge. Founder Kia S. Smith choreographed Lamentations of Peace with a narrative of the […]
A Year With Frog and Toad may not be a holiday play but it is a celebration of friendship throughout the seasons, from the moment the two friends wake from […]
Let us now consider the sugar plum. For years, I thought it was an artisan plum rolled in silver sugar. I was this many years old when I discovered that […]
I honestly can’t think of a better way to see a surprise new band with a name like Snocaps than fresh off our first snow of the season. And they […]
One of my favorite things about reviewing music, arts, and culture in Chicago is being in the audience to experience artists in their habitat. That could be a big stage […]
Over the course of his storied career, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim had quite a stunning list of successes and very few misses. His greatest fail, however, came in 1981 […]
Quick Spins takes a quick look at recently released albums to make certain you’re listening to all the quality music being released these days. And with today being Bandcamp Friday, […]
Even though combing through the archival material could feasibly take a lifetime, making a documentary on a legendary photographer like Steve Schapiro must be the most fun to assemble. Searching […]
Directed by Marshall Curry (an Oscar-winning shorts filmmaker) and narrated by Julianne Moore, The New Yorker at 100 tells the fairly straightforward but no less interesting tale of both the […]
Set in an alternative past in which the world worships a god named Birdman (personified by Richard E. Grant, naturally), who has a mischievous daughter named Kiddo (Safia Oakley-Green) and […]
A few months ago, I stumbled upon a TikTok detailing a dinner out at a new River North spot. I saw mozzarella sticks and pasta, in a dimly lit, cozy […]
The snow finally came last weekend and Chicago is truly looking like a winter wonderland! And all the cool events— ice skating throughout the city, holiday lights everywhere you turn, […]
