As I listened to Dame Jane Glover conduct the Music of the Baroque Orchestra and Chorus in Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” for the third time in as many months, it dawned […]

Our evening at The Smith was one to remember, and thank goodness they have a photobooth in their basement so we could preserve our post-meal glee. My partner and I […]

Even before its release, Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine is something of a success. Rarely does a new arts and literary journal receive more than 300 submissions for its first call. […]

Across the street from the massive Lincoln Square construction site on the Western Brown Line stop (check out the piece of the Berlin Wall inside), and behind an unassuming storefront […]

Although I enjoyed this third installment of the Benoit Blanc/Knives Out mysteries most of all, it’s also the one where Blanc (Daniel Craig) doesn’t show up until about 45 minutes […]

The cinema has been feeding us a steady diet of sad mothers in recent weeks. When I saw Rose Byrne tear up the screen in If I Had Legs I’d […]

Now in theaters, Eternity tells the story of an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity—and the options are infinite and sometimes hilarious. When the […]

I had to recheck my notes to fully grasp that it’s been almost 10 years since the original, wildly successful Zootopia hit theaters. But now, two of its original directors […]

In her new film, Rental Family, the filmmaker known as Hikari traces the isolated life of American actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser, in his first lead role since his Best Leading […]

Several versions of A Christmas Carol are familiar on television, in the movies, and, specifically, live at the Goodman Theatre. It’s a start to the holiday season in Chicago, usually coinciding […]

When I opened chef Samin Nosrat‘s newest book, Good Things, it was clear that the cultural phenom born with her first project, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, was here to stay. […]

She hates him. He loatheItss her. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” Wait, that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but in any case, it’s a Shakespearean theme […]