With his first feature Martha Marcy May Marlene, writer/director Sean Durkin told a harrowing story about sisterhood—both blood relations and the kind you choose (in the case of that film, […]
Editor’s note: This review contains some story spoilers. Contributing author: Mariel Bokor Sometimes, a story has all the right pieces, but still somehow manages to miss the mark. The Suicide […]
There are some who have a front-row seat to history, yet we never know their names and rarely notice them in the photos that depict such moments. And that’s for […]
We’re huge advocates of video games as art—we cover video game art galleries, and have advocated many times for games to be recognized as the art form they are. And […]
Like so many other live events, the Chicago Latino Film Festival—which typically takes place in the spring—had to rethink their program in the era of Coronavirus. With time to adjust […]
When COVID-19 closed taprooms and cancelled festivals, I looked for ways to still engage with Chicago’s craft beer scene. I therefore decided to finally work my way through The Complete Beer […]
It’s another great weekend in Chicago with plenty of things to do at home from a long list of amazing virtual plays to watching live streams of music and so […]
For the last year or so I’ve been getting into tabletop gaming. When I first started out, I had a weird notion of what it was about—super serious people pretending […]
The flawed but still compelling latest feature from director/co-writer Yuval Adler (The Operative, Bethlehem) takes the somewhat familiar story (at least in movies) of a former Nazi soldier found in […]
The Weinberg/Newton Gallery in partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) presents an exhibition on voting rights that is particularly relevant in this presidential election year. Anthem can be […]
As I found myself getting deeper into tabletop role-playing games, I started to understand the draw behind grid-based dungeon crawlers. Those dungeon crawlers were ever-present growing up, and it wasn’t […]
The Streets of Europe: The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities By Brian Ladd University of Chicago Press, 320 pages, $30 I’m having a difficult time deciding […]
