Two middle-aged men were waiting for the doors to open. “How did you find out about her?” we asked. One of them said he read an article in the New […]

If you want to wow during the dessert course this Thanksgiving, don’t bother with the baking; all you’ll need is a stop at The University of Chicago Press for a […]

Perhaps more than any other ’90s rock icon, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has remained unapologetically artistically adventurous three decades into his career—while the most recent Pearl Jam and Foo […]

I have contemplated the versions of The Taming of the Shrew that I have seen over the years. I never liked the premise that a woman should be trained to […]

Sometimes the biggest things go unnoticed. The Uptown Theatre, for example. For a full century it’s stood at 4816 North Broadway, always there but overlooked by passersby since it closed […]

It’s a Swiss town full of writers, where everyone is obsessed with getting published and winning a new literary prize. A Publisher arrives, eager to find new works to be […]

The timing could not have been more difficult for a film like Rebuilding to premiere at Sundance in January, shortly after the devastating LA wildfires. Writer/director Max Walker-Silverman offers a film set […]

Let’s start here: Wicked For Good is a film that should not exist. Not just because it’s not a very good film, but more broadly speaking, it just shouldn’t be […]

Despite her fame as a rock and roll singer, Patti Smith is a poet at heart. Poetry has always been her passion. Even her prose sounds like poetry. At the […]

Even though the first The Family Plan came out only two years ago, you’ll be happy to know I remember next to nothing about it. But as its unnecessary sequel, […]

In this modern day and age, I think that it’s safe to say that when it comes to concerts; lighting and stage production/design are arguably just as crucially important as […]

Tom Morello is no stranger to Chicago and the injustices going on in our fair town. Having been raised in Libertyville and having a keen revolutionary lean, Morello felt like […]