The Dandy Warhols are currently on tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of the band’s existence. I didn’t discover them until 1997—some Columbia reps used to come into Danny’s when I […]
The very first thing wrong with Poms (and there are many things wrong with Poms) is the prologue that sets up the premise for the setting of Diane Keaton’s latest misfire: […]
In a remarkably similar fashion to the recent Goodbye Christopher Robin (about the elements in Winnie the Pooh author A.A. Milne’s life that went into those stories), Finding Neverland (about […]
I am fully aware and am happy to acknowledge that I am the absolute wrong audience for a movie set in a world where Pokémon exist, work and, for all […]
This one made me a little depressed, and it did so because it made me realize that one of the more reliable actors working today (and a personal favorite) is […]
First of all, there’s the bar. Jeffrey D. Kmiec’s design of Hank’s Bar is a classic and so realistic you will want to park on a stool and order a […]
On Monday night, singer-songwriter Matt Maeson stared out into a packed house and told the story of playing Schuba’s a few years back. He said that soon after he was […]
The seventh annual Chicago Critics Film Festival is just about a week away, and there’s no shortage of amazing films to choose from. Many of the highly-anticipated titles that will […]
There is always something fun to do in the city and this weekend is no exception! There are board game hang outs, tons of unique shopping opportunities, top notch concerts, […]
There are no children in Lucy Kirkwood’s play, The Children. The play’s storyline is built on “the disaster,” which we don’t learn the nature of immediately. The disaster was an explosion […]
It’s been a pretty epic April and May for anyone who belongs to the “nerd” tribe. We had a great (if overstuffed at times) C2E2, Star Wars Celebration at McCormick […]
I jumped onto the Orville Peck train a little late, only having discovered him on Twitter a few weeks ago. It wasn’t even his sound that lured me in, but […]
