American Football seemed like a long shot during the decade and a half between their first and second self-titled albums. So many of the band members were doing their own […]

I spent most of director William Eubank’s (The Signal) newest film, Underwater, on the verge of really liking it, waiting for that one original element to push me over the […]

It seems odd to be reviewing a documentary about a film critic whose influence is still a big part of the critical landscape, in the same way it was surreal […]

The last time director Miguel Arteta (Cedar Rapids, Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl, Youth in Revolt) and actor Selma Hayek worked together, it resulted in the defiantly under-seen Beatriz […]

When The Park released around Halloween of 2015, I really wanted to play it. But for some reason, I just… didn’t. Now it’s 2020, and months after the release of […]

  As we move forward from the ‘10s (is that what we called them?) and into the ‘20s, there’s been a lot of looking back at some of the best […]

  There just aren’t enough arcade style games being released anymore. When I was younger, when my friends and I would get together to hang out, there would usually be […]

The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago before the Fire Ann Durkin Keating University of Chicago Press, 280 pages, $27.50 When 27-year-old Juliette Kinzie settled with her husband John, the local […]

If you were lucky enough to get tickets to the Music Box Theatre’s showing of Bug with Michael Shannon and Tracy Letts or one of the two Undertale Live performances […]

This time of year, there’s a lot of looking back –for better or worse. We see what worked and what didn’t, what we want more of and what we want […]

When I sat down at the end of 2019 to compile my “best of” the decade list, it ended up being a massive undertaking, and it turned into a larger […]

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like being inside a kaleidoscope, look no further than James Hood’s Mesmerica 360, a multisensory experience that does, indeed, mesmerize. I caught a sold-out […]