We’re in the depths of the year’s spookiest month, so why not have a weekend to match it! There are tons of scary movies, nightmarish themed parties, and so much […]

We collaborate with Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall and appear on their Sunday afternoon arts radio show occasionally. Playtime broadcasts on WCGO, 1590AM and 95.9FM, each Sunday from 1 […]

Kentucky is a richly drawn study of a family of characters who disagree and battle and are not quite sure they love each other. Mostly it‘s a story of what […]

Massachusetts Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren visited striking Chicago education workers on a picket line at Oscar Depriest Elementary School in South Austin on the city’s West Side Thursday […]

The Art of Regret By Mary Fleming She Writes Press Reviewed by Terry Galvan While 1990s Paris wavers between its stupendous past and uncertain future, failed US-born photographer Trevor McFarquhar […]

Though a lot of exciting films and guests were in Chicago over the weekend for all the happenings at the Chicago International Film Festival, there’s still a lot more in […]

Put two attractive young people in a room for four weeks, stimulate them with pharmaceuticals that have unknown properties, and then act surprised at what happens. This is the slightly […]

  It was only four years ago the Chicago Botanic Garden first displayed a gorgeous gallery of gourds on its grounds for Night of 1000 Jack o’ Lanterns. We were […]

  I love asymmetrical multiplayer games. The simplest way to explain how they work is that one player does one task, while another player supports them by doing an entirely […]

A massive image of Mao Tse Tung hanging two galleries away greets visitors to the latest major exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, Andy Warhol – From A to […]

Let me start by coming clean: one of my favorite journalists covers neither arts nor culture. In fact, it’s quite possible that the only readers of his who also frequent […]

Walls of Prophecy & Protest: William Walker & the Roots of a Revolutionary Public Art Movement By Jeff W. Huebner Northwestern University Press Reviewed by Patrick T. Reardon Bill Walker was […]