Narrative nonfiction titan Sarah Vowell closed the diverse and well-curated Chicago Humanities Festival’s 30th anniversary “Power” juggernaut Sunday at Francis W. Parker School in Lincoln Park, showcasing her acerbic wit […]
There are few bands as alluring as Crumb. Their mixing of elements from jazz, psychedelia and indie pop into a hazy package has garnered them a pretty substantial following. After […]
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The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook Edited by Martha Bayne Belt Publishing Chicago’s neighborhoods are one of its most distinct yet indefinable elements. Despite what those ubiquitous neighborhood maps in every other […]
Disney Plus finally launched today, and there’s lots of buzz about the selection of Marvel movies and shows, and the excitement of Disney finally “unlocking the vault” and letting their […]
I’m probably going to use the word “clever” more than once during this review. I can’t escape it. Superliminal is just such a damned clever game. I’ve played plenty […]
Luigi’s Mansion 3 is great. That’s it. Close the review, go buy the game. Okay, that’s not exactly fair, because it’s not perfect, but it’s pretty darn close. For […]
Larry Neumann Jr. is known as one of Chicago’s finest character actors. I have seen him in a wide variety of roles in the 30-plus years I’ve been a Chicago […]
Lonely Mountains: Downhill has been on my radar for the last few years. Its bright, minimalistic art style and images of little paper-doll like men jumping over chasms […]
While I certainly have many wonderful things to say about Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 musical extravaganza of the same name, my heart will always belong to director/co-writer John Huston’s 1952 version […]
One thing you can always count on from the films of director Roland Emmerich is scale. Sure, there will also likely be explosions and a giant cast, but the man […]
I sometimes wonder if, at some point down the road, we’ll run out of subjects on which to make documentaries. Surely, somewhere along the line, we’ll have made a film […]
