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Humanities Fest Hosts History with Frida Kahlo’s Family and Mary Beard

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Review: Hell in a Handbag’s The Golden Girls: The Cheese Pyramid Parodies a Scam From Rose’s Home Town of St. Olaf, Minnesota

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Review: A Perfectly Polite Bit of British History in The King’s Speech at Chicago Shakes

Downton Abbey, the acclaimed British drama series that ran for several seasons on PBS here in the States, returned this weekend. The story, this time on the big screen, brought […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • September 24, 2019
    • Game , Games & Tech , Review

    Review: The Surge 2’s Fast, Visceral Combat is Challenging, Satisfying

    Game reviewing sometimes leads to lots of comparisons between games. It’s hard not to compare when a developer takes unique ideas and/or gameplay mechanics from a popular game and incorporates […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • September 23, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Love and Information at Trap Door Mines Our Anxieties About Human Connections

    Trap Door Theatre’s production of Love and Information, Caryl Churchill’s 2012 play, is more performance art than theater.  But Kim McKean’s direction makes this production sizzle with energy. The nine […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • September 22, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Timeline’s Oslo, a Peace Process Built on the Personal as Well as the Political

    The play is all talk. Talk with a global purpose among ancient enemies, who manage to find common ground. Even though you know the outcome and future impact, J.T. Rogers’ […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • September 21, 2019
    • Audio

    Playtime Radio: A Mural Project, Dance Shoes and a Doorman’s Memories

    We collaborate with Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall and appear on their Sunday afternoon arts radio show once or twice a month. They’re on WCGO, 1590AM and 95.9FM, each […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • September 20, 2019
  • Monos
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Monos is a Visceral, Visually Captivating Portrait of Adolescence and Survival

    Like reading books or wandering an art gallery, one of the best aspects of film is its ability to transport us to worlds and experiences that we’d never otherwise experience […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • September 20, 2019
  • Jay Myself
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Photographer Jay Maisel Ruminates on Art, Collections and Life in Jay Myself

    For some reason, when I finally figured out that the title of this documentary on influential photographer Jay Maisel was based on a mishearing of his name, that amused me […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 20, 2019
    • Game , Games & Tech , Preview

    Preview: Mythgard: Gods Duke it Out in this Collectible Card Game

    Did you ever read/watch American Gods and want to have a game set in that world? Do you like Magic: The Gathering, but wished it were a little faster paced […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • September 19, 2019
    • Game , Games & Tech , Review

    Review: The Sojourn Provides Challenging Puzzles in Radiant Environments

    I love puzzle games—they’re like the distillation of game mechanics, eschewing most of the fat and filler of other games. It’s just you, playing against the various challenges. The proper […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • September 19, 2019
    • Front page

    Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 9/19 – 9/22

    This is looking like one of the more fun weekends of the year with tons of fantastic events. There are markets, literary and cultural discussions, concerts, beer, and art all […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • September 19, 2019
  • Ad Astra
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Brad Pitt at His Best in a Visually Stunning Ad Astra

    It’s a helluva year to be Brad Pitt. He’ll go a couple years sometimes without making a movie, and then spring to life as he has this year with the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 18, 2019
  • Downton Abbey
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Familiar Faces—and That Familiar Charm—Return in Downton Abbey

    Editor’s Note: minor spoilers for the “Downton Abbey” television series follow, in order to relate the new film to the narrative’s larger arc. As difficult as it is to imagine […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 18, 2019
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