Local activists are urging Governor Rauner sign a bill on his desk that would increase protections for voters by stopping Illinois from participating in the Interstate Crosscheck system. Crosscheck is […]
Governor Bruce Rauner fully and publicly embraced the Trump administration Friday, appearing arm-in-arm at a Republican fundraising event hosted by Vice President Mike Pence. “Mike Pence, along with President Trump, […]
Protests erupted in the South Shore neighborhood on the city’s south-side over the weekend after Chicago Police shot and killed a 37 year-old barber. Harith Augustus, a father of one […]
The view of the bluffs overlooking the beach wasn’t quite something out of this world, but it was certainly like something out of Illinois. Walking along, I half-expected One-Eyed Willy’s ship, The Inferno […]
[soliloquy id=”31859″] A few months ago, Ana Tijoux was scheduled for back to back performances at Old Town School of Folk Music on the same evening. Unfortunately, it seemed like […]
Craig Wedren made his name in the influential Shudder To Think, a band whose distinctive and sometimes knotty sound still sounds fresh and new today. Over the years, though, he […]
In 1942, after a few years of working together with directing partner Karl Hartl, Henri-Georges Clouzot (Wages of Fear, Diabolique) broke out with his first solo effort with the old-school […]
It’s safe to say that after 20-plus years of subpar filmmaking, it would have been easy to write off director Rob Reiner as having his best works (This Is Spinal […]
While there have certainly been previous documentaries about the various foods we consume in mass quantities as Americans, Eating Animals is perhaps the most comprehensive on the subject of factory […]
Art house theaters of late seem to be swarming with fashion documentaries, but none of them are about someone quite as interesting as Vivienne Westwood, the woman who helped create […]
The latest chapter in the apparently popular Hotel Transylvania series, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, begins as many film sequels do these days—with a flashback. In a franchise built on good […]
Felony hate crime charges were filed this week against a man who harassed a woman for wearing a t-shirt with a Puerto Rican flag on it while a Forest Preserve […]
