The CheckOut opened its doors to a great performance by the Amos Gillespie Chamber Quartet on Saturday night. This abandoned 7-Eleven was formerly an eyesore at the end of the […]
If you have tickets for Northlight Theatre’s The First Lady of Television, you may think you are going to see a comedy about the beloved Molly Goldberg and her 1950s […]
Nova Linea Musica returned for a second season with pianist and composer Conrad Tao leading Echoes and Algorithms on Wednesday night. NLM is a music incubator that provides musicians and […]
Cartoonist Robert Crumb is, inarguably, a master of his craft. For 60 years he’s created a distinctive style and memorable characters, while inspiring generations of artists. He’s also a polarizing […]
When it premiered on PBS in early 2011, Downton Abbey took a certain subset of American audiences—ones who enjoy period pieces, glossy soap operas and all things British—by storm. Set […]
For the second year in a row, Music of the Baroque was blessed with wonderful weather as the orchestra and chorus, led by Dame Jane Glover, cruised down the Chicago […]
People paying any kind of attention to pop culture over the last 50 years know there are two different Stephen King stories: the purely narrative/non-horror tales that still may contain […]
Record release shows are a very special breed of show. There’s something a bit more magical in the air on rarified nights like those, and it may very well be […]
Sometimes the metaphor screams louder than the story itself and the subtext is written bigger and bolder than the text. Such is the case with director Nadia Latif’s second film […]
Last fall, I had the pleasure of organizing a poetry reading with local poets on celebrating transformation, the unknown, and the changing of the seasons. It was then when I […]
Although already sold out with a growing waitlist, two Chicago culinary icons, Chef Jesse Valenciana and Rick Bayless, will be in conversation Sunday, Sept. 21, at 11am at the National […]
Though it’s being released in September, The Baltimorons might be the best holiday film of the year; you’ll want to see it in theaters this week, then stream it from […]
