Game Review: Celeste – Anxiety, Strawberries and Speedrunning
Developer Matt Makes Games, best known for their debut hit Towerfall, have captured the tight controls and pixel art that made their first game so popular- and packaged it in […]
Fresh Start to Your Week: 2/5 – 2/7
It’s another week and another fresh layer of snow gracing our Chicago streets! Hopefully you’re not too tired to get your week going after the big game and a little […]
Napoleonic Architecture Exhibit @ AIC May Only Spark Interest of Select Few
Now through April 9, the Art Institute of Chicago will display highlights from their Percier and Fontaine Collection, the personal library of Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, one of the architectes […]
Election Officials Say Early Voting Could Be Delayed Up To Two Weeks
Early voting ballots in the Chicago metro area could be delayed up to two weeks, affecting at least 3 million voters. “Although Feb. 8, 2018 was the new statutory starting […]
Ives’ Ad Called Out For Racist, Transphobic, Xenophobic Rhetoric
Republican gubernatorial challenger Jeanne Ives launched a transphobic, xenophobic, and anti-choice ad over the weekend which depicts actors “thanking” opponent Governor Bruce Rauner for legislation that “pays for abortions,” makes […]
Outright Nazi To Get GOP Nomination For 3rd District
An outright Nazi is poised to become the Republican nominee in the primary election for the seat to represent the 3rd Illinois Congressional District. Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denying anti-Semite […]
Kimbra Usurps Human Distance at Concord Music Hall
[soliloquy id=”23326″] All photos by Elif Geris/Third Coast Review Kimbra’s entrance stage right at Concord Music Hall Saturday was dominant. React Presents brings another dynamite act to one of Chicago’s […]
Goodman’s Blind Date Stars the World on the Cusp of Change
The blind date actually took place on November 19, 1985, in Geneva. Nothing much happened diplomatically; the world order wasn’t changed. But the two leaders of the U.S. and the […]
Artists Connect: Bit Bash – Interactive Influence at Art Institute
Some may argue that video games don’t have a place amongst world famous works of art, but on Thursday night at the Art Institute we got to experience just that […]
Joysticks and Lightsabers: A Personal History with Star Wars Games
When the The Last Jedi was announced at the end of 2016, I thought I was pretty much done with Star Wars. I liked The Force Awakens well enough, but […]
Film Review: A Bit Heavy on Propaganda, Animated Bilal‘s Visuals Impress
After premiering at the Dubai Film Festival at the end of 2015, this beautifully animated work (Dubai’s first animated feature) about a slave who becomes a mighty warrior over a […]
Film Review: Foreign Film Vazante Is Strikingly Familiar
Chicago-based Music Box Films has a knack for cherry-picking impressive independent, foreign fare that’s earned acclaim on the international festival circuit and bringing it to discerning American audiences. It worked […]