Bites: What Author Kelly Foster Lundquist Eats in a Day
Kelly Foster Lundquist’s first book, Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage (Eerdmans Publishing), comes out October 30. Part personal tale of love, religion and sexuality, part deep dive into the […]
Review: The Amos Gillespie Quartet Launches New Classical Music at the CheckOut
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 […]
Review: The First Lady of Television at Northlight Theatre Is Sitcom History and the Story of the Mid-Century Red Scare
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 […]
Review: Conrad Tao Opens Season Two of Nova Linea Musica With Echoes and Algorithms
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 […]
Review: Crumbs from the Master’s Table, Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life, by Dan Nadel
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 […]
Review: Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale Is a Warm and Nostalgic Goodbye to a Series, Family and Grand Estate
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 […]
Review: Dame Jane Glover leads Music of the Baroque and Strong Voices Chorus Through Handel’s Water Music on the River
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 […]
Review: The Long Walk Turns Stephen King’s Dystopian Tale into a Gripping March of Survival
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 […]
Review: Case Oats Takes the Last Missouri Exit All the Way to the Hideout
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 […]
Review: The Man in My Basement Inverts Power and Money Dynamics but Squanders Much of Its Premise’s Potential
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 […]
Interview: Poet Temperance Aghamohammadi and Her Debut Collection, Battalion Shaped Girl
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 […]
Preview: Chicago Humanities Brings the Birria Home to Chicago
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 […]