It’s the week of Memorial Day and I’m sure the sweltering weekend has you a bit tired. No worries, there are plenty of events this week where you can just […]

Chicago aldermen have introduced an ordinance to strip the name of an Italian fascist aviator from East Balbo Drive and rename it for Chicago journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. […]

You know the scene. “A country road. A tree. Evening” Samuel Beckett couldn’t have been more succinct in the scenic direction for his existential classic, Waiting for Godot. That tree takes on mythic […]

Ah yes, another Dynasty Warriors game. Now, don’t click out of this thinking that I’m biased against them; quite the opposite. In fact, I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of time […]

It’s been about a week since the sixth annual Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival. In its sixth year at Stage 773, this festival has always been an intimate favorite, truer to […]

Dark Souls forever changed the way I look at video games. That is absolutely no exaggeration. I feel like Dark Souls and the rest of the Souls series (including Bloodborne) […]

Shape of the World by developer Hollow Tree Games is an upcoming exploration game with light puzzle elements that is an absolutely relaxing experience. In the vein of Proteus or […]

ADOM: Ancient Domains of Mystery has been around since 1994. Originally developed for Linux-based systems, ADOM used ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Exchange) to create rudimentary shapes for a […]

The Earth is about 71 percent covered by water, as we’ve all heard. That means we’re in the minority here on land. It also means we’re missing out. That 71 […]

Recently, Deeper celebrated the release of their self-titled debut album at Empty Bottle. It was the culmination of years of hard work to get their music recorded and the start […]

Although technically a prequel of sorts to the Maysles brothers’ landmark documentary Grey Gardens—about Jackie Kennedy’s eccentric, stuck-in-a-dream-world family members Big Edie and Little Edie Beale—That Summer feels more a like […]

It’s rare that a wartime-set film focuses primarily on the struggles of those left back home, but in The Guardians, the latest work from director Xavier Beauvois (Of Gods and […]