When a show’s slogan is ‘The Best Show Ever’ I take it as a personal invitation to test that theory with as much skepticism as possible. Still, I went to […]

By Angela Allyn Angela is an artist, cultural observer and a community arts program coordinator and she has always wanted to write about food. This article is adapted from a […]

Jun Fujita thought of himself first as a poet and an artist. He wrote Japanese poetry in the form known as tanka and took exquisite black-and-white landscape and flower photos […]

In to America, the world premiere production by Griffin Theatre, is America’s origin story, a documentary-style production that tells our history of immigration and multiculturalism, in all its glorious and cruel aspects. William […]

For many individuals just out of college or in their early twenties, particularly young artists, temporary jobs can offer money and flexibility that allow them to pursue other passions. They […]

It’s been years since I’ve seen the film Born Yesterday starring Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn and Broderick Crawford as Harry, her overbearing boyfriend. My memory of the film is kinda […]

The irony is unavoidable, and anyway, it’s appropriate: only in Chicago could a so-called ‘Public Art Crisis’ arise just three months into what has been deemed the Year of Public […]

In a novel approach to reviewing this film, I’m going not going to compare it to the groundbreaking 1995 anime of the same name or the manga comic that was […]

The phrase “Chicago record fair” is nearly synonymous with the nonprofit community radio station CHIRP. Just Google search it. In addition to spinning records for the city and introducing listeners […]

Richard Thompson is playing three sold out shows at Old Town School of Folk Music over Sunday April 9th and Monday April 10th. If you don’t know him, Thompson is […]

There are certainly great performers and choreographers in the world of dance, but Israel’s Ohad Naharin, artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company, manages to turn dance into an aggressive, […]

Sometimes the idea for an animated film is so out there that it actually works in an absurdist way. And in the world we’re living in right now, the idea […]