Fresh Start to Your Week: 3/5 -3/7
Ah, the Monday after the Oscars. Whether you watched simply for the spectacle of celebrities wearing lavish clothes, were genuinely interested in seeing how the movies you enjoyed this year […]
Major U of C Donors Want Their $100 Million Back
Two brothers who pledged a contribution of $100 million to the University of Chicago now are asking for their money back: specifically, the $22 million paid to the university since […]
More Locations Open for Early Voting for March 20 Primary
Early voting for the March 20 primary opened last month and more locations, both city and suburban, opened today. You don’t need an excuse to vote early, but you must […]
TheMART Looks to Become World’s Largest Canvas for theARTs – Is That a Good Thing?
Merchandise Mart is something of a marvel. When it was completed in 1931, it wasn’t just the largest building in the world, taking up two city blocks and boasting over […]
Mummy’s The Word with Upcoming Mummies Exhibit at Field Museum
Mummy’s the word at the Field Museum these days, but it’s not a secret anymore. In its 125th year, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago is shaking things up […]
Review: Metal Gear Survive is a Soulless Oddity, Fitting Neither Series nor Genre
Developer and publisher Konami’s departure with longtime Metal Gear series designer/director Hideo Kojima has been well documented on the internet. This review isn’t about that, and I’d like to say […]
Review: Explore a Scrappy, Single-Purpose Life in American Socialist
The primary reason this new documentary from director Yale Strom (The Last Klezmer, On the Q.T.) exists is to show that there was once a viable candidate for president running […]
Review: Serviceable Humor Me Is Good for a Few Laughs
I’ll fully admit, I’ve never heard of the 2009 online series “Old Jews Telling Jokes,” but apparently it featured Jewish men and women over the age of 60 telling their […]
Review: Don’t Look for Closure in Oscar-Nominated Loveless
Filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev has become something of a master at conveying what many of the dark corners of Vladimir Putin’s Russia look like without saying or showing it outright. It’s […]
Review: Bruce Willis Can’t Save an Empty Death Wish
Going out on a limb here, I’m guessing this reboot of Death Wish will not play well in Chicago, where it is actually set and appears to have been mostly […]
Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn Keep Folk Alive
Folk legend Bela Fleck is a man of few words. As he came onstage with his wife, singer-songwriter Abigail Washburn, it was clear he was not going to be the […]
Shop Small In Big Ways at This Weekend’s Vintage Shop Hop
We’ve gotten a bit of a reprieve from winter this past week, but we all know it’s a fluke. Usually this time of year we’re grumbling about shoveling, sick of […]