Today marks Sweet Home Chicago’s 180th birthday. Born as a town in 1833 and becoming a full-grown city in 1837, Chicago is a city that’s always thriving. After being completely burned to […]

Chicago’s own Wilco is touring in support of their tenth studio album “Schmilco,” the 2016 follow up to “Star Wars,” performing shows and joining festivals in the US and Canada, […]

Why does Anna Kendrick have such a difficult time finding material as good as she is? Of late, her best work seems to only be in films that allow her […]

Through something like eight films leading up to Logan, Hugh Jackman has given us a few different versions of Wolverine, but they’ve all been rooted in the inherent threat that […]

With a concept that is better than the execution, Before I Fall tells the story of Samantha Kingston (Zoey Deutch), a high school girl who is forced to relive the […]

One of the four films that lost to The Salesman at the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film came from Denmark, a positively terrifying post-World War II suspense work […]

What constitutes a good baguette? Physically: crusty exterior, soft interior. Internally: flour, salt, yeast, and water. Simplicity is key. Yet, to separate the best from the great, there has to […]

The 20th Annual Chicago European Union Film Festival opens Friday at the Gene Siskel Film Center and runs through March 30. The festival, with 62 new feature films representing all 28 EU […]

The Police drummer Stewart Copeland has turned the 1940 Argentine novel into his fifth opera that’s a mix of island dwellers like Dr. Moreau and Gilligan’s Professor, while extending Bill […]

Chicago Moving Company opens Dance Shelter 2017 on March 2, a two-night engagement bringing unique and daring contemporary and experimental choreography to the Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater. “It’s about people […]

March. I honestly can’t believe how fast the year is going by! Maybe it’s the weird weather that’s throwing me off balance. One week it’s near record breaking warmth and […]

[soliloquy id=”10195″]   It’s not exactly an austere art gallery environment. The walls are painted vivid colors, in keeping with the palette and imagery of the fanciful art displayed. The […]