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Interview: Chicago’s Stacy Garrop Does What She Was Destined to Do: Compose Excellent Music on Invictus, a New Release on Cedille Records

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Review: James Gunn Launches a New Movie Studio and New Take on a Classic Super Hero in Superman for a New Generation

Kickstarting a new superhero franchise is an almost impossible task, especially when the hero in question has as long and varied a history as Superman. But that hasn’t kept Warner […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 11, 2025
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    Bulletin: Third Coast Review to Launch The Art of Survival to Explore How Arts Organizations Are Managing in Today’s Crises

    Third Coast Review is launching The Art of Survival, a research and reporting series that will look at how small and medium size arts organizations in Chicago are surviving and […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • July 10, 2025
    • Front page

    Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 7/10 and Beyond

    Forecast calls for a little rain and not too unreasonably warm temps, so let’s make it a good one with some excellent events! There are tons of markets, festivals (tis […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • July 10, 2025
  • Beauty School Dropout
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    Interview: Beauty School Dropout Loves Everything About Chicago—Except One Thing

    Beauty School Dropout has packed more into its first five years than most bands do in their entire careers. Championed by Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz and blink-182’s Mark Hoppus, […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • July 10, 2025
    • Cafes and restaurants , Food , Review

    Review: Expert Sauces Pair with Classic Polish Street Food at Spoko

    Written by Elizabeth Deneff. Just off one of the busiest streets that passes through Lincoln Park, Spoko resides on a quaint neighborhood corner a block off Armitage Avenue. With beautiful […]

  • Elizabeth Deneff
  • July 8, 2025
    • Music , Reviews

    Review: Bermuda Search Party Find Themselves Partying at Thalia Hall

    This article was written by Wendy Davis. Bermuda Search Party made their anticipated return to the Windy City in June, supporting their friends Cat Empire on their current tour run. […]

  • Guest Author
  • July 6, 2025
    • Classical , Music , Reviews

    Review: Osmo Vänskä, Paul Huang, and the Grant Park Orchestra Give a Lovely Performance in Millennium Park

    The Grant Park Orchestra gave another lovely concert on another lovely evening at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park on Wednesday. This time, however, it was led by Osmo […]

  • Louis Harris
  • July 4, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Eva Victor on Making Their Filmmaking Debut with Sorry, Baby, Humor for Healing, and Being a Cat Person

    Eva Victor (they/them) has made a career—and a helluva feature film debut with Sorry, Baby—by never doing what’s expected. After working for the feminist satire website Reductress and MTV’s Decoded […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 4, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Heads of State Puts John Cena and Idris Elba on the World Stage—Then Strands Them There

    The funniest thing about the new action-comedy Heads of State is the casting, and I mean no disrespect to either John Cena (playing action star-turned-U.S. President Will Derringer) or Idris […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 4, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review , Television

    Review: A Brave Afro-Colombian Woman Faces the Powers That Be in Documentary Igualada

    Three years ago two outsiders broke the stranglehold Colombia’s right wing parties had over the country when they were elected president and vice-president: the former M19 guerrilla fighter and senator […]

  • Alejandro Riera
  • July 4, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Afternoons of Solitude Takes an Unconventional Approach to a Bloody Tradition

    “It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal and a piece of scarlet serge draped […]

  • Alejandro Riera
  • July 4, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: The Old Guard 2 Gets a New Director, Updated Cast But Can’t Recapture the Momentum of the 2020 Original

    One of the biggest early hits of the pandemic was Netflix’s 2020 film The Old Guard, based on the graphic novel by writer Greg Rucka and illustrator Leandro Fernandez. Charlize […]

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  • July 4, 2025
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