Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 1/26 – 1/29
Has the past week of grey skies, odd temperatures, “alternate facts”, and baffling executive orders got you in a weird mood? Well, let the sunny visage of Drake’s goofy face […]
TCR Mixtape No. 16: New Year, Same Me
We’re 26 days into 2017. It’s no secret that it’s starting to feel like we’re living in a parallel universe, but let’s take a moment to focus on you. How […]
Preview: The Lemon Twigs at the Empty Bottle, 1/26
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ4nqnVOfMo] Elton John’s favorite new band is coming to town this weekend. Two brothers in Long Island formed The Lemon Twigs based on a shared love for sanguine, sheen pop and gritty, […]
Blues for an Alabama Sky Takes Us to 1930 Harlem, Where Dreams Are Made and Broken
The Harlem Renaissance was an era of great creativity in the arts that progressed through the 1920s, but the Great Depression hit many artists hard. Jobs were scarce and salaries […]
Trios Sound Off at the Northwestern Winter Chamber Music Festival
Chamber music continued to flow out of Evanston’s Pick-Staiger Hall on Sunday night as Northwestern’s 21st annual Winter Chamber Music Festival presented guest artists and Bienen School of Music faculty. […]
A Disappearing Number at Timeline Theatre Is a Joyous Intellectual Brain-Teaser
A Disappearing Number is a multi-layered, complex story of love and math over the course of a century. Timeline Theatre’s new production of the script by Complicité is mesmerizing, sometimes […]
Art Institute Panel Discusses Civic Art as Public Offering
Nothing renews one’s faith in the future of this city quite like seeing 150 people turn out, of their own volition, on a weekday evening to witness and participate in a […]
A Balance of Intimacy and Majesty with Margaret Glaspy, Andrew Bird and The Lumineers
[soliloquy id=”9016″] How exactly does one make an arena holding thousands of people feel like an intimate affair? Much like the arena itself, this is no small task. It […]
On The Road: How Seattle’s MoPOP and the Chicago Museum Scene Break Antiquated Barriers with Innovative Ideas
When I travel, I look for unique. What are the sights you can’t see elsewhere, the foods that you must try, or the places locals are most proud of? When […]
Film Review – Paterson: Restrained, Almost Graceful
The more I watch and think about the latest from writer-director Jim Jarmusch (Only Lovers Left Alive, Broken Flowers, Ghost Dog, Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law) the deeper I […]
Film Review: Trespass Against Us, A Nuanced Examination of the Irish Underclass
My takeaway from Trespass Against Us, the feature film debut from veteran British TV director Adam Smith is that’s it’s exceedingly Irish. I’ll admit, I swoon a bit hearing Irish […]
Film Review: The Founder, The Morally Ambiguous Beginning of a Supersized Chicago Icon
In the spirit of the original McDonald’s brothers restaurant, I’m going to make this quick. The Founder is the story of Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a traveling salesman, who stumbled […]