Always Shine The name Sophia Takal may not be familiar to many, but for those following ultra-low-budget indie works (such as Joe Swanberg’s 24 Exposures and All the Light […]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oopzYgvydg] The London duo Ultimate Painting wrote a song called “Song for Brian Jones,” and that might be all you need to know to know anything about them. They’ve […]

At the end of a frenzied day of performances across the city, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago concluded Wednesday’s Bach Marathon with a free concert of all six Brandenburg Concertos […]

Shakespeare on Film is a carefully curated array of film adaptations of Shakespearean plays, beginning this week and running until January 3 at the Gene Siskel Film Center. This is […]

Stages Twist Your Dickens @ Goodman Theatre December 2-30, 170 N. Dearborn St. The Second City brings its annual holiday satire to the Goodman stage, with a revised script and […]

Ted McClelland will be doing a reading and signing for the launch of How to Speak Midwestern at the Book Cellar (4736 N. Lincoln) at 7pm tonight, Thursday, December 1. A […]

Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the holiday season, which means spending a lot of time in a confined space with a lot of drunk family members. Throughout the season’s various dinners and […]

Every few months, it seems, a brief but noticeable rumbling sounds after a comedian “goes too far” on some topic in their SNL opening monolog or latest stand-up special. The […]

Although many of us have been blasting holiday music since Thanksgiving (I assume some even earlier), it’s officially December and all the holiday cheer is now somewhat appropriate. The weather […]

If you had told me I’d be spending the night before Thanksgiving seeing R&B legend Ginuwine, I wouldn’t have believed you. But it happened, it really, truly did, and it […]

The world premiere of The Fundamentals, Erika Sheffer’s new play now running at Steppenwolf, offers a funny and sharp indictment of America’s corporate culture. In Sheffer’s play–which was commissioned by […]

Nelson Algren was a star in Chicago’s bright literary firmament, but his light dimmed in the years after he won the 1950 National Book Award for The Man With the […]