FINDING DORY If I were the type of critic—and I’m not—to rank films that come out of the same production house (in this case Pixar), I think I’d slot their […]
As the sun rises at what annually is its most northerly point on the horizon, sound artist Eric Leonardson will be performing Dean Rosenthal’s experimental music-theater piece, Stones/Water/Time/Breath at Sherwin […]
Xanadu–(n.) the title of a horrendous ’80s film and a theatrical production parodying said horrendous film now showing at the American Theatre Company. If you hail from the land of […]
It hasn’t been a great news week (or news year, for that matter). Amidst all the sadness and struggle, it’s helpful to try and find a bit of a bright […]
You know, I originally picked the Drake/Teletubbies sun photo hybrid to head up this column because I thought it was funny. I figured others, too, would delight at the introspective, […]
Lookingglass Theatre’s world premiere of Thaddeus and Slocum: A Vaudeville Adventure chronicles the (vaudevillian) adventures of best friends and partners Thaddeus (Travis Turner) and Slocum (Samuel Taylor) as they […]
The best of Chicago dance and the best of Chicago comedy joined together on the Harris Theater stage this June for the second installment of The Art of Falling, a […]
Among the many treasures one could stumble across at this past weekend’s Printer’s Row Lit Fest, one of the finest, and most polyphonic, comes from 826CHI, a literacy and education […]
Guest author Julia Pham is a queer feminist who dropped out of art school at age 23 to pursue cooking. After working in several cafes and restaurants, she opened an […]
This Saturday at the House of Blues, Caravan Palace will bring you a seamless blend of swing, gypsy jazz and electronic music as the band showcases its 2015 album, <|°_°|>, also […]
[soliloquy id=”5311″] Despite having been imbued with music his entire life, James McCartney didn’t start performing his own songs live until his thirties. He performed on albums by his parents […]
The front page of the July 13, 1979, issue of the Chicago Sun-Times featured a photo of Sox fans storming the field. In the background, the scoreboard reads “please return to your […]
