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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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Preview: Neptune’s Core Makes It Easy to Love “Lemon Car”

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Review: City Lit’s New Musical Scaramouche Thrives on Comedy and Theatrical Flair

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Preview: Shedd Aquarium Opens New 4D-Experience Theater Where You Can Visit the World of Penguins, Sharks and Oct opuses

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Review: At Young People’s Theatre, The Hula Hoopin’ Queen Sings With Joy and Energy

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Review: Danny Boyle and Alex Garland Reteam to Revisit a Pandemic Wasteland in Gory yet Moving 28 Years Later

Twenty-three years after director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland brought us the lo-fi, virus-fueled horror favorite 28 Days Later, the creative team reunites for a very different type of […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 20, 2025
    • Architecture , Art & Museums , Design , Event , Feature , Festivals & events , Installation , Mixed media , Painting & sculpture , Sculpture

    Feature: Outdoor Art on the Mart and at the Morton Arboretum

    It’s outdoor art season in Chicagoland, finally, and two venues are bringing the bright, bold colors to our blooming prairie. Architecture and design firm Perkins&Will, in partnership with Chicago’s Department […]

  • Karin McKie
  • June 20, 2025
    • Events , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events

    Review: Let Us Re-Joyce: “Bloomsday in Chicago” Celebrates James Joyce’s Masterwork

    Ulysses. The book Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company published in Paris in 1922. The book that was banned in the US and the UK. The book people either love or […]

  • June Sawyers
  • June 20, 2025
    • Fiction , Interviews , Lit

    Interview: Witches, Pirates, and LGBTQIA+—A Talk with Horror/Romance Writer Damian Serbu

    Damian Serbu has often found inspiration in Chicagoland. Several characters in his Realm of the Vampire Council series, for instance, dwell in the Windy City itself. Self-described as an “author […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • June 19, 2025
    • Blues , Music

    Review: Blues Titans Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ Lean In and Deliver the Unforgettable

    You don’t think of the blues as a music style that incites euphoria, but in the right hands that outcome is practically guaranteed. It was certainly true over the weekend during […]

  • Mitchell Oldham
  • June 19, 2025
    • Front page

    Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 6/19 and Beyond

    Well, it’s finally hot. We’re stepping into a heatwave this weekend and there are tons of fantastic events for you to enjoy! There are so many movies, concerts, festivals and […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • June 19, 2025
    • Cafes and restaurants , Food

    Bites: What Author Allison Buccola Eats in a Day

    Written by Elizabeth Deneff. With her debut novel a few years behind her, author of Catch Her When She Falls Allison Buccola, has her second book out on the shelves. […]

  • Elizabeth Deneff
  • June 19, 2025
  • Timothy Edward Kane in AN ILIAD. Photo Credit: Michael Brosilow
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Court Theatre Brings Back Triumphant Production of An Iliad

    It’s the top of the show. The Poet (Timothy Edward Kane) enters and the lights start to dim—but only just. With the house still lit, the Poet begins to introduce […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • June 17, 2025
    • Children's books , Comics and Graphic Novels , Interviews , Lit , Live lit events

    Book Smarts: 57th Street Books: Stairs, Lore, and a Third Space

    Book Smarts is a semi-regular feature in which Third Coast Review writers share their favorite Chicago-area bookstores. This month, Holly Smith explores Hyde Park’s 57th Street Books. Down the Stairs […]

  • Holly Smith
  • June 17, 2025
    • Beer and wine , Cafes and restaurants , Food

    Interview: Lindsey Anderson-Perez on Current Affairs with Wine at Uvae Kitchen and Wine Bar

    Lindsey Anderson-Perez opened Uvae Kitchen and Wine Bar in 2019; the space has expanded to include a Fromagerie and Tasting Room, but the focus has remained steady on providing a […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • June 17, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Steppenwolf’s You Will Get Sick Is a Comic and Poignant Portrayal of Life and How People Endure

    Playwright Noah Diaz wrote You Will Get Sick in 2018, but its first production was delayed until 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ironically, the wisdom or conspiracy was that […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • June 16, 2025
    • Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: His Mind Constantly on the Go, Lincoln the Citizen, by Henry C. Whitney, edited by Michael Burlingame

    Abraham Lincoln’s friend and courtroom colleague Henry Clay Whitney remembered him as a man with an agile and restless mind, as “a versatile genius, whether as a man or boy. […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • June 16, 2025
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