CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR The only battle that matters during Captain America: Civil War is deciding which character is the most fun to watch. With relative newbies—such as Ant-Man (Paul […]
Happy Cinco de Mayo, everyone! Or rather, happy insignificant Mexican holiday propped up by beer companies to get you to commercialize and appropriate Mexican culture for their benefit! I sort […]
I’m Brianna Kratz, a Chicago poet and literature enthusiast. In 2016, I’m reading only women authors for my Read Only Women Experiment (R.O.W.E.). For weekly updates on challenges, conversations, and […]
This past weekend, choreographer Kyle Abraham brought his work back to Chicago with Abraham.In.Motion’s stunning When the Wolves Came In at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Abraham’s work was inspired in […]
As tax season fades from our memories for another 360 days, it was perhaps apt that I had a chance to speak with the founder of the Cooking the Books […]
In Matt Pelfrey’s adaptation of the famous John Ball novel, In the Heat of the Night, starring Manny Buckley and Joseph Wiens as the antagonists, and directed by Louis Contey, appearances and […]
Holocaust stories remind us of the cataclysmic changes in the European Jewish community wrought by the terrorism of Hitler’s Third Reich. These large, tragic stories meant millions of lives lost, […]
On the morning of April 24, a Gmail notification appeared on my phone: “One new message from Juanna Rumbel.” Juanna Rumbel is the derby name of writer, storyteller, and stand-up comedian, […]
While The Fiery Furnaces has been on hiatus for half a decade, Eleanor Friedberger has been amassing quite the impressive solo work. With Last Summer and Personal Record, Friedberger turned […]
RJ Krohn ended RJD2 classic, “Ghostwriter,” in a robot costume, and a powerful stroke to the guitar strings. Krohn emitted bass and soul Friday night through the Metro Chicago during […]
Stages Seedfolks @ Chicago Children’s Theatre CCT presents Seedfolks, a play about the people who develop an urban garden in a gritty Cleveland neighborhood. One woman plays all 14 parts. Suitable […]
There’s showmanship and then there’s Charles Bradley. Since he has spent a reasonable amount of time as a James Brown impersonator named “Black Velvet”, you can assume that the man knows […]
