EU Film Fest: Films We Watched for You, March 18-24
The Chicago European Union Film Festival continues through the end of March at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St. See Colin Smith’s preview. Each week, we’ll provide brief […]
Divergent Series: Allegiant, Eye in the Sky, Creative Control, The Bronze, Chimes at Midnight
DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT Most science fiction works on multiple levels, and the best of it cares equally about telling both its character-driven story and crafting its social commentary. My issues […]
Corinne Peterson’s Campaign for “The Cairn Project”
Before Gapers Block’s hiatus in the beginning of this year, I interviewed Corinne Peterson about her ongoing workshop and installation based work, “The Cairn Project,” which has been in action […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 3/17-3/20
This goddamn partisan turmoil just won’t stop, will it? Unless you have set yourself firmly against all forms of consuming the news, you heard that President Obama nominated Merrick Garland […]
Gogol Bordello at the Metro Chicago: “It’s a celebration despite all odds”
Preparing for a performance on stage is to Gogol Bordello as breaking bricks is to martial arts. It’s natural. “I don’t do anything in particular” to prepare, said Gogol Bordello […]
Lookingglass Production Diminishes the Power of Lorca’s Blood Wedding
Lookingglass Theatre’s new production of Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca, directed by Daniel Ostling, is set in the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Lorca’s simple and poetic […]
Conserver at The Franklin
The positioning of this large grocery-store-bag-covered structure backed by leafless trees is eerily accurate to the narrative built within the structure — I should say it affirms my doomsday fantasies. […]
Poetry fest unleashes the political imaginations of Chicago’s youth
A select group of high school-aged Chicago lyricists will take the stage at Roosevelt University’s Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress Pkwy., Saturday for the finals of the 2016 Louder Than […]
Carnival of Animals Mixes Classical Music & Circus for a Young Audience
Australia has many treasures, and contemporary circus is one they are renowned for. Circa has been touring the world since 2004 and making a name for itself as the company […]
Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love at the Apollo Theatre: Symbols Lost
I walked into the premier of the Comrades’ production of Mary-Kate Olsen Is in Love, knowing that it would be a quirky one, hence the title. I thought I would […]
Broadway in Chicago’s 42nd Street a Rollicking Good Time
When the lights dim, the curtain at the Cadillac Palace Theatre rises slowly, exposing forty pairs of feet dancing perfectly in sync. The curtain pauses at knee-height, focusing your eyes […]
Sideshow’s Mai Dang Lao Struggles to Serve a Happy Meal
There’s a special form of resentment I and the rest of working class America feel about restaurant jobs. Yeah, you know exactly what I’m talking about: coming home from work […]