Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 5/29 and Beyond
We’re stepping out of May and dipping our toes into June this weekend and there is plenty to do! Tons of amazing events have settled on this weekend to satiate […]
The Thing: Chicken Caesar Wrap at Village Tap
It sells out. It gets mentioned in all the best of lists. But I am here to confirm that Village Tap’s Chicken Caesar Wrap really is the thing while roaming […]
Review: Beckett’s Endgame at Facility Theatre Is a Study in Inertia
People who are familiar with Samuel Beckett’s work won’t be surprised by their frustration in trying to identify a clear meaning from any of his plays, including Endgame. This faithful […]
Review: Baroness Baptizes Sleeping Village in Red andBlue
Two of the most enthralling live music pleasures are the full album play-through and the intimate smaller-than-usual venue show. Baroness provided both on Wednesday, as they performed their first 2 […]
Review: Nora Wendl Explores the Relationship That Resulted in That Famous House in Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth
“The house is a house, but it is also a metaphor; it has been described as a quantity of air trapped between floor and roof, … as a glass cage, […]
Review: A Sweet and Wonder-filled Book, Our Food Grows written by Sarah M. White, illustrated by Tessa Gibbs
Throughout human history, children grew up watching plants grow and become food. They helped plant seeds. They helped tend the field or orchard. They helped harvest the rice or the […]
Interview: With A Triple D Stamp of Approval, Sfera Now Ships Nationwide
Sfera Sicilian Street Food is well-known in Edgewater and beyond for their arancini. That beyond is about to grow after a visit from Flavor Town mayor himself, Guy Fieri, and […]
Review: Theatre Evolve Unleashes a Redeemed MedeaMedeaMedea
The tale of Medea presents a paradox in contemporary times. Euripides, Ovid, and Seneca cast her as a villain who manipulates Jason, the Argonaut, to achieve her ambition of becoming […]
Review: Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth Is a Fun Adventure Flick, if Not a Must-See Big-Screen Blockbuster
There was a time not too long ago that a film like Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth, now streaming on AppleTV+, would’ve garnered a major theatrical release, a star-studded premiere […]
Review: First-Time Filmmaker Laura Piani’s Winsome Jane Austen Wrecked My Life Proves RomComs Are Here to Stay
They say necessity is the root of invention, and while writer-director Laura Piani may not have invented anything entirely new with the winning French rom-com Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, […]
Review: Two-Part Documentary Pee-wee As Himself Offers a Comprehensive Look Into the Life and Motivations of Comedian Paul Reubens
Using 40 hours of new, raw interview material from its subject as framework, the two-part documentary Pee-wee As Himself explores the complex and conflicted life of Paul Reubens, who somehow comes […]
Review: In R.L. Stine’s Fear Street: Prom Queen, 1980s Teen Drama Is Too Broadly Drawn for Thrills
Adapted from yet another one of author R.L. Stine’s Fear Street books (specifically The Prom Queen) and following up the 2021 trilogy of films directed by Leigh Janiak, Fear Street: […]