Step Back into the ’80s with Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding
Have you ever been to a truly tacky wedding? Members of the wedding party had several disruptive arguments. A lot of allusions were made to the bride and groom’s sex […]
Review: Brian Doyle’s Chicago— A 300 Page Love Letter
About the reviewer: Susannah Pratt is a Chicago-based consultant by day, reader/writer by night, who is currently preparing for the forthcoming winter by stocking up on books. You can find […]
Your 3CR Guide to a Better October
Stages The People’s Choice by Genesis Theatrical Productions Through October 30 @ Redtwist Theatre, 1044 W. Bryn Mawr A political satire about presidential politics is just what your therapist ordered […]
This Week in Art House Cinema: Operation Avalanche, White Girl and more
It’s been a busy week in film. We took a look at Deepwater Horizon, which is a textbook example of how to make a make a disaster movie in modern […]
Netflix’s Easy is Joe Swanberg’s Visual Love Letter to Chicago
You’re probably aware by now that Netflix recently released Easy, filmmaker Joe Swanberg’s latest project. The gist of it is that Easy is an unapologetic love letter to Chicago and […]
Timeline’s The Last Wife Modernizes History in Spicy Drama
Henry VIII’s sixth and last wife is probably the one you don’t remember. She was Katherine Parr, Henry’s third Catherine, and a feminist before her time. Timeline Theatre’s new production […]
Film review: Masterminds, Cinematic Comfort Food
The long-delayed (due to Relativity Media’s financial woes) new film from director Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre, Gentleman Broncos) turns out to be a surprisingly moving love story couched […]
Mantra: Sunjacket Album Review
Upon listening to the first song off Mantra, the 2016 Sunjacket album, I felt like I was in the movie, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” It was as though […]
Film Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Regal and Mildly Creepy
The cries that director Tim Burton has righted his sagging string of recent efforts (Alice in Wonderland, Dark Shadows, Big Eyes) with his adaptation of Ransom Riggs’s novel Miss Peregrine’s […]
Film Review: Deepwater Horizon, A Textbook Example of a Modern Disaster Movie
The problem I’ve often had with films directed by Peter Berg, even the ones I’ve liked, have been that he feels the need to have all the knobs turned up […]
Third Coast Mixtape No. 5: The Come Up
This collection of songs is inspired by my neighborhood, parents’ parting words before going out, nights that quickly shift into early mornings, missed calls, mismatched outfits, radio static that interrupts my […]
Preview: Celebrate French Culture with Performance Poetry
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the “sister city” cultural partnership of Chicago and Paris, the Chicago Sister Cities Paris Committee presents French Connection 2016 at The Poetry Foundation […]