This article was written by Cortlyn Kelly. MUBI Fest returns to Chicago April 26 and 27 as its launching point for its 2025 world tour. As the only stop in […]

Each morning, I wake up to two stories.  One is loud and distressing, shrilly demanding attention.  The other is quiet, ​gentle and calm. One is like being caught in a […]

Chicago spring is here! That means one very warm and pleasant day, one full of April showers, and a few moderately cool days. But no matter how disparate the days […]

Paul Stroili’s A Jukebox for the Algonquin, currently onstage at Citadel Theatre, does not take place anywhere near the famous literary watering hole. Instead, everything happens in a recreation room […]

If there ever was something to celebrate, it’s 20 years of unrelenting rock and punk music in Chicago! Riot Fest just released their 2025 lineup and it’s looking like perfect […]

While we sit in the spring showers waiting for sunnier days, let’s look ahead to more festive times as the best summer events are starting to announce their lineups. One […]

Capitalism abhors a creative gathering place—otherwise auto dealerships would put on poetry slams and hardware stores would host book clubs, wouldn’t they? While coffeehouses and restaurants often step up to […]

Article written by Mitchell Oldham. In our nation’s capital, the annual cherry blossom bloom along the Tidal Basin makes Spring one of the most highly anticipated times of the year […]

This article was written by Wendy Davis. Canadian folk band The Weather Station made their anticipated return to Chicago at Lincoln Hall for the Humanhood tour! Accompanied by Sister Ray, […]

“For not only one enemy has risen up against us to destroy us, but in every generation they rise up to destroy us….” That stark bit of liturgy—the V’hi She’amdah—is […]

Under the direction of Jaap van Zweden, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra gave an engrossing performance of a symphony that is challenging to all involved: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. In […]

You’d be forgiven if, like me (and based on the film’s marketing materials), you anticipated something of a more raucous, raunchy modern romcom from filmmaker Andrew Ahn (Driveways). Perhaps something […]