Last fall, I had the pleasure of organizing a poetry reading with local poets on celebrating transformation, the unknown, and the changing of the seasons. It was then when I […]
Though it’s being released in September, The Baltimorons might be the best holiday film of the year; you’ll want to see it in theaters this week, then stream it from […]
When Elizabeth Messick, the more attractive half of the magical duo the Cosmic Romantics—that’s straight out of her partner Eric Thirstin’s introduction, not my own editorializing—first appears on stage during […]
This weekend, Chicago’s north side will welcome a new performance space intended for contemporary classical chamber music. Formed by Access Contemporary Music, The CheckOut is turning a long-vacant 7-Eleven into […]
Things With Friends, the newest play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Dexter Bullard, makes its debut at American Blues Theater. It’s a surrealist, climate anxiety comedy of […]
In Jane Russell’s first movie role in 1943, her bra was the star, even though it barely seemed to be there. The publicity posters for The Outlaw, directed by Howard […]
The American Chamber Music Society introduced its second season with a radiant concert at PianoForte Studio in the South Loop on Saturday night. Headed by Chicago-based violinist Eric Gratz, ACMS […]
This is the second in our series of articles on The Art of Survival, in which we explore how small Chicago arts organizations are surviving post-COVID and weathering the anti-humanist […]
I’ll admit, from the first scene in director and TV series helmer Rachael Abigail Holder’s first feature, Love, Brooklyn, I was prepared to fully dislike this movie. In it, we […]
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Bing Liu (the documentary Minding the Gap) has turned his attention toward narrative filmmaking with the heartbreaking love story Preparation for the Next Life, concerning a pair of […]
Early in Making No Compromise, Holly A. Baggett asks how it was that two young Midwestern women from the late 19th-century American Midwest—uncloseted lesbians and lovers, at that—became the international […]
Barbara H. Rosenwein’s Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age is a deep dive into the feelings humanity has held towards older adults over the last two millennia—as seen through […]