The play opens with a symphony of switchboard operators, those 1920s-era office workers who kept people talking by plugging phones into jacks, greeting and connecting the world outside with the […]
[soliloquy id=”16498″] There’s a festival for everything in Chicago, and August boasts some of summer’s biggest. This past weekend alone you could have attended Chicago Hot Dog Fest, the […]
First, it was quiet. Like a street in the early hours before a parade. A feeling of ceremony hung in the air, underscored by the seats still being set up […]
The Poetry Foundation has issued an open call for posters, signs, banners and other visual materials that were used on the streets of Chicago during recent resistance protests and marches. […]
It’s been almost 50 years since I saw Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical at the old Shubert Theatre in Chicago. But I sat in the Mercury Theater Friday night […]
Lisanne Skyler weaves memoir with pop art in the quirky, whimsical and affectionate documentary short, Brillo Box (3¢ Off). Skyler’s middle-class parents, Martin and Rita, collected pop art in New […]
After 40 years, Debbie’s still got it. Punk rock veterans Blondie delivered an incredible performance at Ravinia Festival to a massive, diverse crowd. Both Debbie Harry and Chris Stein have […]
Then They Came for Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII and the Demise of Civil Liberties is a monumental exhibition at the Alphawood Gallery that examines a dark episode […]
Lela & Co. sounds like a chic boutique, a business story. And it is. It’s a horrifying story of a woman alone in a conflict zone. The business theme is […]
[soliloquy id=”15634″] All photos by Julian Ramirez By the time NE-HI played their reverb-soaked garage tunes, the sun came out. The last day of Pitchfork began with Kilo Kish smashing […]
Several weeks ago, I went to hear Roxane Gay read from her latest book Hunger as a part of the Chicago Humanities Festival Now summer programming. The event fell on […]
Two 3CR writers—Nancy and [Karin]—went to see Erik Jensen’s one-man performance of the life and times of rock critic Lester Bangs. Nancy wrote the review and Karin added comments. This […]