Your Curated Guide to Record Store Day 2018 in Chicago!
We’re in the latter half of April, so get read for vinyl lover’s favorite holiday: Record Store Day! The worldwide event, which always takes place on the third Saturday in […]
Review: Chicago Takes a Beating in Entertaining, Pointless Rampage
It’s been since 2011’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon that Chicago has taken a epic-sized, big-budgeted walloping the way it does in the video game-inspired Rampage. But something curious happened […]
Albert Hammond Jr. and The Marías Packed Bottom Lounge with a Passionate Crowd
[soliloquy id=”26018″] Last Friday, Bottom Lounge was packed with some of the most feverishly intense fans I’ve seen in a long time. The crowd was laser focused on having a […]
Behind the Scenes at the C2E2 Crown Championships of Cosplay
Thanks to the good people at C2E2, we were given access to see up close how much time, effort, and love cosplayers put into their incredible creations. Cosplayers spend months […]
Billie Eilish Sells out Lincoln Hall, and She’s Only 16
Lincoln Hall is not a massive venue, but it’s still a huge deal to sell it out. It’s even a bigger deal to do so when you’re still in high […]
Steep Theatre’s Birdland Is a Fast-Moving Story of Rock Stardom and its Consequences
Paul (Joel Reitsma) is a rock star, with rock star habits and ego. He’s now in Moscow, nearing the end of a long tour and faced with going home to […]
Game On–Games & Tech at C2E2 2018
We were on the floor Friday for day one of C2E2, and each year it seems like it gets bigger and bigger. Fortunately for us, that also means there is […]
Chicago’s Favorite New Music Artist, Emily Blue, Releases the Candy-Colored “Cellophane”
The catchy, candy-colored single “Cellophane” Emily Blue released today will have you bopping your head. Pop in those headphones and press “play.” And then listen closer: underneath the song’s candy-colored gloss lies a message about love and relationships. More […]
Gang of Youths Brings Energetic Performance to Subterranean
Gang of Youths brought their big sound to a small Chicago venue on Friday night, as the award-winning Australian rock band played an energetic set at Subterranean. Their excellent 2017 […]
Northlight’s Beauty Queen of Leenane A Quietly Devastating Dark Comedy
Northlight Theatre’s production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Martin McDonagh’s quietly devastating dark comedy, takes place in the provincial town of Leenane. Directed by B.J. Jones, the Tony Award-winning […]
Review: Stop Motion Animation Wows in Anderson’s Touch-and-Go Isle of Dogs
In a similar way that writer/director Wes Anderson’s previous feature, The Grand Budapest Hotel, seemed to spring forth from his current obsessions with filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch and the writings of […]
Review: Roguelike Shooter Synthetik Delivers Robot Carnage
Back in 1982, Larry DeMar and Eugene Jarvis made a game called Robotron, a coin-op arcade game where the player zaps endless waves of machines bent on the annihilation of mankind. […]