RECOMMENDED Last night, after making the trek to and from Glencoe, my girlfriend and I walked to our local grocery store for a snack. Standing before a formidable display of pears, I asked, …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:40PMRECOMMENDED As far as voyeurism is concerned, theater tops film hands down. The former’s brutal pleasure lies in the squirm-inducing feeling that not only is what you’re witnessing inesc…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:00PMBy Kevin Greene Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel “Treasure Island” is so ubiquitous in the sphere of popular culture that it’s possible to feel as though you’ve read it without ever …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:29AMRECOMMENDED It’s a familiar story: an ambitious man – or, far too infrequently, woman – seduced by the allure of success, pursues it with increasingly frantic vigor until they …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:30PMThe promises of punk are freedom and acceptance, which are, in the abstract, opposites. Punk is no stranger to contradiction. For decades, the iconic imagery of youthful rebellion has been c…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:45AMRECOMMENDED At the conclusion of Will Goldberg’s “Home Before Dark,” Sean (Will Wilhelm) calls D.J. in Seattle after discovering his name and phone number scrawled on a piece of potent…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:00PMGiven the subject matter, you might assume that the big issue of Nicolas Billon’s “Butcher” is the morality of revenge. However, there is a more immediately pressing aspect of this pla…
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