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While everyone's distracted by that big downtown music festival, sneak in a leisurely stroll at the Art Institute of Chicago (111. S Michigan). Today is one of the final days to catch Igshaa…
The last time I checked in with Evanston's youth-oriented Mudlark Theater in April 2020, they were in the midst of pivoting to online workshops and creating digital shows. The company has re…
The Blasian March, cofounded in New York by onetime Chicago dancer and performer Rohan Zhou-Lee in the wake of the George Floyd Black Lives Matter protests, has grown to encompass other citi…
The 2022 Newberry Book Fair is back and under way today after a three-year break while all of us adjusted to concerns around COVID-19. The fair has traditionally been a must-go event for boo…
The mayoral candidate spoke at a fundraiser for a group that has promoted transphobic rhetoric.
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In late June, the Chicago Pride Parade returned to its in-person glory after two years of delay and cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands of people headed for the north side …
Perea's career is almost certainly going to hit another echelon now that Nope has hit cinemas. For the time being, though, he just hopes that audiences are thoroughly entertained by Peele's …
Wrong Place is a convoluted mess that struggles to connect disjunctive plot points as they dawdle their way to the movie's inevitable conclusion.
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Nope is still too fun and has too many effective sequences to be considered a disappointment. It's just not as resoundingly impressive as we've come to expect from Peele.
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It succeeds in highlighting this tenet of their work, making it a valuable introduction not just to their unique lives and groundbreaking studies, but also to their own singular artistry.
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The smaller humans who saw the preview were delighted, and their parents didn't seem to be suffering.
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Late in Evanston's Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre's production of The Mamalogues, one character asks, "If I am my ancestors' wildest dream, why am I still living out their worst nightmares?" The…
It was a mixed-message week on the homefront. Mayor Lightfoot rolled out the red carpet for NASCAR the day before she arm-twisted the alderpeople into cracking down on speeders to make our s…
Spend Your Summer in Andersonville I've always loved pineapple. I brought some with me to the first Midsommarfest I worked with the Andersonville Chamber Commerce as an energizing snack I co…
Emerging Chicago rapper Christopher Horace charmed me a couple years ago with the first EP he released as F.A.B.L.E., (IX) The Hermit. His downy voice makes his playful raps sound more intim…
Today kicks off the 50th year for Fiesta del Sol, which organizers call the "largest Latino festival of its kind in the country." The festival is a dizzying combination of workshops, vendors…
In 1994, an Australian road comedy about three drag artists heading off in a beat-up tour bus across the Outback felt like a breath of fresh air in a cinematic landscape that tended to focus…
More than 30 years into his second act as a mind reader and psychic performer, Ross Johnson, a former schoolteacher, is still eliciting gasps. The second performer at Rogers Park's new Rhaps…
The cliché has it that life is what happens when one is making other plans, but that's clearly preposterous. In the main, it's death that happens when we're making other plans. Even in hosp…
One housing complex can't reverse decades of historical trends"but city officials hope 43 Green can be a model for equitable development.
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Atomic Sketch, which bills itself "Chicago's original drink and draw" event, celebrates its 14th birthday today in the best way it knows how: a special anniversary drinking and drawing sessi…
A series of hot threesomes might revive your sex life.
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On Monday, August 1, jazz trombonist Jeb Bishop will move back to Chicago after a ten-year absence. Bishop and his wife headed to North Carolina in spring 2012 (Carrboro and later Durham) an…
In 2020, Oklahoma City musician James Hammontree released his first full-length as Black Magnet. Hallucination Scene uses all the best parts of 90s industrial metal"even the radio-friendly s…
The Colonel came out of retirement to make KFC at the Kedzie Inn. OK, Tom Padanilam does not have an honorific title from the Indian state of Kerala. Someday, probably, but for now he's back…
