I love textiles. I crave colorful, saturated high-count cotton-thread fabrics in my kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. As someone born post-midcentury, I’m also drawn to utilitarian midcentury design. Most fiber and […]
He had been warned. At a recent house concert in Printers Row, Pat Byrne, a soulful Irish troubadour based in Texas, bravely took a swig of the yellow liquid, scrunched […]
This week, Netflix made the mistake of cancelling its unique Greek mythology comedy series KAOS after just one season. But this show, led by Jeff Goldblum’s inspired take on Zeus, […]
I will make no apologies for how much I liked this movie; I don’t typically make apologies for liking any movie, but a biographic documentary about recording artist/producer Pharrell Williams […]
It’s taken close to nine years for a new film by Lisandro Alons>o, Argentina’s leading exponent of slow cinema, to reach our screens. The release of Eureka may not be […]
It’s another great week in October and the temps are still on the warmer side! So let’s not let them go to waste. There are tons of markets, concerts, great […]
There is not a lot of certainty in today’s world. The world may seem on 33 and 1/3 and you’re on 33. There is one thing that I can count […]
The key moment in John William Nelson’s important, original, and eye-opening history of the place that became the city of Chicago—Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of […]
Although many who have seen the original 1978 Superman might not remember, the film actually opens with a trial on Krypton led by Jor-El (Marlon Brando), during which three traitorous […]
It’s almost impossible to believe that actor Carrie Coon’s film career is only about 10 years old, when she made her much-celebrated, big-screen debut in David Fincher’s Gone Girl. Also […]
By Guest Writer Holly Smith A Cosplayer Welcome As I sat down in the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture to see a live interview with comedian Kate McKinnon about […]
Tell anyone you’re from Chicago and they will immediately crack a joke about winter. You know what those mild temperate dwellers miss out on though? Meals that are better than […]