At Snail Mail’s headlining Tomorrow Never Knows show at Metro on Thursday, the highlights were surprising. Two Chicago bands, Varsity and Lala Lala, opened the night, and per usual the […]
Process. That is the first thing a viewer may think of as they begin to take in the work of Max Unterhaslberger in his exhibition, Unterhaslberger II now on view at Adventureland […]
Tomorrow Never Knows brought the festival vibes to a bitter January night at Schuba‘s, sporting a mostly midwestern line-up (retro synth outfit Video Age joined from Louisiana) for an evening […]
Spanish playwright Lope de Vega wrote a compelling drama about a village that rebelled against its lecherous overlord to protect its women—a very 21st century story. De Vega wrote it […]
Last year, Windy City Playhouse, the storefront theater company on West Irving Park Road on the north side, debuted a production so impressive they’ve recently launched a new venue in […]
Playwright Theresa Rebeck is a master of dialogue and never hesitates to portray the bad manners of her contemporaries. Her 2011 play, What We’re Up Against, just opened as the […]
Cold War is the latest film from Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski, follow-up to his Oscar-winning drama Ida. Like that deeply intimate story of a young nun discovering the truth of […]
We got our first real glimpse of Mortal Kombat 11 from Chicago-based NetherRealm Studios with yesterday’s reveal event, including actual gameplay, a sneak peek at the story, as well as some new […]
Filmed over five years by director Moby Longinotto, The Joneses is a very different but no less vital take on transgender men and women living in America. While many of the recent […]
Almost from its first frames, director Talal Derki’s (The Return to Homs) latest, Of Fathers and Sons, feels like a movie that shouldn’t exist. The filmmaker spent two years pretending to be […]
The Art Institute of Chicago presents the exhibition, Dawoud Bey: Night Coming Tenderly, Black, a collection of Bey’s black and white photographs that reimagine various sites along the last stages […]
Last month, Chicago’s own Nico Segal (formerly known as Donnie Trumpet) and Fulcrum Point New Music Project hosted a night of eclectic music, poetry, and art as part of the […]