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It’s 2 p.m. on a chilly Friday afternoon in Chicago. The sky is gray and in the middle of making a crucial weather decision for its fussy weekenders. There’s a […]

KNIGHT OF CUPS If you’ve seen the back of any number of great actors’ heads running through a field of tall grass or wheat or on a beach or staring […]

Back in January, I decided that 2016 was the year I said “yes” to opportunity and didn’t even bother to qualify it by adding “within reason.” That’s how I found […]

At some point on Monday, between my morning coffee and heading off to run errands, Ty Segall and the Muggers descended on WGN Morning News. The loud screeches of a […]

A small space can create big illusions. Similarly, a juxtaposition of emotions can seem completely at odds with our ability to reconcile them such as the thin line between feelings […]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day weekend, everybody! I’m saying this despite the irony that next week’s Curated Chicago Weekend post will fall on the actual St. Patrick’s Day. By then, though, the river […]

Trip the Light Fantastic: The Making of SuperStrip, the new dance-theater work from Lucky Plush Productions, defies categorization. Commissioned by the Harris Theater, the show revolves around a group of […]

Everybody, rock your body right…Backstreet’s back, alright! And back they are, but this time accompanied by Teddy Crooner, in a hilarious adaptation of the cult classic serial killer, Freddy Kreuger, […]

VAM is an experimental resource and creative studio that has featured artists such as Sid Branca, The Good Night Ladies, Beata Chrzanowska, and Po’ Chop. This Saturday, VAM will be […]

Look: No one wants to be the person who says that Heathers: The Musical works. You shouldn’t be able to take a cult classic movie, throw in a few snappy […]

I like lasers and I like comedy. When I gave my 6-year-old son, Pudge, the opportunity to pick a show for us to see together, he was quick to select […]

Skeptical Chicagoans piled in to the Apollo Theater Saturday night to see a mentalist in action, and there he was, reading minds and taking notes. A mentalist of course is […]