Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side By Lee BeyNorthwestern University Press, 192 pages, $30 Reviewed by Patrick T. Reardon When Lee Bey writes about Pride Cleaners, he […]
I love Star Trek Adventures. It’s a tabletop pen and paper role-playing game that takes place in the Star Trek universe of films and TV shows. In it, you […]
I have a confession, I try to avoid theater this time of year because I don’t like the treacly sentimentality and predictability of most holiday plays. (It’s a good season […]
The turkey’s been made and eaten (mostly) and Black Friday’s come and gone. Welcome to Cyber Monday, and, much more importantly, the official start of the holiday season. Now, no […]
Metro was in for a very special set Saturday night from Denton, Texas, synth-pop band, Neon Indian. It had been quite a while since any new material was released by […]
Chicago and Durban, South Africa, have been Sister Cities since 1997, and spiritual siblings for far longer, as explored in the joyful world premiere of Lindiwe, written by Eric Simonson, […]
If you aren’t familiar with Chicago Elk Walking, then now is the perfect time get acquainted with them. The band began their musical journey as the acoustic duo of Savanna […]
It’s been ten years since Matt & Kim’s wonderful debut album Grand was released and the songs on that record sound as fun and as fresh as ever. It makes […]
It was only four years ago the Chicago Botanic Garden first displayed a gorgeous gallery of gourds on its grounds for Night of 1000 Jack o’ Lanterns. We were […]
A massive image of Mao Tse Tung hanging two galleries away greets visitors to the latest major exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, Andy Warhol – From A to […]
To open its final season in the glittering 130-year-old Auditorium Theatre before it moves across town to the Lyric Opera digs, the Joffrey Ballet doubled down on its recent commitment […]
Though I pride myself on a rather robust knowledge of American musical theater, one show I’ve never managed to get to is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, the musical based […]