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Three ways to do Expo Chicago
For free, for fun, or for profit If you want to start collecting With dozens of gallery booths spread across Navy Pier's 170,000-square-foot Festival Hall, Expo Chicago offers a prime opportunity to...
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The Newberry Library’s ‘Creating Shakespeare’ highlights the writer’s ongoing...
A new exhibit explores how the Bard's work has influenced Chicago and beyond. Even though William Shakespeare never set foot in Chicago, the writer's influence has long been palpable in the city, and...
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An extraordinary life inspires an extraordinary performance at Court Theatre
Man in the Ring takes a swing at the saga of gay boxer Emile Griffith. Emile Griffith is the sort of historical anomaly who should naturally inspire great dramas. Born poor on the Island of Saint...
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Comedian Adam Conover is ruining democracy
TruTV host Adam Conover is debunking myths about politics during his Adam Ruins Everything Live tour. Don't worry, comedian Adam Conover's politics-themed live tour of his TruTV show Adam Ruins...
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Tseng Kwong Chi, downtown New York’s photographic ambassador
The Block Museum hosts a retrospective of one of the most overlooked artists of a vibrant era. Artistic inspiration often occurs unexpectedly. In 1979, Tseng Kwong Chi, born in Hong Kong, educated in...
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Shakespeare Theater's Tug of War: Civil Strife is a battle to engage in
The second half of Barbara Gaines's epic adaptation compels—never mind the guitars or blood dripping from the wall. When last we looked in on those wacky, warlike Brits—in May, courtesy of Chicago...
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The Loyalist injects culinary purpose into everyday menu items
In the West Loop, John Shields and Karen Urie Shields’s casual subterranean answer to the Smyth holds its own. Loyalists were “persons inimical to the liberties of America,” as was said by patriots...
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CHIRP Radio’s storytelling series focuses on performers’ First Times
Funds raised by the storytelling series and podcast The First Time go toward the independent station's first radio tower. In the early 90s, comedian Sean Flannery says, he told a really big lie for...
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What Chicago can learn from LA’s Skid Row
U. of C. sociologist Forrest Stuart catalogs the perils of overpolicing in Down, Out, and Under Arrest. As the Chicago Police Department plans to flood the city with nearly 1,000 more cops, University...
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Black video game characters finally get their due in Dateline: Bronzeville
Artist Philip Mallory Jones previews his ambitious project depicting life in Bronzeville circa 1940. Black people are rarely portrayed in video games as anything other than stereotypes or ciphers. The...
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Awakenings Foundation Gallery calls out catcallers
“Graphic Relief” is a new exhibit devoted to an all-too-common form of sexual harassment. Being catcalled on the street is annoying. It makes you feel exposed and unsafe.…
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In Chronic, a private nurse gets a little too private
Tim Roth stars in this haunting drama from the director of Daniel & Ana. Since the advent of cinema, people have been drawn to the screen by the promise of intimacy: the facial close-up, an...
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GayCo celebrates 20 years of LGBTQ revues
GayCo ponders progress through sketch comedy. LGBTQ sketch-comedy group GayCo put on its first revue, Whitney Houston, We Have a Problem, at the Second City in 1996. The Reader's Mary Shen Barnridge...
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Moholy-Nagy isn’t the only major modernist in town right now
Over at the Graham Foundation, a retrospective of the work of Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji is an unlikely and unintentional companion piece to the Art Institute’s “Moholy-Nagy: Future Present.”...
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Smyth is right at home among Chicago’s temples to high gastronomy
The fine-dining sibling to the Loyalist is worth a splurge. Chicago is in the midst of a surge in high-ticket tasting menus in restaurants operated by husband-and-wife teams. Chef Noah Sandoval and...
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A guide to fact-checking arrives at the perfect time
Brooke Borel and the University of Chicago Press release a fitting book for a presidential election full of falsehoods. Ever since this year's presidential campaign kicked into high gear, everybody's...
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Ben Rivers’s dystopian films light up the Renaissance Society
The British artist’s first U.S. solo exhibition imagines a postapocalyptic future through the lens of a disturbing present. The films of London-based contemporary artist Ben Rivers resemble elaborate...
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From the $10 bill to the multimillion-dollar musical
In an extraordinarily ugly election season, the rousing Hamilton shows us the light. Chicago's Hamilton franchise opened at PrivateBank Theatre on October 19, the same evening as the final...
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Delight in the belly of the beast at Pro Samgyubsal
With the new Northbrook Korean barbecue joint, Chicagoans finally have a destination for grilled pork belly. Three-layered flesh" is the translation of the Korean word samgyeopsal, or what English...
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Brown shoes make it at Clay Hickson’s solo show
The artist takes Johalla Projects back in time to the 1970s. There are those particular places—in my case, the house belonging to my grandmother—that in many ways have never left the 70s. When you...
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